Events Manager

Vinci•Palo Alto, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Vinci is seeking its first Events Manager to create and lead the company’s event program during a period of rapid growth. The role will shape how Vinci presents its AI-native computational platform for engineering infrastructure to a sophisticated technical market, using conferences, technical sessions, executive briefings, customer experiences, webinars, and other programs to build credibility and support commercial relationships. This is a builder role: there is no established event calendar or mature playbook to inherit, and the Events Manager will help determine where Vinci participates, why it invests, and what each experience should accomplish. Working closely with the Head of Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Sales, Product, Engineering, and executives, the Events Manager will develop the annual event strategy and own programs from evaluation and planning through delivery and measurement. The role combines creative ambition with hands-on execution, including designing memorable technical experiences and live demonstrations, managing sponsorship economics and vendors, coordinating speakers and technical content, and ensuring events contribute to measurable commercial outcomes. The position will also establish the processes, standards, budgets, templates, and vendor relationships needed to scale the program while maintaining quality. The role reports to the Head of Corporate Marketing and is hybrid, with approximately 30% travel, including domestic industry conferences and potential international travel.

Requirements

5–8 years of event marketing experience, including hands-on ownership of a multi-event annual calendar and meaningful event budgets.
Direct experience with B2B technology, enterprise, or technical events.
A track record of building events that contributed to measurable commercial outcomes, beyond attendance or impressions.
Strong judgment in evaluating event investments, comparing tradeoffs, defending recommendations, and assessing sponsorship value.
Exceptional project-management ability across simultaneous workstreams, fixed deadlines, and external dependencies.
Sufficient technical fluency to work credibly with engineers, product leaders, and technical content; ability to ask informed questions and recognize imprecise language or presentation.
Experience incorporating live product demonstrations into event environments, or a strong instinct for making complex technology tangible.
Experience with CRM and marketing-automation systems for event workflows and measurement.
A builder’s mindset and interest in creating systems, processes, templates, and standards.
Excellent cross-functional communication and coordination skills, including proactively raising issues and maintaining momentum across Sales, Product, Engineering, executives, agencies, and vendors.
Composure under pressure and a high standard for execution.
Comfort working in a high-growth company where priorities can change quickly and processes are still being established.

Nice To Haves

Experience in semiconductor, EDA, electronics, hardware, cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, or another deep-technology field.
Familiarity with industry conferences such as DAC, IMEC, SEMICON, and ECTC.
Salesforce experience.

Responsibilities

Develop and run Vinci’s annual event portfolio across industry conferences, technical symposia, customer programs, executive events, field experiences, and webinars.
Research event opportunities, recommend where Vinci should invest, and manage programs from the investment decision through completion.
Create physical event experiences that communicate Vinci’s positioning and technical differentiation, including booth and space design, live demo environments, collateral, programming, staffing, and attendee experience.
Evaluate sponsorship packages, compare costs and value, negotiate terms and added value, manage vendors, and track event spending across the portfolio.
Track CFP, abstract, panel, and speaking opportunities; manage submissions; and coordinate content development, briefings, preparation, and rehearsals for executives and technical leaders.
Partner with Product Marketing and the Campaigns Manager to run webinars and digital events from topic development and speaker coordination through promotion, registration, production, and follow-up.
Partner with Sales on target-account strategy, pre-event outreach, executive and customer meetings, lead capture, and post-event follow-up.
Build reporting that measures event impact and commercial outcomes, including pipeline movement.
Create and maintain event workback plans, run-of-show standards, budget models, vendor relationships, asset and shipping processes, templates, and post-event debriefs.
Anticipate risks, surface issues early, and coordinate executives, customers, technical demos, vendors, travel, and other event workstreams under tight deadlines.
Travel to and support domestic industry conferences, with potential international travel.