Events Marketing Manager
Company Overview:
We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.
Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech.
We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI.
Role Overview
The Events Marketing Manager owns Protege's events strategy and growth marketing foundation, ensuring our team shows up at the right conferences, with the right people, at the right time. This role transforms our event opportunities into a disciplined, revenue-driving playbook that connects buyers and partners with Protege across our different verticals and AI communities.
The role requires a blend of operational excellence in event execution, marketing operations fundamentals, and startup growth mindset to test & build scalable systems from scratch. You'll be the connective tissue between commercial teams, partnerships, the Protege Data Lab, and Marketing—ensuring every touchpoint drives meaningful pipeline and brand visibility.
What You'll Do
Own end-to-end execution of Protege's conference and events strategy across multiple verticals and customer/partner/relationship profiles
Build and maintain our events playbook: prioritize conferences and events, coordinate logistics, manage budgets, and ensure calendars are stuffed with prospect meetings
Partner with commercial and partnerships teams to execute pre-event demand generation and maximize on-site meeting pipeline
Coordinate event presence, speaking opportunities, side events, and dinners that position Protege in the market
Assist with marketing operations infrastructure: CRM integration, lead attribution, automated workflows, and reporting that connects events to revenue
Support growth marketing initiatives including social media content, sales enablement materials, and vertical-specific collateral
About You
You are a natural operations executor who thrives on coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder projects
You love in-person events and the energy of conferences—meeting people energizes rather than drains you
You are comfortable building systems from scratch with a bias toward testing, learning, and iterating rapidly
You demonstrate scrappiness and resourcefulness in ambiguous startup environments
You are a team player who can juggle competing priorities across sales, partnerships, and product teams
You treat those around you with kindness
Required
Prior experience planning and executing high-quality B2B conferences, events, or corporate dinners from start to finish
Hands-on operator comfortable with logistics, vendor management, and being on-site at events
Marketing operations fundamentals: experience with CRM systems (ie. HubSpot, Salesforce), basic attribution, and process automation
Basic content creation skills (writing, design sensibility, video editing) to support campaigns
AI tool fluency to create leverage for yourself and accelerate execution timelines
Startup experience or an entrepreneurial equivalent
Willingness to travel 2-3x per month to conferences and events
Bonus:
Based in the SF Bay Area
Experience in technical B2B marketing (ie. AI, data infrastructure, healthcare tech) or direct B2B sales
Strong analytical skills (Excel, SQL, or analytics tools) for data-driven decision making
Social media management experience with understanding of what resonates with technical audiences
Product marketing or sales enablement experience creating vertical-specific collateral
Track record understanding how marketing activities connect to revenue outcomes