Senior Events Growth Manager

Job description

About Platform Engineering Platform Engineering ( platformengineering.org ) is home to the world's largest community of platform engineers. Through PlatformCon and AgenticCon, one of the world's largest conferences dedicated to platform engineering, we bring together thousands of platform engineers, platform leaders every year. Alongside our events, we run a university, a newsletter read by hundreds of thousands of engineers, and Weave Intelligence, our research arm. About the Role We’re looking for an Events Growth Marketing Manager to own registration and attendance growth across our entire events portfolio. That starts with our flagship conferences, PlatformCon and AgenticCon, the biggest conferences in the platform engineering world, which travel to San Francisco, London, Sydney, New York and Berlin, and extends to our roadshows, roundtables, workshops, House of Kube (the largest party in the cloud native world) and the satellite events we run in cities around major conferences such as AWS re:Invent, KubeCon and Google Cloud Next. Your goal is to bring platform engineering leaders into the room and keep them coming back. This is a systems and relationships role, not a one off campaign role. You’ll build the growth loops, the audience, and the repeatable playbook needed to fill these events and drive high attendance every time. You’ll report to the Head of Growth. What you'll do Own registration and attendance growth for PlatformCon and AgenticCon ticket sales, and for every other event we run, across San Francisco, London, Sydney, New York, Berlin and Amsterdam. Build growth loops and long term relationships with the platform engineering community, its practitioners and its leaders, so we have an audience to pull from in every city. Own our event pages on Luma and the end to end campaigns that fill them. Plan campaigns designed for a high attendance rate, so the right people do not just register but actually show up. Use HubSpot and Luma to build and target the right audience segments for each event. Collaborate with design team to ensure high quality event pages and with content for strong copy and assets. Brief and work with our performance marketing and lifecycle managers to get paid and email support behind each event. Build the systems and the playbook that let us fill these events repeatedly, so the approach compounds instead of starting from scra…