Community & Events Strategist (Hybrid/Remote)

Knit; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)

401(k) with Company Match

Hybrid Working

Equipment: Company Laptop

Onboarding Stipend

Job summary

Knit is seeking an Events & Community Manager to build an ongoing relationship with the market researcher community. You will own conference presence, design regional roadshows, and cultivate an always-on virtual community to keep Knit's brand active between events.

You will partner with Marketing Operations, Campaigns, and Demand Gen on logistics while focusing on community, advocacy, and differentiated programming rather than pure campaigns or systems admin.

Qualifications

• Experience building or running a community program (virtual or always-on).
• Designs content-led event formats using proprietary data or viewpoints.
• Field marketing across regions with cultural sensitivity and localized formats.
• Customer marketing or advocacy: build 1:1 customer relationships into champions.
• Strategic thinker; able to operate with ambiguity and create new formats.
• Partner with operations/campaigns on logistics without owning systems.

Responsibilities

• Owns Knit's conference presence and regional roadshows; executes using a repeatable playbook.
• Builds an ongoing virtual community for market researchers and designs differentiated formats.
• Develops customer advocacy programs with speakers, references, and case studies.
• Partners with Marketing Ops, Campaigns, Sales, and CS to align on lead tracking and follow-up.

Skills

Community program

Content-led events

Field marketing

Customer advocacy

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Market research networks

Job description

Knit is seeking an Events & Community Manager to build an ongoing relationship with the market researcher community. You will own conference presence, design regional roadshows, and cultivate an always-on virtual community to keep Knit's brand active between events.

You will partner with Marketing Operations, Campaigns, and Demand Gen on logistics while focusing on community, advocacy, and differentiated programming rather than pure campaigns or systems admin.