Senior Event Manager

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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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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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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• Deliver the Sales Kickoff as an event: venue, production, experiential, swag, travel coordination and run of show, with Sales Enablement.

• Deliver the first global program stop of the year end to end, on schedule and on budget, with a 30-day readout.

• Stand up the events calendar and the messaging and positioning document as the one source every function uses, and the tier 1 operating kit with Global Field Marketing Operations: run of show, staffing formula, executive meeting template, budget tracker and post-mortem format.

United States: $102.2K – $146K base

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• Every global program carries a reach, reputation and revenue target plus a brand goal, and reports all of them at 30 and 90 days.

• Docker's global programs are known inside the company as the best-run programs on the calendar, and the executive meeting program is a repeatable asset at every stop.

• The tier 1 kit cascades into every regional program, production partners are engaged on standards you set, and the owned flagship design is ready for a decision.

• Open vacancy: This posting is for an existing open role.

• AI in hiring: Docker may use AI-assisted tools during our recruiting process.

• Interview recordings: Candidates will be invited to opt in to interview recordings to support interviewer calibration and consistent evaluations. Recordings are optional and require explicit consent.

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