Senior Manager of Strategic Events, Confluent
$170-210k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170-210k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 8–10+ years in corporate event management, with a proven track record of leading large-scale, high-visibility event programs
- Demonstrated experience in a leadership capacity; a passion for coaching and developing team members
- Ability to look beyond logistics to focus on long-term strategy, using data and feedback to evolve programs year-over-year
- Exceptional executive presence; comfortable presenting strategies and results to senior stakeholders
What the job involves
- The Senior Manager, Strategic Events is a high-impact leadership role responsible for the vision, design, and execution of a variety of event programs
- You will not only manage the logistical complexities of these events but also serve as a strategic partner, ensuring every touchpoint aligns with overarching business goals
- Beyond production, you will act as a foundational mentor, elevating the collective expertise of the events team through coaching, process improvement, and strategic oversight
- Program Strategy: Lead the end-to-end strategy for major event series, transforming high-level business objectives into immersive and impactful experiences
- Stakeholder Management: Partner with internal leadership, marketing, and sales teams to define event KPIs and ensure cross-functional alignment
- Budget Oversight: Manage large-scale event budgets, ensuring fiscal responsibility while maximizing production value and ROI
- Vendor Ecosystem: Navigate and manage high-level vendor relationships, ranging from creative agencies to global production houses
- Talent Development: Serve as a dedicated mentor to event staff, providing guidance on professional growth and technical skill-building
- Process Excellence: Audit and refine event workflows to improve efficiency, scalability, and team productivity
- Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to educate the broader team on modern best practices
- Ensure all events maintain a consistent, premium brand identity across all physical and digital environments
- Oversee content strategy and speaker management to ensure programs resonate with the target audience
- Success Metrics:
- Meeting or exceeding registration, attendee satisfaction, and engagement targets
- Measurable improvement in team performance, efficiency, and professional development
- Optimization of the event planning lifecycle and effective vendor cost-management
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.
Now, it looks like IBM is eyeing the company for acquisition and Confluent looks to be a natural fit. Long positioned as the real-time backbone behind modern application, Confluent would gain global scale and an even deeper enterprise reach under iBM, while cementing its role at the center of AI-driven architectures. For COnfluent, the deal would marka shift from fast-growing independent disruptor to foundational infrastructure player powering the next wave of enterprise AI.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Confluent in 2014, Jay spent 7 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Principal Engineer and Principal Staff Engineer.
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