Strategic Events Lead

Goodfire•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Goodfire is seeking a highly skilled Events Lead to design and execute impactful events that connect Goodfire's work with the AI community. This role requires a blend of creativity, operational excellence, and strategic thinking to create high-signal, relevant experiences for researchers, engineers, and technical executives. The Events Lead will own the end-to-end event strategy, including intimate dinners, research salons, conference programs, and field events, aiming to build lasting relationships and advance Goodfire's market narrative. The target audience is highly technical, necessitating close collaboration with research, GTM, and field teams to ensure events drive market awareness, strengthen relationships, and generate meaningful pipeline.

Requirements

Experience planning and executing high-quality B2B events, field marketing programs, community programs, or executive gatherings.
Strong project management skills and the ability to run many operational details without losing sight of strategy.
Excellent taste and audience judgment; you know how to make an event feel substantive, polished, and not generic.
Scrappiness, urgency, and comfort building a function from scratch in a fast-moving environment

Nice To Haves

Experience creating events for technical audiences, developer communities, AI/ML teams, infrastructure buyers, or research organizations.
Background as an early events, field marketing, community, or demand generation hire at a high-growth startup.
Experience with conference strategy, speaker programming, executive dinners, private roundtables, or partner events.
Ability to translate event outcomes into account insights, pipeline reporting, and next-step GTM actions

Responsibilities

Own the events strategy and calendar: identify the moments, formats, audiences, and geographies where Goodfire should show up
Design high-signal experiences: create events that feel substantive to AI researchers, ML engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and other deeply technical buyers
Execute with precision: manage vendors, budgets, run-of-show, speaker prep, attendee experience, follow-up, and every operational detail that determines quality
Build targeted invite and attendance strategy: partner with GTM, demand gen, and field teams to reach the right accounts and convert attendance into relationship momentum
Measure and improve the motion: connect events to pipeline, account engagement, market learning, and repeatable playbooks for future programs