Event Manager V

Planet Group; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

In-office 3 days/week

Job summary

The Planet Group is seeking an experienced Event Manager to lead and execute a range of events, activations and product demonstrations across New York, NY or Burlingame, CA. This contract role requires in-office presence at least 3 days per week.

Typical duties include designing product experiences, coordinating vendors, budgeting and cross-functional collaboration with marketing, product and creative teams. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ client-facing experience of event management, production or within a creative agency.
• Knowledge coordinating virtual and in-person events
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration, organizational design and systems planning
• Communication and presentation experience with proven track record of working with executive leadership
• Experience managing vendors
• Experience with production budgets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience using judgment and analysis, providing practical, timely and proactive communication guidance and support
• Production of large scale, complex events
• Program/ project management (bias for operations and highly organized)
• Hands on experience with Wearables (preferred)
• Global experience (preferred)
• Relatively tech savvy (preferred)
• In-house Fortune 500 experience (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Support and execute events and experiences
• Design, develop and scale the delivery of Product Experiences in support of internal and external stakeholders
• Provide creative production and logistics expertise for events including experience consultation, demo design, staffing, tech and on-site support
• Create partnerships with marketing, product and creative teams
• Support the development of processes and playbooks that streamline and scale our operations
• Partner with agencies to plan and execute experiential
• Availability and willingness to travel up to 25%
• Establish and support strategic measurement and marketing plans for events
• Support post-reporting processes and data collection

Skills

Event management

Vendor management

Cross-functional

Budget management

Communication

Project management

Travel coordination

VR/AI experience

Job description

Event Manager
Location:Onsite min 3 days per week:New York, NY or Burlingame, CA.
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 12months
Pay:$80/hr - $85/hr(DOE)

The Planet Groupisan experienced, highly motivated, detail-oriented Experiences Producer to work cross-functionally to lead, execute and support a range of events, activations and product demonstrations. This producer will join the Product Experiences team within the Global Experiential and Industry Marketing Team. This is a contract position for at least 12 months and requires in-office presence at least 3 days per week in our New York, NY or Burlingame, CA offices.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support and execute events and experiences
• Design, develop and scale the delivery of Product Experiences in support of internal and external stakeholders
• Provide creative production and logistics expertise for events including experience consultation, demo design, staffing, tech and on-site support
• Create partnerships with marketing, product and creative teams
• Support the development of processes and playbooks that streamline and scale our operations
• Partner with agencies to plan and execute experiential
• Availability and willingness to travel up to 25%
• Establish and support strategic measurement and marketing plans for events
• Support post-reporting processes and data collection

Job Qualifications:

• 5+ client-facing experience of event management, production or within a creative agency
• Knowledge coordinating virtual and in-person events
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration, organizational design and systems planning
• Communication and presentation experience with proven track record of working with executive leadership
• Experience managing vendors
• Experience with standard project management tools and methodologies
• Experience managing production budgets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience using judgment and analysis, providing practical, timely and proactive communication guidance and support Experience with and proficiency in assessing data reports for metrics, trends, and patterns for communications and event-related metrics
• Production of large scale, complex events
• Program/ project management (bias for operations and highly organized)
• VR + AI Experience
• Preferred QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Hands on experience with Wearables
  • Global experience
  • Relatively tech savvy is a super nice to have, level 1 troubleshooting
  • Someone that has been in-house is ideal. Fortune 500 companies.

Typical Day-to-Day in the role

• Working closely with immediate team and extended stakeholders to manage all aspects of product demos within events such as Game Developers Conferences, CES< Coachella, Superbowl, NBA ALL Star as well as various first party events such as Connect, partner activations, press launches, policy events, etc.