Global Community Events Manager

Metabase; United States; Remote; USD 73,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Unlimited PTO

Remote-first environment

Job summary

Metabase is seeking a strategic Events Lead to own a full portfolio of community events—from flagship conferences to local gatherings—while driving experiments, measuring impact, and building scalable processes. This role works across Marketing, Sales, and Success Engineering in a remote, async environment with global travel as needed.

You’ll design programs, run tests, and develop a playbook grounded in real data, partnering with regional teams to align with product launches and growth

Qualifications

• Experience in event management, community marketing, or field marketing at a tech company.
• A strategic, data-driven approach: you define success before you start and learn from experiments.
• Experience managing a diverse portfolio of event formats—conferences, executive programs, community events, meetups.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects across time zones.
• Comfortable with international logistics: foreign vendors, cross-border shipping, multi-currency payments.
• Confident negotiator with vendors and venues; familiarity with contracts and procurement.
• Self-starter who thrives in a remote, async environment with high autonomy.
• Ability to travel internationally when needed.
• Bonus: experience in SaaS, data analytics, or open-source communities.
• Bonus: fluency in additional languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Own the overall community events plan and ensure alignment with company goals around awareness, retention, pipeline, and community health.
• Design events as experiments with hypotheses, measurable goals, and feedback loops for learning.
• Maintain a forward-looking events calendar aligned to product launches and regional growth.
• Identify and prioritize target cities and regions based on density, usage data, and expansion opportunities.
• Lead planning and execution of the annual user conference end-to-end; support community-hosted events with toolkits and coordination.
• Own demand-gen events, including executive dinners and VIP programming.
• Coordinate informal and formal meetups and community visits globally.
• Own event logistics, budgeting, vendor relationships, and procurement across time zones and currencies.
• Define and track KPIs for attendance, engagement, pipeline influence, and NPS; report regularly.
• Gather attendee feedback and synthesize insights to raise quality and impact.
• Build playbooks, templates, and toolkits for scalable programs.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Success Engineering on branding, messaging, and lead handoff.

Skills

Event management

Community marketing

Field marketing

Data-driven

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor negotiation

International travel

Job description

Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users. That's why people love us. We bring data tools with the elegance and simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. We provide an opinionated open source starting point for how companies should measure, analyze and share their data, which is used by tens of thousands of companies.

The opportunity

We've seen firsthand how powerful in-person community connection can be — from our flagship Meetabase in Argentina to customer-hosted events in Madrid, and casual bar meetups organized when team members travel through Europe. We're ready to take this to the next level, and we're looking for someone who can help us think and operate at a different scale. That means owning a full portfolio of event types — from our annual user conference to executive dinners to community-hosted gatherings — and bringing an experimental mindset to all of it. You won't just execute events well; you'll design programs, run tests, measure what works, and build a scalable playbook grounded in real data.

What you’ll own

Program Design

• Own the overall community events plan, including how different event types ladder up to company goals around awareness, retention, pipeline, and community health

• Design events as experiments: define hypotheses, set measurable goals, and build in the feedback loops needed to learn and iterate

• Maintain a forward-looking events calendar aligned to product launches, regional growth priorities, and company milestones

• Identify and prioritize target cities and regions based on community density, product usage data, and expansion opportunity

Event portfolio

• Lead planning and execution of our annual user conference (Meetabase) end-to-end

• Support and scale community-hosted events by providing toolkits, resources, and coordination for local organizers who want to run their own gatherings

• Own demand gen events, including executive dinner and VIP programming — curating guest lists, formats, and experiences that deepen relationships with key customers and prospects

• Coordinate informal and formal meetups and community visits globally

Operations and measurement

• Own all event logistics: venue sourcing and negotiation, catering, AV, signage, swag, guest lists, and international shipping

• Manage event budgets, vendor relationships, and procurement across multiple time zones and currencies

• Define and track KPIs for every event type — from attendance and engagement to pipeline influence and community NPS — and report out regularly

• Gather attendee feedback — quantitative and qualitative — and synthesize insights to continuously raise the bar on quality and impact

• Build and maintain playbooks, templates, and toolkits so programs can be handed off, replicated, and improved over time

• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Success Engineering on branding, messaging, and lead handoff

What you bring

• Experience in event management, community marketing, or field marketing at a tech company, with a track record of owning both large flagship events and smaller programmatic ones

• A strategic, data-driven approach: you define success before you start, and you know how to structure even a small dinner as a learning opportunity

• Experience managing a diverse portfolio of event formats — conferences, executive programs, community events, meetups — not just one type

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent projects across time zones

• Comfortable with international logistics: foreign vendors, cross-border shipping, multi-currency payments

• Confident negotiator with vendors and venues; familiarity with contracts and procurement

• Self-starter who thrives in a remote, async environment with high autonomy

• Ability to travel internationally when needed

• Bonus: experience in SaaS, data analytics, or open-source communities

• Bonus: fluency in additional languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, etc.)

Why this role matters

This role is the strategic engine behind how Metabase shows up for its community in the real world. Every event you design is both a relationship-builder and a learning opportunity — a chance to deepen connections, surface honest feedback, generate new evangelists, and test what actually moves the needle. You're not just running events; you're building a program that compounds over time.

Compensation

The US base salary range for this role is $72.8K–$186K annually, plus equity and benefits. Compensation is determined by role, level, location, and individual qualifications, including skills, experience, and scope of responsibility. Pay may vary by geographic location and other job-related factors.

Benefits

We offer meaningful equity and a comprehensive US benefits package, including fully employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance (with 75% coverage for dependents), a 401(k) with employer match available to enroll after the first 30 days, flexible and unlimited paid time off including sick time, and an asynchronous, remote-first environment. We're a global team (50% outside the US), fully distributed (from Thailand to California), who get things done asynchronously, with plenty of uninterrupted time, supporting each other to do the best work of our careers. We offer flexibility (define your own schedule and work from wherever you want), autonomy, and an environment that fosters growth, learning, and development. We're relentlessly user-focused and believe in building long-term value, not short-term hacks. And we raised a $30M Series B to take our approach to the next level for years to come.

For U.S. applicants: Metabase participates in the federal E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of newly hired U.S. based employees. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates and is only initiated upon hire. E-Verify Participation Notice (English/Spanish) Right to Work Notice (English/Spanish).