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# Field Marketing Manager at Starburst

- **Company:** Starburst
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Compensation:** $107k–$137k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst/jobs/5392581008

## Job description

## About Starburst

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at [starburst.ai](http://starburst.ai).

## About the role

The Field Marketing Manager will be responsible for supporting and executing Field Marketing events and programs for both prospects and customers to support business growth.  This role will support the creation and execution of customer and prospect programs geared toward executive decision-makers and curated executive-level field marketing events with a focus on pipeline generation. The role will support tactical items that align with the Regional Sales Leadership, Regional Sales teams, as well as Marketing leadership. The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate and execute while maintaining a metric-driven success criteria and approach.

As a Field Marketing Manager at Starburst you will:

- Support the planning and execution of field marketing programs and events that align with Starburst’s broader marketing and sales objectives, ensuring flawless logistics, strong cross-team collaboration, and impactful experiences that help generate pipeline and strengthen customer relationships.
- Plan and execute field marketing programs that support regional pipeline goals.
- Partner with sales to identify priorities, target accounts, and event opportunities.
- Manage in-person and virtual events, roundtables, sponsorships, and customer programs.
- Collaborate with partner marketing, product marketing, and content teams on campaign execution.
- Track program performance, report results, and recommend optimizations.
- Own event logistics, budgets, timelines, and vendor coordination.
- Support sales enablement with event descriptions, talking points, and follow-up materials.

Some of the things we look for:

- 3+ years of experience in field marketing, demand generation, or related B2B marketing roles.
- Strong project management and event execution skills.
- Ability to collaborate across sales, marketing, and external partners.
- Experience with pipeline-focused marketing programs and performance reporting.
- Willingness to travel for field events.
- Highly detail-oriented and creative, thriving in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
- Passionate about creative thinking and experiential event planning, with a focus on delivering memorable, measurable, and impactful experiences.
- Experience in B2B software, data, or infrastructure marketing.
- Familiarity with Salesforce, marketing automation tools, and event platforms.
- Experience supporting regional or partner-led programs.

Where could this role be based?

- Boston, MA

Starburst is dedicated to maintaining fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided for this role reflects the minimum and maximum targets for candidates across all U.S. locations and could be inclusive of variable compensation, such as commission or bonus. All employees receive equity packages (ISOs) and have access to a comprehensive benefits offering. Actual compensation packages are determined based on relevant skills, experience, education and training, and specific work location. For more information, connect with the recruiting team or Hiring Manager during the process as they can provide more detailed information about the salary range.

Pay Range $107,000—$137,000 USD

Build your career at Starburst

All-Stars have the opportunity and freedom to realize their true potential. By building alongside top talent, we’re empowered to take ownership of our careers and drive meaningful change. Anchored in industry-proven technology and unprecedented success, All-Stars are taking on the challenge everyday to disrupt our industry –  and the future.

Our global workforce is supported by a competitive Total Rewards program that reflects our commitment to a rewarding and supportive work environment. This includes a variety of benefits like competitive pay, attractive stock grants, flexible paid time off, and more.

We are committed to fostering an intentional, inclusive, and diverse culture that drives deep engagement, authentic belonging, and an exceptional All-Star experience. We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, background and experience will enable us to own what we do, drive our success and empower our All-Stars to show up authentically.

Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

## About Starburst

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Starburst provides an enterprise data platform built on Trino that enables federated analytics, data lakehouse capabilities, and governed access to data across clouds, warehouses, and SaaS sources without requiring data movement.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, specific funding round not disclosed in available sources)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with major offices in San Francisco, London, Warsaw, and Tel Aviv)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Justin Borgman, Martin Traverso, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski (co-creators of the Trino open-source query engine)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise data analytics, data infrastructure, and lakehouse platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B, Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-market organizations, and startups across 60+ countries
- **Mission**: To free our customers from the tyranny of data lock-in by providing a flexible, open data stack that unifies distributed data without costly migrations.

## Products & Services
- **[Starburst Galaxy](https://www.starburst.io/)**: Fully managed, usage-based SaaS version of the Starburst platform. Enables federated query across 50+ connectors (Amazon S3, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL, etc.), built-in governance, workload isolation, and AI/BI integration (including natural language queries via AIDA and MCP endpoints).
- **[Starburst Enterprise](https://www.starburst.io/)**: Self-hosted, enterprise-grade deployment on-premises or in hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Includes all Galaxy features plus advanced security controls and support for Apache Iceberg optimization (“Icehouse”).
- **Data Products**: Governed, reusable data assets that package data with business context, ownership, access policies, and quality expectations for both human analysts and AI agents.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Trusted by more than 250 leading organizations across 60+ countries ([starburst.io](https://www.starburst.io/about/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in available search results; the company has previously announced funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and others (not cited in provided sources)
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for 23 open roles across engineering, product, sales, and support; offices in five major tech hubs; expanding AI capabilities with AIDA (AI-driven data assistant) and MCP query endpoints for agentic workflows; incremental adoption of open formats (Iceberg) without replatforming

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source foundation**: Built on Trino (formerly PrestoDB), the leading open-source SQL query engine, avoiding vendor lock-in.
- **Federated architecture**: Query data in place across multiple systems without moving or copying data, reducing costs and complexity.
- **Iceberg optimization**: Native support for Apache Iceberg with workload isolation and performance tuning (“Icehouse”), enabling modern lakehouse patterns.
- **Unified governance**: Enforce security, access controls, and business context (definitions, policies) across all data and queries, including those made by AI agents.
- **Scalable performance**: 7.3x cost savings, 3.2x faster analytics, and 50+ connectors cited on the homepage ([starburst.io](https://www.starburst.io/))

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Enabling governed, trusted data access for AI agents (e.g., via MCP query endpoints); developing natural-language query capabilities (AIDA).
- **Open lakehouse adoption**: Helping enterprises migrate incrementally to open table formats (Iceberg) without full replatforming.
- **Context layer**: Organizing business definitions, metadata, and data products as code so every team and AI system works from the same trusted context.
- **Global expansion**: Building out teams in India (new Engineering Site Lead role) and strengthening presence in EMEA and LATAM.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: “Working remotely, but more connected than ever” with flexible remote work opportunities; offices in Boston, San Francisco, London, Warsaw, and Tel Aviv for those who prefer in-person collaboration ([starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)).
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Equity ownership, competitive compensation, comprehensive health insurance, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance programs ([starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)).
- **Diverse and inclusive**: Commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace; annually published diversity data (e.g., female representation) ([starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)).
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on Trino, a widely adopted open-source project; roles span Trino engine development, benchmark infrastructure, access control, connectors, and AI/ML products; strong emphasis on innovation and impact ([greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst)).
- **Growth opportunity**: 23 active openings across multiple departments, including senior engineering management in India and Poland, product management, enterprise sales, and professional services.

## Sources
1. [starburst.io](https://www.starburst.io/)
2. [starburst.io/about/](https://www.starburst.io/about/)
3. [starburst.io/careers/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst)
5. [starburst.io/careers/open-roles/](https://www.starburst.io/careers/open-roles/)

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