1 day ago

Head of Events

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end events strategy and portfolio, creating high-impact developer experiences across conferences, partner events, executive dinners, meetups, field programs, and hybrid/digital formats. Set the creative bar for design, storytelling, branding, and on-site details while driving measurable outcomes across developer acquisition, product adoption, community growth, pipeline, and brand love. Build a global events calendar, manage budgets with ROI discipline, and lead execution hands-on.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

•Own the end-to-end events strategy and portfolio across owned experiences, conference presence, partner events, executive dinners, pop-up activations, meetups, field programs, and hybrid/digital formats.
•Set the creative and experiential bar across design, storytelling, branding, and operational details so every touchpoint reflects the PlanetScale brand.
•Drive measurable outcomes in developer acquisition, product adoption, community growth, pipeline, and brand love by defining and tracking key metrics.
•Build and manage a global events calendar, evaluating and prioritizing a disciplined portfolio of events.
•Manage the events budget and external partners, including vendors, agencies, venues, AV, and creative partners, while maintaining quality standards.

Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 250,000 annually

Key Requirements

•3+ years of experience in events, experiential marketing, field marketing, Developer Relations, or developer community roles with meaningful ownership of strategy and execution.
•Experience working with developer, engineering, or technical audiences.
•Demonstrated ability to manage event budgets and deliver measurable results.
•Experience producing or significantly contributing to a mix of owned events, conference presence, executive/customer dinners, meetups, and field activations.
•Excellent project management, vendor management, and stakeholder management skills.

Experience:3+ yearsDeveloper toolsInfrastructureDatabases

Skills:Creative visionProject managementVendor managementStakeholder managementCommunication

Tech Stack:PostgresVitessMySQL

Company Brief

PlanetScale

Provides a serverless, MySQL-compatible distributed database platform built on Vitess for developers and enterprises, enabling scalable, resilient, and cloud-native database operations with features like branching, zero-downtime schema changes, and multi-region deployment.

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Funding: Series C

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2018

Website LinkedIn

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PlanetScale

1 day ago

Head of Events

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 10 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance

Key Responsibilities

•Own the end-to-end events strategy and portfolio across owned experiences, conference presence, partner events, executive dinners, pop-up activations, meetups, field programs, and hybrid/digital formats.
•Set the creative and experiential bar across design, storytelling, branding, and operational details so every touchpoint reflects the PlanetScale brand.
•Drive measurable outcomes in developer acquisition, product adoption, community growth, pipeline, and brand love by defining and tracking key metrics.
•Build and manage a global events calendar, evaluating and prioritizing a disciplined portfolio of events.
•Manage the events budget and external partners, including vendors, agencies, venues, AV, and creative partners, while maintaining quality standards.

Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 250,000 annually

Key Requirements

•3+ years of experience in events, experiential marketing, field marketing, Developer Relations, or developer community roles with meaningful ownership of strategy and execution.
•Experience working with developer, engineering, or technical audiences.
•Demonstrated ability to manage event budgets and deliver measurable results.
•Experience producing or significantly contributing to a mix of owned events, conference presence, executive/customer dinners, meetups, and field activations.
•Excellent project management, vendor management, and stakeholder management skills.

Experience:3+ yearsDeveloper toolsInfrastructureDatabases

Skills:Creative visionProject managementVendor managementStakeholder managementCommunication

Tech Stack:PostgresVitessMySQL

Company Brief

PlanetScale

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Funding: Series C

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2018

Website LinkedIn