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Event Marketing Manager

IBM

IBM

Administration, Marketing & Communications
California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA
Posted on Jan 10, 2026
Introduction

At HashiCorp, an IBM Company, we do things a bit differently—including how we approach marketing. The ideal candidate for this role will help align our conference program with HashiCorp’s values, brand, and culture by deeply understanding our go-to-market strategy, voice, and product portfolio. You are passionate about making a meaningful impact and continuously innovating how our conference program supports business objectives. You are a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment and proactively manages annual planning cycles, project timelines, and overlapping priorities. You bring exceptional attention to detail, strong communication skills, and a collaborative mindset, ensuring your work is closely aligned with marketing, sales, and broader company needs. You enjoy planning ahead, transforming complex to-do lists into organized action plans, and understand the orchestration required to deliver large-scale, integrated marketing campaigns.

Your role and responsibilities

The Event Marketing Manager is a key member of the Third-Party Conference team, responsible for supporting HashiCorp’s global events portfolio. This role focuses on major industry conference sponsorships, executive engagement, and centralized customer programs. The Event Marketing Manager will lead end-to-end marketing campaign strategy, planning, budget management, and execution across the annual conference sponsorship plan.
This includes driving alignment between event investments and business objectives while ensuring consistent brand representation at scale. In this role, you will partner closely with Product Marketing, Partner Marketing, Digital Marketing, Sales, Design, and PR/Communications to deliver integrated campaigns that drive measurable results, strengthen executive relationships, and expand HashiCorp’s global brand presence.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, manage, and own conference sponsorships end to end including all contracts, vendor negotiations, budget management, booth logistics, onsite execution, internal staffing, and all elements that go into conference sponsorships.
  • Work closely with stakeholders across Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Partner Marketing, Field Marketing, PR/Communications, Sales, and Design to execute cohesive, multi-touch integrated campaigns around our top tier conference sponsorships.
  • Report on results of specific conferences as well as the breadth of the conferences program, including detailed post-event recaps, 30-60-90 day reviews, and stakeholder presentations.
  • Introduce and test new additional touchpoints and activations at and surrounding conference sponsorships.
  • Drive innovative and creative thinking to conference activations and engagement.
  • Be consistent with conference deadlines and ensure that each deadline is met.
  • Deliver best-in-class event execution across in-person, virtual, and hybrid conferences with an understanding of the unique strategy, approaches, and expected business outcomes for each type of conference sponsorship.
  • Focus efforts on blending the needs of expanding the HashiCorp brand through conferences, supporting our passionate community of IT practitioners, and driving the HashiCorp enterprise business.
  • Align to the HashiCorp brand and have the ability to bring that brand to life at our third party conferences.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Skills & Experience:

  • Experience in event marketing management including third-party conferences

  • Experience managing multiple large-scale projects simultaneously

  • Strong written and verbal skills

  • Strong organizational skills with strong attention to detail.

  • Ability to facilitate cross-functional alignment to structure, plan, and execute HashiCorp’s conference sponsorships globally.

  • Experience managing detailed budgets and ability to make strategic decisions aligned to business priorities.

  • Ability to identify better ways of working at scale through constantly evaluating, reflecting, and refining processes and workflows.

  • Ability to work closely with and collaborate across a geographically-dispersed team.

  • Approach project management in a disciplined and efficient manner.

  • Interested in a fast-paced company with the desire to learn quickly across a constantly changing environment.

  • Ability to travel 30% of the time, including international travel.

  • Experience with Monday.com, MSFT Suite, Asana, and Salesforce with ability to learn new software quickly.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.