Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.
About the role
As an Event Manager, you will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of hosted events, from strategy and concept through onsite execution and production. You’ll sit on the Brand Events team, and you’ll have a team of peers to partner with, learn from, and build together. Each Event Manager drives a specific domain, goes deep on your vertical, and is the trusted partner for your stakeholders within that vertical.
This role focuses on Cursor employees and hosted experiences in our offices. You'll be responsible for making internal Cursor events feel like Cursor, building the playbook for inviting attendees into our offices, and creating experiences that inspire Cursor employees.
What you’ll do
- You will report to the Events Lead and be one of the founding members of the Brand Events Team.
- Help define and build what industry-leading events look like at Cursor — setting standards and creating a playbook that scales.
- End-to-end event ownership, including event strategy, concept, agenda, attendee journey, venue selection, vendor management, run-of-show, staffing, budgets, timelines, retros, and outcome tracking.
- Define goals, target audiences, and success criteria for each event — then track outcomes and iterate to improve signal and experience.
- Coordinate cross-functionally with business owners, Brand, Comms, Recruiting, Ops, IT, Physical Security, and Facilities.
- Be on the ground for key moments, ensuring every detail meets a high standard of quality.
Internal focus
- Own the end-to-end strategy and execution for office-based events that bring Cursor culture to life—spanning internal moments and externally attended hosted experiences at HQ.
- Oversee our global annual Holiday Parties.
- Build and maintain an “office event playbook”: space standards, room resets, wayfinding/signage, staffing roles, vendor roster, load-in/load-out, catering standards, and repeatable run-of-show templates across our growing fleet of offices.
- In partnership with the Events Lead, help define and enforce event intake + tiering/scoping, including lead-time expectations, required stakeholders by tier, and what is centrally supported vs self-serve.
- Partner with the audience Event Managers (e.g., recruiting/community/field) to deliver externally attended office events; providing the venue + workplace production layer (space plan, guest journey, onsite ops), while they own audience strategy and content.
- Be the core cross-functional partner to Workplace/Facilities, IT/AV, Physical Security, and Ops to align on building policies, access/guest protocols, room standards, and day-of escalation paths.
- Define success metrics for office events and track outcomes (e.g., stakeholder satisfaction, operational quality, issue rate, timeliness, budget variance, repeatability), and use retros to continuously raise the bar.
You may be a fit if
- You have 5+ years of experience running professional events
- Comfortable owning $4M+ event budgets
- You have experience owning workplace events events or high-touch internal programs
- You’re comfortable working in ambiguity and have experience building event programs and owning events in fast-paced environments, ideally in tech
- You care deeply about details and craft, and notice things others don’t
- You’re highly operational and can manage multiple complex workstreams, managing agency and production partners.
- You have strong taste and judgment about what makes an experience feel exceptional
- You thrive in an in-person environment and are energized to be closely embedded with the team