Events Lead
Sardine
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About the opportunity
- Sardine is looking for an Events Lead to own and scale our global events program, spanning major industry conferences, tradeshows, flagship events like SardineCon, executive dinners, happy hours, and partner events.
- You will drive the entire lifecycle of our events strategy—from deciding high-ROI investments and negotiating sponsorships to overseeing on-site execution, branding, and cross-functional alignment with marketing, sales, business development, account management, and product.
- This is a hands-on remote role based in the United States, requiring regular travel (including internationally) to manage high-volume events and ensure seamless execution across regions.
Key responsibilities
- Own Sardine’s global events calendar, including sponsored conferences, tradeshows, SardineCon, executive dinners, happy hours, partner events, and field marketing programs.
- Lead end-to-end event planning, budgeting, venue selection, sponsorship negotiations, vendor management, logistics, production, and on-site execution.
- Identify, evaluate, and source new event opportunities across industries and regions to maximize target audience reach and ROI.
- Build repeatable pre-event playbooks covering account targeting, meeting booking, staff briefing, and promotion to drive pipeline generation and influenced revenue.
- Manage the global events budget, forecasting, cost optimization, and allocations across markets and formats.
- Track and report event performance, attendance, target account engagement, and pipeline generation while leading post-event retrospectives.
- Build, lead, and scale an internal events team while managing external agencies, contractors, and vendors.
Qualifications
- Significant experience leading B2B events or field marketing programs in enterprise SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, AML, or a related industry.
- Proven track record of managing a high volume of events across multiple regions and formats with high standards for execution and brand experience.
- Strong understanding of pipeline and revenue contribution, with expertise in setting goals, measuring ROI, and partnering with sales teams.
- Excellent project management and operational skills to handle competing deadlines and multiple events simultaneously.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and experience managing agencies, contractors, and internal team members.
- Proficiency with CRM, marketing automation, and event management tools.
- High resourcefulness, extreme ownership, attention to detail, and willingness to travel regularly, including internationally.
Nice to have
- Experience in fraud prevention, AML, fintech, or cybersecurity industries.
- Background scaling an internal events team from the ground up.
- Direct experience launching and managing executive dinner series.
- Familiarity with global tradeshow execution across multiple international markets.
- Expertise with advanced event tech stacks and attribution models.
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity with early exercise for all options.
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- 4% matching in 401(k) (US specific).
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break.
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door with a one-time home office setup stipend.
- Monthly meal and social meet-up stipends.
- Annual health, wellness, and learning stipends.
Job details
- Location: Remote - United States
- Status: Remote-first
- Work authorization: Must maintain a home base in the country hired in (US)
About the company
- Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, unifying data to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate AML operations.
- Our platform is backed by a rapidly growing fraud consortium spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide.
- We are a remote-first team of self-motivated, high-growth individuals who value high performance, extreme ownership, and flexibility over arbitrary work schedules.
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Key details from the source
- Experience aligning product marketing initiatives with field events.
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