Virtual Events Manager
Own the strategy, production, promotion, and measurement of virtual events that educate audiences about Perplexity products and drive activation and qualified pipeline. The role requires strong product storytelling, on-camera presentation, cross-functional coordination, growth fluency, and analytical rigor.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build and own Perplexity’s virtual events channel, including program strategy, calendar planning, event briefs, speaker staffing, rehearsals, live production, follow-up, and retrospectives.
- Develop deep product knowledge and turn complex capabilities into clear, accurate live demonstrations and stories.
- Host, moderate, present, and demonstrate products for professional audiences.
- Identify, recruit, brief, and prepare subject-matter experts across Product, Engineering, Research, Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Marketing.
- Partner with Growth, Lifecycle, Social, Communications, Sales, and Customer Success on full-funnel promotion plans and registration growth.
- Repurpose events into recordings, replays, clips, FAQs, demo flows, education materials, and sales follow-up.
- Measure registration, attendance, engagement, product activation, qualified pipeline, revenue, cost efficiency, and channel ROI.
- Build scalable operating processes, including intake, calendars, production checklists, run-of-show templates, speaker readiness gates, contingency plans, scorecards, and reporting.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in virtual events, product marketing, customer education, demand generation, or a related role, ideally at a high-growth technology company.
- Ability to learn technical products deeply and translate complex capabilities into simple, specific, accurate live demonstrations.
- Polished, credible on-camera presence and experience hosting, interviewing, moderating, or presenting to professional audiences.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and ability to coordinate busy experts without formal authority.
- Full-funnel growth knowledge, including audience segmentation, campaign testing, conversion, and post-event nurture.
- Analytical rigor, including channel metrics, CRM and marketing automation data, and ROI analysis.
- Excellent production judgment and attention to detail across rehearsals, technical readiness, live moderation, and fallback planning.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar products and domains quickly and work effectively in high-velocity, ambiguous environments.
Compensation
- Annual salary: $125,000–$140,000.
Skills
Virtual Events, Product Marketing, Live Demonstrations, Event Production, On-Camera Presentation, Audience Segmentation, Campaign Testing, CRM, Marketing Automation, ROI Analysis, Live Moderation, Demand Generation
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