Senior Events & Field Marketing Manager

Role Overview

• Set Cortex's global events strategy and own the annual events calendar, in close coordination with sales leadership and demand generation.
• Own our flagship conference, Evolve, end-to-end (venue, agenda, speakers, sponsors, registration, on-site experience, and post-event motion) and grow it into a category-defining moment for Cortex and engineering operations.
• Own Cortex's presence at industry conferences from booth design and staff prep through pre-event outreach and post-event follow-up, maximizing the pipeline impact of every sponsorship.
• Plan and execute events for Cortex's Engineering Leader Community (Braintrust), including in-person dinners, roundtables, and member gatherings, partnering closely with the program lead on experience and member recruiting.
• Plan and execute partner activations (e.g. co-branded happy hours, conference passport programs, and roundtables) and build the partner relationships that make co-marketing easy and repeatable.
• Plan and run our webinar program end-to-end, from topic and speaker selection through promotion, production, and pipeline follow-up.
• Own the events budget and prove ROI on every program with clean attribution to pipeline, revenue, cost per opportunity, and conversion metrics, feeding learnings back into the strategy.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Marketing on messaging, Demand Generation on pre
• and post-event campaigns, Sales on target accounts and follow-up, Customer Experience on customer relationships for events and content, and GTM Ops on lead capture and attribution

Requirements

• 5+ years of B2B SaaS events and field marketing experience, with a proven track record of running programs that generate pipeline.
• Strategic muscle to build the calendar, defend the budget, and tell the story of what's worth investing in and why.
• Strong and tight execution, including managing logistics, vendors, contracts, and timelines across multiple programs in flight without dropping anything.
• Comfort marketing to technical audiences (engineering leaders, platform engineers, CTOs).
• Data-driven approach to ROI.
• Excellent cross-functional skills.
• Self-starter mindset with a bias toward action; thrives in a fast-moving startup where the playbook is being written in real time.
• Nice to have: Experience owning a flagship event or user conference end-to-end, including budgets in the high six figures.
• Background managing community or member-driven programs.
• Experience at a Series B-to-growth-stage startup during a key inflection point.

Benefits

• National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)
• Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours
• 401k plan
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
• $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)
• Pet Insurance