Events Manager

Launch Potato is hiring an Events Manager to own the external event calendar end to end for our revenue teams. You will help determine which conferences and trade shows we attend, coordinate attendees, manage logistics and travel, prepare materials, support meeting planning, and ensure follow-up after each event. Working closely with senior leaders including the CRO, you will turn a manual process into a scalable, repeatable event program. This role focuses on making our conference strategy run exceptionally well, with success measured by prepared sellers, full calendars, and clear next steps.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual trade show and conference calendar, including which shows we attend and why
• Bring recommendations to the CRO rather than waiting to be asked which shows matter
• Work backward from each show: passes, deadlines, sponsorships, booth space, speaking slots
• Build the 2027 calendar before the deadlines build it for us
• Chase the team for who is attending, by when, and make the call visible early
• Keep the CRO ahead of every deadline, so he reacts instead of remembering
• Coordinate with the design team on collateral, one-pagers, and sales assets, and project manage them to the date
• Partner with Judy on swag, samples, and shipping so the right materials arrive in the right city
• Attend roughly five shows a year where we exhibit, host a dinner, or run executive meetings
• Run the logistics on those so the sellers sell and nobody is cutting name tags an hour before the door opens
• Be the go-to for the team when something breaks on the ground, whether or not you are there
• Track and manage the event budget, and flag overruns before they happen
• Own month-end reconciliation with Finance and answer the questions before they get asked
• Help us move onto a modern travel and expense platform, then run the program on it
• Build the small activations that deepen partner relationships: a dinner, a golf outing, the thing a partner actually wants

Requirements

• 3+ years running events, trade shows, or field programs in support of a sales, partnerships, or business development team
• Direct experience owning a conference or trade show end to end, including vendor negotiation, booth or sponsorship contracts, and a budget you were accountable for
• A track record of chasing people down and getting an answer, warmly and without needing permission
• Comfort working remotely with a team that is spread out and moving fast
• Strong written communication, because most of this job is written and most of it is asynchronous
• Real curiosity about AI tools and how to use them to do more than the job technically requires

Nice to have

• Experience in performance marketing, affiliate, adtech, fintech, or digital media
• You have run a program on a travel, expense, or event platform such as Ramp, Brex, Navan, TripActions, Cvent, or Concur, and have an opinion about what works
• Experience helping select or roll out one of those platforms
• Existing relationships with conference organizers in our space

Benefits

• Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro and varies based on Launch Potato’s Levels Framework. Your compensation package includes a base salary, profit-sharing bonus, and competitive benefits. Launch Potato is a performance-driven company, which means once you are hired, future increases will be based on company and personal performance, not annual cost of living adjustments.