Startup Events & Community Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Startup Events & Community Manager
• Focus: Founder community, events, hackathons, and adoption for Seed–Series B startups
• Location: San Francisco (in-office)
• Travel: ~20%

Description

Own startup events and community programs that turn startup strategy into high-impact growth for SpaceXSI. You will design the events playbook, run the founder funnel, and build relationships across VCs and accelerators to increase meaningful usage and advocacy. Programs must be scrappy, high-signal, and iterated using real outcomes like activation, usage, retention, and advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Design the startup events playbook and execute a data-driven marketing plan to land and grow usage in top Seed–Series B companies
• Deploy a mix of founder events, hackathons, executive/founder roundtables, and community activations
• Build ecosystem relationships with VCs, accelerators, and other startup partners; decide where to invest deeper
• Innovate beyond generic playbooks to understand how founders actually build
• Surface and amplify founder stories worth telling; feature them in events
• Orchestrate programs end to end: ideation, promotion, onsite experience, and follow-up
• Track spend against activation, usage, retention, and advocacy; manage budget toward highest-impact activities
• Partner with Events, Growth, PMM, and Field Engineering; bring FEs to help founders build automations and flag readiness for Enterprise conversations
• Provide real-time insights to Product and Marketing on messaging resonance, credits/billing confusion, feature awareness, and competitive shifts
• Travel (~20%) to host events, support hackathons, and connect with founders in-region

Requirements

• 4+ years in field, community, event, growth, or revenue marketing
• In-office work in San Francisco
• Ability to travel (~20%) for events and founder engagement

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $180,000–$220,000 USD
• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various other discounts and perks