Head of Corporate Events

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead and nurture a team of 4-5 professionals specializing in corporate events.

• Establish objectives, offer coaching, and foster a robust team culture.

• Oversee the comprehensive planning and execution of CriblCon, the annual Company Kickoff, and the annual President's Club.

• Formulate strategy and manage the execution of a global tradeshow calendar consisting of 12-14 shows each year.

• Ensure a consistent brand presence, executive engagement, and impactful pipeline outcomes.

• Manage and oversee a multi-million dollar events budget in collaboration with Corporate Marketing and Finance.

• Plan, forecast, and report on budget performance metrics.

• Collaborate with executive leadership to plan and execute high-visibility events.

• Build cross-functional partnerships with Communications, Brand & Creative, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, ProdEng, and Sales.

• Establish and refine event strategies, processes, and playbooks.

• Manage relationships with vendors and agencies, including contract negotiations.

• Define and report on event success metrics such as attendance, pipeline/revenue influence, employee engagement, and budget performance.

• Represent the events function in discussions among cross-functional marketing leadership.

• Provide proactive planning and risk management.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8-10+ years of experience in corporate events, field marketing, or event marketing.

• Demonstrated success in leading global tradeshow programs and flagship company events.

• 3+ years of experience in directly managing and developing a team.

• Experience in overseeing and managing multi-million dollar budgets.

• Familiarity with forecasting and cross-functional reporting in collaboration with Finance.

• Ability to effectively engage with senior executives in high-visibility, high-pressure situations.

• Strong skills in cross-functional collaboration across Marketing, Sales, and Executive stakeholders.

• Experience in planning and executing large-scale user conferences, internal company events, and incentive/recognition trip programs is highly desirable.

• Excellent organizational, negotiation, and vendor management abilities.

• Willingness to travel to most of Cribl's global events, with approximately 40% travel required.

• Calm and decisive leadership style.

• Capability to occasionally fulfill duties outside standard working hours across various time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Short-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Paid holidays.

• Paid time off.

• Fertility treatment benefit.

• 401(k).

• Equity.

• Cribl Corporate Bonus Program.

• Remote-first work arrangement.

• Global team events and opportunities to collaborate with executives.