Community & Events Manager

Job Title: Community & Events Manager
Team: Marketing
Location: Onsite - Sawtelle (Between Santa Monica & West LA)
Employment Type: Full-time, Salary, Exempt
Reports To: Sr. Director, Marketing

About Plug
Plug is the marketplace for used electric vehicles. Consumers get an instant cash offer backed by battery-health data, and dealers across the US bid in real time on that inventory. Former Tesla executives founded Plug in 2023. We’ve facilitated over $150M in EV sales and raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Why Plug

• You’ll own a piece of the biggest automotive infrastructure opportunity.

• You’ll work on a platform built exclusively for EVs, with nothing adapted from legacy automotive.

• You’ll be part of an AI-native company. We’re rethinking how work gets done at a fundamental level.

• You’ll work directly with operators who have scaled multi-billion dollar businesses in automotive, EV, and marketplaces.

• You’ll have real ownership, high autonomy, and a direct line to company outcomes.

The Role
Plug is hiring a Community & Events Manager to own our event strategy end to end and build our community function from scratch. This role continues work already underway, focused on event strategy and a brand-new community mandate.

This role contains responsibilities around logistics and project management. Events are the medium, community is the compounding asset, and revenue is the outcome you connect them to.

What You’ll Do

Core Ownership

• Manage events end to end by guiding all workstreams, agency and vendor management, registration, attendee experience, catering, production logistics, and onsite execution, for flagship events down to happy hours and private dinners across dealer, commercial partner, and consumer touchpoints.

• Source, negotiate, and coordinate vendors (caterers, AV, creative production), ensuring adherence to Plug’s standards and compliance requirements.

• Build and maintain project timelines, tracking milestones, deliverables, and deadlines to keep execution seamless.

• Build and defend the event budget-to-outcome model: cost per opportunity by event, and pipeline and revenue attributed within a defined window.

• Keep tight financial records: track budgets, process invoices, and report spend against targets.

• Own attendee registration and check-in, plus pre- and post-event communications and invites.

• Work closely with Design, Marketing, Product, Communications, Partnerships, and Executive Leadership to make sure events reflect the brand and support business strategy.

• Support leadership speaking engagements by handling logistics and materials, without owning the engagement itself.

• Build Plug’s community strategy from scratch, dealer and consumer first, LA startup ecosystem second.

• Own community engagement across owned channels: posts, replies, and event participation.

About You

• 5+ years in event marketing, community building, or a combined role.

• Demonstrated ability to build and own a budget-to-outcome model, not just execute a calendar.

• Relationship builder with genuine business development instincts, comfortable being the face of Plug in a room.

• Experience or strong interest in building community from scratch.

• Comfortable owning ambiguity. This function is being formalized as it grows.

• Automotive, EV, or marketplace experience is a plus, not required.

Performance Metrics

Event ROI

• Cost per opportunity by event.

• Pipeline and revenue attributed to event attendees within a defined attribution window.

• Ownership of the event budget-to-outcome model.

Community Growth

• Growth rate and new member acquisition, tracked separately for the dealer and consumer community and LA startup ecosystem relationships.

• Activation rate: the share of new community members who take a first meaningful action within a defined window.

• Community engagement across owned channels (posts, replies, reactions).

Not sure you should apply? Do it.
Research consistently shows that people from under-represented groups are more likely to talk themselves out of applying if they don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements. You don’t need to check every box. If this role excites you and you bring most of what’s listed under “About You,” we want to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits
Annual salary: $124,000 to $147,000

Salary ranges come from independent, third-party benchmarking against national compensation data. Where an offer falls within the range depends on relevant experience, specialized skills, training and qualifications, current business needs, and market conditions. We review ranges periodically and may adjust them as the market changes.

Benefits & Perks

• Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Daily lunch and dinner stipend, plus a fully stocked kitchen

• Dog-friendly office and on-site EV charging

• 30-day remote work from anywhere policy

• Ongoing opportunities for growth and development

This full-time position is in-person, based in Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and West Los Angeles). We will not provide relocation assistance to successful candidates. We do not offer sponsorship at this time.

Acknowledgments
Plug is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, marital status, military or veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Plug will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the California Fair Chance Act.