Strala — Events Manager

Type: Full-time | On-site | San Francisco, CA Compensation: $100,000–$130,000 + Competitive Equity Hiring count: 1 Visa sponsorship: None available Reports to: Marketing Lead (referenced as "Catherine" in the role criteria)

Strala is an AI-powered insurance platform that automates the entire claims process — from intake and fraud detection to settlement — helping insurers handle claims faster, more accurately, and at lower cost. It pairs automation with human expertise to act as a next-generation, "AI-native" claims operator, improving loss ratios and reducing manual work across the claims lifecycle. The team frames its ambition around outcomes (not activity or output) with the goal of processing every claim in the world.

Strala sells into large, established insurance companies where claims are treated as a cost center, buyers are senior, and sales cycles are long — trust is the currency that moves deals. Events are Strala's most proven channel, and the company positions itself as a challenger brand in a category that hasn't seen much hospitality or fresh perspective.

Founded: 2025 | Team size: 11–50 | Stage: Series A Industry: FinTech / InsurTech Website: https://strala.ai Office: San Francisco, CA

• Build the function from scratch: High-ownership seat owning the full events motion end-to-end — strategy through execution, not coordination.
• Challenger-brand mandate: Freedom to bring genuine hospitality and fresh formats to a category that defaults to the standard B2B playbook.
• Series A upside: Competitive equity at an AI-native company with events as its most proven go-to-market channel.

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Strala is hiring an Events Manager who thinks in programs, not one-offs, and who genuinely cares about the people in the room. Buyers are busy, skeptical, and have seen every standard playbook from incumbents they've trusted for decades — the role is about understanding what makes someone like that feel cared for, and having the creativity and follow-through to deliver it without a single visible flaw.

• →Build and manage the end-to-end events program: sponsored events, owned roundtables and dinners, industry conferences.
• →Develop the annual events strategy: which events, why, and what success looks like for each.
• →Tailor the experience to the buyer: small thoughtful touches, choice of venue, personalization across roles and personas.
• →Manage event budgets, vendor relationships, and logistics end-to-end, with backups for anything that could go wrong.
• →Build repeatable playbooks so the events motion scales as Strala grows.

Tools: LinkedIn and comparable platforms for pre- and post-event amplification (nice-to-have). Non-technical role — no engineering stack.

• 1-2+ years events, hospitality, or related
• Strong POV on memorable vs. forgettable events
• Hospitality-first instincts
• Creative format and detail thinking
• Calm under pressure, every detail backed up
• SF 5 days, 9 to 9 in-person

• Hospitality background (hotels, restaurants) paired with B2B events experience. Catherine direct preference for genuine hospitality instincts over standard B2B event playbook execution.
• Strong, specific point of view on what makes an event memorable versus forgettable. Can articulate the why with conviction.
• Built roundtable or hosted dinner programs from scratch. Direct match for Strala's most proven event formats.
• Genuine empathy for senior enterprise buyers: asks thoughtful questions, tailors experiences across roles and personas, sweats small details.
• Creative format thinker who doesn't reach for the same ideas every time. Challenger brand requires fresh execution.

• Coordinator-only background: executed logistics within a larger program but never owned strategy. Hard exclude.
• Standard B2B events playbook operator. Catherine direct: Strala is a challenger brand and won't stand out by copying the playbook.
• Cannot speak to event memorability with specificity. Vague answers signal lack of genuine POV.
• Wants 9-to-5 or low-commitment culture. SF 5 days, 9 to 9 culture is the bar.
• Pure consumer or community brand events background (Everlane-style) without enterprise buyer translation.

Salary$100,000–$130,000EquityCompetitive equityOn-site policySF, 5 days in-person, 9 to 9; travel for major industry eventsVisa sponsorshipNone availableEmployment typeFull-timeLocationSan Francisco, CA

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Stage 1 — Pending Approval — Candidates awaiting initial approval. Stage 2 — Application Review — Application reviewed. Stage 3 — First Interview — Initial interview. Stage 4 — Case Study — Candidate completes a case study. Stage 5 — Case Study Review — Case study reviewed. Stage 6 — Onsite Work Day — Full onsite work day. Stage 7 — Offer Extended Stage 8 — Candidate Hired — Candidate accepts and starts.

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For reference only — do not source these specific profiles. Contrario flags this list as "DO NOT CONTACT." LinkedIn buttons were present on the page but contained no resolvable URLs, so none are captured below.

• Chanel Davis — [LinkedIn not captured]
• Célia Favennec — [LinkedIn not captured]
• Diana Kolesarova — [LinkedIn not captured] Single owner of events for Superside
• Willis Planningitall — [LinkedIn not captured] Single owner of events for defense tech + marketing agency
• Ashley Horne — [LinkedIn not captured] ~5 years ago, single owner of events for all of investment banking at Mizuho Americas

• None recorded on the role page. (Activity log shows one candidate rejected by the company ~1 day ago, but no feedback text was attached.)