Field Marketer

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · North America, Europe
Experience
3 years

Job description

Senior Field Marketing Manager at Fly.io responsible for driving the company's presence at ecosystem events and in Developer Relations, combining event management, strategic planning, budget control, and audience engagement. The role focuses on engaging local developer communities in North America and Europe.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · North America, Europe

What you'll do

  • Manage field marketing events from conception through execution, ensuring Fly.io shows up in an impactful way aligned with the company
  • Plan and manage all aspects of events, including logistics, vendor relationships, and on-site coordination
  • Manage the field marketing budget to get far more valuable events out of it
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, ecosystem partners, and the broader developer community
  • Create over-the-top fun for developers and engage with them using swag, conversation, and food and drinks so they become evangelists
  • Provide calm leadership in high-pressure situations and make sure events run smoothly when challenges occur
  • Manage expectations and push back when necessary to keep initiatives on-brand and within budget

What we're looking for

  • Experience in field marketing, event management, or something similar
  • Super organized with strong project management skills
  • Ability to translate company goals into marketing strategies that resonate with technical audiences
  • Comfortable managing a budget and getting the most bang for your buck in event planning
  • Willingness to travel, showing up in person all over the US and EU
  • Ability to remain poised and effective under stress and manage a crisis without disrupting an event
  • Ability to manage expectations and push back when necessary
  • Easy ability to build and sustain relationships in person, over Slack, over email, etc.

Your team

Field Marketing

Focuses on engaging local developer communities through ecosystem events and Developer Relations

Benefits

  • Full-time salaried position
  • Standardized salary of $134k-190k USD
  • Competitive equity grants with a long exercise window
  • US employees get health care
  • Flexible vacation time (with a minimum)
  • Hardware/phone allowances

How to get hired

  1. 1Work sample challenge
  2. 2Written challenge
  3. 3Work day

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About the company

A new public cloud, running on our own hardware all over the world, built to make it easy to run apps close to users anywhere in the world

Fly.io is building a new public cloud running on its own hardware all over the world. The company has focused on self-serve growth, letting developers find, sign up, and build things on their own, and now wants to meet developers where they are out in the world.

Mission

Make it easy to run apps close to users anywhere in the world

Key facts

  • Cloud computing
  • Runs its own hardware all over the world
  • Has Developer Relations Engineers located in North America and Europe
  • Focused heavily on self-serve growth so far
  • Doesn't negotiate salaries; standardized salaries for each employee level

What they value

  • Genuine
  • Fun
  • Community building
  • Consistency of culture and public persona