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Salary: USD 260,000 - 270,000 / annual
Lightning AI is seeking a Head of Global Events & Field Marketing to build and scale a portfolio of events that drive engagement and pipeline with key AI Cloud buyers and end-user audiences. This is a new leadership role reporting to the CMO, ideal for visionary builders who can operate hands-on while scaling teams.
You will own the marketing events strategy aligned to business goals and go-to-market initiatives. Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute the comprehensive events strategy, identifying the optimal portfolio of conferences, first-party events, and field tactics to reach AI buyers and end users effectively.
- Lead collaboration with Field leadership to prioritize markets, accounts, and formats with the greatest impact on pipeline and revenue.
- Partner with Product Marketing and Growth Marketing to align events with key themes and integrated multi-channel campaigns.
- Build and scale ABM (account-based marketing) motions across the sales cycle—from pipeline creation through deal acceleration to expansion.
- Create scalable processes, templates, and playbooks to enable consistent, efficient team operations.
- Establish experimentation and AI-native automation as core operating principles, developing testing frameworks across event types.
- Hire, coach, and scale a team of event and field marketers, fostering a culture of creativity, ownership, and continuous learning.
Lightning AI, founded in 2019, is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. The platform enables development, training, and deployment of AI systems from research to production. Through a merger with Voltage Park, the company combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Lightning AI serves solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises globally, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London. The company is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.
The company culture emphasizes moving with urgency, taking ownership, communicating openly, building great teams, raising the bar continuously, and thinking long-term.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years of experience building and scaling events and field marketing in high-growth technology companies
- Deep understanding of complex B2B buying journeys, technical buying committees, complex sales cycles, account segmentation, ABM, and sales-assisted conversion
- Sales-aligned operator with strong track record partnering directly with executive sales leadership on GEO go-to-market plans and resource alignment
- Testing mindset and operating discipline to turn learnings into repeatable programs, systems, and investment decisions
- Analytical and financial acumen with deep proficiency in attribution, pipeline modeling, and budget/vendor management
- Strong business acumen and executive presence; ability to earn trust, communicate effectively, and lead cross-functionally
- Hands-on leader comfortable building from scratch and operating at scale; experience going from 0 to N
- Willingness to travel across the region as programs require
