Founding Events & Community Architect

Nectar Social; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early equity

Benefits (health, vision, dental)

401(k) match

Free lunch

Job summary

Nectar Social is building the AI-native social operating system for brands and communities in Palo Alto. We are hiring our first Event & Community Manager to own this function from ground up, shaping experiences for customers, prospects, and industry peers.

You will report to marketing leadership and collaborate with sales, customer success, and founders to ensure events drive pipeline, retention, and brand.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in event marketing, community management, or a hybrid of both in B2B SaaS or martech.
• Experience planning and executing events end-to-end, from concept through post-event reporting.
• Experience building or growing an online or in-person community from scratch.
• High autonomy in early-stage environments with little process—able to build them.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple events and workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a genuine interest in connecting with people.
• Willingness to travel for events and conferences (20–30%).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end planning and execution for Nectar's event calendar: dinners, roundtables, happy hours, webinars, and conference sponsorships.
• Manages budgets, vendors, venues, and logistics; builds scalable processes for growing events.
• Partner with sales and customer success to align events with pipeline and retention goals.
• Track ROI: attendance, pipeline influence, and sentiment to sharpen the calendar.
• Represent Nectar at industry conferences and manage on-site logistics and sponsor deliverables.
• Design and launch Nectar's first customer/industry community program (Slack/Discord/ambassador program).
• Create a cadence of content and engagement: AMAs, office hours, member spotlights, peer discussions.

Skills

Event planning

Community management

Autonomy

Project management

Communication

Travel willingness

Tools

Slack

Discord

Circle

Luma

Bizzabo

HubSpot

Job description

Nectar Social is building the AI-native social operating system for brands and communities in Palo Alto. We are hiring our first Event & Community Manager to own this function from ground up, shaping experiences for customers, prospects, and industry peers.

You will report to marketing leadership and collaborate with sales, customer success, and founders to ensure events drive pipeline, retention, and brand.