Event Production & Client Success Manager | $75K CAD

From Day One, Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

From Day One, Inc. in Canada seeks a remote Event Production & Client Success Manager to oversee both live and virtual conferences, managing budgets and sponsor relationships. The role blends production and client success to deliver polished events across formats.

You will handle A/V needs, venue layouts, vendor contracts, and run-of-show planning for thirteen live conferences and monthly virtual events. Starting salary CAD 75,000 with opportunities for advancement; remote work with occasional

Qualifications

• 4-year college/university degree at minimum.
• 3+ years of full-time post-graduate event experience.
• Direct experience producing complex corporate or conference events.
• Experience as a named point of contact for sponsors or external clients.
• Experience carrying many concurrent events with fixed deadlines and budgets.
• Proficient with project management tools such as ClickUp, Asana, or Monday.
• Willingness to travel regularly for events.
• This is a full-time salaried position. Starting salary is CAD 75,000 per year with opportunities for advancement.

Responsibilities

• Run the full production process for assigned conferences from the 180-day milestone through post-event wrap-up.
• Create detailed run-of-show schedules and venue layouts, and manage room capacity against the final content and expected attendance.
• Manage A/V teams on visual and audio production needs, walking the order line by line as content changes.
• Review and manage rental orders and vendor requirements, and hire and coordinate temporary event staff.
• Own vendor contracts across venue, catering, A/V, rentals, video, and photography, including deadlines and certificates of insurance.
• Build and maintain the event budget from signed contracts and estimates, and track costs against it as scope changes.
• Place badge, program, and signage orders against their drop-dead dates, and coordinate shipping and staff travel.
• Produce virtual events on platforms such as Zoom — setting up templates, managing schedules, and ensuring staffing of key roles.
• Act as point of contact for sponsors — administering deliverables and ensuring renewals.

Skills

Project management

Vendor negotiation

Budget ownership

Client success

A/V coordination

Budgeting

Communication

Travel

Education

4-year college/university degree

Tools

ClickUp

Asana

Monday

Zoom

Job description

Event Production & Client Success Manager | $75K CAD — Remote

This role offers a compelling blend of event production and client success — a rare combination that builds cross-functional skills valued highly in the events, media, and B2B SaaS industries. Managing 13+ live conferences plus monthly virtual events simultaneously will sharpen your project management, vendor negotiation, and budget ownership abilities at a fast pace.

Compensation: CAD $75,000 is at the lower end of the market for an experienced event manager in Canada. Toronto-based event production managers with 3-5 years of experience typically command CAD $70,000–$95,000. The salary is competitive for a remote role with advancement opportunities, but candidates with strong corporate event backgrounds may find room to negotiate.

• Owning full event budgets and vendor contracts builds hard skills transferable to senior producer, operations director, or account management roles.
• Client success experience with corporate sponsors is a strong pathway into B2B account management or partnership roles at larger media or events companies.
• Exposure to both live and virtual event production makes you versatile in a hybrid events market.

Culture signals: From Day One is a small, mission-driven media/events company (founded 2018). Their emphasis on "drivers not passengers" signals a lean team where you'll wear many hats with limited hand-holding — a green flag for self-starters, a red flag if you need structured management. The dual production + client success scope is demanding; ensure workload boundaries are discussed upfront.

Green flag: Clear advancement pathway mentioned. Yellow flag: No mention of benefits beyond salary (no health, vacation, or equity details).

About From Day One:

The business landscape is changing fast. From Day One is a media outlet and conference series that helps companies navigate all that change in ways that put people first.

Since our beginning in 2018, we've reached over 150,000 attendees, hosted over a thousand speakers, and produced conferences in more than 20 major U.S. cities–and counting. We take a unique, cross-disciplinary approach, convening leaders in CSR, HR, marketing, and communications, as well as civic leaders, authors, and journalists, to share business strategies that benefit workers, customers, and communities.

We also publish reporting and opinion pieces by a network of notable journalists, led by the company's editor in chief, veteran journalist Stephen Koepp .

