Senior Event Manager

ABOUT DOCKER

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.

We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

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THE ROLE

Docker's events run as a tiered portfolio anchored in revenue. Tier 1 is a small number of global programs: industry and partner events (AWS re:Invent among them) negotiated once, run centrally and activated in every region with one theme, one signature demo, an executive meeting program and a brand goal alongside the pipeline target. Tier 2 is the regional program our field marketers run with their sales teams. Tier 3 is developer and community events led by Developer Relations on a standard kit, and tier 4 is speaking. Every program has a tier, an objective, a pipeline target and an owner before money moves.

As Senior Event Manager, you are first chair on tier 1. You own every global program end to end, from the negotiation and the contract through creative concept, planning, production, staffing and on-site delivery to reconciliation and the readout. You own the AI category across the tiers: the newer conferences where Docker's buyers now gather, tested at a conservative footprint with Brand and Field Marketing. You are the program manager for the whole events calendar, keeping one calendar and one messaging and positioning document for every event, and you are the events lead on Docker's Sales Kickoff, the internal event where the field meets the year's story first. You report to the Director, Field Marketing and Events, and work alongside the Event Manager, Global Field Marketing Operations, the regional field marketers, Partner Marketing, Brand, Product Marketing, Developer Relations and Sales.

Docker brought event management in-house this year, and this role is the center of it.

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WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Every global program delivers on all three objectives: reach (the right people captured and demos delivered), reputation (analysts, press, executive meetings and speaking earned, and the brand goal met) and revenue (the pipeline target set with Revenue Operations before the contract, read at 30 and 90 days). The footprint reads as a buying journey from demo to a first sales conversation, the executive meeting program runs on the standard set by Global Field Marketing Operations and is never overcommitted, and every program ends with a readout the sales leaders who staffed it trust. What tier 1 builds cascades: the theme, the activation kit and the lessons reach every region the same half.

For a brief period before and during every event, every person on site works for you. You hold a room of senior stakeholders, production partners and volunteers to a run of show with authority and warmth, you are the person everyone is glad to see when the event starts, and you do it with a budget you can account for to the dollar.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own tier 1 end to end. Negotiate, contract, concept, plan, budget, produce, staff, deliver and reconcile every global program and its regional stops, against a pipeline target and a brand goal agreed with Revenue Operations, Field Marketing and Brand before the contract is signed.

- Architect the executive track. For each global program