Events & Remote Experience Manager

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

As a highly distributed team, our culture, our recognition, and our sense of being one team don’t happen by default - they take varied, intentional work to build. That’s what this role exists to own: every internal event we run, from the company-wide offsite to team offsites, recurring virtual gatherings, and all the moments in between that make remote and hybrid work feel connected.

Manager to own this end to end, including our rewards and recognition programs, so employees feel seen and celebrated no matter where they sit. You’ll own the planning and execution and be the one who makes sure it comes together seamlessly, acting as the architect of our internal culture calendar and partnering closely with People, Finance, and team leads to deliver experiences that are well-run, on budget, and genuinely valued. You'll also own our coworking and physical space relationships - making sure the spaces where our team gathers, in person or shared, actually work for how we operate.

We're a high-growth startup, so there's no existing playbook handed to you. You'll build the processes as you go, and they'll need to flex as the company changes shape under you. If you care about getting the details right, can hold a budget and a vendor relationship at the same time, and want to see a direct line between your work and how it feels to work here, we want to hear from you.

• Planning and running the company-wide offsite - venue, logistics, budget, agenda, and the on-site execution itself.

• Planning team-level events and offsites with team leads, balancing what each team wants against overall budget and timeline.

• Running a regular cadence of virtual events that actually keep a distributed team feeling like one team.

• Managing relationships with coworking providers and physical space vendors, including renewals, capacity planning, and day-to-day issues as they come up.

• Acting as the point person for in-office or coworking space needs - desk capacity, meeting room access, badge/access logistics - so teams can just show up and work.

• Evaluating and recommending new coworking locations as the team grows or shifts geographically.

• Owning rewards and recognition end to end, from the platform itself to nominations and the moments that make people feel seen.

• Improving the remote and hybrid experience generally - swag, onboarding touches, the small rituals that matter when you rarely see the office.

• Sourcing, negotiating with, and managing vendors: venues, caterers, travel, AV, swag, event platforms.

• Owning event budgets from the forecast through reconciliation, and flagging variances before they become a problem.

• Handling the full logistics chain - invites, RSVPs, travel, run-of-show docs, day-of execution, wrap-up - so nothing falls through the cracks.

• Collecting feedback after every event and actually using it to make the next one better.

• Traveling as needed to support offsites and in-person events (roughly 10–25% of the time).

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