Nectar Group
Nectar Group
Nectar Group is a marketing and business process outsourcing company that helps enterprises strengthen sales, marketing, and revenue-generation operations. Its services include strategic revenue guidance, appointment setting, inbound lead generation, and outsourced marketing support. Working across marketing, fintech, and enterprise contexts, Nectar Group focuses on building qualified-pipeline opportunities and supporting clients’ efforts to expand into new markets.

Event and Community Manager — Palo Alto, Hybrid

Lead Nectar’s West Coast B2B events and community initiatives across Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Build customer relationships, strengthen community engagement, and support pipeline growth for an AI-native social commerce platform.

Description

  • Lead Nectar’s West Coast event calendar from planning through execution across San Francisco and Los Angeles
  • Develop account-based programs with sales, including executive dinners and target-account roundtables
  • Create a recurring event series in both markets
  • Oversee budgets, vendors, venues, and event logistics across both cities
  • Establish repeatable processes that enable the event program to scale
  • Work with sales and customer success on programs that create pipeline and strengthen customer relationships
  • Measure and communicate event performance through attendance, sourced and influenced pipeline, and customer sentiment
  • Represent Nectar at West Coast industry conferences, coordinating on-site teams, staffing, logistics, and sponsor commitments
  • Help launch and expand Nectar’s customer and industry community program
  • Support community content and engagement through AMAs, office hours, member spotlights, and peer discussions
  • Use live events to increase community membership
  • Develop relationships with West Coast customers, creators, and industry leaders
  • Find and develop community advocates for case studies, referrals, and word-of-mouth growth
  • Share community feedback and insights with product, marketing, and customer success
  • Report to marketing leadership while partnering with sales, customer success, and the founders

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of experience in B2B event marketing, community management, or a combination of both, primarily within B2B SaaS
  • Demonstrated success leading B2B field and executive events from concept through reporting, with sales impact on sourced and accelerated pipeline
  • Strong command of B2B event measurement, including HubSpot or Salesforce attribution, sourced versus influenced pipeline, and target-account follow-up
  • Experience supporting or expanding an online or in-person community
  • Based in or near Palo Alto with knowledge of the Bay Area and Los Angeles event markets
  • Able to work independently in an early-stage company where processes are still being built
  • Highly organized project manager who can coordinate multiple events across two markets without losing detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with genuine enthusiasm for building relationships
  • Willingness to travel regularly to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and industry conferences, estimated at 20–30%
  • Experience in social media, marketing technology, or the creator economy is a plus
  • Experience marketing to brand, social, or marketing leaders as buyers is a plus
  • An established network in Bay Area technology or Los Angeles consumer brand and creator communities is a plus
  • Familiarity with community platforms such as Slack, Discord, and Circle, plus event tools including Luma, Bizzabo, and HubSpot, is a plus
  • Experience as an early startup hire who built a function from the ground up is a plus
  • Able to work onsite at the Palo Alto office four days per week
  • May need current or future sponsorship to work in the United States

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Early-stage equity participation
  • Health, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • ClassPass membership for fitness and wellness classes
  • $50 monthly mobile stipend for all employees
  • $50 monthly internet stipend for remote employees
  • Hybrid arrangement with four office days and three remote flex days per quarter after the first three months
  • Complimentary lunch near University Avenue in Palo Alto
  • $1,000 monthly housing stipend for living near the office
  • Commuter costs fully covered through a train stipend or Palo Alto parking reimbursement

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