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Inferact, founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, is building the world's AI inference engine. The company sits at the intersection of models and hardware, positioning itself to accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.
You will own the global event engine for vLLM and Inferact, managing everything from major conferences and flagship vLLM events to local developer meetups and partner activations. This is a comprehensive execution role spanning event strategy, venue selection, sponsorships, budgets, speaker coordination, registration, CRM capture, vendor management, onsite operations, and post-event follow-up. You will build repeatable playbooks and ecosystem partnerships that enable Inferact to scale events across the US, Europe, and APAC.
In your first 30 days, you will plan the next Inferact conference attendance end-to-end (format, date, venue, speaker lineup, sponsors, budget), plan and run one vLLM meetup with a host partner to establish the first repeatable meetup playbook, build the conference sign-up system with registration pages, RSVP/waitlist handling, confirmation emails, check-in, and CRM data flow, and take over coordination of the already-booked Q4 calendar starting with PyTorch NA.
By 60 days, you will own vLLM Conference US as the flagship event (venue, sponsorship packages, program committee, speakers, registration), own vLLM Conference China (co-hosting terms with PyTorch Foundation, branding, local vendors, speaker coordination), own the global vLLM meetup program and Inferact company-hosted events across US, Europe, and APAC, and own event budgets, sponsorship decisions, lead capture, and post-event follow-up for every event.
By 90 days, you will build a forward-looking partnership plan for hardware vendors, cloud providers, model labs, and open-source foundations; design a repeatable ecosystem events program for partners like Google, AMD, and NVIDIA; and work with external event support to attract sponsors and participants while developing clear positioning and marketing guidelines for Inferact vs. vLLM across conferences and events.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum qualifications:
- Proven ownership of 500+ attendee conferences, enterprise events, or developer meetups from planning through onsite execution and post-event follow-up
- Hands-on experience owning venue selection, sponsorships, budgets, vendors, speaker coordination, registration, attendee communications, and onsite logistics
- Hands-on experience setting up event registration, landing pages, and automated CRM lead capture using tools such as HubSpot, Marketo, Luma, or comparable systems
- Experience measuring event performance through attendance, engagement, lead capture, pipeline influence, or partner outcomes
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent events and workstreams with high attention to detail and urgency
- Strong cross-functional skills with sales, partnerships, engineering, executives, design, agencies, and external vendors
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience running developer, AI, cloud, infrastructure, or open-source events
- Experience managing global event portfolios across the US, Europe, and APAC
- Experience designing sponsorship packages and managing partner participation in flagship conferences
- Track record creating event playbooks, scalable operating systems, and consistent post-event follow-up processes
Bonus:
- Experience with PyTorch, AI infrastructure, developer tools, cloud, GPU, or open-source communities
- Existing relationships across cloud providers, hardware vendors, model labs, or open-source foundations
- Experience building a field marketing function or global meetup program from 0 to 1
