Sr. Manager - Partner Education and Events

Hi, I’m Kat, Ashby’s Head of Partnerships. If you’re someone who finds joy in crafting incredible experiences that bring the right people together in the right settings—and you thrive in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment—I’d love to meet you.

At Ashby, we believe that when you pair a great product (you can see what our customers have to say here) with thoughtfully designed education and events, magic happens. We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Partner Education & Events to help us scale our partner education efforts, build engaging training experiences, and execute thoughtful, curated events that drive real impact with our community sponsors.

If you’ve run enablement programs or events before, you already know this isn’t just about booking venues and organizing logistics (though, yes, that’s part of it). It’s about understanding our audience, designing compelling learning and networking experiences, and ensuring every event ties directly to business outcomes. That said, we also know that event experience isn’t the only path to success in this role. We highly value backgrounds in Talent Acquisition, teaching, and experiential marketing, and if you bring a fresh perspective from one of those worlds and want to build a truly community oriented education and event program – this might be your dream role.

What this role looks like

Over the next 12 months, you’ll be responsible for:

1. Partner education & training

• Developing a certification program and training for our Ashby Experts, including ongoing community management to ensure they are well-equipped to advocate for, and implement Ashby successfully.

• Designing and running structured learning programs, including workshops and knowledge-sharing initiatives for our broader partner ecosystem.

• Working with the community team to bring more of our digital experiences into the real world, ensuring that the events we create foster deeper relationships and create tangible moments for our audience to engage with Ashby.

2. Partnerships & Sponsored Events

• Working with me, Willem, and Shannon (Community Leads) to evaluate sponsorship opportunities, decide where Ashby should show up, and ensure we get maximum value from our presence.

• Building out playbooks that make it easier to execute high-impact sponsorship activations.

3. Community & Conference Events

• Designing and executing monthly community events—breakfast workshops, dinners, cocktail events—that provide high-value networking and learning opportunities.

• Owning our conference strategy—evaluating which industry events we should attend, sponsor, and how we should activate around them.

You will probably love this role if…

• You’re ambitious and eager to level up your skills. You’ll be working with a small but highly competent team, where everyone is committed to being excellent at what they do. We have amazing experts internally, and if you’re hungry to grow within a world-class marketing team, this is a fantastic opportunity to stretch yourself.

• You’ve tackled projects with a lot of ambiguity and know how to create structure and drive progress.

• You seek leverage in your work—meaning you don’t just get things done, but also build repeatable processes, playbooks, and automation to make execution smoother over time.

• You are deeply curious and good at thinking about problems from first principle. We do a lot of things differently at Ashby and having the flexibility and curiosity to understand why (and apply those principles is critical to being successful).

• You’re business-minded and confident negotiating contracts. You’ll be responsible for evaluating conference sponsorships, managing budgets, and ensuring a positive return on investment.

This role is not a fit if…

• You don’t want to travel. While we share travel responsibilities across the team, this role will require at least monthly travel—especially in the first few months.

• You’re looking to only do the “fun” work. This role covers everything from event and content strategy to booking restaurants, managing vendors, building slides, and ensuring name badges are printed correctly.

• You lack curiosity and want to revert to part playbooks vs. thinking from first principle and embracing the Marketing Teams strategy.

• You aren’t comfortable in spreadsheets or working with lists. You will own a qualified demo and pipeline acceleration target, building and uploading your own lists, and tracking performance in Hubspot and Dreamdata. You’ll have support from Marketing Ops but will also own a lot of this yourself.

Interview Process

At Ashby, we design our interview process to help you show your best self. Here’s what to expect:

1. 30-minute intro call – an introductory chat with Anna to learn more about the role and share a bit about your experience and how you’d want to approach this role.

2. 45-minute interview with me (Kat, Hiring Manager) – We’ll dive into past projects and discuss your approach to events.

3. Simulation Assignment – We will run a 30 minute live working session that will have a take-home component. The goal of this is both for you to get a sense of what it would be like working together and to get a sense of your work quality.

4. Virtual Onsite (2 hours, 15 min) – You’ll meet with marketing, sales, and leadership team members to assess alignment and collaboration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.

• 10-year stock option exercise window. No pressure to buy your options until it financially makes sense for you.

• Unlimited PTO with a strong culture of actually taking time off.

• 12 weeks of fully paid family leave (US).

• Generous budget for equipment, software, and office setup.

• $100/month learning budget, with conferences covered with manager approval.

• Top-tier health insurance for US employees (100% premium covered).Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We’re being deliberate about building that environment from the ground up. I hope that excites you enough to apply.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.