Growth Marketing Manager — Events & Ecosystem

Company Overview:

We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data.

Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech.

We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI.

In this Growth Marketing Manager — Events & Ecosystem role you’ll be an early team member helping define how Protege shows up in the world. The events function doesn’t exist yet, you’ll build it. You’ll have direct access to leadership, real ownership, and the chance to create something that scales.

This role is designed for a builder who is both detail-oriented and strategic. It’s someone who can figure out the floral arrangements at an intimate dinner one moment, and understand how that event fits within the broader strategy of how and where Protege shows up. Someone who loves being in the middle of fast-moving environments, thrives at conferences and industry gatherings, and takes pride in turning real-world interactions into meaningful business momentum. If you enjoy figuring things out in real-time and wearing multiple hats, this is the role for you — you’ll be helping build a marketing function from the ground up.

What You'll Own

• End-to-end event execution: conference strategy, logistics, budgets, vendor management, and on-site presence across 2–3 events per month

• Events playbook & strategy: build and maintain a disciplined, prioritized, and scalable system for how Protege shows up, whether that’s speaking slots, side events, dinners, sponsorships, or simply attending

• Pipeline generation: partner with commercial and partnerships teams to ensure events translate into meaningful meetings, relationships, and revenue opportunities

• Account-level event strategy: Events at Protege are designed to support our commercial strategy. You’ll partner closely with sales to understand priority accounts and ensure our event presence — conferences, dinners, and gatherings — creates meaningful engagement with the right people at the right companies

• Marketing systems & attribution:: Build the infrastructure that connects event activity to outcomes, including CRM integration, lead attribution, and workflows that tie marketing engagement to pipeline and revenue

• Broader marketing ownership: social content, sales enablement materials, campaign collateral, and whatever else the team needs. In other words, you are not just “the events person” alone

What We're Looking For We want someone who has done this for 5+ years, not just managing people who have. Specifically:

• You have personally owned B2B conferences, corporate dinners, or hosted activations from logistics to wrap-up recap

• Scrappiness and grit — you’ve stretched tight budgets, solved last-minute venue disasters, and still delivered; you figure things out without a playbook

• A generalist marketing instinct, you’re comfortable writing a LinkedIn post, updating a one-pager, or jumping into a campaign when the team needs it; you don’t say “that’s not my job”

• Startup-wired mindset, you are comfortable building systems from scratch and iterating quickly; ambiguity energizes rather than paralyzes you

• Strong organizational instincts, you manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects without dropping details

• AI tool fluency, you actively use AI tools to move faster and create leverage; this is a must

• Willingness to travel 2–3x per month, with regular presence in San Francisco

We treat people with respect, operate with transparency, and move fast with intention. If that sounds like an environment you thrive in, let’s talk.