Events Specialist - Databento

The financial industry is growing at a record pace, but data providers are still stuck in the past — with cumbersome onboarding processes, complicated APIs, slow infrastructure, and expensive licensing costs.

Databento is the market data platform for modern finance. The company provides real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. By owning the entire market data stack end-to-end, Databento is the first platform of its kind to combine performance and reliability with a simpler developer experience. Our team includes alumni of Two Sigma, Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, IMC, Tower Research, Jump Trading, HRT, Jane Street, and SIG.

Events are where many of our customers, partners, and future hires meet Databento in person. We’re hiring an Events Specialist to build and scale our events program and bring our brand to life. You’ll give structure to how we run events and make each one, from a quant meetup to a team off-site, worth showing up for.

Responsibilities

You’ll lead a growing portfolio of events across five programs:

• Hosted events: Plan and run a regular series of meetups in key financial hubs to build our brand and connect us with customers, prospects, and the quant community.
• Conferences and booths: Own our presence at industry conferences, from sponsorships and booth design to swag, shipping, staffing, and lead capture.
• Client dinners: Organize dinners and small gatherings with clients and prospects, partnering with Sales, Growth, and Marketing to deepen relationships and support business development.
• Campus strategy: Build and manage our campus presence, including career fairs, recruiting events, sponsorships, and student programs, to strengthen our employer brand and university relationships.
• Team off-sites: Plan and coordinate off-sites for our fully distributed team, managing venues, travel, accommodations, and event logistics.

Across all programs, you will:

• Set up and manage a centralized annual events calendar and budget, while identifying new opportunities.
• Evaluate conferences, sponsorships, and hosted events against business objectives, expected impact, and ROI, recommending which to add, prioritize, or cut.
• Partner with Sales, Growth, Marketing, and People to ensure events support broader company objectives.
• Coordinate with Marketing on invitations, promotion, and branded materials.
• Source and negotiate with venues, caterers, hotels, printers, and AV vendors.
• Manage travel and logistics for attendees and staff.
• Build repeatable processes for event planning, execution, and post-event evaluation.
• Track event performance, including attendance, leads, engagement, hires, and cost per attendee.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience planning and running events, ideally across conferences, hosted events, and corporate or client events.
• Demonstrated ability to take projects from concept through execution and build processes with minimal oversight.
• Track record of juggling several events and competing deadlines without losing sight of details.
• Experience managing budgets, evaluating costs, and negotiating with vendors.
• Strong project management skills and ability to coordinate across teams and stakeholders.
• Data-driven approach to evaluating event performance, allocating budgets, and identifying improvements.
• Clear written and interpersonal communication, plus a good eye for event aesthetics.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity on a small, fully remote team.
• Willingness to travel regularly, including internationally, with some evening events and occasional weekend travel.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with B2B, fintech, or trading industry events.
• University relations or campus recruiting experience.
• Experience building an events program or function from the ground up.
• Familiarity with tools like Luma, HubSpot, Linear, and Figma.

Benefits & Compensation

• Base Salary Range: $70,000–$120,000 USD (benchmarked to Tier 1 locations; total compensation may include bonuses, commissions, and equity).
• Benefits: Health, dental, disability, and life insurance.
• Retirement: 401(k) matching for full-time employees.
• Remote Flexibility: 100% remote work with teammates living around the globe, paid in local currency.