The Role:We are looking for a
Senior Manager, Strategic Events to own Ambience's events portfolio end-to-end, transforming exceptional experiences into a measurable driver of commercial growth. You'll lead our strategy across executive gatherings, regional summits, major industry conferences, and flagship customer events, ensuring every investment is designed to deepen relationships, create pipeline, and accelerate opportunities with the nation's leading health systems.
You'll own a multi-million-dollar events portfolio, lead a small team, and partner closely with Sales, Growth Marketing, and executive leadership to shape our event strategy, optimize investments, and build a rigorous, scalable events function. This is a high-visibility opportunity for a leader who brings together exceptional experience design, strong financial discipline, and operational excellence to shape how Ambience engages healthcare's most influential decision-makers at a pivotal moment of growth.
This is a fully remote role - any time zone.
What You'll Do:- Own and optimize Ambience's strategic events portfolio, spanning executive dinners, regional summits, flagship customer experiences, and major healthcare conferences. Make data-driven decisions about where to invest, what to scale, and what to rethink based on commercial impact.
- Build a rigorous, scalable events function, establishing the planning frameworks, operating cadences, and documentation standards that ensure every event has clear commercial objectives, named target accounts, and a milestone-driven execution plan.
- Own multi-million-dollar budget and vendor management, overseeing financial planning, contract negotiation, and spend reconciliation. Ensure every commitment is backed by an approved all-in budget, with proactive management of costs and investment trade-offs.
- Turn events into a measurable driver of pipeline, partnering with Growth Marketing, Sales, and Revenue Operations to connect investments to target-account engagement, pipeline creation, and deal acceleration. Drive consistent post-event scorecards and quarterly portfolio reviews that inform future investments.
- Design exceptional experiences for senior healthcare executives, bringing CIOs, CMIOs, CFOs, and other health system leaders together through high-impact programming that balances premium production quality with healthcare-specific compliance requirements.
- Build trusted cross-functional partnerships, engaging Sales early to align on target accounts and shared commercial commitments, while collaborating with Growth Marketing, Content and Communications, and Customer Marketing to bring Ambience's thought leadership and customer stories to life.
- Lead and develop a small, high-performing events team, building scalable systems and a culture of accountability where commitments are honored, risks are surfaced early, and operational excellence is non-negotiable.
Who You Are:- 8+ years of experience in B2B events or field marketing, including 3+ years leading an events portfolio and managing people, with ownership spanning high-touch executive experiences and large-scale industry events.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-million-dollar events budgets, including financial planning, vendor negotiation, contract management, and reconciliation to signed contracts and invoices.
- Experience marketing to US hospitals, academic medical centers, and health systems, with a strong understanding of enterprise healthcare buying decisions and the hospitality, vendor-interaction, and compliance requirements that shape executive engagement.
- Strong analytical orientation with a track record of connecting event performance to pipeline outcomes, building repeatable CRM measurement frameworks, and using post-event analysis to inform portfolio investment decisions.
- Track record of designing and delivering high-touch executive experiences, including curated dinners and regional summits, with the judgment to tailor format, production quality, and investment to the audience and commercial objective.
- Exceptional operational rigor, with experience building scalable planning systems, maintaining clear accountability for commitments, and proactively managing risks in fast-moving environments.
- Strong cross-functional leader who builds trusted relationships across Sales and Marketing, aligns stakeholders around shared objectives, and drives accountability for results.
Nice to Have:- Experience in health IT or clinical AI, with a strong understanding of the healthcare events landscape and opportunities for executive engagement.
- Experience building executive engagement programs through strategic partnerships and curated leadership communities.
- Familiarity with HubSpot, Notion, Asana, Ramp, and AI-enabled workflows that help lean teams operate at scale.
- Direct people management experience, with a track record of coaching, developing talent, and building high-performing teams..
Life at Ambience Working at Ambience means opting into a high-ownership, high-trust environment built for people who want to grow fast, operate decisively and focus on work that matters. This could be the right place for you if you want to
- Work on mission-critical AI technology that directly improves clinicians' day-to-day lives and health system financial health across some of the most complex, high-stakes workflows in the world.
- Join a "dream team" culture where we hire exceptional people, expect exceptional outcomes and invest deeply in feedback and continuous growth. We operate as a championship team, and that means being ok with hard, uncomfortable, ambiguous problems that lead to real greatness.
- Operate with real ownership and accountability in an environment where there are no bystanders: If something is broken, we fix it! You will have meaningful autonomy and be expected to drive work to completion.
To help you do your best work, we pair these expectations with benefits intentionally designed to help you feel supported and safe at Ambience and beyond. Some of our key benefits include
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
- A remote-friendly culture (with a San Francisco HQ) and full equipment provisioning to ensure you can work effectively from wherever you're based.
- Parental leave to support your family needs
- Annual company-wide off-sites, team off-sites and regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings, with travel, lodging and meals covered
- Flexible time off with no annual cap, company-wide holidays and an annual holiday shutdown from December 24-January 1 designed to support real rest and long-term sustainability.
