Strategic Events Lead

The role

The Strategic Events Lead will own the end-to-end events strategy to create high-signal experiences for technical audiences. This role involves designing intimate dinners, research salons, conference programs, and field events to build relationships and market narrative.

What you will do

• Own the events strategy and calendar
• Design high-signal experiences for technical buyers
• Manage vendors, budgets, run-of-show, speaker prep, attendee experience, and follow-up
• Build targeted invite and attendance strategy in partnership with GTM, demand gen, and field teams
• Connect events to pipeline, account engagement, and market learning

Required qualifications

• Experience planning and executing high-quality B2B events, field marketing programs, community programs, or executive gatherings
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent taste and audience judgment
• Scrappiness, urgency, and comfort building a function from scratch in a fast-moving environment

Nice to have

• Experience creating events for technical audiences, developer communities, AI/ML teams, infrastructure buyers, or research organizations
• Background as an early events, field marketing, community, or demand generation hire at a high-growth startup
• Experience with conference strategy, speaker programming, executive dinners, private roundtables, or partner events
• Ability to translate event outcomes into account insights, pipeline reporting, and next-step GTM actions

Benefits

• market competitive salary
• equity
• competitive benefits

About the company

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab headquartered in San Francisco. It is a public benefit corporation founded by researchers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.