Austin Events & Sponsorships Manager

• Assist Office Manager with customer, partner, candidate, and team member hospitality when visiting our Austin office.
• Own the annual Central Texas event calendar: which may include conventions, developer conferences, hackathons, community outreach, and university career fairs we attend, sponsor, or skip, with the reasoning documented.
• Negotiate sponsorship tiers, booth placement, speaking slots, and contract terms, and manage relationships with event organizers.
• Run booth logistics end to end, including build and teardown, staffing rota, demo hardware, collateral, and lead capture.
• Partner with our hiring team on career fairs at UT Austin, Texas State, Texas A&M, and local bootcamps and CS programs.
• Source, evaluate, and manage hackathon sponsorships across Austin and Central Texas, including prize pools, API credits, challenge tracks, and judging seats.
• Coordinate with our Developer Advocates on workshops, office hours, starter templates, and judging at sponsored events.
• Design and run our internship and local impact program covering STEM education, nonprofit technology support, scholarships, and mentorship.
• Build SerpApi's presence in the Austin tech community through meetups, user groups, coworking partnerships, and local developer events.
• Own the local events and sponsorships budget, tracking spend against plan and reporting on what each event actually produced.
• Publish an annual recap of our local community investment, the way we already publish our open source sponsorship recap.

Requirements

• 3–6 years running events, field marketing, community programs, or sponsorships, ideally some of it in - B2B technology or developer-facing work.
• Demonstrated ownership of a budget, including vendor negotiation and reconciling spend against outcomes.
• Strong written communication. We are an async, written-first company and most of your coordination will happen in text.
• Comfort with event logistics under deadline: contracts, headcount, floor plans, and whatever breaks the morning of.
• Enough technical literacy to explain what an API does and why a developer should care as well as enough understanding to explain it to a non-technical partner.
• Based in Austin and able to work on-site, with occasional evenings and weekends around events and some driving within Central Texas.

Preferred

• Existing relationships in the Austin technology, university, or nonprofit community.
• Experience sponsoring or organizing hackathons.
• Familiarity with open source community norms and sponsorship etiquette.
• Hands-on experience with event tooling, lead capture, and CRM hygiene, plus basic design in Figma or Canva.
• A background that makes you good at hosting people, such as hospitality, conference production, university programming, or theater.