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Director of Global Strategic Events

MongoDB· Corporate Marketing
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Hybrid (United States)$115k - $226kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for strategy, governance, and execution of MongoDB’s global strategic events portfolio. Builds AI-native approaches, leads a global team, and drives pipeline, revenue, and brand impact. Reports to the VP of Corporate Marketing; role can be based in any US office or remote within the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Define the sponsorship and partner event strategy. Build MongoDB’s approach to sponsorship packages, exhibitor programs, and partner activations across flagship and third-party events in close partnership with Partner Marketing
  • Lead and develop a global team. Manage, coach, and grow a high-performing, globally distributed events team. Establish clear priorities, operating rhythms, accountability, and consistent standards of excellence across regions and time zones
  • Build with AI. Bring an AI-native approach to how the function operates. Use AI tools and agents to improve workflows, automate reporting, increase team capacity, and personalize attendee journeys. Set the expectation that the team will do the same. This is a core requirement of the role
  • Represent Strategic Events across the business. Partner with leaders across Marketing, Sales, Product, Partner, and Communications. Represent the function in senior planning forums and ensure every program directly supports MongoDB’s company and go-to-market priorities. Expect to travel ~40% of the time to support events
  • Shape the global strategic events vision and portfolio. Set the strategy, priorities, and tiering framework for MongoDB’s flagship user conferences, executive summits, global roadshows, sales kickoff, and top-tier third-party conferences. Decide where MongoDB should show up, increase investment, or step back based on business impact and audience value
  • Drive pipeline and revenue impact. Partner closely with Revenue Marketing and Sales to build integrated pre-event, onsite, and post-event programs that turn engagement into qualified pipeline and measurable business outcomes. Own the Strategic Events contribution to that shared pipeline motion, working hand-in-hand with Revenue Marketing
  • Set the experiential and creative vision. Create differentiated, audience-centered experiences for developers, technical leaders, business decision-makers, customers, partners, and executives. Shape the messaging and narrative that bring MongoDB's product vision and AI-era story to life across live experiences, content, and communications. Build trust, deepen relationships, and strengthen community. Continually test new formats and raise the creative bar across the portfolio
  • Own the budget, vendor model, and event infrastructure. Manage a multi-million-dollar Strategic Events budget, including forecasting, allocation, and ROI. Oversee the global agency and production model, along with the event technology and data stack that supports registration, lead capture, CRM integration, measurement, and attribution

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience leading global B2B events in enterprise technology or SaaS, including proprietary flagship conferences, executive programs, and complex event portfolios
  • Strong executive presence and influence. Track record of partnering with C-level stakeholders and cross-functional leaders and driving alignment in a matrixed organization
  • Experience leading global, distributed teams, including senior individual contributors and people leaders. Ability to set clear priorities, build operating rhythms, and develop high-performing teams across regions and time zones
  • Demonstrated understanding of how AI drives business value. Champions AI adoption, encourages AI-forward thinking, and partners effectively with technical stakeholders; hands-on experience building AI/agent-based systems is a plus
  • Deep operational and financial experience, including managing multi-million-dollar budgets, global agencies and production partners, complex vendor ecosystems, and high-stakes negotiations
  • Proven accountability for pipeline and revenue impact. Fluent in pipeline attribution, revenue influence, ROI measurement, and event performance reporting
  • Experience designing events for technical or developer audiences is a plus

Skills

Required:Global event strategyTeam leadership and developmentAI and automation for eventsCross-functional collaborationBudgeting and financial stewardship

Benefits

  • Equity participation in the employee stock purchase program
  • Flexible paid time off
  • 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
  • Fertility and adoption assistance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Mental health counseling
  • Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
  • Health benefits offerings
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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