Head of Global Events & Field Marketing

The role

The Head of Global Events & Field Marketing will build and scale an event portfolio to maximize reach with AI Cloud buyers and drive engagement and pipeline. This marketing leadership role involves driving strategy, defining operating rhythms, and building a team.

What you will do

• Own the marketing events strategy aligned to business goals and integrated campaigns.
• Identify the portfolio of conferences, 1P events, and field tactics.
• Lead collaboration with Field leadership to prioritize markets, accounts, and formats.
• Partner with Product Marketing and Growth Marketing leaders to align events to key themes.
• Build and scale ABM motions with Field and Growth Marketing.
• Build scalable processes, templates and playbooks.
• Establish experimentation and AI-native automation as core operating principles.
• Hire, coach, and scale a team of event and field marketers.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years experience and strong track record of building and scaling events and field marketing in high growth technology companies
• Deep understanding of complex B2B buying journeys, technical buying committees, complex sales cycles, account segmentation, ABM, and sales-assisted conversion
• Sales-aligned operator with strong track record of partnering directly with executive sales leadership
• A testing mindset and the operating discipline to turn learnings into repeatable programs, systems, and investment decisions
• Analytical & Financial Acumen with deep proficiency in attribution, pipeline modeling, and managing budgets and vendors
• Strong business acumen and executive presence
• Hands-on leader who is comfortable building from scratch with experience operating at scale
• Willingness to travel across the region as programs require

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Meaningful Equity (RSUs)
• 401(k) matching (U.S.) and pension contributions (U.K.)
• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• Annual learning and development allowance
• Wellness and work-from-home stipends
• Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service
• Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model
• Complimentary meals at office hubs

About the company

Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. They build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems.