Founding Events Lead

TL;DR: We’re hiring a our first Events Lead to work directly with our Head of Marketing and help scale Listen from $XXM → $100M+ ARR. You’ll help shape how our brand and message goes to market by creating curated event experiences that customers actually want to attend. This is a high-ownership role for someone who combines taste, creativity, and detail-oriented execution and wants to help build 0-1 at a breakout company in the AI era. Min. 4+ years in B2B SaaS corporate events, field marketing, or related roles. You should have strong creative judgment, experience producing standout events, and the ability to move fluidly between big-picture thinking and hands-on execution. Excitement about travel and working in a fast-paced startup environment is important. Background Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours — not months. We help customers analyze conversations, surface themes, and make faster, smarter product decisions. Company highlights — entirely product-led: - World-Class Team: Founded by serial entrepreneurs (previous AI exit), former co-founders, and talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and many more Sequoia-backed startups (plus IOI/ICPC backgrounds). - Hypergrowth: We're a fast-growing team backed by top-tier investors that's grown several-fold in the past year, and we're set on multiplying that again. We move fast, care deeply about craft, and love working with people who take ownership. - Traction: Rapid growth across segments with enterprise wins at Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G. - Performance: Industry-leading win rate driven by a highly differentiated product. - Market Validation: Consistently winning customers across all segments with over six-figure lands that lead to quick expansions. - Viral Product: Interviews are shared with tens of thousands of viewers, fueling PLG, organic expansion, and daily inbound from Fortune 500s. What You'll Do - Partner with the Head of Marketing to shape brand and campaign strategy - Develop and execute campaigns that break through the noise and drive awareness, engagement, and pipeline - Own campaign planning from concept to launch, including messaging, timelines, creative coordination, and rollout - Own and elevate how Listen shows up at events, from small marketing moments to larger brand experiences - Create event experiences that attract the right audience, generate excitement, and leave a strong brand impression - Work cross-functionally with sales, product marketing, design, and leadership to ensure campaigns and events are cohesive and effective - Manage the operational details that make campaigns and events excellent, from planning and vendors to onsite execution and follow-through - Measure performance, gather learnings, and continuously improve what we do What You'll Do - Partner with the Head of Marketing to shape brand and events strategy - Revamp how Listen shows up at industry conferences, elevating booth presence, speaking moments, sponsorships, and adjacent side events so every appearance reflects the brand and drives real pipeline - Build the playbook for Listen's owned events, from intimate dinners and customer roundtables to larger brand experiences, establishing repeatable formats that attract the right audience and leave a lasting impression - Work cross-functionally with sales, product marketing, design, and leadership to ensure events ladder up to broader campaigns - Measure performance, gather learnings, and continuously improve what we do Who You Are - Strong operator who can manage multiple moving pieces without losing quality - Has a strong POV on creating a world-class conference presence, from booth design to side events to the small details that make people remember Listen - Understand the ins and outs of putting on great events, with a strong sense for what creates real energy and audience pull - Highly detail-oriented and organized, with strong follow-through; you catch the things others miss - Excited to play a leadership role in the org, shaping how Listen shows up in the market - Collaborative and low-ego, with the ability to work across functions and bring people together around a shared plan - Commercially minded; you think about pipeline and impact, not just logistics - Excited to travel and be in the field representing the company as needed Life at Listen Labs - Competitive Compensation: We're backed by world-class investors, including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, and Conviction, alongside Evantic, AI Grant, and Pear VC, and offer competitive compensation packages with meaningful equity ownership in a market where over 30B has been created in adjacent industries (Medallia, AlphaSense, GLG, Ipsos, Kantar). Our Sequoia partner, Bryan Schreier https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/bryan-schreier/, was the first investor in Qualtrics—a $12B com