Field Marketing Manager, Senior Manager (remote US East Coast)

Spacelift•Redwood City, CA

19d•Remote

About The Position

Spacelift is seeking a Senior Manager, Field Marketing & Events to lead and grow its field marketing program. This role owns field marketing strategy and execution across major industry conferences, executive experiences, regional campaigns, and partner activations, with a focus on pipeline generation, target-account engagement, opportunity acceleration, and revenue impact. The manager partners with regional Sales leadership to identify market opportunities, align priorities, and support revenue goals. The role leads the strategy and execution of conferences, tradeshows, executive dinners, regional activations, and partner events, developing creative experiences that engage technical audiences. It also builds and manages the field marketing team, including planning hires, recruiting, coaching, and scaling the team as programs grow. The successful candidate will be a hands-on leader who can contribute to strategic planning, creative development, and tactical execution, while building cross-functional relationships and communicating plans, results, and lessons learned across the organization. This is a fully remote role for someone based on the US East Coast, with approximately 15–25% travel. Spacelift describes itself as an international, diverse, dynamic, and passionate team with a friendly and supportive culture. The company builds an infrastructure orchestration platform for provisioning, configuration, and governance, integrating with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible.

Requirements

At least 6 years of B2B technology marketing experience, with a strong background in field marketing, experiential marketing, or event-led demand generation.
Proven people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, and managing team members.
Track record of developing distinctive event concepts and taking ideas through to execution.
Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple programs, budgets, and priorities simultaneously.
Confident communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and generate enthusiasm for ideas.
Collaborative, sales-oriented mindset and comfort partnering with Sales leadership, account executives, and sales development representatives.
Ability to work independently, solve problems, and take ownership from strategy through execution.
Willingness to travel approximately 15–25%.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute field marketing programs that drive pipeline generation, target-account engagement, and opportunity acceleration.
Partner with regional Sales leadership to identify market opportunities, align priorities, and build programs that support revenue goals.
Lead the strategy and execution of major industry conferences, tradeshows, executive dinners, regional activations, and partner events.
Develop creative, differentiated event concepts that encourage technical audiences to engage with Spacelift.
Develop the hiring plan for the field marketing function, recruit and manage team members, and scale the team based on business needs.
Lead hands-on across strategic planning, creative brainstorming, and tactical execution.
Build cross-functional relationships and rally teams around field marketing initiatives.
Share plans, ideas, results, and lessons learned proactively to create visibility and alignment across the organization.
Travel approximately 15–25% to support field marketing activities.