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title: 'Events Lead at Factory'
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# Events Lead at Factory

- **Company:** Factory
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/factory/fe1169dd-d6a5-412c-a887-ba0781d36a8e

## Job description

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Factory is hiring an Events Lead to build and lead the events function.

You will not inherit a fully built team or playbook - you will define Factory's events strategy, build and lead the team, and own the full portfolio of programs: flagship experiences such as user conferences, Sales Kickoff, President's Club, and Tier-1 conferences like AWS re:Invent, alongside field marketing.

You will own the events strategy, global budget, operating rhythm, standards, and measurement, partnering closely with Marketing, Sales Enablement and Executive Leadership to ensure every program strengthens Factory's brand and drives measurable business outcomes.

This role is both strategic and hands-on. You will set the vision, build the organization, and define how Factory shows up through events - while staying close enough to execution to guarantee the most important programs are delivered at an exceptional standard. Over time, you will hire and scale the team needed to support Factory's growth.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO AND ACHIEVE

- Own Factory's overall flagship events strategy and portfolio, defining how Factory shows up through events so every program strengthens the brand and drives measurable business outcomes.
- Build, hire, lead, and develop the events team.
- Own and allocate the global events budget across the portfolio, including forecasting, prioritization, reconciliation, and ROI.
- Set the annual events calendar and planning process across flagship programs and conferences.
- Define and own the events operating model - standards, playbooks, production quality bar, and measurement frameworks - across the entire events organization.
- Own portfolio-level agency and vendor relationships, including MSAs.
- Provide executive oversight of flagship programs such as user conferences, SKO, President's Club, and Tier-1 conferences (eg: AWS re:Invent), ensuring executive-level quality and impact.
- Partner cross-functionally across Marketing, Brand, Sales Enablement, People, Finance, Legal, and Executive Leadership.
- Champion the Factory voice across the entire events portfolio.

## QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience building and leading an events function at a high-growth company, including hiring, managing, and developing high-performing teams.
- Proven track record owning a portfolio of flagship programs (eg, SKO, President's Club, user conferences, Tier-1 industry conferences), managing multiple concurrent programs and stakeholders.
- Experience owning large, multimillion-dollar events budgets, including allocation across programs, forecasting, and ROI measurement.
- Strong track record aligning events to pipeline, revenue, and company priorities in close partnership with Sales and Marketing leadership.
- Experience negotiating and managing agencies, production companies, venues, and strategic vendors at scale.
- Excellent leadership, cross-functional influence, and executive communication skills.
- Comfort with event and marketing tools such as Salesforce, event management platforms, and registration tools.
- Willingness to travel for onsite production and execution of flagship events.

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY (in office), or Remote

This role requires significant travel for onsite production and execution of flagship events.

## About Factory

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Factory is an AI research lab building autonomous software development agents ("Droids") to automate and optimize the entire software development lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Matan Grinberg (CEO & Co-Founder), Eno Reyes (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Autonomous Agents
- Target customers: Enterprise engineering organizations (B2B)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering"

## Products & Services
- **[Droid]**: An autonomous software development agent that performs real engineering work across IDEs, CLI, and CI/CD environments. Handles refactors, migrations, debugging, incident response, and feature development in large codebases. Operates through a model-agnostic architecture and supports long-running processes, structured planning, and verified outputs such as PRs and deployments.
- **[Factory Router]**: A product that automatically selects the right AI model for each coding task, cutting costs 20-25% while maintaining frontier model performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.5 billion (as of early 2026, per Series C announcement) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Total Funding**: $220M [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Latest Funding Round**: $150M Series C (raised ~2 months ago as of July 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Notable Investors**: Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, NEA, Abstract, MANTIS Venture Capital, 20VC [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2). Board members include AI veteran Lila Tretikov (NEA Partner) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2).
- **Notable Customers**: NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, EY, Palo Alto Networks, RBC, Revolut, Adobe, MongoDB [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
- **Notable Advisors**: Ali Ghodsi (CEO & Co-founder, Databricks), Aaron Levie (CEO, Box), Dev Ittycheria (CEO, MongoDB), Nikesh Arora (CEO, Palo Alto Networks), Frank Slootman (Former CEO, Snowflake), Michael Ovitz (Co-founder, CAA) [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/company)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid enterprise adoption moving beyond experimentation; appointed Marcello Gallo as CRO (formerly CRO at Sigma and Moveworks, senior sales leadership at MongoDB) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2); appointed Madison Faulkner as Head of Strategy [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2); Headcount growing rapidly (+4% monthly on LinkedIn) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/factory-hq)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Model-Agnostic Architecture**: Factory's Droids are not tied to a single AI model, allowing them to use the best model for each task and switch as the landscape evolves. The Factory Router product further optimizes cost and performance by intelligently routing tasks.
- **Deep Integration**: Agents work natively within existing developer tools (IDEs, CLI, CI/CD), meaning teams don't need to change their workflows to adopt Factory.
- **Enterprise-First Focus**: The company is building for large-scale engineering operations with production-grade reliability, security, and control, as evidenced by their customer list (NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, etc.).
- **Top-Tier Talent & Advisory**: The team hails from companies like Nuro, Glean, Applied Intuition, Scale AI, MongoDB, and Sourcegraph, and is advised by some of the most prominent leaders in enterprise software.
- **Strong Backing**: Backed by top-tier venture capital firms (Sequoia, Lux, NEA) with a $1.5B valuation, providing significant resources and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise Hyper-Growth**: Scaling go-to-market with the appointment of a seasoned CRO to drive adoption among large enterprises.
- **Agent-Native Development**: Championing the shift from AI-assisted coding to fully autonomous agents that own and execute complex engineering tasks.
- **Cost Optimization**: Products like Factory Router demonstrate a focus on making AI-powered development cost-effective at scale.
- **Platform Ownership**: Enabling enterprises to own their "software factory" with a flexible, model-agnostic platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The opportunity to "Build the tool you've always dreamed of using" and shape the next era of software engineering [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/).
- **Talent Density**: The company emphasizes being a "lean and talent-dense team" that values ownership and autonomy [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/).
- **On-Site Culture**: Employees work from physical offices five days a week, fostering deep collaboration. Offices are in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; and London, England [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/factory-factoryai).
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees; 401(k) and Flexible Savings Account; daily catered lunches and dinners; on-site gym; desk setup stipend [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/).
- **World-Class Team**: Opportunity to learn from and work alongside engineers from top AI and software companies (Nuro, Glean, Scale AI, MongoDB, etc.) and industry legends on the advisory board [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/company).
- **High-Growth Environment**: The company is in a hyper-growth phase with significant funding, a rapidly growing customer base, and a clear market need.

## Sources
1. [factory.ai](https://factory.ai/)
2. [factory.ai/company](https://factory.ai/company)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/factory-factoryai)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/factory-2)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/factory-hq)

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