# Field Marketing Coordinator

**Company**: PlanetScale
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4295139009?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads , without sacrificing developer experience.

As a Field Marketing Coordinator, you'll help execute in-person experiences that connect developers, founders, engineering leaders, and the broader technology community with PlanetScale.

You'll work closely with the Head of Community and cross-functional teams to coordinate events ranging from intimate executive dinners and customer roundtables to conference activations, office events, meetups, and large-scale community programs.

## Event Planning & Execution

- Coordinate logistics for executive dinners, happy hours, conferences, meetups, customer events, and community activations

- Manage event timelines, run-of-shows, and planning documents

- Assist with venue sourcing, catering, rentals, entertainment, transportation, and vendor management

- Support on-site event execution, setup, registration, attendee experience, and breakdown

- Track budgets, invoices, contracts, and event expenses

- Occasional travel required for conferences, customer events, and community programs.

- Able to carry and lift 10 lbs of merch, marketing materials, and or event related items.

## Community & Attendee Experience

- Manage event registration platforms and attendee communications

- Coordinate guest lists, RSVPs, approvals, and waitlists

- Support attendee outreach and follow-up efforts

- Help create thoughtful experiences that foster meaningful connections between attendees

## Marketing Operations

- Coordinate event promotion across social channels, email, and partner communities

- Assist with post-event reporting and performance tracking

- Maintain event calendars and planning documentation

## Swag & Logistics

- Coordinate merchandise ordering, inventory management, and event shipments

- Manage conference booth materials and event assets

- Organize storage, shipping schedules, and vendor deliveries

## Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Executive Leadership, and Operations teams

- Support customer-facing and prospect-facing events that contribute to pipeline and community growth

- Coordinate with sponsors, speakers, customers, and external partners

## What you will need

- 2+ years of experience in event marketing, field marketing, community, or related fields

- Exceptional organizational and project management skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with attention to detail

- Comfortable working evenings or occasional weekends during events

- Ability to lift and move event materials when needed

## What else will help you be successful?

- Proactively solves problems before they become issues

- Enjoys building relationships and creating welcoming environments

- Obsesses over details while maintaining a big-picture mindset

- Thrives in dynamic startup environments

## Skills

### Required
- event marketing
- field marketing
- community
- project management
- communication

### Nice to have
- conferences
- trade shows
- executive dinners
- VIP events
- developer communities
- startups
- B2B SaaS

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