Global Events Director: Build & Scale Experiential Programs

Wwshemi; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Director of Events to own our events worldwide—hosted, spoken, and sponsored. You will set the strategy, manage production, and lead the budget and team, building the events function from the ground up.

Responsibilities include owning events calendar, producing launches and dinners, running the speaking program, negotiating sponsorships, and ensuring events reflect our product with Brand and Creative. Travel and on-site leadership are required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years producing events, including large hosted events, sponsorships, and field programs, ideally in-house at a technology company.
• Has built or led an events team.
• Has owned large budgets, agency relationships, and vendor contracts.
• Has negotiated sponsorships and knows a bad deal when they see one.
• Has run an executive speaking program: selecting stages, preparing speakers, managing the day.
• Knows production: run of show, staging, AV, registration, staffing, security, permits.
• Drives measurement. Has built event attribution and tracked brand sentiment, and reports what each event returned.
• Can partner with Sales, Product, Comms, Brand, Finance, Legal, and executives.
• Power user of AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Own events: hosted, speaking, and sponsored.
• Set the calendar of events to run, speak at, or skip.
• Produce launches, dinners, summits, and roadshows.
• Run the speaking program and prepare speakers.
• Manage sponsorships, negotiate terms, and track spend.
• Collaborate with Sales to bring in the right customers.
• Align events with brand and product; lead the team.
• Build systems: playbooks, event tiers, intake, vendors, budgets.
• Measure attendance, coverage, pipeline, and signups.
• Be on site at key events.

Skills

Event production

Budget management

Team leadership

Sponsorship negotiations

Strategic planning

Vendor management

Executive speaking program

AI tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Event platforms

AV systems

CRM systems

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Director of Events to own our events worldwide—hosted, spoken, and sponsored. You will set the strategy, manage production, and lead the budget and team, building the events function from the ground up.

Responsibilities include owning events calendar, producing launches and dinners, running the speaking program, negotiating sponsorships, and ensuring events reflect our product with Brand and Creative. Travel and on-site leadership are required.