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Events Marketing Manager, EMEA

Customer.io

Fully Remote
EMEA Remote
EMEA
SA / EMEA hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Customer.io is open across the EMEA region, which includes South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

<h3>About <a href="http://customer.io/">Customer.io</a></h3>
<p>Over 9,000 companies — from scrappy startups to global brands — use our platform to send billions of emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS every day. <a href="http://Customer.io">Customer.io</a> powers automated communication that people actually want to receive. We help teams send smarter, more relevant messages using real-time behavioral data.</p>
<h3>About the role</h3>
<p>Hi, my name is Rosie, Events Team Manager here at <a href="http://customer.io/">Customer.io</a>, and I am looking for an Events Marketing Manager to own our in-person events across EMEA. You'll lead live field events, hosted customer and prospect experiences, and sponsored conferences across the region, and run our monthly EMEA webinar. You'll partner closely with Demand Gen, Content, Design, Partnerships, and EMEA Sales to create events that feel polished, thoughtful, and unmistakably "us" - tailored to EMEA markets rather than a copy-paste of NA programming. You'll ramp alongside our Events Manager, who currently supports the region, and take full ownership of EMEA within your first 90 days.</p>
<p><strong>This role includes 15%+ travel for EMEA field events, conferences, and onsite support.</strong></p>
<h3>What we value</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Human-centered experiences.</strong> You create events that feel thoughtful, relevant, and genuinely useful - built for EMEA audiences.</li>
<li><strong>Collaborative energy.</strong> You work smoothly across teams and time zones, and make alignment feel easy.</li>
<li><strong>Insight-driven decisions.</strong> You let data guide you while keeping the attendee experience at the center.</li>
<li><strong>Action with intention.</strong> You move quickly, adapt gracefully, and learn from every event.</li>
<li><strong>Operational clarity.</strong> You bring structure, calm, and consistency to fast-moving, cross-market work.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What you’ll do</h3>
<p><strong>Event planning &amp; coordination</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Own and manage the EMEA in-person events calendar - field events, hosted experiences, sponsored conferences, and activations across the region</li>
<li>Partner with the Events Team and Demand Gen to define goals, audiences, formats, and success metrics specific to EMEA markets</li>
<li>Evaluate EMEA sponsorships, speaking slots, and event formats against goals</li>
<li>Work closely with cross-functional partners to ensure every event feels cohesive with global campaigns while staying relevant to EMEA audiences</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Execution &amp; project management</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Manage day-to-day logistics: vendor coordination, timelines, run-of-show, speaker prep, and on-the-ground support for EMEA events</li>
<li>Partner with Content, Brand, Product Marketing, and Sales to develop compelling event assets and presentations</li>
<li>Oversee registration flows, pre-event communication, and the attendee experience from first touch to follow-up</li>
<li>Step in wherever needed to keep events running smoothly, calmly, and on-brand</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>EMEA webinars (about one per month)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Run our monthly EMEA webinar end to end - topic and speaker selection, registration, promotion, and follow-up - timed and localized for a European audience</li>
<li>Partner with Content and Product Marketing to adapt or build webinar content that lands with EMEA audiences</li>
<li>Build and optimize registration pages, forms, and workflows for EMEA campaigns</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Audience growth &amp; promotion</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Execute multi-channel promotional plans across email, social, and partner channels for EMEA audiences</li>
<li>Collaborate with Demand Gen, Marketing Ops &amp; Sales to ensure EMEA lead capture, routing, and follow-up happen correctly and quickly</li>
<li>Manage attendee communication throughout the event lifecycle</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Performance &amp; optimization</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Track EMEA event performance - pipeline, revenue, deal acceleration, and event engagement</li>
<li>Share insights and recommendations to continually improve ROI and attendee experience across the region</li>
<li>Maintain documentation, templates, and repeatable workflows that make running EMEA events smoother and more scalable</li>
<li>Partner with ops to ensure clean attribution and accurate reporting across systems</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What success looks like</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Regional ownership:</strong> EMEA events and webinars run smoothly, predictably, and feel built for the region</li>
<li><strong>Engagement growth:</strong> Attendance and engagement steadily increase across EMEA field events and webinars</li>
<li><strong>Sales alignment:</strong> EMEA Sales and Marketing feel tightly connected and supported by event-driven pipeline</li>
<li><strong>Sharper insights:</strong> You surface insights that help the program get sharper, smarter, and more efficient o

Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Customer.io

Customer.io is a company in the Business Operations industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 8 open positions on Hirezar. View all Customer.io jobs →