Events and Field Marketing Manager

About inquirED

inquirED supports teachers with high-quality instructional materials that make joyful, rigorous, and transferable learning possible for every student. Inkwell, our elementary core ELA and social studies curriculum, fully integrates both subjects into one coherent instructional block, building deeper knowledge, comprehension, and literacy skills. Inquiry Journeys, our K–5 social studies curriculum, is used nationwide to help students develop the content knowledge and inquiry skills essential for a thriving democracy. Great First Eight Pre-K/TK, co-designed by Dr. Nell K. Duke, is a research-based curriculum that builds early literacy, math, and other key areas of development through purposeful, play-based learning.

About the role

Description

As our Events & Field Marketing Manager, you'll own the management of every inquirED event and conference from start to finish. That includes every conference we attend, plus our happy hours, dinners, customer events, and the Social Studies Leadership Symposium.

We're launching Inkwell and Great First Eight alongside Inquiry Journeys, and events are one of the most important ways to reach district leaders. We're looking for a scrappy, detail-obsessed builder who figures out what they don't know and is excited to help us create momentum with events.

In this role you will:

• Own every conference inquirED attends, plus our hosted events and Symposium. 
• Manage one calendar and budget. 
• Recommend which events to do, cut, or add based on results.
• Build invite lists with Sales, write event copy, and run invites and RSVPs.
• Plan booths, receptions, dinners, and speaker moments, so district leaders leave with a strong impression of inquirED.
• Own sponsorships, event briefs, creative deadlines, shipping, booth staffing, internal comms, and vendor payments.
• Collaborate with Sales on post-event strategy, ensuring a smooth and speedy hand-off, and execute marketing action items.
• Recap each event within two weeks: cost, meetings, opportunities, and what to change.
• Travel to events for on-site execution, with heavier travel during fall and spring conference seasons.

Requirements

• 3–5 years running B2B or education events, including trade shows and hosted events
• Experience managing an events budget and negotiating with venues and vendors
• Comfort working with Sales and assuring they follow-up without formal authority
• HubSpot or similar CRM experience, including lead capture and list building
• K–12 or EdTech experience is a plus, not required
• Strong project management skills and a record of coordinating contributors and meeting overlapping deadlines.

Why Work For Us

• Health & 401K: Employee-covered health care and retirement match
• Flexible PTO & Company Closures: Flexible PTO and 12+ observed days off.
• Chances to Connect: Biannual company retreats and optional local meetups 
• Remote Opportunities:  Most positions are remote, supporting work-from-home flexibility  
• Perks and Stipend: Technology package provided, plus a home office stipend
• Learning and Development: Educational and development opportunities, monthly Brunch and Learns, and more!

The base compensation range for this role is $97,750-132,250. Total compensation for this role also includes a full benefits package. This compensation range and title may be adjusted based on actual experience.

*Please note that because of high application volume, we are only able to respond to applicants moving forward in the process.

Must be U.S. based.