Global Community Events Manager
Metabase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Strategically identify target cities and regions for in-person gatherings (meetups, dinners, informal events) based on community density, product usage, and growth potential
- Lead all logistics: venue selection & negotiation, catering, AV, signage, swag, guest list, travel alignment, shipping, etc.
- Work with Metabase team members (engineering, success engineering, marketing) traveling internationally to piggyback casual meetups or visits
- Build standardized playbooks, checklists, and templates to scale and replicate events globally
- Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and procurement
- Coordinate with Marketing, Sales, and Success Engineering teams to ensure alignment on branding, messaging, funnel/handoff of leads from events
- Collect event feedback, metrics, and learnings; iterate to continuously improve quality, efficiency, and impact
Requirements
- Proven experience organizing events (virtual or in-person), field/community marketing, for tech companies
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects across time zones
- Strong vendor negotiation and contract familiarity
- Comfortable with international logistics: shipping swag, foreign vendors, cross-border payments
- Self-starter, autonomous, comfortable working in a remote, asynchronous environment
- Some ability for international travel. You won’t necessarily need to attend all of the events, but you’ll need the ability to go to them if you need to be there
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Bonus if you have experience in SaaS, data analytics tools, or open-source communities
- Bonus if you speak multiple languages (e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, etc.)
Benefits
- flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want)
- autonomy
- environment that fosters growth, learning, and development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
event organizationfield marketingvendor negotiationcontract managementbudget managementlogistics coordinationproject managementdata analytics toolsSaaS experienceinternational travel
Soft skills
organizational skillsattention to detailself-starterautonomous workcommunication skillsability to manage multiple projectsadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingfeedback collection