Strategic Events Lead

divh2Strategic Events Lead/h2pMarketing Full-time San Francisco; Remote; New York/ppOur mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code./ph3About the role/h3pWere looking for someone to own Cursors strategic events program from annual planning and budget ownership to booth build-out, activations, and onsite execution. This role is focused on one outcome: driving meaningful engagement with executives at target enterprise accounts and turning that engagement into pipeline. Youll work closely with enterprise sales and marketing to make every event a precision instrument for revenue./ph3What youll do/h3ulliBuild and own Cursors Strategic Events plan, including annual event calendar, prioritization framework, and budget allocation across tier-one and tier-two conferences/liliPartner with our internal Brand Studio on end-to-end booth and activation build-out, including vendor management, creative direction, messaging, and experiential design targeted at executive enterprise buyers/liliDrive onsite execution managing logistics, staff scheduling, run-of-show, and real-time problem solving across all events/liliDesign executive engagement programs at events, including hosted dinners, private briefings, roundtables, and VIP experiences tied to target account lists/liliPartner closely with enterprise sales and SDR teams to identify priority accounts, coordinate pre-event outreach, and ensure follow-through post-event/liliBuild and track a pipeline attribution model for events, measuring influence on enterprise opportunities and closed-won revenue/liliManage relationships with event vendors, production agencies, and conference organizers to negotiate sponsorships, speaking slots, and premium placements/liliCoordinate internally across brand, content, and product marketing to ensure consistent messaging and compelling collateral at every activation/liliDevelop repeatable event playbooks so the program scales efficiently as Cursors enterprise motion grows/li/ulh3You may be a fit if/h3ulliYou have owned a strategic events program at a high-growth B2B or enterprise software company, with direct accountability for pipeline generated/liliYouve built booth experiences and executive activations for major industry conferences (RSA, AWS re:Invent, Gartner, Dreamforce, or similar) and know what moves enterprise buyers/liliYou are operationally excellent you can manage multiple simultaneous events, vendors, and stakeholders without dropping details, even across time zones/liliYou think like a revenue marketer: every event decision is filtered through does this get us in front of the right accounts and move pipeline?/liliYou are comfortable using CRM and marketing automation tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, or similar) to track account engagement and measure event ROI/liliYou have strong executive presence and can hold a room whether thats running a VIP dinner, briefing a Fortune 500 CTO, or representing Cursor on a conference stage/liliYou thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, can build from zero, and dont wait for permission to move/liliYou are willing to travel frequently and go above and beyond when it matters/li/ul/div