Head of Global Corporate Events

About Semgrep

Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About the role

Semgrep is seeking a Head of Global Events & Experiences to define, scale, and operationalize our global events strategy as a core brand engine for the business. This role owns the vision, execution, and measurement of first- and third-party, virtual, and customer events worldwide — evolving events from a set of programs into a repeatable, insight-driven growth function.

This leader will be responsible not only for what events we run, but why we run them, how they perform, and how they scale as the company grows globally. Over the next three years, you will build and lead a high-performing events team, launch Semgrep’s first user conference, expand regional investment across EMEA and APAC, and establish events as a cross-functional platform supporting Marketing, Sales, Product, and Customer Success.

This is a highly visible leadership role that partners closely with executive stakeholders, field leadership, and advocacy teams, and requires strong business judgment, people leadership, and operational rigor. We’re a fast-moving, high-performing team that values creativity, precision, and a positive attitude.

Core Responsibilities

Functional Ownership & Strategy

• Define how events contribute to company goals across pipeline, revenue influence, awareness, and customer lifecycle.

• Establish clear event tiering and investment frameworks (Tier 1, Tier 2, experimental), grounded in performance data and business priorities.

• Develop a multi-year roadmap for scaling events globally, including owned events, regional expansion, and new event formats.

• Act as the primary decision-maker for event investment tradeoffs, program prioritization, and resourcing.

Program Leadership & Scale

• Scale Semgrep’s existing global events portfolio while improving throughput, consistency, and impact.

• Own Semgrep’s flagship owned events, including:

  • Customer Advisory Boards (regional and/or annual)

  • Quarterly product roadshows

  • Semgrep’s annual user conference

• Lead the evaluation and expansion into adjacent ecosystems (AI, developer, DevSecOps conferences) through structured experimentation.

• Partner with Field Marketing, Sales, Security Advocacy, and Product Marketing to ensure events are aligned to territory, segment, and lifecycle needs.

Measurement, Operations & Excellence

• Build and maintain a data-driven events operating model, including forecasting, budgeting, and ROI analysis.

• Define and track success metrics for all events, balancing quantitative outcomes (pipeline, ROI) with qualitative insights (brand, influence).

• Standardize processes, playbooks, tooling, and vendor strategies to enable global scale without loss of quality.

• Own global vendor relationships, contract negotiation, and budget stewardship.

People Leadership & Team Development

• Build, onboard, and lead a global corporate events team.

• Design the team structure, defining clear areas of ownership (e.g., owned events, third-party events, regional execution).

• Set clear expectations, goals, and development plans for team members, enabling autonomy and accountability.

• Create a culture of operational excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.
  Actively coach and grow future leaders within the function.

• Define how events contribute to company goals across pipeline, revenue influence, awareness, and customer lifecycle.

• Establish clear event tiering and investment frameworks (Tier 1, Tier 2, experimental), grounded in performance data and business priorities.

• Develop a multi-year roadmap for scaling events globally, including owned events, regional expansion, and new event formats.

• Act as the primary decision-maker for event investment tradeoffs, program prioritization, and resourcing.

About You

• 10+ years of B2B technology events experience, including ownership of global programs.

• Proven experience building and leading teams, not just executing events personally.

• Experience launching and scaling large owned events (e.g., user conferences, summits).

• Strong budget ownership and ROI analysis skills.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists.

• Experience with developer, security, or highly technical audiences strongly preferred.

• Willingness to travel globally (~30%).

Compensation

Salary Range: $190,000 - $210,000

Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

What we offer (full time employees only)

Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.

We also invest in our employees’ well-being and long term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that you’re taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure you have what you need, whether that’s quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.

Who we are

We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

Please Note: For US-based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.