Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
We're looking for a Director of Field & Event Marketing to own how DigitalOcean shows up in the world. Reporting to the Head of Marketing, you'll define and drive our global event strategy and operating model, with a major focus on San Francisco and the Bay Area. This role will span the full event mix, from our flagship DigitalOcean Deploy conference to creative startup events that engage founders and VCs, and priority AI industry events, hands-on hackathons and workshops, customer programs, and everything in between.
This isn't a logistics role and it isn’t about running a vanilla B2B event playbook. We're looking for a strategic marketing leader who knows how to execute what works, but is also willing to test new formats, find what actually interests our target audience, create memorable experiences, and highlight the customers building on DigitalOcean. You are the bridge between creative vision and commercial outcomes, turning every event into a moment that drives pipeline, customer engagement, technical credibility, and market leadership while ensuring every initiative drives measurable results.
What You’ll Do:- Own DigitalOcean’s global event strategy across first-party, third-party, and field programs, from our flagship event, DigitalOcean Deploy, to founder dinners and AI industry conferences.
- Lead DigitalOcean’s presence at priority third-party events to drive brand awareness, technical credibility, and pipeline.
- Build a differentiated event strategy that balances proven formats with new ideas, experimental activations, customer showcases, guerrilla marketing tactics, and creative ways to engage AI builders and leaders.
- Partner with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, and Growth in order to align event investments with target accounts, pipeline tracking, and business goals.
- Design unique, high-quality attendee experiences that combine strong programming, technical depth, hands-on engagement, customer stories, creative concepts and smooth execution
- Build and scale the "Event Operating Model" in order to move fast, including planning processes, timelines, budget management, KPIs, and repeatable playbooks.
- Identify and secure technical speaking opportunities for our leaders in order to establish DigitalOcean as the credible home for production-grade AI inference.
- Build a vendor network and “event-in-a-box” program needed to elevate and scale repeatable, on-brand experiences across first and third-party events.
- Own the end-to-end event experience, including registration, event pages, attendee communications, livestreaming, on-site execution, follow-up, and reporting.
- Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing event marketing team.
- 10+ years of B2B event marketing experience, ideally in cloud, AI, SaaS, or developer tools, with strong fluency in marketing to founders and technical audiences.
- Experience producing first-party events (from intimate to 5k+ attendees) and managing third-party sponsorships (30k+ attendees), from executive dinners and meetups to large-scale conferences.
- Experience creating a wide range of event formats, including flagship conferences, industry events, hands-on workshops, hackathons, customer programs, startup events, founder dinners, and executive experiences.
- A creative, experimental mindset: you know how to execute what works, but you also push beyond default formats to test new ideas, create standout experiences, and find what genuinely interests the audience.
- Owner-operator mindset: you take full accountability, bring structure to ambiguity, have a strong bias for action, and continuously improve how the team executes.
- Deep empathy for the attendee experience, with strong attention to detail; you believe that every aspect from the tone of an invite, to the room flow to the partners we work with and the follow-up with everyone involved is a reflection of our brand.
- Deep GTM fluency, with proven ability to connect events to pipeline, sales follow-up, revenue impact, and hands-on experience with platforms like Salesforce, Marketo, Cvent, Splash, Luma, and YouTube Live.
- Demonstrated vendor, agency, budget, and production management experience.
- Strong understanding of the San Francisco / Bay Area AI and Startup ecosystem.
- Curiosity, appetite for feedback, and a “leave it better than you found it” attitude.
- $168,000 - $211,000
*This is a remote role
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- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of B2B event marketing experience
- Experience producing first-party events (intimate to 5k+ attendees) and managing third-party sponsorships (30k+ attendees)
- Proven ability to design and execute a wide range of event formats (conferences, workshops, hackathons, dinners, customer programs)
- Experience connecting events to pipeline, sales follow-up, and revenue impact
- Hands-on experience with platforms like Salesforce, Marketo, Cvent, Splash, Luma, and YouTube Live
- Vendor, agency, budget, and production management experience
- Ability to build and scale event operating models, processes, timelines, KPIs, and playbooks
- Experience identifying and securing technical speaking opportunities and building technical credibility
- Proven hiring, leadership, and team development experience
- Creative, experimental mindset with strong attention to attendee experience and detail
- Deep GTM fluency and ability to partner with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, and Growth
- Industry experience in cloud, AI, SaaS, or developer tools
- Strong understanding of the San Francisco / Bay Area AI and startup ecosystem
DigitalOcean Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as market‑leading across medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health, with company‑paid life and income‑protection. This positions core healthcare and protection benefits as a standout element of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as above‑average, frequently highlighted alongside a phased return‑to‑work program. This indicates strong support for new parents beyond baseline policies.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The package includes recurring equity grants and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. This provides meaningful ownership opportunities alongside cash compensation.
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What We Do
DigitalOcean is the Inference Cloud — a full-stack, production-ready cloud platform built to run AI applications with predictable performance, sustainable economics, and radically simpler operations at scale. We are built for teams turning AI into real products — not just training models. Our advantage is not fewer features, but fewer failure modes when operating AI at scale — combining minimal operational overhead, predictable cost efficiency, and a full-stack cloud that works as a system. Hyperscalers are broad by design. Neoclouds are infrastructure-first. DigitalOcean is inference-first — with a real cloud underneath. It combines inference-optimized compute, managed inference software, and integrated cloud capabilities that reduce operational burden for teams running real workloads. Inference is the foundation—not the boundary. Everything else builds on top of it.
Why Work With Us
At DO, we do career-defining work. We innovate with AI and build cutting-edge tech. Our rewards to match that intensity - to motivate you, recognize your impact, and give you what you need to thrive. If you have a growth mindset, like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment, you'll find your place here.
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