Marketing Manager, Community & Events (m/f/d)

The role

You will own event marketing and build an active community around Kayzen's expertise, products, and programs. You will manage the industry event calendar and create engaging experiences to drive commercial opportunities.

What you will do

• Own the marketing side of the industry event calendar from selection to post-event evaluation.
• Create event experiences including sponsorships, partner activations, executive dinners, webinars, and community gatherings.
• Work with Sales to define target audiences, meeting goals, outreach plans, and follow-up processes.
• Build and nurture a community of customers, prospects, partners, and industry voices.
• Develop co-marketing initiatives with ecosystem partners.
• Coordinate agencies, vendors, designers, and external partners on production, budgets, and timelines.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Sales to bring customer stories into activations.
• Track event and community engagement, lead follow-up, and program impact.

Required qualifications

• At least 2 years of event marketing experience in industry events, event marketing, experiential, integrated or partner marketing.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills.
• Track record of delivering professional events or community programs from concept through follow-up.
• Experience collaborating with Sales on event goals, audience targeting, partner relationships and lead follow-up.
• Excellent project management, organization and attention to detail.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Comfortable working in an international, remote-first team and travelling to relevant industry events.
• Ability to cope with stress and a pragmatic approach to solve unexpected, last minute organizational matters.

Nice to have

• Experience in AdTech, mobile apps or similar industry.
• Familiarity with the programmatic advertising, mobile apps or CTV ecosystem.

Benefits

• Exceptional career growth and learning opportunity
• Direct, day-to-day work experience with the leadership team
• A fun, driven, and multinational team
• A flexible work-from-home arrangement
• 500-dollar home-office setup budget
• 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget

About the company

Kayzen is the Apps DSP: an AI-native platform for buying app inventory across mobile and connected TV screens. Headquartered in Berlin, Kayzen operates globally.