Senior Project Manager, Events

Role Description

FAR.AI is seeking a Senior Project Manager, Events to bring structure, momentum, and visibility to a growing portfolio of events. This is a role for someone who enjoys coordinating complex work, is comfortable juggling multiple events and priorities at once, and knows how to keep projects moving without becoming the bottleneck.

Our events portfolio includes more than a dozen workshops, conferences, and partner convenings each year. Every event has its own goals, stakeholders, timeline, and operational challenges. Some run simultaneously. Most evolve quickly. You'll be the person who helps teams stay organized, surfaces risks before they become problems, and creates enough clarity and process that a busy events calendar feels manageable rather than chaotic.

Success in this role means being able to hold a lot of moving pieces at once while keeping stakeholders aligned and informed. You'll be equally comfortable tracking the details of an individual event and maintaining visibility across the broader portfolio, helping ensure that deadlines are met, dependencies are managed, and nothing falls through the cracks when priorities shift.

Please note that this role is focused on event project management, logistics, and production. It is not a content strategy or event programming role.

Responsibilities

• High-volume event project management and delivery
• Own end-to-end project planning and delivery for multiple assigned events running concurrently, from initial kickoff through post-event wrap.
• Move quickly and fluidly between events at different stages: one in planning, one in final prep, one wrapping without losing quality or detail on any of them.
• Manage the full logistics checklist across events: venue and vendor coordination, participant invitations and communications, budget tracking, on-site execution, and post-event wrap-up.
• Make real-time calls on scope, resourcing, and sequencing when things change, which they will.
• Work closely with designated teammates to ensure timelines are realistic, dependencies are mapped, and nothing falls through the cracks.
• Team enablement
• Support junior PMs by ensuring they have full context on events from the design stage, not just execution, so they can take real ownership rather than just completing tasks.
• Build the habits and systems that let the team operate with increasing autonomy over time.
• Act as a model for what good, high-throughput project management looks like in practice.
• Cross-team coordination
• Coordinate dependencies between events and across functions (content, communications, operations, technical infrastructure) so planning pods aren’t blocked waiting on each other.
• Flag capacity issues, timeline conflicts, and resource gaps early, with a clear recommendation on how to resolve them.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years experience managing large-scale or high-complexity events from start to finish.
• Demonstrated experience managing a high volume of events concurrently.
• Able to hold a large amount of detail across multiple workstreams without losing sight of the big picture, and communicate both clearly to different audiences.
• Energised by a fast pace and a full plate, not just tolerant of it.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders, competing timelines, and overlapping priorities with confidence.
• Experience coordinating remote individuals, teams, event contributors, and vendors across time zones and cultures.
• Strong experience in logistics, vendor and venue management, and on-site operations.
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. Asana, Coda, Airtable) and the judgement to know which tool fits which problem.
• Clear, structured, and proactive communicator comfortable writing external emails, internal briefings, and playbooks.
• Proven ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, and make sound judgement calls under pressure.
• Genuine interest in FAR.AI’s work and motivation to contribute to a well-run, high-functioning team.
• Willingness to travel to events up to 40% of the time.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience working in a non-profit, consulting, or private sector environment.
• Scrum / agile experience: hands-on experience running sprint or agile delivery cycles, ideally as a Scrum Master, PMP, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with AI safety or adjacent technical fields.
• Background working across distributed or remote teams.

Logistics

• You will be a full-time employee of FAR.AI, a 501(c)(3) research non-profit.
• Location: both remote (US only) and in-person (Berkeley, CA) candidates are welcome.
• Hours: full-time (40 hours per week). The role involves regular travel for events, approximately one trip per month.
• Compensation: $115,000-$150,000 per year depending on experience and location. Work-related travel and equipment expenses are covered. In-person staff receive catered lunch and dinner at our Berkeley office.
• Benefits: comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off and holidays, and a range of other benefits.