Docker Docker is hiring a Senior Event Operations Manager to own operational execution of its event portfolio. The role includes managing timelines, vendors, budgets, and building scalable event operations systems.
Responsibilities
Please note: for this role, you must have the ability to travel 35% of the time across North America, along with international travel as-needed.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role is operational: events are delivered smoothly and consistently across the portfolio, teams have clear planning processes and execution frameworks to work from, and operational risks are identified early and resolved quickly. Above all, programs are able to grow and scale without increasing complexity, because the systems, playbooks, and budgets you build absorb that growth.
Own operational execution across the event portfolio - major conferences, developer roadshows, digital events, and community activations - managing timelines, project plans, and execution milestones across multiple concurrent events, and keeping them on schedule, on budget, and aligned to internal goals.
Maintain a master event calendar that coordinates timing, resourcing, and dependencies across programs.
Manage event registration, attendee experience, and lead capture and badging across the portfolio.
Build scalable event operations: repeatable planning templates, run-of-show frameworks, and operational playbooks, continuously simplifying and improving execution over time.
Own the event technology stack (registration, mobile apps, lead retrieval) and ensure data flows cleanly into marketing and sales systems.
Manage vendors and logistics: agencies, venues, production vendors, and internal teams, including contract execution, budget tracking, shipping, production schedules, and onsite readiness.
Own end-to-end event budgets, including purchase orders, invoicing, and post-event reconciliation.
Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Field Marketing, and Sales, translating program goals into clear operational plans.
Operationalize developer-focused programs - roadshows, community activations, and flagship conference experiences - and build frameworks that let them expand to additional markets over time.
Qualification
Hands-on vendorDeveloperImmerse in Docker’s event portfolio
Required
Hands-on vendor, agency, and production-partner management, including contracts, budgets, and performance.
Comfortable using AI to scale repeatable processes without sacrificing quality.
Demonstrated professional experience with event and marketing tech (registration platforms, lead retrieval, mobile apps) and how event data flows into Salesforce and Marketo and lead management workflows.
Experience building operational frameworks or playbooks that let event programs scale.
Developer, technical, or enterprise event experience is highly preferred; background in SaaS, developer platforms, cloud, or technology companies is an advantage.
Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities can evolve.
Immerse in Docker’s event portfolio, the master calendar, the event tech stack, and current vendor and agency relationships.
Audit live programs and operational processes; identify where timelines, budgets, and handoffs carry the most risk.
Build working relationships with the Director of Events, Field Marketing, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, and Sales.
Take ownership of operational execution for the next event on the calendar.
Stand up or refine repeatable planning templates, run-of-show frameworks, and operational playbooks across the portfolio.
Establish a master event calendar that coordinates timing, resourcing, and dependencies.
