ABOUT ARENA INTELLIGENCE
Arena is the platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, we're on a mission to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use, and to build the foundation for everyone to understand, shape, and benefit from it.
Tens of millions of people use Arena each month to evaluate how frontier systems handle the work they actually do. The preferences they share power the most transparent, rigorous, and human-centered evaluations in AI. Leading AI labs, enterprises, and independent researchers rely on our work and open datasets to understand how models behave in real workflows: agentic coding, creative generation, professional productivity, and beyond. We go beyond leaderboards and decompose what human experience reveals about AI, so models advance toward the work people actually do.
We're a team of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind. We seek truth, move fast, and value craftsmanship, curiosity, and impact over hierarchy. We're building a company where thoughtful, curious people from all backgrounds can do their best work together, in an office culture that radiates excellence, energy, and focus.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Arena is looking for an Event/Field Marketing Manager to bring Arena to life in person. Our community of millions is mostly online, and the people who rely on our evaluations (AI researchers, developers, creative professionals, and the teams at leading labs and enterprises) gather at a handful of events each year. In this role, you will own how Arena shows up in those rooms and create new ones of our own, from community meetups in the Bay Area to a major presence at the industry’s biggest conferences.
As a key member of the growing Marketing team, you will work closely with Product Marketing, Community, Research, Comms, and Partnerships. Your work will turn Arena’s credibility online into relationships offline: new users who become regular voters, researchers who trust our methodology, and enterprise and lab contacts who become customers and partners.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. You will plan, run, and measure events end to end, while preserving the scientific rigor, transparency, and community-first spirit Arena is known for. We believe evaluation should be grounded in real usage and shaped by the people who rely on AI every day. This role is for someone who can turn that belief into events and field programs people remember and talk about.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own Arena’s event and field marketing strategy, including the annual calendar, budget, and goals for brand awareness, community growth, and pipeline.
- Plan and run Arena-hosted events end to end, such as community meetups, model-launch gatherings, researcher and developer dinners, workshops, and VIP experiences, with a focus on the Bay Area.
- Lead Arena’s presence at AI research and industry conferences, including sponsorships, booths, side events, speaking slots, and on-site team coordination.
- Build repeatable playbooks for event planning, vendor and venue selection, run-of-show, staffing, and follow-up so Arena can scale its events program without losing quality.
- Partner with Community and Product Marketing to align events with product launches, major model releases, and campaigns, and to give attendees clear ways to engage with Arena afterward.
- Work with Partnerships and Sales to identify target accounts, labs, and enterprise contacts for events, and to design experiences that move those relationships forward.
- Translate Arena’s evaluation methodology and community into event content, talks, demos, and on-site experiences that are accessible without losing rigor.
- Manage event budgets, contracts, vendors, venues, swag, and travel logistics.
- Capture and repurpose event content (photos, video, on-site interviews, recaps, social posts, emails)…