Strategic Events Lead

About Goodfire

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab. We build interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.

We believe that AI is the most consequential technology of our time. Yet AI models are trained by trial and error today, with limited understanding of what drives their behavior. Our goal is to advance the research and technology needed to fully understand and align AI so humanity can trust superintelligence.

Goodfire is a public benefit corporation founded by researchers who helped pioneer the field of interpretability at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. We are headquartered in San Francisco and have raised over $200M from leading investors including Lightspeed, Menlo, and B Capital.

About the role

We're looking for an Events Lead to design the moments where Goodfire's work becomes tangible to the most technical people in AI. This role demands taste, operational rigor, and strategic judgment: the ability to create events that feel high-signal, deeply relevant, and worth attending for researchers, engineers, and technical executives.

This is a cross-functional role where you will own our events strategy end to end: intimate dinners, research salons, conference programs, field events, partner gatherings, and the systems that turn those moments into lasting relationships. You won't be optimizing a legacy events calendar; you'll be building the event motion for a new category.

Our audience is selective and highly technical. You'll need to understand what they care about, partner closely with research, GTM, and field teams, and execute with enough precision that every event advances our market narrative, strengthens relationships, and creates meaningful pipeline.

Key responsibilities

Own the events strategy and calendar: identify the moments, formats, audiences, and geographies where Goodfire should show up

Design high-signal experiences: create events that feel substantive to AI researchers, ML engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and other deeply technical buyers

Execute with precision: manage vendors, budgets, run-of-show, speaker prep, attendee experience, follow-up, and every operational detail that determines quality

Build targeted invite and attendance strategy: partner with GTM, demand gen, and field teams to reach the right accounts and convert attendance into relationship momentum

Measure and improve the motion: connect events to pipeline, account engagement, market learning, and repeatable playbooks for future programs

What you’ll bring

Required experience

Experience planning and executing high-quality B2B events, field marketing programs, community programs, or executive gatherings.

Strong project management skills and the ability to run many operational details without losing sight of strategy.

Excellent taste and audience judgment; you know how to make an event feel substantive, polished, and not generic.

Scrappiness, urgency, and comfort building a function from scratch in a fast-moving environment

Preferred qualifications

Experience creating events for technical audiences, developer communities, AI/ML teams, infrastructure buyers, or research organizations.

Background as an early events, field marketing, community, or demand generation hire at a high-growth startup.

Experience with conference strategy, speaker programming, executive dinners, private roundtables, or partner events.

Ability to translate event outcomes into account insights, pipeline reporting, and next-step GTM actions

Our values

Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.

Put mission and team first

All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.

Improve constantly

We are constantly looking to improve every pie …