Lead the events strategy at Goodfire, creating high-signal experiences for technical audiences in AI.
Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Strategic Events Lead at Goodfire is responsible for crafting and executing a comprehensive events strategy that resonates with a highly technical audience in the AI field. This role requires expertise in planning high-quality B2B events, strong project management skills, and a keen understanding of what engages researchers and technical executives. Ideal candidates will have a background in early-stage startups and experience with community or field marketing, as they will be building a new events function from the ground up. Goodfire's mission-driven environment emphasizes collaboration and continuous improvement, making it a fitting opportunity for proactive individuals.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Goodfire's careers page November 8, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Strategic Events Lead role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Strategic Events Lead role.
- Where is the role based?
- Goodfire is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Goodfire targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Strategic Events Lead role at Goodfire.
From the original posting
About Goodfire
About the role
We're looking for an Events Lead to design the moments where Goodfire's work becomes tangible to the most technical people in AI. This role demands taste, operational rigor, and strategic judgment: the ability to create events that feel high-signal, deeply relevant, and worth attending for researchers, engineers, and technical executives.
This is a cross-functional role where you will own our events strategy end to end: intimate dinners, research salons, conference programs, field events, partner gatherings, and the systems that turn those moments into lasting relationships. You won't be optimizing a legacy events calendar; you'll be building the event motion for a new category.
Our audience is selective and highly technical. You'll need to understand what they care about, partner closely with research, GTM, and field teams, and execute with enough precision that every event advances our market narrative, strengthens relationships, and creates meaningful pipeline.
Key responsibilities
- Own the events strategy and calendar: identify the moments, formats, audiences, and geographies where Goodfire should show up
- Design high-signal experiences: create events that feel substantive to AI researchers, ML engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and other deeply technical buyers
- Execute with precision: manage vendors, budgets, run-of-show, speaker prep, attendee experience, follow-up, and every operational detail that determines quality
- Build targeted invite and attendance strategy: partner with GTM, demand gen, and field teams to reach the right accounts and convert attendance into relationship momentum
- Measure and improve the motion: connect events to pipeline, account engagement, market learning, and repeatable playbooks for future programs
What you’ll bring
Required experience
- Experience planning and executing high-quality B2B events, field marketing programs, community programs, or executive gatherings.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to run many operational details without losing sight of strategy.
- Excellent taste and audience judgment; you know how to make an event feel substantive, polished, and not generic.
- Scrappiness, urgency, and comfort building a function from scratch in a fast-moving environment
Preferred qualifications
- Experience creating events for technical audiences, developer communities, AI/ML teams, infrastructure buyers, or research organizations.
- Background as an early events, field marketing, community, or demand generation hire at a high-growth startup.
- Experience with conference strategy, speaker programming, executive dinners, private roundtables, or partner events.
- Ability to translate event outcomes into account insights, pipeline reporting, and next-step GTM actions
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