Head of Events

About the role

Build and scale the community engine that powers Alpaca Health's growth across families, providers, and referral partners. You will be responsible for creating meaningful local presence in our core markets, fostering strong provider communities, and developing partnerships that drive awareness, referrals, and trust.

What You’ll Do

• Plan and execute local family-focused events across Alpaca's core markets.
• Build relationships with community organizations, schools, pediatricians, nonprofits, and autism-related groups.
• Represent Alpaca at resource fairs, community events, and local gatherings.
• Develop repeatable playbooks for launching and growing local community presence in new markets.
• Measure and improve event attendance, engagement, and referral outcomes.
• Organize provider networking events, happy hours, and local meetups.
• Celebrate Alpaca's presence at industry conferences and professional events.
• Create systems for gathering provider feedback and strengthening provider retention.
• Foster a strong sense of belonging among providers operating within the Alpaca ecosystem.
• Build and manage affiliate partnerships with organizations that serve families and providers.
• Identify and cultivate relationships with influencers, content creators, and community advocates.
• Develop co-marketing opportunities that expand Alpaca's reach and credibility.
• Track partnership performance and continuously improve ROI across channels.
• Create scalable systems for event planning, sponsorships, partnerships, and community engagement.
• Manage event budgets, logistics, vendors, and timelines.
• Use AI and automation to increase efficiency across community operations.
• Build dashboards and reporting to measure community growth, engagement, referrals, and partner performance.

Who You Are

• Extremely ambitious and want to build something meaningful at high velocity.
• Comfortable working harder and moving faster than most people.
• AI-native, using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar tools to build leverage in your work.
• A systems thinker who instinctively turns chaos into repeatable processes.
• Energized by meeting people and building authentic relationships.
• Willing to travel frequently to support local market growth and community-building efforts.
• Care deeply about supporting clinicians, families, and locally owned healthcare businesses.

Why Join

• Direct exposure to company-building at an early stage.
• Real ownership of critical initiatives from day one.
• The opportunity to materially impact families and clinicians.
• A fast learning curve that few roles can match.
• Strong compensation package:
  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful equity
  • Health benefits
  • Flexible PTO
  • Dinner when working late