Community & Events Manager

Touchdown Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Touchdown Labs is seeking a Community & Events Manager to drive our technical community and events programs in the United States. The role focuses on organizing technical meetups, workshops, and conferences, managing budgets, venues, vendors, and run of show, and building programs that engage engineers and researchers.

First 90 days include running an event end to end, constructing the events calendar, and implementing follow-up and measurement.

Qualifications

• 4+ years running technical community or events programs.
• Evening and weekend availability.
• Mandarin is a helpful experience for Taiwan roles (not mandatory for US).

Responsibilities

• Run your first event end to end.
• Build the events calendar.
• Set up follow-up and measurement.
• Lead event strategy, budgets, venues, and vendors.
• Manage run of show and speakers.
• Develop community programs and follow-up.

Skills

Community event management

Event planning

Public speaking

Evening/weekend availability

Job description

Open role

Community & Events Manager

Our mission

AI is becoming fundamental to how the world works. When it is, the ability to compute, and to manufacture the hardware that computes, should not be concentrated in a few places. Touchdown's mission is to make compute accessible to the whole world and to reindustrialize advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. We co-design everything for next-generation compute: the AI systems people use, the software that serves them, the architectures and chips underneath, and the packaging, test, and manufacturing that make them real. Co-design brings down the complexity and cost of building compute. That is what makes manufacturing in America competitive again, and what puts compute within reach of people and companies everywhere. We build alongside the world's best manufacturing ecosystems, including Taiwan's, and every role here makes one layer better and carries what it learns to the rest.

Why this role matters

The people who build compute learn best from each other. Community and events bring engineers together around real technical work and help us find the team that builds next.

Technical scope

Technical meetups, workshops, and conferences; event strategy, budgets, venues, and vendors; run of show and speakers; community programs; attendee follow-up and measurement.

First 90 days

• Run your first event end to end.
• Build the events calendar.
• Set up follow-up and measurement.

What you will own

• Event strategy, budgets, venues, and vendors.
• Run of show, speakers, and safety.
• Community programs and follow-up.

What you bring

• 4+ years running technical community or events programs.
• Evening and weekend availability.

Helpful experience

• Mandarin

How we work

• AI-native by default. You use coding agents, AI-assisted analysis, and automation every day, and you check their output against measurements before anyone relies on it.
• We work alongside foundries, test houses, OSATs, and research labs, and we build with partners rather than against them.

How the role works

• Full-time.
• Location: Santa Clara, CA
• Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Openings: Multiple.
• Taiwan roles are employed through a local employer of record. Mandarin is a strong plus for Taiwan roles; English is required for written work.
• Pay: $105,000–$140,000 base (Santa Clara, CA).
• Ranges are base pay for U.S. roles and depend on location, experience, and level. Full-time roles also include equity and benefits. Taiwan pay is set to the local market and discussed in the first call.
• Start date and employment details are discussed during the process.

Applications are reviewed against the work described here. We do not use a degree, title, or keyword list as a substitute for evidence.