Director, Experiential Marketing & Live Events

Zotec Partners; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zotec Partners is seeking a Director of Experiential Marketing to lead our tradeshow, event, speaking engagement, and client-facing experiential strategy. You’ll own planning, execution, optimization, and measurement of high-impact experiences that strengthen our brand and engage clients, prospects, partners.

This role requires strong operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, vendor management, executive presence, and the ability to connect event strategy to business priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, hospitality, event management or related field.
• 4–7 years of experience in event marketing, tradeshow management, experiential marketing, sales enablement or related marketing operations role.
• Experience managing tradeshows, conferences, client events, executive events or industry sponsorships.
• Strong project management, organizational and problem‑solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the annual tradeshow, conference, speaking engagement, and event calendar with cross‑functional partners.
• Lead planning and execution for industry conferences, client dinners, networking events and booth experiences.
• Own end‑to‑end event logistics: timelines, budgets, vendor coordination, staffing, onsite execution and follow‑up.
• Create repeatable event playbooks, planning templates, checklists and post‑event recap processes.
• Coordinate event materials, collateral and follow‑up assets with sales and marketing teams.
• Measure outcomes with post‑event reporting linking activity to pipeline and ROI.

Skills

Event marketing

Tradeshow management

Project management

Budgets

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field

Job description

Zotec Partners is seeking a Director of Experiential Marketing to lead our tradeshow, event, speaking engagement, and client-facing experiential strategy. You’ll own planning, execution, optimization, and measurement of high-impact experiences that strengthen our brand and engage clients, prospects, partners.

This role requires strong operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, vendor management, executive presence, and the ability to connect event strategy to business priorities.