Senior Strategic Events Marketing Manager

Summary

Join Samsara's Marketing team as an Event Production Manager and play a pivotal role in planning and executing our annual customer conference, Beyond, and the global roadshow, Go Beyond. You will oversee vendor partnerships, venue coordination, and various event aspects, ensuring alignment with company goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver impactful event programs that enhance Samsara's brand and drive customer engagement. This remote position, open to US candidates (excluding specific metro areas), requires Pacific or Central Time Zone alignment and approximately 20% quarterly travel. The role demands strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. You'll contribute to Samsara's mission of digitizing physical operations, impacting industries that power our global economy.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in event production management
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end event logistics and vendor management, including venue selection, food and beverage, social programming, travel, and transportation coordination
• Manage comprehensive program planning and execution—from stakeholder alignment and executive approvals to timelines, budgets, floor plans, registration, signage, collateral production, and hotel room blocks
• Develop and maintain detailed production schedules and run-of-show documents to ensure flawless execution and cross-functional alignment
• Partner with internal teams and external agencies to create compelling, on-brand event experiences through creative elements such as graphics, visuals, and video content
• Manage multiple simultaneous events and programs, effectively prioritizing overlapping timelines and deliverables
• Build and track detailed event budgets, provide regular updates to leadership, and ensure financial targets are achieved
• Represent and reinforce Samsara’s brand by designing event experiences that reflect our identity, values, and commitment to customer impact
• Bring energy, creativity, and fresh ideas to continuously elevate and innovate the attendee experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication, negotiation, and budget-management skills, with the ability to work across all levels of an organization
• Extraordinary attention to detail and able to run multiple concurrent project demands within established timelines
• Strong executive presence
• Creative skills to design events that fit the Samsara brand and produce exceptional experiences for our customers
• Ability to work independently in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment

Benefits

Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, Samsara for Good charity fund, and much, much more