Director, Executive Events Strategy & Operations

QTS Realty Trust; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching

Bonus eligibility

Generous PTO

Volunteer days

Floating holidays

Stock Purchase Plan

11 paid holidays

Sabbatical

Parental leave

Military benefits

Charitable matching

Scholarship for dependents

Crisis fund

Wellness program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

QTS Realty Trust is seeking a Director, Event Strategy & Operations to lead the company-wide events function, shaping strategy and translating priorities into high-visibility events from executive meetings to tradeshows. This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution across planning, logistics, and post-event reporting.

The ideal candidate will bring 10+ years of large-scale event leadership, 5+ years managing teams, and a proven track record delivering executive-level events,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale corporate events, executive meetings, conferences, tradeshows, site activations, or similar high-visibility events.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience directly supervising an event planning function or event team.
• Demonstrated experience owning executive-level or C-level events from strategy through onsite execution and post-event follow-up.
• Experience managing event budgets, vendor negotiations, contracts, timelines, logistics, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to travel and work outside standard business hours as needed, approximately 40% travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead the event strategy for QTS-hosted and attended events, ensuring each event has a clear purpose, audience, business objective, and desired outcome.
• Own planning and execution for high-profile, C-level, CEO, customer, partner, and board-facing events, including executive briefing needs, guest experience, run of show, and onsite readiness.
• Lead the centralized event planning team and establish clear swim lanes, priorities, timelines, and standards for execution.
• Administer all phases of the event process, including planning, logistics, registration, staffing, catering, transportation, audiovisual, signage, collateral, run of show, onsite execution, teardown, and post-event follow-up.
• Develop event ROI and reporting dashboards and post-event learnings to improve future planning.

Skills

Executive presence

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

QTS Realty Trust is seeking a Director, Event Strategy & Operations to lead the company-wide events function, shaping strategy and translating priorities into high-visibility events from executive meetings to tradeshows. This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution across planning, logistics, and post-event reporting.

The ideal candidate will bring 10+ years of large-scale event leadership, 5+ years managing teams, and a proven track record delivering executive-level events,