About Docker

Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on Docker to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, and Docker Scout.

We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

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The Role

Docker shows up at a small number of global programs each year: industry and partner events, AWS re:Invent among them, each run with one theme, one signature demo, an executive meeting program and a pipeline target. Around them, our field marketers run regional programs with their sales teams, and Developer Relations leads developer and community events.

As Senior Event Manager, you are first chair on the global programs. You own each one end to end, from the negotiation and the contract through creative concept, planning, production, staffing and on-site delivery to reconciliation and the readout. You scout the newer conferences where Docker's ICP now gathers and test them with Brand and Field Marketing. You are the program manager for the whole events calendar, keeping one calendar and one messaging and positioning document for every event, and you are the events lead on Docker's Sales Kickoff, the internal event where the field meets the year's story first. You report to the Director, Field Marketing and Events, and work alongside the Event Manager, Global Field Marketing Operations, the regional field marketers, Partner Marketing, Brand, Product Marketing, Developer Relations and Sales.

Docker brought event management in-house this year, and this role is the center of it.

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What Success Looks Like

Every global program delivers against the targets set for it before the contract: the right people reached and demos delivered; analyst, press, executive meetings and speaking earned; and a pipeline target agreed with Revenue Operations and read at 30 and 90 days. The footprint reads as a buying journey from demo to a first sales conversation, the executive meeting program runs on the standard set by Global Field Marketing Operations and is never overcommitted, and every program ends with a readout the sales leaders who staffed it trust. What the global programs build carries into every region: the theme, the activation kit and the lessons.

For a brief period before and during every event, every person on site works for you. You hold a room of senior stakeholders, production partners and volunteers to a run of show with authority and warmth, you are the person everyone is glad to see when the event starts, and you do it with a budget you can account for to the dollar.

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Responsibilities

Own the global programs end to end. Negotiate, contract, concept, plan, budget, produce, staff, deliver and reconcile every global program and its regional stops, against a pipeline target and a brand goal agreed with Revenue Operations, Field Marketing and Brand before the contract is signed.

Architect the executive track. For each global program: who speaks, who hosts, which meetings run in the meeting space and how each leader's time is protected, on the executive meeting program standard that Global Field Marketing Operations sets. Work directly with executives and their assistants on schedules, prep and on-site handling.

Run the footprint and the experience. Layout and experience design with Brand and Developer Relations, so the footprint reads as a buying journey from demo to a first sales conversation; graphics and messaging; demos and activations; staffing plans and training; swag strategy and production.