Senior Events Manager, Redpanda Data
$135k
AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
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AI data infrastructure for the Enterprise
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$135k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the best present and future of streaming data.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in event or field marketing, ideally in B2B SaaS or technology
- Experience executing large-scale events across multiple regions for a fast moving SaaS organization
- Strong project management and organizational skills with attention to detail
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
- Data-driven mindset with experience tracking and reporting on event performance
- Familiarity with the following ecosystems (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce, Monday.com) is a plus
- Experience with tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Monday, RingCentral
- Comfortable working across time zones and traveling up to 20%
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Global Events Manager to help scale and execute Redpanda’s global event strategy. This role will own key components of our event program across first-party, third-party, and partner activations—balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution
- You’ll play a central role in building repeatable programs, driving cross-functional alignment, and ensuring our events deliver measurable business impact
- Help build and operationalize the Global Event Playbook, including standards for messaging, design, execution, and ROI measurement
- Partner with Regional Marketing, Partner Marketing, and Brand to incorporate customer and partner storytelling into event narratives
- Support forecasting for event performance, pipeline contribution, and budget allocation
- Work with Marketing Operations to ensure consistent tracking, attribution, and reporting
- Lead planning and execution of large-scale global events as well as our virtual user conference
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Partnerships to define engagement strategies and event goals
- Own logistics, vendor management, creative production, and communications for global activations
- Support partner-facing events (e.g., trainings and ecosystem activations) alongside Partner Marketing
- Collaborate with Content and Brand to maintain a centralized library of event assets and formats for global reuse
- Track and report on event performance, including ROI, pipeline influence, and engagement metrics
- Deliver post-event reports with insights and recommendations for optimization
- Create enablement materials (playbooks, templates, guides) to scale event execution globally
- Partner with Product Marketing, Brand, and Sales Enablement to align content with go-to-market priorities
Our take
When dealing with real-time data streaming workloads, the simpler the infrastructure the better. Redpanda was developed as an alternative to the complex industry standard, Apache Kafka (which needed to be used in tandem with ZooKeeper). Redpanda’s Kafka-compatible platform increases businesses’ operational efficiency by allowing them to switch to a single platform.
With its platform running on hundreds of thousands of machines, Redpanda supports users to run the software that they’ve already invested in while addressing and eliminating past pain points. Building on its success with data streaming, the company is now pioneering the "Agentic Data Plane", a new AI infrastructure feature that enables enterprises to connect AI agents with their data and systems.
With this new direction, Redpanda ensures it remains a key player in the industry - as it supports the new endeavours of its established customer base. Having raised strong funding in the past, the company has continued to expand marketing and R&D efforts to increase its reach and support its growth plans moving forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $265.5m
Company benefits
- Remote first: We’re a remote-first company that puts humans first. We advocate for working wherever you're most productive
- Comprehensive healthcare: We’ve got you covered with a mix of plans ranging from fully-paid medical, dental and vision, to premium coverage
- 401(k) matching: Our 401(k) plans let you save for your future. And for our US and UK employees — we match
- Unlimited PTO: Take time to relax and recharge. Option to select region-specific holidays. Our vacation policy puts you in control
- Home office & education reimbursement: $1,000 to gear-up your home office, $50 towards each wifi bill, $500 to invest in your learning and development annually
- Redpanda swag: Hands down the coolest swag in our industry! Your family will steal it. Guaranteed
Company HQ
Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexander Gallego
(Founder & CEO)Founder & previous CTO of Concord Systems, Inc. Previous Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, and was a Software Engineer at both YeildMo and FactSet Research Systems. Also worked as a REU - Student Researcher for the Polytechnic Institute of New York Univeristy.
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