Event Marketing Manager

Overview

The Event Marketing Manager will orchestrate Friendli

AI’s presence across industry AI events, trade shows, and community experiences. Ensuring the company stands out, executes flawlessly, and attracts high-quality leads. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role for someone who is organized, resourceful, and excited to build and run events in a fast-moving AI startup environment.

This role owns events end-to-end and works closely with product marketing, sales, design, and leadership to deliver impactful in-person and virtual experiences.

• Plan and execute Friendli
  
  AI’s presence at AI trade shows, conferences, and field events.
• Organize and support hackathons, community events, and experiential programs.
• Launch and manage virtual events, including webinars.
• Own events end-to-end: planning, logistics, execution, and post-event follow-up.
• Coordinate timelines, run-of-show documents, and execution details to ensure on-time delivery.
• Partner with product marketing, design, and sales to align messaging, assets, and execution.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for event vendors and external partners.
• Manage on-site logistics and act as lead coordinator during live events.
• Work within an approved budget in collaboration with leadership.
• Track basic event metrics and deliver post-event recaps with learnings and recommendations.

• 1–2+ years of experience in event marketing, field marketing, or marketing operations.
• Experience supporting trade shows, conferences, hackathons, or webinars.
• Background in B2B SaaS, AI, or cloud infrastructure strongly preferred.
• Experience with major industry events (e.g., NVIDIA GTC, AI Engineer World’s Fair, AWS re:
  
  Invent or similar) is a plus.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and reliable in fast-paced environments.
• Comfortable working in a hybrid setup with occasional travel and office visits.

Friendli

AI is a San Mateo, CA-based startup building the next-generation AI inference platform that accelerates the deployment of large language and multimodal models with unmatched performance and efficiency. Our infrastructure supports high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide and integrates with platforms like Hugging Face to enable instant access to hundreds of thousands of open-source models. We are on a mission to deliver the world’s best platform for AI inference.