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From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.\nWe are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.\n_______________________________________________________________________\nThe Role\nDocker's events run as a tiered portfolio anchored in revenue. Tier 1 is a small number of global programs: industry and partner events (AWS re:Invent among them) negotiated once, run centrally and activated in every region with one theme, one signature demo, an executive meeting program and a brand goal alongside the pipeline target. Tier 2 is the regional program our field marketers run with their sales teams. Tier 3 is developer and community events led by Developer Relations on a standard kit, and tier 4 is speaking. Every program has a tier, an objective, a pipeline target and an owner before money moves.\nAs Senior Event Manager, you are first chair on tier 1. You own every global program end to end, from the negotiation and the contract through creative concept, planning, production, staffing and on-site delivery to reconciliation and the readout. You own the AI category across the tiers: the newer conferences where Docker's buyers now gather, tested at a conservative footprint with Brand and Field Marketing. You are the program manager for the whole events calendar, keeping one calendar and one messaging and positioning document for every event, and you are the events lead on Docker's Sales Kickoff, the internal event where the field meets the year's story first. You report to the Director, Field Marketing and Events, and work alongside the Event Manager, Global Field Marketing Operations, the regional field marketers, Partner Marketing, Brand, Product Marketing, Developer Relations and Sales.\nDocker brought event management in-house this year, and this role is the center of it.\n_______________________________________________________________________\nWhat Success Looks Like\nEvery global program delivers on all three objectives: reach (the right people captured and demos delivered), reputation (analysts, press, executive meetings and speaking earned, and the brand goal met) and revenue (the pipeline target set with Revenue Operations before the contract, read at 30 and 90 days). The footprint reads as a buying journey from demo to a first sales conversation, the executive meeting program runs on the standard set by Global Field Marketing Operations and is never overcommitted, and every program ends with a readout the sales leaders who staffed it trust. What tier 1 builds cascades: the theme, the activation kit and the lessons reach every region the same half.\nFor a brief period before and during every event, every person on site works for you. You hold a room of senior stakeholders, production partners and volunteers to a run of show with authority and warmth, you are the person everyone is glad to see when the event starts, and you do it with a budget you can account for to the dollar.\n_______________________________________________________________________\nResponsibilities\nOwn tier 1 end to end. Negotiate, contract, concept, plan, budget, produce, staff, deliver and reconcile every global program and its regional stops, against a pipeline target and a brand goal agreed with Revenue Operations, Field Marketing and Brand before the contract is signed.\n\nArchitect the executive track. For each global program: who speaks, who hosts, which meetings run in the meeting space and how each leader's time is protected, on the executive meeting program standard that Global Field Marketing Operations sets. Work directly with executives and their assistants on schedules, prep and on-site handling.\n\nRun the footprint and the experience. Layout and experience design with Brand and Developer Relations, so the footprint reads as a buying journey from demo to a first sales conversation; graphics and messaging; demos and activations; staffing plans and training built from the staffing formula; swag strategy and production.\n\nOwn the AI category. Scan, tier and test the AI and agent-platform conferences where Docker's buyers now gather, with Brand and Field Marketing, at a conservative footprint until a program earns a bigger one.\n\nProgram-manage the calendar. One events calendar across every tier and every function, and one messaging and positioning document per event with Product Marketing and Brand, so every team shows up saying the same thing.\n\nLead the Sales Kickoff as an event. Venue, production, experiential, swag, travel coordination and run of show with the Event Manager, with Sales Enablement owning agenda and content, so the field experiences the first-half theme the way customers will.\n\nManage production partners. Exhibit houses, production agencies, venues, hotels, freight and suppliers, engaged project by project; own timelines, deliverables, room blocks and budgets, and escalate early when a partner misses.\n\nBring operating rigor. Run-of-show documents, punch lists, staffing calendars, budget trackers and post-mortems that make the next program better than the last, and that Global Field Marketing Operations turns into the playbook every region runs.\n\nShape what comes next. Design Docker's owned flagship program during the year, on the results of the global programs, for a decision the following year.\n\n_______________________________________________________________________\nQualifications\n6+ years owning B2B events end to end, including major industry sponsorships or flagship conferences at significant scale, with the budgets, vendors and executive programs that come with them.\n\nYou negotiate. You have taken a sponsorship from first conversation to signed contract and held the organizer to its deliverables.\n\nYou think in pipeline: a pipeline target, a meetings program and sales partnership are how you judge a program, not only flawless logistics.\n\nExecutive presence. You have presented event strategy to a C-level audience, handled executives on site with their assistants, and know how to protect a CEO's time without saying no to the sales team.\n\nProgram management at scale: dozens of workstreams, hundreds of details and several stakeholder groups, all moving at once, and nothing dropped. You are the detail magician and the relationship manager in one person.\n\nCreative concepting: opinions about what makes a footprint or an experience memorable, and the skill to deliver it with brand and production partners.\n\nVendor and budget command. You hold partners accountable and can account for every dollar, from purchase order to reconciliation.\n\nCalm, decisive on-site leadership. You thrive in the compressed chaos of event week and people want to work with you again afterwards.\n\nExperience with developer or technical audiences preferred. Willingness to travel about 35%, concentrated around event season, including international travel.\n\n_______________________________________________________________________\nWhat to Expect\nFirst 30 Days\nImmerse in Docker's buyer, product and the current events portfolio, budget, vendors and calendar; meet the Director, the Global Field Marketing Operations lead, the regional field marketers, Brand, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Sales Enablement and the BDR team.\n\nTake ownership of the first-half global program contracts and the Sales Kickoff plan, including the executive track and the staffing plan.\n\nFirst 90 Days\nDeliver the Sales Kickoff as an event: venue, production, experiential, swag, travel coordination and run of show, with Sales Enablement.\n\nDeliver the first global program stop of the year end to end, on schedule and on budget, with a 30-day readout.\n\nStand up the events calendar and the messaging and positioning document as the one source every function uses, and the tier 1 operating kit with Global Field Marketing Operations: run of show, staffing formula, executive meeting template, budget tracker and post-mortem format.\n\nOne Year Outlook\nEvery global program carries a reach, reputation and revenue target plus a brand goal, and reports all of them at 30 and 90 days.\n\nDocker's global programs are known inside the company as the best-run programs on the calendar, and the executive meeting program is a repeatable asset at every stop.\n\nThe tier 1 kit cascades into every regional program, production partners are engaged on standards you set, and the owned flagship design is ready for a decision.\n\nVisa sponsorship: Not available for this role.\n_______________________________________________________________________\nCompensation & Equity\nAll full-time roles include equity. Final compensation is determined on factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, and location.\nCompensation & Equity\nUnited States: $102.2K - $146K base\n______________________________________________________________________\nPosting Information\nOpen vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.\n\nAI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.\n\nInterview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent.\n\n______________________________________________________________________\nPerks & Benefits\nRemote-first by design - Work from your home, with offices in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.\n\nFlexibility that fits your life - We trust you to manage your schedule while delivering great work.\n\nTime to recharge - Generous PTO, designated quarterly Whaleness Days, and a designated end-of-year Whaleness break.\n\nHome office support - Set up your workspace for comfort and success.\n\nTechnology stipend - Equivalent to US$100 net per month to help support your work.\n\nLearning & development - Annual stipend for conferences, courses, certifications, and continued learning.\n\nParental leave - 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.\n\nEquity for all full-time employees - Share in Docker's long-term success as we continue to grow.\n\nComprehensive benefits - Medical, retirement, and paid holidays vary by country.\n\nDocker swag - Because representing the whale never gets old.\n\nDocker is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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