Global Forum Content & Programming Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 122,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned events/content/programming leader to own FORUM's content and programming engine across global editions. You will shape the executive narrative, speaker lineup, session design, and editorial bar to ensure a cohesive, high-impact program.

In this role, you will curate agendas, manage keynotes, source speakers, partner with Engagement teams, and build scalable playbooks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in events, content, or programming roles, ideally with exposure to flagship or high-visibility conferences.
• Experience developing world-class content for large in-person events, including themes, session design, and speaker curation.
• Experience managing speakers directly: outreach, scheduling, rehearsals, and day-of support.
• A strong storyteller who can distill complex business and product priorities into narratives that resonate with senior stakeholders and attendees alike.
• A strategic thinker who can process disparate information quickly, make and communicate decisions fast, and build new plans and processes from scratch.
• Comfort partnering cross-functionally with Product, Product Marketing, Creative/Design, and Leadership, including at the executive level, while holding tight timelines.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to run multiple high-profile events and concurrent content workstreams at once without dropping details.
• A process-first mindset: comfortable building trackers, playbooks, and documentation that bring structure to a fast-moving program.
• High ownership, professionalism, tact, and judgment, with the ability to operate under ambiguity.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with a sharp eye for cutting jargon and filler from session copy and talk tracks.

Responsibilities

• Curate the full agenda: session descriptions, breakout talk tracks, and content across multiple stages, ensuring every session earns its place on the program and ladders up to the event's strategic goals.
• Project manage the the company Product Keynote end to end, working with Product and Product Marketing to determine which products get showcased and how.
• Source, manage, and prepare speakers from outreach through rehearsal: scheduling calls, shaping talking points, running rehearsals, and ensuring every speaker is set up to succeed on stage.
• Partner with Customer Engagement to identify and curate customer stories that can be shaped into compelling on-stage content
• Coordinate evening entertainment and activation programming, ensuring off-stage moments are as considered and on-narrative as the main program.
• Build and maintain the systems, trackers, and playbooks (run-of-show, session trackers, speaker databases) that bring rigor to programming and let it scale across editions and geographies.
• Analyze post-event data and feedback to inform content strategy, speaker selection, and format decisions for future editions.
• Deliver clear, organized status updates to Leadership on programming progress, risks, and open decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally across Production, Marketing, and Enablement to make sure content decisions translate cleanly into the live event experience.

Skills

Storytelling

Project management

Executive engagement

Editorial instincts

Cross-functional collaboration

Speaker curation

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned events/content/programming leader to own FORUM's content and programming engine across global editions. You will shape the executive narrative, speaker lineup, session design, and editorial bar to ensure a cohesive, high-impact program.

In this role, you will curate agendas, manage keynotes, source speakers, partner with Engagement teams, and build scalable playbooks.