Strategic Events Lead

Goodfire
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Project management","Audience judgment","Scrappiness","Communication","Vendor management"]

Lead the end-to-end events motion for a niche AI interpretability company, designing high-signal experiences for researchers, engineers, and technical executives. Own events strategy, calendar, budgets, vendors, and speaker programs across intimate dinners, salons, conferences, and partner events. Collaborate with research, GTM, and field teams to turn events into pipeline, relationships, and repeatable playbooks, advancing Goodfire’s market narrative.

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3 months ago

Strategic Events Lead

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Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end events motion for a niche AI interpretability company, designing high-signal experiences for researchers, engineers, and technical executives. Own events strategy, calendar, budgets, vendors, and speaker programs across intimate dinners, salons, conferences, and partner events. Collaborate with research, GTM, and field teams to turn events into pipeline, relationships, and repeatable playbooks, advancing Goodfire’s market narrative.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the events strategy and calendar: identify the moments, formats, audiences, and geographies where Goodfire should show up
  • •Design high-signal experiences: create events that feel substantive to AI researchers, ML engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and other deeply technical buyers
  • •Execute with precision: manage vendors, budgets, run-of-show, speaker prep, attendee experience, follow-up, and every operational detail that determines quality
  • •Build targeted invite and attendance strategy: partner with GTM, demand gen, and field teams to reach the right accounts and convert attendance into relationship momentum
  • •Measure and improve the motion: connect events to pipeline, account engagement, market learning, and repeatable playbooks for future programs

Key Requirements

  • •Experience planning and executing high-quality B2B events, field marketing programs, community programs, or executive gatherings.
  • •Strong project management skills and the ability to run many operational details without losing sight of strategy.
  • •Excellent taste and audience judgment; you know how to make an event feel substantive, polished, and not generic.
  • •Scrappiness, urgency, and comfort building a function from scratch in a fast-moving environment.
  • •Experience creating events for technical audiences, developer communities, AI/ML teams, infrastructure buyers, or research organizations.
Experience:AIResearchB2BEventsField marketing
Skills:Project managementAudience judgmentScrappinessCommunicationVendor management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Event managementBudgetsSpeaker programs

Company Brief

Goodfire
Goodfire builds AI-powered developer and business tools to help teams generate, integrate, and deploy custom large-language-model applications. Their platform focuses on simplifying prompt engineering, model orchestration, and secure data connectivity for enterprise AI workflows.
Industry: Developer Tools
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