Global Community Events Manager

Skills

About the Role

You'll own the full portfolio of community events at Metabase, from the flagship annual user conference to executive dinners and community-hosted gatherings around the world. You'll bring an experimental mindset to everything you do, designing programs, running tests, measuring what works, and building a scalable playbook grounded in real data. You'll define hypotheses and measurable goals for each event, maintain a forward-looking events calendar, and identify target cities and regions based on community density and growth opportunity. You'll lead the planning and execution of Meetabase end-to-end, support community organizers with toolkits and resources, curate executive dinners and VIP programming, and coordinate meetups and community visits globally. You'll also manage all event logistics, budgets, and vendor relationships across time zones and currencies, define and track KPIs, gather attendee feedback, and build playbooks and toolkits so programs can be handed off and improved over time.

Requirements

• Experience in event management, community marketing, or field marketing at a tech company, with a track record of owning both large flagship events and smaller programmatic ones
• A strategic data-driven approach to defining success and structuring learning opportunities
• Experience managing a diverse portfolio of event formats including conferences, executive programs, community events, and meetups
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects across time zones
• Comfortable with international logistics including foreign vendors, cross-border shipping, and multi-currency payments
• Confident negotiator with vendors and venues, familiar with contracts and procurement
• Self-starter who thrives in a remote, async environment with high autonomy
• Ability to travel internationally when needed
• Bonus: experience in SaaS, data analytics, or open-source communities
• Bonus: fluency in additional languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Own the overall community events plan and align event types to company goals around awareness, retention, pipeline, and community health
• Design events as experiments by defining hypotheses, measurable goals, and feedback loops
• Maintain a forward-looking events calendar aligned to product launches, regional growth priorities, and company milestones
• Identify and prioritize target cities and regions based on community density, product usage data, and expansion opportunity
• Lead planning and execution of the annual user conference (Meetabase) end-to-end
• Support and scale community-hosted events by providing toolkits, resources, and coordination for local organizers
• Own demand gen events including executive dinners and VIP programming, curating guest lists, formats, and experiences
• Coordinate informal and formal meetups and community visits globally
• Own all event logistics including venue sourcing and negotiation, catering, AV, signage, swag, guest lists, and international shipping
• Manage event budgets, vendor relationships, and procurement across multiple time zones and currencies
• Define and track KPIs for every event type and report out regularly
• Gather attendee feedback and synthesize insights to continuously improve quality and impact
• Build and maintain playbooks, templates, and toolkits so programs can be replicated and improved over time
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Success Engineering on branding, messaging, and lead handoff

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Fully employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 75% coverage for dependents)
• 401(k) with employer match available after the first 30 days
• Flexible and unlimited paid time off including sick time
• Asynchronous, remote-first environment
• Define your own schedule and work from wherever you want