About the Role
The OpenClaw Foundation is seeking its first Marketing & Events Lead to build and execute the Foundation's global events, marketing, and ecosystem engagement strategy. This is a highly operational role focused on execution, responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering experiences that bring the OpenClaw ecosystem together.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary owner and operator of ClawCon
- Build and manage event timelines, budgets, vendors, and execution plans
- Source and negotiate venues, production partners, catering, A/V, and event services
- Coordinate speaker recruitment, onboarding, logistics, and scheduling
- Manage sponsorship fulfillment and partner activations
- Oversee attendee registration, communications, and support
- Coordinate onsite operations and event staffing
- Build repeatable systems that enable ClawCons to scale year-over-year
- Own post-event reporting, feedback collection, and success metrics
- Plan and execute developer conferences, hackathons, community meetups, workshops, summits, working group gatherings, sponsor activations, and virtual events/webinars
- Manage The OpenClaw Foundation's presence at major industry events
- Coordinate travel, logistics, sponsorships, and speaking opportunities for industry events
- Build event playbooks and operational processes
- Support execution of Foundation marketing initiatives
- Coordinate campaign launches across events, community, partnerships, and content
- Manage marketing calendars and promotional timelines
- Develop event-related marketing assets and attendee communications
- Coordinate email campaigns, social promotion, and event announcements
- Ensure consistency across Foundation messaging and event experiences
- Coordinate sponsor onboarding and fulfillment
- Manage sponsorship deliverables and activation plans
- Work closely with partners to maximize event value
- Support fundraising and sponsorship initiatives through operational excellence
- Build systems for sponsor reporting and relationship management
- Create scalable event operations and project management systems
- Manage event budgets and vendor relationships
- Develop templates, processes, and documentation
- Implement tools for registration, communications, CRM management, and event tracking
- Establish reporting frameworks and KPIs
- Partner with Developer Relations, Research, Engineering, and Leadership teams
- Coordinate announcements, launches, and ecosystem initiatives
- Ensure events align with Foundation priorities and community needs
- Help create exceptional experiences for contributors, sponsors, researchers, and attendees
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in event management, conference operations, community events, field marketing, or experiential marketing
- Proven track record managing large-scale conferences, summits, or developer-focused events
- Strong project management skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Experience managing budgets, vendors, contracts, and logistics
- Ability to simultaneously manage multiple complex projects and timelines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving environment
- Strong operational mindset with a bias toward execution
- Experience running developer conferences, open-source events, or technical community programs
- Familiarity with open-source software ecosystems
- Experience working with sponsorship programs and partner activations
- Experience supporting startup, technology, AI, or developer-focused organizations
- Familiarity with marketing automation, CRM systems, and event technology platforms
- Experience managing global or distributed events
Skills
- Event management
- Conference operations
- Community events
- Field marketing
- Experiential marketing
- Project management
- Budget management
- Vendor management
- Contract negotiation
- Logistics coordination
- Marketing automation
- CRM systems
- Event technology platforms
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
About the Company
- The OpenClaw Foundation is the steward of the world's largest open source AI agent project.
- Its mission is grounded in a foundational conviction: that AI must be open, safe, and ultimately owned by the individuals and communities who use it.
- The Foundation operates across three core mandates: Advancing research into the human-agent relationship while continuously evolving the OpenClaw platform; Maintaining and hardening the codebase to ensure security, reliability, and long-term sustainability; Establishing interoperability standards for the emerging agent era, defining how agents configure, communicate, establish trust, transact, and represent user identity across ecosystems.
- Modeled after the governance structures that shaped the open web and modern computing infrastructure, the Foundation serves as a neutral, multi-stakeholder convening body — the equivalent of W3C or the Linux Foundation for the agentic AI era.
- Major laboratories and infrastructure providers collaborate under its umbrella on shared, vendor-neutral infrastructure, with no single organization controlling the roadmap or direction.
- The OpenClaw Foundation believes that individuals should have full sovereignty over their AI: their data, their interactions, and the behavior and personality of their agents.
- Open source is not incidental to this mission but central to it — code must remain free to use, modify, and build upon.
- The future of agentic AI will be defined by a broad, developer-driven community, not prescribed by any single commercial interest.
