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# Senior Manager, Field & Event Marketing at Zafran Security

- **Company:** Zafran Security
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zafran-security/7dcfdfc4-1cf7-4e41-8b8b-a8a89fbf8e2d

## Job description

Description:

You bring operational rigor and a talent for building creative, memorable experiences that make attendees stop in their tracks. Sales teams and vendors love working with you, and you know how to hold them to a high standard. You obsess over event lead and ROI metrics while knowing how to emotionally connect an audience to a brand.

If this describes you, keep reading.

About Zafran:

Our Mission: To stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.

What makes us different: Zafran de-risks 99% of critical vulnerabilities overnight across your hybrid environment and uses agentic capabilities alongside your existing security tools to rapidly mitigate and remediate the 1% most likely to be exploited.

Who's behind us: Zafran is backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We're one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world's most advanced, security-obsessed organizations.

We're serious about our mission, so expect work that matters, teammates who challenge and inspire you, and plenty of fun along the way!

What you will do:

- Set the field marketing strategy across multiple territories, aligning event investment with pipeline and revenue targets and building the frameworks the broader team uses to plan and execute.
- Own the full event lifecycle at a program and portfolio level, from strategy and planning through execution and post-event analysis, across virtual and in-person experiences.
- Partner directly with sales, marketing, and executive leadership to select, prioritize, and optimize the event portfolio, ensuring every program earns its place on the calendar.
- Own budget and pipeline targets across multiple regions, driving lead generation and revenue impact through disciplined forecasting, tracking, and optimization.
- Build and manage vendor and agency relationships at scale, negotiating contracts and setting the standard for cost efficiency and execution quality across all programs.
- Mentor and provide guidance to field marketers and coordinators, raising the bar for execution and building bench strength on the team.
- Report on portfolio performance to executive leadership, translating data into clear recommendations that shape future investment.
- Build the measurement frameworks and reporting cadence that let the company evaluate event ROI consistently, in partnership with analytics and operations.
- Champion best practices across field marketing, setting the standard for execution, experience quality, and accountability company-wide.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of B2B event and field marketing experience across in-person and virtual programs, including experience running a portfolio across multiple territories or regions.
- A track record of partnering with sales leadership, not just sales teams, to shape territory strategy and accelerate pipeline creation.
- Experience managing or mentoring other marketers, with the ability to build team capability alongside personal execution.
- A data-driven mindset with deep experience analyzing event performance and building measurement frameworks using CRM and marketing automation tools.
- A strong ownership mindset with accountability for results across a multi-region field marketing program.
- Ability to manage a large portfolio of programs, vendors, and stakeholders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to distill performance data into insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Experience marketing to technical or security audiences is a plus.
- Based in the time zone of your territory.
- Willingness to travel 30 to 40 percent as required to support regional events.
- Location: The greater Chicago area
- Office Structure: Hybrid/Remote
- Region: Great Lakes & Canada

At Zafran, people matter! We provide a robust benefits program that includes flexible PTO, health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision), a monthly stipend for phone and internet, 401k, flexible spending account, and a home office stipend when joining!

We also provide access to frontier AI models, including Claude, so every employee can work smarter, move faster, and build an AI-first career from day one.

At Zafran, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe the best teams are built by people who think differently, come from all kinds of backgrounds, and aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. We welcome everyone across race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, and veteran status, because what matters most is what you bring to the table.

If you’re curious, fun, and someone who gets things done, we’d love to meet you

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## About Zafran Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zafran Security provides an AI-native Threat Exposure Management platform that unifies vulnerability data, assesses exploitability in context, and automates mitigation and remediation using existing security controls.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States [linkedin.com]
- **Founded**: 2023 (inferred from initial seed funding in early 2024) [linkedin.com]
- **Founders**: Sanaz Yashar (CEO) and Ben Seri (CTO) [zafran.io/about]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (vulnerability / exposure management)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise security teams (Fortune 500 and high-growth companies) [zafran.io/platform]
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Proactively stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.” [zafran.io/about]

## Products & Services
- **Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform** (SaaS / agentic): End-to-end platform that unifies findings across cloud, on-prem, and AppSec; assesses risk using runtime presence, reachability, exploitability, asset criticality, and existing controls; enables proactive exposure hunting; provides mitigation guidance that leverages compensating controls; and automates remediation via RemOps (generative AI‑powered remediation operations). [zafran.io/platform]
- **Zafran Detector** (released Aug 2025): Continuous vulnerability discovery tool that supplements existing scanners. [linkedin.com]
- **Agentic Remediation™**: AI agents that research CVE conditions, validate exploitability on live assets, generate remediation scripts, and maintain human oversight with approval workflows. [zafran.io/platform]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $105.5M as of December 2025. Breakdown: Seed $5.5M (Mar 2024), Series B $40M (Sep 2024, led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts), Series C $60M (Dec 2025, led by Menlo Ventures). [linkedin.com]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (Doug Leone on board), Cyberstarts (Lior Simon on board), Menlo Ventures (Rama Sekhar on board), Amex Ventures (strategic investor in 2026). Included in Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program. [zafran.io/about, linkedin.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 132 employees (51% YoY growth, +58 people); 30 open positions as of mid‑2026; monthly job postings up 57.9% YoY; expansion across US, Israel, Germany, and UK. [linkedin.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native, context-aware analysis**: Applies each customer’s unique asset criticality, runtime presence, and existing control stack to determine which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable – eliminating up to 90% of critical false positives. [zafran.io/platform]
- **Leverages existing defenses**: Rather than demanding new agents or patch‑only fixes, Zafran maps exposures to compensating controls and provides step‑by‑step mitigation guidance, shrinking exposure windows before patching begins. [zafran.io/platform]
- **Closed‑loop automation**: Agentic Remediation and RemOps reduce manual triage, consolidate overlapping CVEs into single remediation actions, and route work automatically via ticketing integrations. [zafran.io/platform]
- **Founding team with breach‑response experience**: Co‑founders directly investigated breaches resulting from known vulnerabilities, giving the product a practitioner‑driven design. [zafran.io/about]

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the platform’s adoption among large enterprises** (Fortune 500) and expand the partner ecosystem.
- **Continue product innovation** – recent launches include the Zafran Detector and RemOps; ongoing development of agentic capabilities.
- **Global talent acquisition** – aggressive hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success to support 50%+ headcount growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Founded by cybersecurity practitioners who understand the pain of manual vulnerability management. Emphasis on “clarity and speed” and building solutions that make defenders more effective. [zafran.io/about]
- **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in New York, Tel Aviv (Israel), and presence in Germany and the UK. Remote options for certain roles (e.g., Channel Manager listed as Remote – CST). [linkedin.com, zafran.io/careers]
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**: High ratio of technical staff (40% of known department breakdown); talent drawn from top security companies (Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Armis, Microsoft). The company values “customer” focus and “building” as core principles. [linkedin.com]
- **Growth opportunity**: Joining at a Series C stage with proven product‑market fit and a clear path to scale – an ideal time for impact.

## Sources
1. [zafran.io](https://www.zafran.io/)
2. [zafran.io/about](https://www.zafran.io/about)
3. [zafran.io/platform](https://www.zafran.io/platform)
4. [zafran.io/careers](https://www.zafran.io/careers)
5. [linkedin.com/company/zafran-security](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zafran-security)

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