
Vice President, Private Event Sales
Saffire, LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Set the vision and strategy for private event sales across Legends Global
- Position Legends as the market leader in premium private event experiences
- Develop a scalable platform that supports both local market execution and national growth
- Design and lead a national enterprise account structure to serve multi-market and repeat clients
- Build strategic relationships with key corporate, nonprofit, and agency partners
- Enable cross-venue selling and portfolio-wide client solutions
- Lead a large, distributed sales organization through Directors and Regional Leaders
- Build a strong leadership bench, succession plans, and consistent performance expectations
- Foster a culture of accountability, professionalism, and collaboration
- Establish clear decision rights, pricing authority, and approval frameworks
- Standardize KPIs, forecasting cadence, and performance management across venues
- Ensure strong alignment between sales, operations, and food & beverage partners
- Lead the development and adoption of enterprise sales technology platforms supporting private events
- Partner with internal technology, analytics, and finance teams to improve pipeline visibility, forecasting accuracy, and account intelligence
- Drive consistent CRM usage, data hygiene, and reporting across all venues
- Leverage technology to enable national account management, client segmentation, and cross-portfolio insights
- Serve as the senior private events leader within Legends Global
- Partner closely with executive leadership, venue General Managers, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Food & Beverage
- Navigate complex, matrixed environments with high emotional intelligence and credibility
- Champion innovation in private event programming, packaging, and space utilization
- Partner with venue development and operations teams to influence the design of future private event spaces
- Continuously raise the bar on client experience and venue differentiation
Requirements
- Proven enterprise leadership experience in a multi-site, service-driven business
- Exceptional emotional intelligence and ability to influence without direct authority
- Strong executive presence and experience managing upward to senior leadership
- Demonstrated success building platforms, operating models, and teams at scale
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with a focus on sustainable growth
- Experience leading or partnering on enterprise sales technology and CRM initiatives
- Senior leadership experience overseeing a large, distributed commercial organization
- Experience working in matrixed or partnership-based environments
- Backgrounds may include hospitality, venues, live entertainment, managed services, or complex B2B services
- Experience building national or enterprise account structures strongly preferred
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Paid vacation
- 401k plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise sales technologyCRM initiativesaccount managementplatform developmentoperating modelsperformance managementKPI standardizationforecastingdata hygieneclient segmentation
Soft Skills
emotional intelligenceinfluence without authorityexecutive presenceleadershipcollaborationaccountabilitycommunicationstrategic relationship buildinginnovationclient experience enhancement