Austin Events & Sponsorships Manager

SerpApi, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching up to 6%

Blue Cross Blue Shield healthinsurance

Profit-sharing bonuses

Job summary

SerpApi, a leader in API-based search data, seeks an Events & Sponsorships Manager to own Austin and Central Texas presence. You will host visitors at the Austin office, run sponsorships at conventions, hackathons, and career fairs, and manage community outreach programs with a focus on measurable impact.

The role requires 3–6 years in events/field marketing, budget ownership, strong writing, and on-site availability in Austin, with some evenings and weekend work around events.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years running events, field marketing, community programs, or sponsorships in B2B technology or developer-facing work.
• Demonstrated ownership of a budget, including vendor negotiation and reconciling spend against outcomes.
• Strong written communication. Async, written-first company with coordination largely in text.
• Comfort with event logistics under deadline: contracts, headcount, floor plans, and handling issues on event day.
• Enough technical literacy to explain what an API does and why a developer should care to a non-technical partner.
• Based in Austin and able to work on-site, with occasional evenings and weekends around events and driving within Central Texas.

Responsibilities

• Assist Office Manager with hospitality for visitors, partners, candidates, and team members at the Austin office.
• Own the annual Central Texas event calendar including conventions, conferences, hackathons, community outreach, and university career fairs.
• Negotiate sponsorship tiers, booth placement, speaking slots, and contract terms; manage relationships with event organizers.
• Run booth logistics end to end: build/teardown, staffing, demos, collateral, and lead capture.
• Collaborate with hiring team on career fairs at UT Austin, Texas State, Texas A&M, and local bootcamps.
• Source and manage hackathon sponsorships across Austin and Central Texas, including prizes, API credits, and judging seats.
• Coordinate with Developer Advocates on workshops, office hours, starter templates, and judging at events.
• Design and run internship and local impact programs covering STEM education, nonprofit tech support, scholarships, and mentorship.
• Grow SerpApi presence in the Austin tech community via meetups, user groups, and local partnerships.
• own the events budget, track spend vs. plan, and report on event outcomes.
• Publish an annual recap of local community investment.

Skills

Event management

Budget ownership

Vendor negotiation

Strong written communication

Technical literacy

On-site availability Austin

Tools

CRM

Figma

Canva

Job description

SerpApi is the leading solution to integrate search data into web applications. Our API scrapes search engines, solves CAPTCHAs, and keeps up with changing page layouts in one simple GET request. Our customers include Nvidia, Shopify, Perplexity, Adobe, Samsung and more.

We are looking for an Events & Sponsorships Manager to own how SerpApi shows up in person across Austin and Central Texas. This is a full-time, onsite position based in Austin, TX.

As an Events & Sponsorships Manager, you will host visitors at our Austin office, run our presence at local conventions and university career fairs, coordinate hackathon sponsorships across Central Texas, and build our local outreach and community impact program.

We can offer $75,000 to $95,000 per year (depending on profile), 401k matching up to 6%, Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance, and profit-sharing bonuses.

Responsibilities

• Assist Office Manager with customer, partner, candidate, and team member hospitality when visiting our Austin office.
• Own the annual Central Texas event calendar: which may include conventions, developer conferences, hackathons, community outreach, and university career fairs we attend, sponsor, or skip, with the reasoning documented.
• Negotiate sponsorship tiers, booth placement, speaking slots, and contract terms, and manage relationships with event organizers.
• Run booth logistics end to end, including build and teardown, staffing rota, demo hardware, collateral, and lead capture.
• Partner with our hiring team on career fairs at UT Austin, Texas State, Texas A&M, and local bootcamps and CS programs.
• Source, evaluate, and manage hackathon sponsorships across Austin and Central Texas, including prize pools, API credits, challenge tracks, and judging seats.
• Coordinate with our Developer Advocates on workshops, office hours, starter templates, and judging at sponsored events.
• Design and run our internship and local impact program covering STEM education, nonprofit technology support, scholarships, and mentorship.
• Build SerpApi's presence in the Austin tech community through meetups, user groups, coworking partnerships, and local developer events.
• Own the local events and sponsorships budget, tracking spend against plan and reporting on what each event actually produced.
• Publish an annual recap of our local community investment, the way we already publish our open source sponsorship recap.

Requirements

• 3–6 years running events, field marketing, community programs, or sponsorships, ideally some of it in - B2B technology or developer-facing work.
• Demonstrated ownership of a budget, including vendor negotiation and reconciling spend against outcomes.
• Strong written communication. We are an async, written-first company and most of your coordination will happen in text.
• Comfort with event logistics under deadline: contracts, headcount, floor plans, and whatever breaks the morning of.
• Enough technical literacy to explain what an API does and why a developer should care as well as enough understanding to explain it to a non-technical partner.
• Based in Austin and able to work on-site, with occasional evenings and weekends around events and some driving within Central Texas.

Preferred

• Existing relationships in the Austin technology, university, or nonprofit community.
• Experience sponsoring or organizing hackathons.
• Familiarity with open source community norms and sponsorship etiquette.
• Hands-on experience with event tooling, lead capture, and CRM hygiene, plus basic design in Figma or Canva.
• A background that makes you good at hosting people, such as hospitality, conference production, university programming, or theater.

SerpApi has been created by engineers for engineers. High compensation, transparency, remote-first, and a high trust environment are at the core of the company. All of these also make a very neurodivergent-friendly work environment. Several of our team members, including our CEO, are on the spectrum. Having a neurodivergent-friendly company is not an afterthought. We welcome talent from all over the world! No matter where you’re based, you can be part of our diverse, remote-first team. For those outside Austin, TX, we typically hire as independent contractors since we don't have an office there.

High Compensation

Competitive Worldwide

Total compensation, including profit shares, averages $232,448 per year per team member worldwide. We pay nearly as much as Google!

Profit Shares

All full-time team members receive profit share bonuses. We believe it's important to achieve alignment as a team.

Internal career paths, training (courses, conferences, books), and toolings (up to 50% reimbursement for software, hardware, subscriptions, and co-working space).

Transparency

Open Books

We share our books with all team members. We publish quarterly and annual reports (P&L, expenses).

Public Roadmap

Excluding security and confidential issues, all of our work is fully accessible to the public.

Internal Trust

Internally, we share analytics, customer interactions, hiring processes, strategies, marketing, and all other business-related data.

Remote-First Company

Remote is not a 2nd thought, but is core to SerpApi. All our processes are structured around being remote-first.

Even Before COVID

Remote-first wasn't a reaction to COVID, but was a conscious, long-term, and permanent decision.

All of our important communications are async, written, and online. We avoid unnecessary meetings as much as possible.

100% Online

We use the best tools for the job: GitHub, Slack, Pop, Zoom, Intercom, Figma, and emails.

High-Trust Environment

We put high-trust in everyone on our team and empower them to do their best work.

Flexible Schedule

Team members can adjust their own schedule, timezone, and unpaid vacation time the way they see fit.

Outside of specifically assigned tasks, you can choose what work you think will produce the most value to SerpApi.

Trusted Contributions

All team members can suggest or directly make changes to anything related or not related to their jobs following their own judgment.

All legitimate SerpApi communications come from the serpapi.com or tryserpapi.com domains only.

If you receive an email from any other domain claiming to represent us, please do not respond.