Senior Events Marketing Manager at Stellar

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">SDF's Experiential Marketing team creates unique and memorable events that attract new partners and developers to build on Stellar, nurture its existing ecosystem, showcase its growing number of products, and strengthen brand awareness across a constantly evolving industry. As a Senior Events Marketing Manager (L4), you will be a senior production and execution owner across SDF's full events portfolio — from large-scale owned experiences to strategic third-party sponsorships — operating with significant autonomy and elevating the work of those around you.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will report to the Senior Director of Experiential Marketing and serve as a primary owner across Tier 1 flagship activations (Meridian, Stellar House), Tier 2 sponsored events, and Tier 3 self-serve events. This is a deeply operational role that also requires strategic instincts — you'll manage agency partners day-to-day, lead on-site production, drive cross-functional coordination, and bring the same rigor to a 1,000-person owned conference as you do to a booth at a conference.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead planning and execution for Tier 1 flagship activations — including Meridian (our annual global conference) and Stellar House (2–3 global owned-format activations per year) — serving as the primary production and operational owner from brief through wrap report.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own operational oversight for Tier 2 sponsored activations globally and independently triage, prioritize, and manage Tier 3 self-serve events without requiring escalation for routine challenges.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Independently manage all operational requirements for assigned events: venue coordination, production timelines, vendor communications, asset preparation, budget tracking against actuals, and on-site execution.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Serve as the primary day-to-day relationship owner for assigned agency partners (e.g., production agencies, experiential studios) — managing correspondence, deliverable timelines, and alignment with SDF standards.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead vendor sourcing and management across all production disciplines — AV, staging, fabrication, d