Senior Director, Corporate Events
Kong Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $192,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Open Source
About the role
- Develop a vision for Kong experiential events that map our leadership in our category and in the industry while keeping our core users, the developers excited about our technology and platform.
- Lead the strategic planning and creative development of event initiatives, proactively managing all event needs from branding, agenda design, content creation, and venue selection to event execution
- Partner and collaborate with Kong executives and co-founders, Kong demand generation, branding, and social marketing teams, as well as the open source community, around event promotion, visibility and strong execution.
- Gather and track ROI, registrations, attendance, engagement analytics throughout the events, and feedback to consistently assess opportunities for improvement
- Willingness and excitement to travel globally
Requirements
- 15+ years of event management and planning experience, including experience working in a SaaS or B2B technology company
- Ability to think strategically as it pertains to event development and execution from concept to finish
- Great interpersonal and leadership skills to lead part or the whole company in the development and execution of events
- Great interface to anyone internally: Executives, Sales & GTM teams, Product teams, Finance and procurement teams and the rest of the marketing team; and great interface externally with vendors, community, attendees and tradeshows partners
- Experience managing and delivering against multiple projects simultaneously in a very fast-moving environment
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
event managementevent planningstrategic planningcontent creationanalyticsROI trackingbrandingagenda designvenue selectionproject management
Soft skills
interpersonal skillsleadership skillsstrategic thinkingcollaborationcommunicationadaptabilityproblem-solvingcreativityteam leadershipstakeholder engagement