VIP Events Program Manager, NYC

GitGuardian

β€’ $100K β€” $120K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Fluency in English for effective communication with senior security leaders across EMEA and North America.
  • 4+ years experience in executive event management or field marketing focused on high-quality experiences for senior audiences.
  • Ability to hold a high standard in event quality, ideally with a background in luxury hospitality or B2B SaaS focused on CISO programs.
  • Proven relationship-building skills, ideally with connections in the CISO or IT security community.
  • Strong understanding of pipeline generation and B2B demand generation strategies.
  • Detail-oriented, self-directed, and capable of managing multiple complex logistics.
  • Willingness to travel regularly across North America and occasionally EMEA.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute GitGuardian's sales-led event programs targeting high-profile decision-makers.
  • Curate an exclusive guest list of CISOs and security leaders for impactful engagements.
  • Create memorable experiences that enhance the event atmosphere and interactions.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with the CISO and security community.
  • Collaborate closely with Sales and BDR teams for event targeting and follow-up.
  • Oversee all logistical details of events, ensuring a seamless execution from start to finish.
  • Measure and report on key performance metrics, including pipeline influenced and deal progression.

Benefits

  • 25 days of PTO, strongly encouraged to use fully.
  • 10 public holidays.
  • Health, Dental & Vision insurance with 80% coverage for individuals and families.
  • 100% paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Comprehensive travel policy for annual off-site events.
  • Up to $300 in home office setup support.
  • Monthly remote work stipend of up to $70.
  • Access to mental health services through TalkSpace at no cost.
  • $4000 referral bonus for successful new hires.
  • Pre-tax commuter plan access.
  • 401(k) with Empower and a 3% employer match.
  • Career development opportunities in a growing team within a meaningful company.
Full Job Description
About your team and your mission

As we accelerate enterprise pipeline across EMEA and North America, we need someone dedicated to making those moments happen. Reporting to JΓ©rΓ©my, Head of Field Marketing, you'll own the experiences that turn cold outreach into warm relationships and warm relationships into closed revenue.

You'll work hand in hand with Account Executives and BDRs to ensure every experience you design is tied to a real deal: an account we're trying to open, a champion we're trying to build, a decision we're trying to influence. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role. You own it end to end.

Your main responsibilities will be to:
  • Design and run GitGuardian's sales-led event programme: Executive dinners, CISO roundtables, VIP activations at key industry events (RSA, it-sa, Black Hat, Gartner Security Summit) each one mapped to active pipeline.
  • Curate the guest list with surgical precision: the right CISOs, VPs of Engineering, and security decision-makers in the room with the right AEs at the right moment in the deal cycle
  • Create experiences that feel genuinely exclusive and memorable; where the format, venue, and atmosphere do as much work as the content
  • Build and own relationships with the CISO and security community: be the person they're glad to hear from, not another marketing contact they ignore
  • Coordinate closely with Sales and BDRs on targeting, invitations, and post-event follow-through.
  • Handle all logistics end-to-end: invite process, venue sourcing, catering, speakers, run-of-show, and the hundred details that separate a forgettable evening from one people talk about
  • Measure what matters: pipeline influenced, meetings generated, deal progression, and report with clean attribution.
About you

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:
  • Fluent in English as you'll represent GitGuardian to senior security leaders across the US and EMEA
  • 4+ years in executive event management, field marketing, or a role where creating high-quality experiences for senior audiences was your core output
  • You know what "good" looks like at the executive level and you hold yourself to a standard most event managers don't. You may come from luxury hospitality, an executive advisory firm (Gartner, Forrester, peer communities), or a B2B SaaS company known for its CISO programmes.
  • A natural relationship builder : you are warm, credible, and people are glad to hear from you. Ideally you already have relationships in the CISO or IT security community, or you know how to build them fast
  • Pipeline generation mindset: You understand B2B demand generation and you can connect a dinner to a deal
  • Detail-obsessed and self-directed: You manage complex logistics across multiple simultaneous programmes with successful outcomes.
  • Comfortable with regular travel across North America and occasionally EMEA
  • Comfortable using AI tools in your day-to-day work to move faster and remove friction

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:
  • Cybersecurity industry knowledge. A familiarity with DevSecOps, AppSec, or the security conference circuit
  • An existing network of CISOs, CIOs, or VPs of Engineering in North America or EMEA
  • Experience running high-quality events solo : no agency, no coordinator, just you
  • Marketing tools fluency. You are comfortable working from day 1 in HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion
The interview process

1. First Screening Call (Virtual)

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Interview with your future manager (Jeremy, Head of Field Marketing)

To know more about your partner marketing & event experience, and how you approach a relationship-driven pipeline.

3. Business case interview

To evaluate your ability to design and execute a partner experience programme for GitGuardian.

4.1 Final interview with Carole, CMO

To detail our company's vision and ambitions for the next couple of years and assess cultural fit.

4.2 References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.
Benefits

🌴25 days of PTO (employees are strongly encouraged to use all of it!)

πŸ—“ 10 public holidays

πŸ§˜β™‚ Health, Dental & Vision insurance (80% coverage), for individuals and their families

Short term & long term disability insurance (100% paid)

🌎 Travel policy including to our annual off-sites ('23 was in the South of France!)

Up to $300 towards your home office set-up

πŸ”Œ Monthly remote work stipend of up to $70

πŸ™Œ Complimentary access to Talk Space

🀝 Referral bonus of $4000 for any new Guardians we might hire thanks to you

πŸ’³ Pre-tax commuter plan access

πŸ’° 401(k) with Empower (plus a 3% employer match!)

And also...

Becoming an early joiner of GitGuardian US team, with many opportunities for career development in the long term

Working on a meaningful product; we've already helped more than 400k developers across the globe

πŸ‘« Trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development
The base salary range for this position is expected to be $100k to $120k per year. Actual compensation will be determined on factors such as location, relevant experience, skills, and other qualifications. This range represents the expected base pay for this role; additional compensation may include commissions, equity, and/or other benefits.
Team Marketing Locations New York City Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time

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