Staff Corporate Events Manager

Together AI is a frontier AI cloud, which has been built bottoms up to cater to the demand for the new generation of AI applications and agents. The company has seen tremendous growth with 20X customer growth and 6X ARR growth over the last year.

We are looking for a Staff-level Strategic Corporate Events leader to shape and deliver our first-party events and programs. You will own our flagship proprietary events, including user and industry conferences, executive programs, research showcases, and developer events. You think in experiences, not logistics, and know how to make people feel the brand through design, storytelling, and content. You bring strong creative taste, operational excellence, and the ability to lead from the front. This is a player coach role responsible for building scalable programs, managing agencies and vendors, and eventually hiring and developing a team. The role sits within Field Marketing and Events and reports to the Head of Field Marketing and Events and the Chief of Staff.

Responsibilities

- Lead strategy, planning, and execution of all major proprietary events, including global user conferences, industry summits, executive programs, developer events, and research/innovation showcases.
- Architect the full experience from creative concept and design to content, staging, flow, environment, and audience journey ensuring every touchpoint reflects and amplifies the brand.
- Develop and operationalize a global events playbook that can be scaled across geographies, functions, and program types
- Partner closely with Demand Gen on promotion, audience development, attendee conversion, and the event’s role in pipeline and revenue generation.
- Set and uphold a high bar for planning excellence, operational rigor, timelines, QA, communications, and cross-functional alignment.
- Own vendor, agency, and contractor management, ensuring seamless collaboration, proactive leadership, and exceptional quality.
- Lead budget strategy and oversight, including forecasting, optimization, and ROI measurement.
- Design and execute VIP experiences for executives, strategic customers, partners, and influencers with impeccable taste and attention to detail.
- Collaborate cross-functionally across GTM, Product, Research, Engineering, and Executive teams to build events that ladder into broader strategic goals.
- Drive content strategy for events, working with internal leaders and external speakers to ensure high-signal sessions that elevate credibility and thought leadership.
- Build measurement frameworks that tie events to marketing funnel metrics, brand impact, engagement, and revenue.
- Act as a player-coach by rolling up your sleeves during all-hands-on-deck moments while also setting the foundation for eventually hiring and mentoring a team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in corporate events, experiential marketing, or large-scale program leadership—ideally in fast-growth tech or high-end experiential environments.

• A proven track record producing complex, large-scale, multi-day events with thousands of attendees across multiple workstreams.

• Creative excellence and strong taste—able to push boundaries with design, atmosphere, content, and experience execution.

• Demonstrated experience building VIP and executive-level programs with a refined understanding of hospitality and high-touch engagement.

• Strong agency leadership skills with a “driver, not passenger” mentality—comfortable leading from the front while holding partners accountable.

• Expertise in budget management, vendor negotiation, contracting, and operational governance.

• Experience building event programs tied to measurable funnel impact, pipeline generation, and broader GTM goals.

• Ability to translate brand and product strategy into experiences that scale globally.

• Prior experience hiring, mentoring, or leading teams, or clear readiness to grow into that responsibility.

• Thrives in a lean, collaborative, all-hands environment where ownership is shared and no task is too big or too small.

• Exceptional communication skills and ease working with executives, GTM teams, and technical stakeholders.

About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $200-240K + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. This is a hybrid role based in the Bay Area.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

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