Key skills
Event marketingCross-functional alignmentProject managementData-driven performanceGoogle Suite proficiencySlack proficiencyZoom proficiencyCvent proficiencySaaS experienceCertified Meeting ProfessionalSalesforce familiarityJifflenow familiaritySplash familiarityJira familiarityTableau familiarityWrike familiarityMicrosoft Office familiarityTableauMongoDBSaaSSalesforceJiraProject ManagementCommunicationNegotiationSales
About this role
MongoDB is a company that empowers its customers and employees to innovate at the speed of the market. The Strategic Events Manager will be responsible for planning and executing MongoDB's strategic events portfolio, focusing primarily on the AMER region and ensuring high-impact event experiences that align with business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of assigned programs, with a primary focus on AMER flagship and high-complexity sponsored events
- Make independent decisions within established policy
- Drive full coordination across all program components, such as: Event messaging and marketing, Materials creation and branding/signage, Contract negotiation and vendor management, Site selection and venue coordination, Registration and attendee management, Agenda planning and speaker support, Staffing, on-site production, and F&B, Post-event reporting and ROI analysis
- Apply judgment to identify and resolve day-to-day operational issues, including those without established precedent, and communicate decisions and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders
- Support global programs as assigned, collaborating with regional counterparts across the team
- Drive alignment across Revenue Marketing, Developer Relations, Engineering, Executive Support, and other teams; escalate decisions that extend beyond program scope or require cross-team policy input
- Collaborate with the Strategic Event Operations team on campaign creation, lead flow management, and sponsorship sales and fulfillment
- Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs clearly and proactively to internal stakeholders
- Own budgets for assigned events and track spend against plan throughout the program lifecycle
- Evaluate program ROI and deliver post-event wrap-up reports with insights and recommendations for future iterations
- Contribute analysis and program learnings to broader planning discussions
- Identify and implement improvements within your programs
- Share learnings and propose process refinements to team members based on patterns observed across your work
- Escalate cross-team risks and policy exceptions with a clear recommendation
- Event registrations, attendance, and pipeline generated
- Customer satisfaction (NPS)
- Program delivery quality, predictability, and on-time execution
- Program growth and scalability over time
- Cross-functional stakeholder satisfaction
- Embodiment of MongoDB's Core Values
Requirements:
- 5+ years of event marketing, event management, or field marketing experience
- Proven track record of leading complex events end-to-end with a high degree of independence
- Strong project management skills with a data-driven approach to performance and ROI
- Experience driving cross-functional alignment across marketing, sales, and technical stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable communicating trade-offs and escalating risks to senior stakeholders
- Experience working independently in a global, distributed team environment
- Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, Zoom, and Cvent
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% domestically and globally
- Experience in technology or SaaS environments
- Fluency in a second language
- Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Jifflenow, Splash, Jira, Tableau, Wrike, or Microsoft Office