Senior Event Operations Manager

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Docker, Inc

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

💰 $105M Series C on 2022-03

Consulting • SaaS

Docker, Inc is a company that simplifies the lives of developers by tackling the complexity of app development. They offer tools that allow developers to bring their ideas to life through containerization and orchestration, making the development process easier and more efficient. Docker's products, including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub, are widely adopted by millions of developers worldwide, enhancing workflows and providing an integrated development pipeline.

📋 Description

• Own operational execution across the event portfolio - major conferences, developer roadshows, digital events, and community activations - managing timelines, project plans, and execution milestones across multiple concurrent events, and keeping them on schedule, on budget, and aligned to internal goals. • Maintain a master event calendar that coordinates timing, resourcing, and dependencies across programs. • Manage event registration, attendee experience, and lead capture and badging across the portfolio. • Build scalable event operations: repeatable planning templates, run-of-show frameworks, and operational playbooks, continuously simplifying and improving execution over time. • Own the event technology stack (registration, mobile apps, lead retrieval) and ensure data flows cleanly into marketing and sales systems. • Manage vendors and logistics: agencies, venues, production vendors, and internal teams, including contract execution, budget tracking, shipping, production schedules, and onsite readiness. • Own end-to-end event budgets, including purchase orders, invoicing, and post-event reconciliation. • Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Field Marketing, and Sales, translating program goals into clear operational plans. • Operationalize developer-focused programs - roadshows, community activations, and flagship conference experiences - and build frameworks that let them expand to additional markets over time. • Track event KPIs and pipeline/ROI, run post-event debriefs, and lead reconciliation and timely handoff to sales. • Provide operational and logistics support to Field Marketing across regional events, roadshows, and third-party/sponsored events, including sponsorship deliverables, booth and presence logistics, and lead retrieval.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in event management, event operations, or experiential program management. • Strong project management skills, with a track record coordinating complex programs across multiple stakeholders and concurrent events without losing attention to detail. • Must have the ability to travel 35% of the time across North America, with potential for international travel • Hands-on vendor, agency, and production-partner management, including contracts, budgets, and performance. • Comfortable using AI to scale repeatable processes without sacrificing quality. • Familiarity with event and marketing tech (registration platforms, lead retrieval, mobile apps) and how event data flows into Salesforce and Marketo and lead management workflows. • Experience building operational frameworks or playbooks that let event programs scale. • Developer, technical, or enterprise event experience is highly preferred; background in SaaS, developer platforms, cloud, or technology companies is an advantage. • Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities can evolve.

🏖️ Benefits

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break • Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment) • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company • Docker Swag • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country • Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris