Community and Events Lead

Department: GTM

Location: HQ: San Francisco

Compensation: $180K – $220K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

About Lightfield

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks.

We’re rethinking CRM from first principles. Instead of forcing teams to maintain rigid systems, Lightfield learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing the insight that drives growth. We’re building the CRM platform we always wished existed: fast, intelligent, and genuinely helpful.

The market agrees. Over 5,000 companies have used Lightfield since we launched in November, making us the fastest-adopted product in our category. We raised a $47M Series A led by a16z, with Greylock, Lightspeed, Coatue, Maverick and Audacious participating, and our founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. Before Lightfield, our team worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce.

About the role

Our power users are genuinely obsessed — they rebuild their entire GTM motion around us and then tell everyone they know. Right now that energy is scattered across individual conversations. Our job is to give it a home.

Were hiring a Community and Events Lead to build the places where the Lightfield community happens — in real rooms and online. Youll run an intimate dinner program that puts our best prospects around a table with our founders and customers, own our presence at the industry events where our buyers show up, and build a virtual community where our power users teach each other things we couldnt teach them ourselves.

This is a role for someone who understands that the best pipeline doesnt come from a form fill. It comes from a room where the right fifteen people had a real conversation, and from a community people check because its genuinely useful.

This role reports directly to our Head of GTM.

What youll do

• Run a prospect dinner program. Design and execute intimate dinners that our target buyers rearrange their evening for. Youll own it end to end — the thesis for each dinner, the guest list, the venue, the seating, the conversation design, and the follow-up that turns a great night into real pipeline.

• Run events at our San Francisco HQ. Build a recurring rhythm of gatherings at our office that makes Lightfield a place people in the GTM world want to be.

• Turn community into content. Capture whats said at dinners, in sessions, and in the community, and turn it into material the rest of marketing can use — clips, posts, templates, and stories.

• Build and run the Lightfield power user community. Create a virtual community where the people getting the most out of Lightfield share what theyve built. Recruit the founding members, seed the conversations, make the introductions, spotlight the best work, and grow it into something people check without being prompted.

• Build programs that turn power users into advocates. Design the structures — champion programs, template exchanges, office hours, user-led sessions — that give our best users a stage and give everyone else a reason to level up.

• Close the loop with GTM. Work tightly with sales on who to invite, what happened in the room, and what to do next. Every event and every community interaction should be visible in the pipeline, not just in a recap doc.

• Own our presence at industry events. Be the single point of accountability for tradeshows and conferences: which ones we attend, what we do there, the booth, the side events, the speaking slots, the staffing plan, and the budget. Youll make our presence feel deliberate rather than obligatory, and youll know what we got for the spend.

Who you are

• Youre a world-class event operator. You sweat the details — the guest list, the room composition, the timing, the first five minutes. Youve shipped events end to end and can tell us about formats that worked and formats that didnt.

• You know how to get busy, senior people to show up. You write invitations people answer. You understand that whos in the room matters more than how many, and youre willing to say no to fill a seat properly.

• Youve built a community from nothing. You know the difference between a Slack channel and a community, and youve done the unglamorous work of seeding the first hundred conversations yourself.

• Youre commercially minded. You think about events and community as growth investments. You know which metrics matter, you track them, and you can make the case for where the next dollar goes.

• Youre a strong writer and communicator. Crisp, no-fluff invites, follow-ups, and posts that get responses. Youre comfortable on stage or moderating a panel, and you dont mind being a visible face of the community.

• Youre credible on GTM and passionate about AI. You can hold your own in a conversation with a founder or a VP of Sales about how theyre actually running their pipeline. You can talk go-to-market, not just community.

• You operate at & prefer early-stage pace. Youre comfortable wearing many hats, working without a playbook, holding a high bar under an intense pace and want to be in the middle of teams figuring this out in real time.

Nice to have

• 4+ years in community, events, or field marketing.

• Experience running field marketing or events at a B2B SaaS company.

• An existing network in the startup, GTM, or AI ecosystem.

• Experience with community platforms and the tooling around them.

• Video, photo, or content capture skills.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary

• Meaningful early equity

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

• 3 weeks of PTO

• 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break

• 3 months of paid family leave

• Wednesdays work from home

• Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats

• 401k plan

• Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend