🧠 About Cortex

Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that enables organizations to continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. With centralized visibility, clear ownership, automated Scorecards, and golden paths, we help engineering organizations operate as one.

Our customers – from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises – create a culture of engineering excellence, reducing incidents by 30% and improving MTTR by 50%, all while making it easier for developers to focus on building.

📍 Location

We're fully remote and welcome candidates from across the US. We get together a few times a year for company offsites where we build stronger relationships, kick off important work, and genuinely enjoy spending time together.

Travel: This role requires roughly 25% travel for conferences, our owned events, partner activations, and Braintrust gatherings across North America and Europe.

🤝 The Team

Our team is ~80 people building something developers actually want to use. We recently raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Ventures (alongside Sequoia and IVP). We're focused on making engineering teams more effective. You can read more about our latest funding round here.

💼 Job Summary

We're looking for a Senior Events & Field Marketing Manager to own how Cortex shows up in the world. You'll set our global events strategy, run our flagship conference Evolve (fka IDPCON) end-to-end, and own every conference booth, partner activation, Braintrust event, and webinar we put on. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can highly execute on different types of events and run them with a high level of rigor. You'll report to the VP of Strategic Initiatives and work hand-in-hand with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Sales, and GTM Ops to drive pipeline.

💻 Responsibilities

• Set Cortex's global events strategy and own the annual events calendar, in close coordination with sales leadership and demand generation.
• Own our flagship conference, Evolve, end-to-end (venue, agenda, speakers, sponsors, registration, on-site experience, and post-event motion) and grow it into a category-defining moment for Cortex and engineering operations.
• Own Cortex's presence at industry conferences from booth design and staff prep through pre-event outreach and post-event follow-up, maximizing the pipeline impact of every sponsorship.
• Plan and execute events for Cortex's Engineering Leader Community (Braintrust), including in-person dinners, roundtables, and member gatherings, partnering closely with the program lead on experience and member recruiting.
• Plan and execute partner activations (e.g. co-branded happy hours, conference passport programs, and roundtables) and build the partner relationships that make co-marketing easy and repeatable.
• Plan and run our webinar program end-to-end, from topic and speaker selection through promotion, production, and pipeline follow-up.
• Own the events budget and prove ROI on every program with clean attribution to pipeline, revenue, cost per opportunity, and conversion metrics, feeding learnings back into the strategy.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Marketing on messaging, Demand Generation on pre- and post-event campaigns, Sales on target accounts and follow-up, Customer Experience on customer relationships for events and content, and GTM Ops on lead capture and attribution

✔️ Qualifications

• 5+ years of B2B SaaS events and field marketing experience, with a proven track record of running programs that generate pipeline.
• Strategic muscle to build the calendar, defend the budget, and tell the story of what's worth investing in and why.
• Strong and tight execution, including managing logistics, vendors, contracts, and timelines across multiple programs in flight without dropping anything.
• Comfort marketing to technical audiences (engineering leaders, platform engineers, CTOs).
• Data-driven approach to ROI.
• Excellent cross-functional skills.
• Self-starter mindset with a bias toward action; thrives in a fast-moving startup where the playbook is being written in real time.

Nice to have:

• Experience owning a flagship event or user conference end-to-end, including budgets in the high six figures.
• Background managing community or member-driven programs
• Experience at a Series B-to-growth-stage startup during a key inflection point

💰 Compensation

• Starting Salary Range: $130,000 - $150,000
• Competitive Equity Package

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for equity and benefits.

🌴 Perks & Benefits

• National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)
• Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours
• 401k plan
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
• $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)
• Pet Insurance

Cortex is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Cortex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please email people@cortex.io