At From Day One, we hire people who have a high degree of self-motivation and the potential to grow into active leaders. We call team members like these "drivers". If you are a passenger, From Day One will not be a good fit for you.

As you apply, think about whether these attributes describe you:

• You motivate and energize colleagues rather than waiting for inspiration.
• You're relentlessly resourceful and take ownership rather than seeking excuses.
• You look to consistently deliver great outcomes, and work to improve processes as you engage with them.
• You are excited about your work and bring urgency to your mission.
• You approach challenges with enthusiasm and optimism.

Our work is driven by our mission to improve the relationship between business and society, and our efforts are intended to contribute to a brighter future. By maintaining this optimistic outlook, we not only motivate ourselves but also uplift those around us. We believe that believing that the future will be better is the first step towards making it better — for others, and for ourselves personally.

Please note that diversity and inclusion are absolutely core to our mission, and we are committed to those values in our hiring process.

About This Role:

The Event Production & Client Success Manager manages the logistical needs of our production calendar for both live and virtual events, and owns the relationships with the sponsors who attend them.

Production is the larger share of the job, and volume is what defines it. In the next twelve months we are producing thirteen live conferences and a virtual conference every month. Several events sit at different planning milestones at once, and you would carry them without being told what is due next.

Key tasks include managing A/V teams on visual and audio production needs, review and management of rental orders, vendor requirements and temporary staff hiring, creation of venue layouts and detailed run-of-show schedules, execution of vendor contracts, and construction of the event budget. Much of the work is reconciliation — the A/V order against the current slate of content, the final catering guarantee against the projection it came from, the printed program against the website and the run of show.

Alongside production you would be the point of contact for a roster of sponsors, administering their deliverables and making sure their experience on site earns a renewal. Producing the event and serving the client are the same job here, done by the same person, which is what makes both halves work.

This is a remote position, and also includes regular travel to other cities for in-person events.

Responsibilities:

Event Production

• Run the full production process for assigned conferences from the 180-day milestone through post-event wrap-up, and lead the milestone production meetings along the way.
• Create detailed run-of-show schedules and venue layouts, and manage room capacity against the final slate of content and expected attendance.
• Manage A/V teams on visual and audio production needs, walking the order line by line as content changes.
• Review and manage rental orders and vendor requirements, and hire and coordinate temporary event staff.
• Own vendor contracts across venue, catering, A/V, rentals, video, and photography, including deadlines and certificates of insurance.
• Manage catering selections and final guarantees, and compare final numbers against projections.
• Build and maintain the event budget from signed contracts and estimates, and track costs against it as scope changes.
• Place badge, program, and signage orders against their drop-dead dates, and coordinate shipping and staff travel.
• Produce virtual events on platforms such as Zoom — setting up templates, managing schedules, and ensuring staffing of key roles.

Client Success

• Act as point of contact for a roster of sponsors on their event logistics, escalating as needed.
• Administer all sponsor deliverables — advance materials, shipping of display items, presentation media.
• Assign sponsor table locations, and confirm sponsor and speaker registrations against the production plan.
• Conduct post-event feedback calls, and contribute to renewal rate and customer satisfaction scores.

Requirements

• 4-year college/university degree at minimum.
• Strong academic background and a minimum of 3 years of full-time, professional post-graduation experience.
• Direct experience producing complex events — corporate or marketing events, executive gatherings, conferences, trade shows, festivals, or arts events — where you were accountable for the event coming off.
• Experience as a named point of contact for external clients, sponsors, or partners.
• Experience working in-house at a corporation at some point in your career, in any function. Our sponsors are corporate leaders, and the people who serve them best here have worked inside that environment themselves.
• Experience carrying many concurrent events against fixed deadlines, and owning event budgets and vendor contracts.
• Comfort with project management software such as ClickUp, Asana, or Monday as a daily working tool.
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills, and excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly for events.
• This is a full-time salaried position. Starting salary is $75,000 CAD per year with opportunities for regular advancement and raises.
• This position is remote, but please be available to meet with stakeholders based in or near the greater Toronto area if requested.

Remote work & career advice that actually works.