
Senior Marketing Events Manager
Posted 5 hours ago

Posted 5 hours ago
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.
• Take ownership of the strategy, planning, execution, and post-event evaluation for user summits, trade shows, and field events.
• Develop and manage comprehensive event plans, encompassing event selection, sponsorship recommendations, audience strategy, budget planning, staffing, onsite experience, and post-event follow-ups.
• Oversee cross-functional planning in collaboration with growth marketing, sales, customer success, partner marketing, product marketing, brand, creative, marketing operations, and executive stakeholders.
• Convert company and go-to-market priorities into event objectives, success metrics, run-of-show documents, staffing plans, and follow-up actions.
• Manage event budgets, oversee forecasts and actuals, negotiate with vendors, and identify necessary trade-offs.
• Direct event production and logistics, including venues, registration, audiovisual needs, booth design, sponsorship materials, speaker readiness, shipping, signage, promotional items, staffing, travel coordination, and onsite operations.
• Establish standards for pre-event and post-event execution, covering sales enablement, meeting generation, lead capture, lead handoff, and follow-up processes.
• Generate post-event reports linking investment to attendance, engagement, sourced and influenced pipeline, customer impact, lessons learned, and recommendations.
• Create scalable event playbooks, project plans, templates, vendor practices, and process enhancements.
• Mentor team members, contractors, and agency partners by defining workstreams, delegating ownership, and eliminating obstacles.
• Identify and assess hotels, venues, and experience providers; negotiate with vendors and facilitate contract reviews.
• Lead comprehensive event production with internal teams and external partners for large-scale events.
• Over 8 years of B2B event marketing experience, ideally in SaaS, enterprise software, account-based marketing, martech, or another rapidly growing B2B sector.
• Proven track record of managing complex events from start to finish, including user conferences, trade shows, executive programs, customer events, and regional field events.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and shifting timelines.
• Demonstrated experience in budget management, vendor negotiation, project oversight, and onsite leadership across multiple concurrent events.
• Revenue-driven mindset with experience collaborating with sales and marketing operations to set goals, capture leads, support follow-ups, and assess pipeline impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence executives, sales leaders, customers, partners, vendors, and internal colleagues.
• Experience in refining event processes, reporting, templates, or operational rhythms to make programs more repeatable and scalable.
• Proficient in tools such as Salesforce, marketing automation, Asana, Bizzabo, ON24, or similar event and project management platforms.
• Willingness to travel for events and support occasional evening or weekend programs as required.
• Must have authorization to work legally in the United States.
• Must be able to respond to questions regarding current or future U.S. work sponsorship needs.
• Group Medical Insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Preventive healthcare covering dental, vision, and outpatient needs
• Mental health support
• Fitness benefit
• Car lease policy
• Gratuity for long-term financial stability
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