# Client Success & Events Manager **Company:** [Nowadays](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/nowadays) **Location:** San Francisco, CA, US **Work mode:** On-site **Employment type:** Full Time **Salary:** USD 90K–130K/yr **Category:** Marketing **Department:** Operations **Listed:** 2026-11-14 [View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/nowadays/client-success-events-manager-122840) ## Job description ### **☀️ About Nowadays** We're building the future of in-person connection, from intimate exec offsites to conference-level company events. Nowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate event planning. We combine a 400K+ venue database, automated RFPs, and AI-driven venue outreach with a team that runs events end to end for some of the fastest-growing companies in tech. We're YC-backed, IATA-certified, and book millions in events every year. We move fast and care a lot about the client experience. ### **👥 Who we are** We're a sister-founded team based in San Francisco. We move fast, care deeply, and love bringing people together (whether it's a strategic offsite or a Friendsgiving in our Nowadays home). **We believe the best teams:** - Take ownership - Keep things scrappy - Celebrate wins (big and small) - Genuinely enjoy working (+ hanging out) together ### **🎯 What this role is** As our Client Success & Events Manager, you'll own events end to end for high-profile tech clients, from kickoff to final budget reconciliation, and turn what you learn into automation. You'll sit at the intersection of clients, ops, and our product/engineering team. Roughly 70% running events and client relationships, 30% building for scale: spotting manual steps in our workflow and partnering with engineering to automate them. This is a hands-on role for someone who loves the craft of a great event and gets equally excited about never doing the same task twice. ### **💼 What you'll do** **70% of your time will focus on planning and running events** - Deliver white-glove, end-to-end planning for high-profile tech clients: offsites, retreats, conferences, and dinners for 20 to 2,400+ attendees - Own pre-planning once the venue is booked: turn the client's vision into a detailed plan and drive it to a flawless event day - Source and manage vendors across activities, transportation, F&B, AV, branding and signage, gifting, and DMCs, using the Nowadays platform to move fast - Own the planning deliverables and hit every deadline: workback schedule, weekly client sync + recap, rooming list, transport manifest, run of show, comms calendar, vendor payments (as payer of record), and budget reconciliation - Be the trusted point of contact for client stakeholders, from executive assistants to people teams to founders - Lead site visits and travel onsite to make sure events go off without a hitch - Triage what's urgent vs. what can wait, and keep clients informed without being asked - Proactively see what needs to happen next and execute it, with no nudging from the client required **The remaining 30% of your time will focus on turning manual work into automation** - Map how events actually get done today and find the steps that slow us down - Write clear requirements and tickets for product/engineering, then test what ships - Build playbooks, templates, and SOPs that the team can run without you - Use AI tools to automate repetitive work yourself: vendor follow-ups, client updates, deadline reminders - Bring client feedback into the product roadmap ### **🥇 What we're looking for** - 3–6 years of corporate event planning experience, ideally at a tech company, startup, agency, or DMC - You've owned events end to end, including vendor management, budgets, and onsite execution - Client-obsessed: you're calm under pressure and willing to flex for nights and weekends when an event needs it - Highly organized with sharp attention to detail: you catch the wrong date in a contract before anyone else - Clear, warm written communication with clients, vendors, and teammates - Fast, reliable responsiveness: you reply to clients within hours, not days, and keep threads moving - Hands-on experience using AI and automation tools (Claude, Zapier, Airtable, or similar) to replace manual work with repeatable processes - A systems thinker who notices when something is done manually three times and wants to fix it - Comfortable working in an ambiguous, fast-moving startup environment ### **⭐ Strongly preferred** - Events/Hospitality background ### **✨ Bonus points** - Writing tickets in Linear or Jira, or working closely with engineers ### **🤝 How you'll operate** A few of our values that matter most in this role: - **Unreasonable Hospitality:** Getting the details right is service; how you make people feel is hospitality. You go further than anyone expects to delight our customers, from the first call to the last guest's ride home. - **Customer's Best Friend:** You listen first and dig into what the client actually needs before reaching for a solution. - **Extreme Ownership:** You own your events and your clients. You don't wait to be told what to do, and when something goes wrong, you fix it. - **Growth Mindset:** You try new AI tools before anyone asks, and you're always looking for a better way to do the work. ### **📝 The details** **Compensation** $90K–$130K base + 0.2%–0.5% equity (depending on experience) **Location** In-person in San Francisco **Perks** - Free lunch + dinner in the office - Quarterly team offsites and access to amazing venues - Monthly fitness stipend - Health insurance - 12 weeks paid parental leave - 20 days PTO - Direct access to the founders and real ownership from day one **How to apply** Apply through the form on our careers page. Tell us about an event you're proud of, and one process you'd automate if you could. ## Other open roles at Nowadays - [Forward-Deployed Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/nowadays/forward-deployed-engineer-117421) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding Software Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/nowadays/founding-software-engineer-87719) — San Francisco, CA, US - [Member of Technical Staff](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/nowadays/founding-product-engineer-87949) — San Francisco, CA, US - [Founding AI Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/nowadays/founding-ai-engineer-87950) — San Francisco, CA, US - [Account Executive](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/nowadays/founding-account-executive-87720) — San Francisco, CA, US --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*