Events Coordinator

As Marqeta’s Events Coordinator, you’ll support the planning and execution of our experiential marketing programs. In this pivotal role, you’ll help bring our brand to life through industry events, conferences, trade shows, customer experiences, and hosted activations. You’ll work closely with the Head of Experiential Marketing to ensure every event runs seamlessly, from pre-planning and logistics to onsite coordination and post-event reporting.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone with 2–3 years of experience who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys juggling multiple tasks, and wants to deepen their expertise across the full events lifecycle. You’ll gain exposure to executive stakeholders, cross-functional teams, vendors, partners, and customers, all while learning from an experienced events leader.

If you’re detail-oriented, resourceful, and energized by producing memorable brand experiences, we’d love to meet you.

While we are a Flexible First company, the Bay Area is the preferred location. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have

Event Planning & Coordination

• Support the end-to-end planning and execution of conferences, vertical events, field marketing events, webinars, and brand activations.
• Assist in developing event timelines, run-of-show documentation, staffing plans, and logistics checklists.
• Help secure venues, manage booth assets, order materials, coordinate shipments, and maintain inventory.
• Manage pre-event tasks including registration, speaker prep, attendee lists, briefing documents, and internal communications.

Logistics & Vendor Management

• Coordinate with external vendors, including AV teams, printers, caterers, and production partners to ensure seamless execution.
• Assist in managing contracts, budgets, POs, and invoices, ensuring accurate and timely processing.
• Organize shipping logistics, booth setups, lead capture systems, and onsite operations.

Onsite Execution

• Serve as onsite support during events, assisting with setup, registration, activation management, attendee experience, and tear-down.
• Troubleshoot issues in real time, escalating to the Head of Experiential Marketing when needed.
• Represent the brand professionally and help ensure a smooth, memorable attendee experience.

Stakeholder Communication

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across Brand, Integrated Marketing, Content, Demand Gen, Product Marketing and Sales, to ensure event alignment and readiness.
• Provide regular updates on timelines, deliverables, risks, and next steps.
  Help prepare executive stakeholders for speaking engagements and event appearances.

Tracking, Reporting & Optimization

• Track event metrics including attendance, engagement, lead capture, logistics costs, and operational performance.
• Assist with post-event recaps, performance summaries, and recommendations for improvement.
• Maintain internal documentation, event calendars, asset lists, and budget trackers.

Best Practices & Process Improvement

• Help develop SOPs, checklists, and repeatable processes that improve efficiency and consistency across events and regions 
• Research new experiential trends, technologies, and creative approaches to enhance event quality.
• Support adoption of event management tools and systems.

Who You Are

• 2–3 years of experience coordinating marketing events, trade shows, field marketing programs, or experiential activations.
• Strong understanding of event logistics, planning workflows, and vendor coordination.
• Excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with event software, PM tools, registration platforms, or CRM systems (Salesforce, Asana, etc. is a plus).
• Highly organized and detail-obsessed, with strong follow-through.
• Comfortable managing multiple tasks simultaneously with evolving priorities.
• A strong communicator and collaborator with a positive, solutions-first mindset.
• Calm, resourceful, and dependable during dynamic event environments.
  Passionate about creating engaging, high-impact experiences.
• Ability to travel 20–40% for onsite event support.
• Bonus: Experience in B2B marketing, SaaS, fintech, or tech environments.

Typical Process

• Application Submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
• Offer!

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the role. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so again, don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:

 

• National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
• Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
• Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.

 

Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.

When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:

• National: $74,600 - $93,200
• Premium: $80,800 - $101,000
• Premium Plus: $87,000 - 108,800

We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
• Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
• Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
• Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.  This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

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Marqeta’s Values

– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

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Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy 

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.

Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.