Developer Events Manager
Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms -- Prefect OSS, Prefect Cloud, FastMCP OSS, and Horizon -- used for mission-critical workloads.
Our Vision: Prefect will define automation for the context era.
Our Mission: Curate an intelligent context layer that delivers the right information at the right time.
Our remote first company is singularly focused on this vision and mission, and every team member directly contributes to their advancement.
We've carefully created a supportive, high-performance culture - the operating system of our company - that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers and achieve their personal and professional aspirations.
Our company operates both open-source and commercial offerings, partnering with Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and fast-growing digitally native startups. We are looking for folks who want to join a remote-first team #LI-Remote to continue building an equally amazing company, product, and developer community.
What You'll Do
Drive Prefect's event strategy from conception to execution, converting our developer communities into commercial revenue through authentic technical relationships. You'll own the full lifecycle of our event presence - from identifying the right conferences to attend to designing world-class developer-focused experiences that pull data engineers, MCP/Context engineers, and AI/ML engineers into our ecosystem. Build the PyAI brand through strategic community engagement while leveraging Prefect's physical spaces to increase community and customer impact that drives our product-led sales motion.
Strategic Event Management:
Develop and execute comprehensive event strategies across all Prefect products, including program mix, calendar planning, and audience targeting
Partner directly with leadership team to ensure alignment on event priorities and presence
Own budget planning, ROI measurement, and performance reporting for all event initiatives
Event Execution:
Lead execution of hosted and sponsored events across global markets - managing logistics, budgets, vendors, and onsite operations
Work cross-functionally to coordinate speaker preparation, booth presence, and attendee engagement
Design experiences that showcase Prefect's platforms to data engineers, ML engineers, and other developers
Manage multiple events simultaneously, attending key flagship events while remotely coordinating logistics for others
Own end-to-end execution of customer advisory events in partnership with product and sales teams
Community & Program Leadership:
Launch and manage online community initiatives including forums, user groups, and ambassador programs
Build contributor programs that engage technical practitioners in content creation and open source participation
Create engagement strategies that bridge open source users with enterprise customer opportunities
Oversee full event lifecycle from driving registrations to post-event lead nurturing across all developer events
Your Qualifications
Required Experience:
5+ years managing developer communities and events, with progression from execution to strategic leadership
Background in developer advocacy, developer relations, or technical community building—you're someone who can credibly engage with engineers, introduce technical speakers, and hold your own in conversations about Python, data infrastructure, or AI tooling
Proven track record launching and scaling community programs (forums, user groups, ambassador programs)
Experience working with technical audiences in infrastructure, DevOps, API, or data engineering spaces
Strong metrics-driven approach to community growth and engagement measurement
Background coordinating with engineering and product teams to amplify technical content and thought leadership
Ideal Background:
Experience with developer-focused companies in infrastructure, DevOps, or data technologies
Genuine curiosity about AI trends, particularly the MCP ecosystem
Track record growing technical communities through forums, events, and content programs
Has organized both large-scale conferences (1k attendees) and intimate developer meetups
Comfortable speaking at technical conferences and representing the company to developer audiences
Strong program management skills with ability to coordinate multiple initiatives and measure community impact
Experience building ambassador/contributor programs and community-led initiatives
Background in both community growth metrics and enterprise customer engagement
Preference for candidates based in New York or Bay Area, where many events will be concentrated
Why Prefect
Join a company at the forefront of the data orchestration evolution, serving everyone from startups to Fortune 500 companies. You'll work directly with our executive team to shape how developers discover and engage with Prefect's workflow orchestration platform.
Our remote-first culture emphasizes meaningful in-person collaboration through strategic gatherings like our Embassy in Washington D.C., Focus & Ship laboratory sessions, and developer community events worldwide. You'll have the autonomy to build and execute on event strategies that matter while working alongside passionate engineers and leaders who are defining the future of data workflows.
Ready to help data engineers and ML engineers discover the power of Prefect? Let's build something amazing together.
Belongingness at Prefect:
Belongingness at Prefect is our commitment to ensuring mutual power, access, and opportunity among all groups and individuals who make up our community. We operationalize belongingness through actions large and small on a daily basis, but always with the goal that all groups and individuals can contribute as their most authentic self to the evolution of our product, our team, and our community.
Belongingness is also our commitment to bridge with individuals or groups not yet established in our community, acknowledge differences in a way that affirms distinct identities, and allows for a new, more expansive group identity to form.
Equal Opportunity at Prefect:
Prefect is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity/expression), national origin, disability or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Brad is a real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application.