--- title: 'Strategic Events Manager, APJ at Abnormal' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-events-manager-apj-abnormal-singapore-dd43rbbsdvxz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Strategic Events Manager, APJ at Abnormal - **Company:** Abnormal - **Location:** Singapore - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://abnormal.ai/careers/jobs/8037221003?gh_jid=8037221003 ## Job description ## About the Role Abnormal is growing fast, and the way we show up in the world has to keep pace. Our Strategic Events are where our story stops being a pitch and starts being an experience — where CISOs and practitioners walk in curious and walk out convinced. This role owns event execution and delivery across the APAC Strategic Events program — major third-party events, flagship first-party events, and high-profile executive programs — with support from the wider international team. As Strategic Events Manager, you'll play a central role in shaping our regional events strategy and decision-making, bringing local expertise on how events should land with a local-first approach, and sharp insight into the must-attend industry events across APAC. You'll operate independently on the day-to-day, while partnering closely with sales leadership, regional revenue marketing, sales engineering, channel team managers, and a wide range of other stakeholders to get there. We're looking for someone who brings new ideas, critical thinking, and the judgement to drive strategic events that move pipeline forward. You're as comfortable owning execution on the ground as you are shaping the plan behind it, and you bring the same rigour to post-event analysis — turning results into clear, data-backed recommendations that sharpen the program year on year. This is an individual-contributor role: no direct reports, but full accountability for a regional portfolio, a real budget, and the standards that go with it — the autonomy to run your own show, backed by a team when it matters most. If that sounds like your kind of ownership, we'd love to hear from you! ## How You'll Deliver Impact Project Management, Event Logistics & Vendor Management - Manage all event logistics end to end and take full ownership of deadlines, project plans, problem-solving, and stakeholder management and communication. - Manage venues, exhibition requirements, staff schedules, booth logistics, catering, AV, shipping, accommodation, signage and meeting-space requirements across multiple regions. - Source and manage agencies, venues, production partners and suppliers at regional scale, including contracts and negotiation. - Build run-of-shows, timelines and contingency plans across multiple concurrent events and markets. - Coordinate invitation strategy, registration, attendee communications and internal promotion so the right people show up, market by market. Regional Strategy & Portfolio Support - Support the APAC strategic event mapping and calendar planning, prioritising investment against pipeline and account-engagement goals. - Help decide which events are worth the budget, and advocate for the portfolio with regional and global leadership. - Understand target accounts, ICP and GTM priorities for each market, and tailor the regional activation strategy accordingly. Internal Cross-Functional & Partner/Alliance Collaboration - Partner with Regional Revenue Marketing, Sales, SDR/BDR, Customer Marketing, Sales Engineering, Partner/Alliance Marketing and Brand/Creative across regions and time zones. - Develop and maintain regional partner and tech-alliance event engagement, including co-sponsored and co-hosted activations — this may include building sponsor prospectuses for hosted events and defining sponsorship packages for our global alliances. - Work closely with your Revenue Marketing Manager team to ensure Sales are fully enabled on all event details and what is expected of them. - Maintain a strong network of reliable vendors and agencies. Budget Ownership & ROI Tracking - Manage event budgets to ensure we stay within budget while getting the most value for our money. - Budget admin, including raising purchase orders, submitting invoices, and updating budget management tools. - Negotiate to secure the best rates and contract terms. On-Site Execution - Lead on-site execution for flagship regional events, directing any temporary or contract event staff and troubleshooting in real time. - Train other on-site team members, including coordinating and leading staff orientations. - Set clear expectations on-site for all teams. Post-Event Follow-Up & Program Result Accountability - Own lead capture, CRM hygiene and pipeline forecasting tied to event performance across the region, and report regional ROI to leadership. - Build repeatable regional playbooks and share best practice with peers across the broader Strategic Events team, including other regions such as UK/EMEA. - Run post-event retrospectives and apply lessons learned to improve the next event, raising the bar for the regional program as it scales. ## What You Bring - 4–7 years' experience in B2B strategic events, ideally within technology, SaaS, cybersecurity or enterprise software, with a track record of owning a multi-market portfolio independently. Note: this is not a field marketing role. - A demonstrated track record of owning event strategy and budget for multiple regions — not just executing a plan set by someone else. - Strong program management chops: able to operate with ambiguity, prioritise ruthlessly, and drive cross-functional work to an outcome without close oversight. - Experience managing across multiple time zones. - Significant budget, vendor and contract management experience across multiple concurrent markets. - Experience partnering with regional Sales leadership to align events to pipeline and account goals. - Comfortable presenting regional event results, ROI and forecasts to senior stakeholders. - Willingness to travel roughly 40–50%, mainly across APAC with some EMEA and AMER travel, including evening/weekend work around live events. Cybersecurity or enterprise software experience is a plus, not a requirement. What matters is commercial judgement, regional ownership, and exceptional execution. ## Preferred - Experience with event and marketing technology such as Asana, Allocadia, Coupa, Jifflenow, Cvent, Salesforce, Sigma, Splash, RainFocus, Claude, and Google Suite. - An additional regional language (e.g. Mandarin, Japanese, Bahasa). - Familiarity with account-based marketing (ABM) principles and target-account event strategies. - Experience mentoring or informally guiding more junior events team members. The Ideal Candidate You know a great regional events program isn't a string of individual events — it's a strategy. One that brings a brand to life market by market, earns trust with prospects and customers, arms regional Sales teams, and produces measurable business impact across a diverse set of markets. You're equally comfortable building a regional budget model in a spreadsheet and solving an on-site problem at 11pm local time, several time zones from home. You're calm under ambiguity, direct when something isn't working, and generous with the teams you work alongside. Most of all, you care about the craft — and about building something regional teams can rely on, not just the next event on the calendar. What Success Looks Like - The APAC events portfolio is delivered consistently and ties clearly back to pipeline. - Regional leadership trusts you with their target accounts and plans around your calendar. - The regional budget is managed with discipline and a defensible ROI story ## #LI-LR1 A note on AI in our process: Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards. Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please [click here](https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt3a076cfd9753fa1f/blt9cbda641db7c0045/6a1e3d3a66aea075cd33e462/AAP_and_EEO_Statement.pdf). If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please [click here](https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt3a076cfd9753fa1f/blt4eb3a265cc7b1ca9/6a1e3d3bfe33e73c16ff026b/EEOC_Know_Your_Rights_Oct_30_2025.pdf). ## About Abnormal ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Abnormal Security uses behavioral AI to autonomously detect and stop sophisticated email attacks, account takeovers, and insider threats for enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Evan Reiser (CEO) and Sanjay Jeyakumar (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (Cloud Email Security, Identity Security, AI Security) - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (over 25% of the Fortune 500) - **Mission statement**: "Stop crime with AI and bring cybersecurity from the future to defenders today." ## Products & Services - **Abnormal Behavioral Security Platform**: An AI-native, cloud-based platform that builds behavioral baselines for every user and entity in an organization to detect anomalies that indicate attacks. - **Email Security**: Autonomous detection and remediation of BEC, phishing, and account takeover attacks via API-based, cloud-native architecture. Deploys in 60 seconds with no MX changes. - **Identity Security**: Harden identities, detect compromise, and prevent insider threats by analyzing behavioral signals in real-time. - **Insider Threat**: Blocks fraudulent actors and malicious insiders by autonomously addressing anomalies. - **AI Security (Attune AI)**: Provides visibility and policy enforcement for all AI tools used within an organization, enabling AI governance. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported Series D valuation was $2.6B in 2022) - **Key Metric**: Over 25% of the Fortune 500 are customers. The company has stopped millions of attacks and saved billions in financial losses. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund (strategic investor) - **Growth Signals**: The company is AI-native from day one, with revenue growing rapidly. It is expanding its platform from email security into identity, insider threat, and AI governance. Headcount has grown significantly, and the company continues to hire across engineering, GTM, and operations. ## Competitive Advantages - **Behavioral AI Moat**: Unlike signature-based or rules-based security tools, Abnormal builds a unique behavioral baseline for every organization and user. This allows it to detect novel attacks that no other vendor sees. - **AI-Native Operations**: The company doesn't just build AI products—it runs its entire business (product, CS, finance, HR) with AI agents, compounding its speed of innovation. - **Deep Enterprise Trust**: Over 25% of the Fortune 500 give Abnormal the authority to autonomously make security decisions, a level of trust very few vendors achieve. - **Founding Team Origins**: Founders came from adtech (building anomaly-detection AI at scale) rather than traditional cybersecurity, giving them an outsider's perspective that led to the behavioral AI approach. ## Strategic Focus - **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond email security into identity, insider threat, and AI security, building a unified behavioral security platform. - **AI-First Product Development**: Using AI agents to compress product development cycles from quarters to weeks, rapidly launching new products. - **Operational Efficiency**: Embedding AI across every internal function to drive automation and efficiency, allowing the company to scale without linear headcount growth. - **Market Leadership**: Capitalizing on the wave of AI-generated attacks to position behavioral AI as the only viable defense. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-First Culture**: From day one, Abnormal has been remote-first. Employees have the choice to work from home, from hub offices, or from co-working spaces (WeWork). Async work is the default, with deliberate synchronous overlap time. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **High Autonomy, High Accountability**: No micromanagement. Clear expectations. Growth is based on impact, not tenure or title. "You don't wait your turn." [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **AI-Native Work Environment**: Every employee, regardless of role, gets access to the best AI tools and is expected to use them. The company rebuilds work processes around what AI makes possible—not by bolting AI onto old workflows. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **Compressed Growth Timeline**: Because everything moves fast with AI, impact that would take quarters elsewhere happens in weeks. One person can do what used to take a team. Outsized impact is rewarded proportionally. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) - **Transparent and Direct Culture**: "We say what's true, even when it's uncomfortable." Leaders are accessible, teams share learnings openly, and new hires get real ownership immediately. [abnormal.ai](https://abnormal.ai/about) - **Notable Perks**: Compensation is tied to impact, not role. The company offers flexibility as infrastructure, not a benefit. Employees see direct results from their work in a fast-growing, mission-driven company. ## Sources 1. [Abnormal AI - Official Website](https://abnormal.ai/) 2. [Abnormal AI - About Page](https://abnormal.ai/about) 3. [Abnormal AI - Careers & Culture](https://abnormal.ai/careers/culture) 4. [Abnormal AI - Open Roles](https://abnormal.ai/careers/open-roles) 5. [Abnormal AI - What We Are](https://abnormal.ai/about/what-we-are) 6. [Crunchbase - Abnormal Security](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/abnormalsecurity) 7. 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