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title: 'Events & Operations Specialist at Zilliz'
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# Events & Operations Specialist at Zilliz

- **Company:** Zilliz
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zilliz/8ee524d3-6588-43df-8b58-40bc80e273d0

## Job description

## About Zilliz

Zilliz is building the next generation of data infrastructure for AI. Founded in 2017 by the creators of Milvus, one of the world's most popular open-source vector databases, we help developers and enterprises build, deploy, and scale AI-powered applications, from semantic search and RAG to emerging agentic AI workloads.

Backed by $113 million in funding from leading global investors, Zilliz has established a strong presence in the AI infrastructure market. Milvus has earned over 46,000 GitHub stars, and our technology has reached more than 10,000 enterprise users worldwide. Companies including OpenEvidence, Exa, and Filevine rely on Zilliz Cloud to power their AI applications.

Building on our roots in vector database technology, we're expanding Zilliz Cloud into a broader AI data platform with Zilliz Vector Lakebase. As AI continues to reshape how applications are built and how data is used, we're focused on making the underlying infrastructure more powerful, scalable, and accessible to organizations worldwide.

## About the Role

We're looking for an Events & Operations Specialist to help plan and execute Zilliz's marketing and community events, while also supporting selected internal operations.

You'll work closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Developer Relations teams to coordinate everything from developer meetups and customer events to industry conferences and trade shows. This is a hands-on role that involves working with both internal teams and external partners to keep projects organized and events running smoothly.

We're looking for someone who's organized, dependable, and comfortable taking initiative. You should enjoy working with different people, solving problems as they come up, and finding ways to improve how things get done. Events will be your primary focus, with a smaller portion of the role dedicated to internal operational and administrative support.

## What You'll Do

Events & Marketing Support

- Coordinate the planning and execution of developer meetups, community gatherings, sales events, conferences, and trade shows, primarily across North America and Europe.
- Manage event logistics, including registration, attendee communications, venue arrangements, vendors, materials, and on-site coordination.
- Work with Marketing, Sales, and DevRel teams to understand event objectives, coordinate resources, and ensure activities are delivered on schedule.
- Maintain event timelines, budgets, and task lists, follow up with stakeholders, and address issues that could affect execution.
- Coordinate with external vendors, venues, speakers, and partners throughout the event planning process.
- Contribute ideas to improve event formats, attendee engagement, and the overall event experience.
- Support post-event activities, including attendee follow-ups, lead coordination, feedback collection, and basic performance reporting.

Internal Operations & Administrative Support

- Assist with day-to-day operational and administrative tasks.
- Help coordinate internal meetings, team activities, and other operational needs as they arise.
- Support improvements to internal processes and team coordination where needed.

## What We're Looking For

- At least 2 years of relevant professional experience in event marketing, event coordination, operations, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience organizing events or managing projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage competing priorities and follow through on commitments.
- A proactive approach to work, with the ability to identify problems, take initiative, and move projects forward with limited supervision.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with experience coordinating across internal teams and working with external vendors or partners.
- Comfortable working in a startup environment where priorities can change and processes may not always be clearly defined.
- A practical, resourceful approach to problem-solving, along with the willingness to contribute new ideas and take on different types of work.
- Willingness to travel domestically and occasionally internationally to support events.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with developer meetups, technical community events, or B2B technology conferences.
- Familiarity with developer communities, open-source technologies, AI, or data infrastructure.
- Experience working in a startup or fast-growing technology company.
- Familiarity with event management, project management, or marketing tools.

## Benefits

Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees and eligible family members. Unlimited PTO: Flexible paid time off to rest, recharge, and take care of personal needs. Competitive Compensation and Equity: Competitive cash compensation and long-term incentive opportunities, including stock options. 401(k) with Company Match: Retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions. Zilliz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

## About Zilliz

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zilliz builds the world’s most popular open-source vector database, Milvus, and offers a fully managed Vector Lakebase to power enterprise AI applications at any scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $113M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Charles Xie (CEO) and James Luan (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Vector database management, AI infrastructure, software development
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise (10,000+ enterprise users)
- **Mission**: To make vector database capabilities accessible to every developer and organization, helping them harness unstructured data for AI/ML applications.

## Products & Services
- **[Milvus (Open-Source Vector Database)](https://zilliz.com/about)**: The leading open-source vector database, originally created by Zilliz and hosted under LF AI. Enables billion-scale similarity search, hybrid retrieval (vector, text, JSON, geospatial), and is production-tested across thousands of enterprises.
- **[Zilliz Vector Lakebase](https://zilliz.com/)**: A fully managed cloud service built on Milvus that unifies real-time vector search, lake-scale discovery, and AI data operations. Features include on-demand pay-per-query pricing, hot-cache on S3 for 90% cost reduction, multi-tenancy, and seamless backfill/schema iteration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $113 million; annual revenue estimated at $2.2 million (as of latest report)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A led by 5Y Capital (2018); Series B led by Hillhouse Investment ($43M, 2020); Series B extension led by Prosperity7 Ventures ($60M, 2022)
- **Growth Signals**: 91 employees (8.9% YoY growth); 25,000+ LinkedIn followers (100% yearly growth); 10 active job postings (42.9% increase YoY); offices in Redwood City, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, Singapore

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source ecosystem**: Milvus is the most widely adopted open-source vector database, with a strong community and 10,000+ enterprise users.
- **Proven at scale**: Production-tested over 8 years, handling 100B+ entities and 10K+ QPS with consistent latency.
- **Cost efficiency**: All data/indexes stored on S3 with hot cache; on-demand compute reduces costs by up to 90%.
- **Full-spectrum search**: Supports hybrid retrieval combining vector, text, JSON, and geospatial queries with filtering and reranking.
- **Vortex format**: An open, next-gen storage format that delivers up to 10x faster random reads than Lance, with per-column flexibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise AI adoption**: Expanding the Vector Lakebase to serve massive multi-tenancy, global replication, and low-latency access for AI applications.
- **Global expansion**: Multi-region deployment and offices across the US, Europe, and Asia to support worldwide AI scaling.
- **Continuous innovation**: Investing in research (vector index research roles) and cloud platform reliability to maintain leadership in vector database technology.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Deep technical culture built by the creators of Milvus; engineers and scientists focused on advancing AI and data infrastructure.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote opportunities available; offices in Redwood City, New York, Shanghai, London, Berlin, and Singapore.
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation (cash + equity), regular bonus and equity refresh, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, generous PTO, 401(k) and regional retirement plans, and paid sick leave.
- **Engineering culture**: Work on cutting-edge technology at the intersection of databases and AI, with opportunities to contribute to open source and solve real-world scale challenges.

## Sources
1. [zilliz.com/careers](https://zilliz.com/careers) – Benefits, hybrid work model, company mission
2. [zilliz.com/about](https://zilliz.com/about) – Founding story, leadership, locations, investment, enterprise users
3. [zilliz.com](https://zilliz.com/) – Product details (Vector Lakebase, features, cost savings, scale)
4. [cr.linkedin.com/company/zilliz](https://cr.linkedin.com/company/zilliz) – Employee count, revenue, funding rounds, job postings, demographics
5. [theconsensus.dev/company/zilliz.html](https://theconsensus.dev/company/zilliz.html) – Funding history, job openings

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