Senior Global Event Marketing Manager

At Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG) – The AI Factory Platform Company – we’re building a team of innovators who thrive on collaboration, creativity, and the opportunity to help shape the future of AI. As part of the AI technology revolution, our teams design, build, deploy, and manage AI factories for enterprises, sovereign AI initiatives, and neocloud providers worldwide.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Penguin Solutions operates globally through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. For nearly three decades, we have operated at the intersection of memory and AI/HPC infrastructure. That engineering expertise positions us to power the next generation of AI workloads, from training to inference and agentic AI at scale.

Penguin Solutions brings together differentiated infrastructure software, advanced memory, compute systems, end-to-end services, and industry-leading partner solutions in a full-stack AI factory platform designed to help customers deploy and scale AI workloads with speed and precision.

At Penguin Solutions, we value ideas over hierarchy and believe in servant leadership, where leaders enable teams to do their best work. We empower employees to take ownership, drive innovation, and grow through challenging work, continuous learning, and exposure to advanced AI tools and technologies. With flexibility where it matters and a strong focus on outcomes, Penguin Solutions is a place to do your best work, grow your career, and make a meaningful impact.

Join Penguin Solutions as our Senior Global Event Marketing Manager and lead our event strategy and the delivery of compelling customer experiences through a coordinated global event program. You will own branded in-person and virtual customer events and be responsible for planning and executing marketing-led events primarily in the Americas. You will also serve as a strategic resource to Sales and Field Marketing teams in EMEA and APJ, providing guidance, best practices, and tools to help them deliver equally successful local events.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, highly organized event marketing marketer who can connect event execution to broader marketing and business objectives while managing multiple programs and working cross-functionally.

• Design and execute targeted events that create compelling customer experiences to reinforce Penguin’s brand and value proposition.
• Develop event strategies, budgets, timelines, and integrated pre-, during-, and post-event programs aligned to marketing and sales objectives.
• Own end-to-end planning and execution of Americas events, including conferences, sponsor ships, customer events, executive programs, and strategic activations.
• Partner with Sales, Demand Generation, Product Marketing, Communications, Brand, and regional teams to maximize event awareness, engagement, and pipeline impact.
• Manage event logistics, vendors, agencies, sponsor ships, contracts, registration, and onsite execution.
• Lead venue research, including site visits as required, as well as vendor evaluation and selection, including the negotiation of favorable contracts.
• Serve as the strategic advisor, providing best practices, tools, and guidance to EMEA and APJ teams managing local execution; travel to select international events as needed.
• Establish global event processes, standards, governance, and measurement, ensuring a consistent Penguin brand and event experience across all regions.
• Evaluate the global event landscape and emerging opportunities to recommend which events Penguin should enter, scale, sustain, or exit.
• Measure event performance and ROI, using insights to optimize the event portfolio and inform future investments.

• 8+ years of B2B event…