Event Marketing Manager (EMEA)

Georgian; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Coder is seeking an Event Marketing Manager, EMEA, to shape how developers and open‑source communities experience Coder. You’ll plan and run events that raise awareness, generate pipeline, and convert technical interest into engagement.

You’ll work with Marketing, Sales, DevRel, Product Marketing, and partners to bring programs to life, managing details, teams, and ensuring experiences are credible and well run.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of event marketing experience.
• Strong planning and execution across logistics, communications, vendors, timelines, budgets, and on-site details.
• Excellent program management skills; manage multiple moving parts and stakeholders.
• High attention to detail; document clearly and prevent small issues from becoming big problems.
• Create event playbooks, briefing docs, run-of-show plans, staffing guides, and post-event reports.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Coder’s EMEA event programs, including trade shows, conferences, summits, and partner activations.
• Manage event timelines, budgets, vendors, contracts, staffing plans, registration, logistics, shipping, and on-site execution.
• Partner with DevRel and Product Marketing to create event experiences for developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and technical buyers.
• Work with Sales to align event strategy to account priorities, meeting goals, pipeline creation, and follow-up motions.
• Create pre-event and post-event communications, including attendee outreach, internal briefings, staff guides, and follow-up plans.
• Coordinate Coder’s presence at open-source, developer, ai infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering events.
• Identify right events for attendance, sponsorship, hosting, or skipping based on audience fit and goals.
• Manage relationships with agencies, production teams, venues, event organizers, swag vendors, and other partners.
• Track event performance across attendance, engagement, meetings, pipeline influence, and feedback.
• Travel as needed to support hands-on event execution.

Skills

Event planning

Budget management

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Timeline management

On-site execution

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Cvent

Luma

HubSpot

Salesforce

Marketo

Asana

Job description

As Event Marketing Manager, EMEA, you will help shape how developers, platform teams, and open-source communities experience Coder in person and online. You will plan and execute events that build awareness, create pipeline, and turn technical interest into meaningful engagement.

You will work closely with Marketing, Sales, Developer Relations, Product Marketing, and partners to bring event programs to life. You will manage the details, connect the teams, and make each experience feel useful, credible, and well run.

What you’ll do here

• Plan and execute Coder’s EMEA event programs, including trade shows, conferences, summits, and partner activations.

• Manage event timelines, budgets, vendors, contracts, staffing plans, registration, logistics, shipping, and on-site execution.

• Partner with DevRel and Product Marketing to create event experiences that resonate with developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and technical buyers.

• Work with Sales to align event strategy to account priorities, meeting goals, pipeline creation, and follow-up motions.

• Create pre-event and post-event communications, including attendee outreach, internal briefings, speaker prep, staff guides, and follow-up plans.

• Coordinate Coder’s presence at open-source, developer, ai infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering events.

• Help identify the right events for Coder to attend, sponsor, host, or skip based on audience fit, business goals, and community relevance.

• Manage relationships with agencies, production teams, venues, event organizers, swag vendors, and other external partners.

• Track event performance across attendance, engagement, meetings, leads, pipeline influence, sourced pipeline, and qualitative feedback.

• Travel as needed to support hands‑on event execution and ensure every program runs smoothly.

What we’re looking for

• Must be located in the UK

• 4–7 years of experience in event marketing roles.

• Strong experience planning and executing events from start to finish, including logistics, communications, vendors, timelines, budgets, and on‑site details.

• Excellent program management skills. You can manage multiple moving parts, keep stakeholders aligned, and bring order to complex work.

• High attention to detail. You catch issues early, document clearly, and make sure the small things do not become big problems.

• Create event playbooks, briefing docs, run‑of‑show plans, staffing guides, and post‑event reports.

Bonus tacos if you have

• Experience marketing to developers, DevOps teams, platform engineers, infrastructure teams, or other technical audiences.

• Experience working in or around open‑source communities, developer ecosystems, or technical community programs.

• Experience supporting open‑source projects, foundations, community events, or contributor programs.

• Familiarity with developer conferences and communities such as KubeCon, GitHub Universe, Open Source Summit, DevOpsDays, HashiConf, or similar events.

• Experience with account‑based marketing and sales‑aligned event motions.

• Experience with event technology and marketing systems such as, Cvent, Luma, HubSpot, Salesforce, or 6sense.

Our tech stack

You do not need to know every tool on day one, but familiarity with common go‑to‑market and event systems will help you ramp quickly. This role may work across tools such as Asana, Salesforce, HubSpot or Marketo, event platforms, ABM tools, shared content systems, and internal planning docs.

About Coder

Coder is the leading platform for AI development Infrastructure, enabling enterprises to securely run human and AI‑driven development workflows in consistent, governed environments. Coder provides self‑hosted, agent‑ready workspaces that unify developer productivity and platform governance. With Coder, enterprises can confidently evolve from human‑only development to AI-assisted and autonomous workflows, without sacrificing security, compliance, or performance. Learn more at coder.com.

Interview process

We believe that the interview process should be transparent, consistent, and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks, if schedules allow. Through your interviews, you will meet a mix of individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders.

AI use during the interview process

As an AI company, Coder embraces the use of AI tools, and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.

Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews.

Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly.

Our use of AI in hiring

We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly. Specifically:

• Ashby and Brainerr help us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements we've defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions; it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.

• Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you.

All hiring decisions are made by humans. Our team reviews applications, conducts interviews, and makes final selections. AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment, and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection, AI governance, and labor laws. Your data is not used to train AI models.

In accordance with New York City Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on "Automated Employment Decision Tools"; results are available for Ashby.

If you're applying for a role at Coder and have questions about how we use AI in our process, or if you'd like to request information about the data we collect, please contact [e-mail].

Coder is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.