Event & Community Manager

About the role

The Event & Community Manager will own the planning and execution of Nectar's event calendar, including customer dinners, executive roundtables, happy hours, webinars, and conference sponsorships/booths. They will also design and launch Nectar's first customer/industry community program, manage budgets, vendors, venues, and logistics, and build repeatable processes to ensure smooth scaling as the company grows. Reporting directly into the marketing leadership team, they will partner with sales and customer success to build event strategies that generate pipeline and deepen relationships with existing customers. They will represent Nectar at industry conferences and manage on-site logistics, staffing, and sponsor deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end planning and execution for Nectar's event calendar: customer dinners, executive roundtables, happy hours, webinars, and conference sponsorships/booths.
• Manage budgets, vendors, venues, and logistics, and build repeatable processes so events scale smoothly as the company grows.
• Partner with sales and customer success to build event strategies that generate pipeline and deepen relationships with existing customers.
• Track and report on event ROI — attendance, pipeline influence, and customer sentiment — and use that data to sharpen the calendar over time.
• Represent Nectar at industry conferences and manage on-site logistics, staffing, and sponsor deliverables.
• Create a content and engagement cadence that keeps the community active: AMAs, office hours, member spotlights, and peer-to-peer discussion.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for community members, building authentic relationships with key customers and industry voices.
• Identify and cultivate community advocates who can support case studies, referrals, and word-of-mouth growth.
• Feed community insights and feedback back to product, marketing, and customer success teams.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of experience in event marketing, community management, or a hybrid of both, ideally at a B2B SaaS or martech company.
• A track record of planning and executing events end-to-end, from concept through post-event reporting.
• Experience building or growing an online or in-person community from scratch.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy in an early-stage environment where processes don't yet exist — you're excited to build them.
• Strong project management skills and an ability to juggle multiple events and workstreams at once without dropping details.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a genuine interest in connecting with people.
• Willingness to travel for events and conferences (estimated 20–30%).

Qualifications

• Experience in the social media, marketing technology, or creator economy space.
• Familiarity with community platforms (Slack, Discord, Circle) and event tooling (Luma, Bizzabo, HubSpot).
• Prior experience as an early hire at a startup, building a function from zero to one.

Skills

• Event planning and execution.
• Community management and engagement.
• Project management.
• Communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and early equity.
• Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match.
• Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales.
• Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it.
• A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure.

Pay

Competitive compensation and early equity.

Schedule

Full-time remote position.