Events Manager, Confluent
$88.5-104k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity
Data streaming platform
Job no longer available
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$88.5-104k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in event management, hospitality, marketing, or a related field
- 2-4 years of experience in event coordination, project management, or a similar role
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a knack for building relationships
- Proficiency in event management software, event technology, Slack and G-Suite
- A proactive and adaptable mindset, capable of navigating fast-paced environments
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly organized and enthusiastic Events Specialist to join our marketing team. In this role, you will be responsible for planning and executing a variety of events that promote Confluent.io’s brand, engage our audience, and support business objectives
- Event Planning and Execution: Manage all aspects of event planning, including logistics, budgeting, venue selection, vendor management, and on-site coordination for both virtual and in-person events
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, such as marketing, sales, and product, to ensure alignment throughout the planning process and successful execution of events
- Promotion: Develop and implement event marketing strategies to drive attendance and engagement, utilizing various channels including social media, email marketing, and partnerships
- Vendor Management: Identify, negotiate with, and manage relationships with vendors and suppliers to achieve high-quality event delivery
- Budget Management: Monitor event budgets, ensuring all expenses remain within the approved limits and provide regular updates to stakeholders
- Post-Event Evaluation: Gather feedback and analyze event performance to measure success and identify areas for improvement in future events
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
Articles
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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