Field Marketing
Mid-level Event Marketing role at Parallel Web Systems. San Francisco · full-time · $150,000–$250,000 base.
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What you'll do
- You’ll choose and run conferences, hackathons, meetups, dinners, and partner events
- You’ll manage event budgets, target audiences, and logistics without coordinator support
- You’ll build lists with sales before events and lead the follow-up afterward
- You’ll assess event investment through meetings and pipeline rather than attendance
What you bring
- At least four years of experience
- A background running varied events for a company serving technical audiences
- Experience negotiating sponsorships and stopping event formats that fail to convert
- Strong independent logistics management, including staying calm when problems arise
- Ownership of the sales handoff through follow-up
Who this fits
This role suits someone who can independently choose, plan, and run events for AI engineers and technical buyers, then judge success by meetings and pipeline. You’ll work fully in person between the Palo Alto headquarters and San Francisco office. The job also requires close coordination with sales before and after each event.
From the employer
About us
Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.
We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.
Job: You will own Parallel's presence in the field. You'll build and run the event engine — conferences, hackathons, meetups, executive dinners, and partner co-marketing events — that puts Parallel in front of AI engineers and technical buyers. Which events we invest in, how we show up, and what pipeline comes out the other side are your decisions. You'll own the budget, the target lists, and the logistics end to end, with no coordinator behind you. You'll build target lists with the sales team before every event and run the follow-up motion after, so no lead dies in a spreadsheet. You'll be measured in meetings and pipeline, not badge scans.
You: You've run a multi-format event portfolio at a company selling to technical audiences, and you talk about it in pipeline, not attendance. You know which events AI engineers actually go to and that a hackathon earns more trust than a booth. You've hosted a dinner where the programming — not the venue — made the room worth everyone's evening. You've negotiated sponsorships hard, walked away from popular conferences your buyers weren't attending, and killed formats that didn't convert. You run flawless logistics solo, stay calm when something breaks day-of, and treat the sales handoff as your job, not someone else's. You'd rather run three events that produce pipeline than ten that produce photos. You have at least 4 years of experience.
Life at Parallel
Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.
We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:
Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.
Compensation & benefits
Competitive salary
Generous equity
Visa sponsorships
401K plans
Daily lunch & office snacks
Dinner at the office
Unlimited vacation
Caltrain pass reimbursement