Events Manager

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture.  We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. 

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. 

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have

As Events Manager at Sonar, you’ll chart the course for all things events in America—we’re not just talking 10x10s at external tradeshows, but also tabletops at regional, public sector, and partner events. You’ll flex your creativity muscles and source cool venues, formats, content, and speakers for Sonar-hosted events like workshops, roundtables, and dinners. You will be the marketing presence in the field, the ambassador for Sonar when face-to-face with customers and prospects.

 You will also help coordinate regional webinars and virtual events, and help the sales team nurture relationships with our customers all over the country.  You’ll work closely with product management, sales, demand generation, and other cross-functional teams to create and continually optimize our presence in the field.

As Events Manager, you are a master problem-solver and you thrive in situations where you can make game-day decisions, pivot when necessary, and solve any problem that comes your way. You’ll play many roles, learn new things, and explore your natural curiosity.

• Manage the America events plan, including researching events to attend, negotiating sponsorships, managing budget, coordinating staffing, and ensuring adequate followup post-event.  
• Design and implement Sonar’s presence at 15-25 industry events each year to help Sonar become an indispensable element of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by meeting with customers, generating net new leads, and increasing brand awareness.
• Plan and execute company-hosted events that bring together our customer, prospect, and partner community.
• Maximize Sonar speaking opportunities by developing a calendar of potential opportunities, tracking call for proposal deadlines, developing talk ideas with staff, and submitting abstracts.
• Support the marketing relationship and communication with our partners including co-sponsorship and promotion opportunities, content sharing, partner newsletter, and website listing.
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including sponsors, partners, and vendors.
• Help plan and manage webinars and virtual events.

• 3-5 years experience managing trade shows and smaller field events, ideally for a B2B technology company.
• Experience with contract negotiations and managing multiple vendors.
• Demonstrated success developing creative event strategies that drive leads and positively impact the company brand
• Excellent writing and editing skills
• Experience project-managing complex events with multiple stakeholders
• Working with software developers
• Adaptability and flexibility working in a dynamic space with Agile principles.
• A hunger to learn new technologies, develop new skills, and thrive in a highly collaborative and feedback-based environment.
• A team player with a can-do attitude who actively shares knowledge to elevate the team.
• Exceptional communication skills with fluency in English, both written and spoken.

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package that is 90% paid by the company.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations.
• We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US. 

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.