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Our software handles everything from venue sourcing to vendor negotiations, making it dramatically easier and faster for teams to meet IRL.\nWe’ve planned events around the world for companies like Google, Amazon, and Quantstamp-and we’re just getting started.\nOur mission is simple: make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments together.\nWho We Are\nWe’re a sister-founded team based in San Francisco. We move fast, care deeply, and genuinely enjoy working together-whether that’s running a complex offsite or hosting a Friendsgiving at the Nowadays house.\nWe believe the best teams:\nTake ownership\nStay scrappy\nCelebrate wins (big and small)\nEnjoy building and hanging out together\nRecent team moments include flying trapeze, steak-offs at home, hauling a Christmas tree to the office, post-launch spa days, and racing an Ironman Relay.\nWhat This Role Is\nThis is a zero-to-one operations role.\nYou’ll take messy, fast-moving workflows and turn them into systems that are simple, teachable, and scalable-without losing the human care that defines Nowadays.\nYou’ll sit at the intersection of ops, product, engineering, and customers, helping the company move faster and cleaner as we scale.\nWhat You’ll Do\nEvent Operations & Client Communication (≈80%)\nOwn events end-to-end, including clear, on-brand written and verbal client communication\nOwn and evolve the full operational flow -from 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