Manager, Event Operations

About the Opportunity

The company has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on the organization to build, share, and run their applications across a suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.

The team is a globally distributed, remote-first group building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, the organization is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default. The organization's event portfolio - flagship conferences, developer roadshows, digital events, and community activations - is how the company shows up in the world and turns developer enthusiasm into enterprise pipeline. As the portfolio grows, operational excellence is what lets it scale without added risk or complexity.

Responsibilities

• Own operational execution across the event portfolio - major conferences, developer roadshows, digital events, and community activations - managing timelines, project plans, and execution milestones across multiple concurrent events, and keeping them on schedule, on budget, and aligned to internal goals.
• Maintain a master event calendar that coordinates timing, resourcing, and dependencies across programs.
• Manage event registration, attendee experience, and lead capture and badging across the portfolio.
• Build scalable event operations: repeatable planning templates, run-of-show frameworks, and operational playbooks, continuously simplifying and improving execution over time.
• Own the event technology stack (registration, mobile apps, lead retrieval) and ensure data flows cleanly into marketing and sales systems.
• Manage vendors and logistics: agencies, venues, production vendors, and internal teams, including contract execution, budget tracking, shipping, production schedules, and onsite readiness.
• Own end-to-end event budgets, including purchase orders, invoicing, and post-event reconciliation.
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Field Marketing, and Sales, translating program goals into clear operational plans.
• Operationalize developer-focused programs - roadshows, community activations, and flagship conference experiences - and build frameworks that let them expand to additional markets over time.
• Track event KPIs and pipeline/ROI, run post-event debriefs, and lead reconciliation and timely handoff to sales.
• Provide operational and logistics support to Field Marketing across regional events, roadshows, and third-party/sponsored events, including sponsorship deliverables, booth and presence logistics, and lead retrieval.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in event management, event operations, or experiential program management.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record coordinating complex programs across multiple stakeholders and concurrent events without losing attention to detail.
• Hands-on vendor, agency, and production-partner management, including contracts, budgets, and performance.
• Comfortable using AI to scale repeatable processes without sacrificing quality.
• Familiarity with event and marketing tech (registration platforms, lead retrieval, mobile apps) and how event data flows into Salesforce and Marketo and lead management workflows.
• Experience building operational frameworks or playbooks that let event programs scale.
• Developer, technical, or enterprise event experience preferred; background in SaaS, developer platforms, cloud, or technology companies is an advantage.
• Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities can evolve.