Field Marketing Manager

Linear

20d•Remote

About The Position

Linear is hiring its first Field Marketing Manager to establish and run its field marketing motion. The role owns executive dinners across cities, evaluates conferences and partner programs, and creates event invitations and follow-up programs that help Sales turn events into meaningful conversations. This is a hands-on position involving strategy and execution, including venue and vendor coordination, event run-of-show planning, and on-site event management. The role is open to candidates based anywhere in the United States, with San Francisco or New York preferred. Linear is remote-first and offers optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. The position involves frequent travel for events, including evenings, as well as occasional travel for team connections.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience in field marketing, event marketing, or B2B events.
Track record of running dinners, roundtables, or other small-format events end to end.
Experience planning around conferences, including sponsorships, side events, and customer meetings.
Experience working with Sales, building target account lists, engaging account executives around events, and reporting event outcomes afterward.
Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple cities and events without missing details.
Comfort managing budgets, vendor contracts, and spreadsheets.
Clear writing and ability to engage senior guests, hosts, and partners.
Willingness to travel frequently, including evenings.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a software company.
Experience in developer tools, SaaS, or another technical product.
Hands-on experience with HubSpot and event attribution.
Experience marketing to engineering and product leaders.

Responsibilities

Own the executive dinner calendar across cities, including selecting locations, venues, dates, and themes.
Build guest lists with the Customer team, provide sellers with invitation sequences, and track RSVPs.
Manage venues and vendors, negotiate menus and minimums, and keep dinner spending, contracts, and travel logistics within budget.
Brief hosts and executives on attendees and event objectives, run events on site, and hand follow-ups to Sales.
Evaluate conferences and sponsorship offers based on audience quality, account coverage, and expected return; plan the company's presence, including booths, side dinners, customer meetings, and speaking slots.
Co-host dinners, workshops, and meetups with partners and agree in advance on guest lists, costs, and follow-up ownership.
Work with Sales quarterly to choose target accounts and create lightweight event formats that account executives can request for key accounts.
Report on attendance, meetings held, influenced pipeline, and feedback from attendees and account owners.
Build an event series from the ground up, including creating a playbook that others can run.

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity.
Employee-friendly equity terms, including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows.
Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday.
Paid co-working space or desk.
Health coverage based on country requirements.
Five weeks of paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays.
Four months of paid parental leave.
Paid month off after four years and every two years thereafter.
Regular team events and off-sites.
Remote-first work with no required commute.