Senior Enterprise Event Architect

planned; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Planned, the AI Event Intelligence Platform, is seeking a Senior Event Manager to own end-to-end delivery of complex corporate events for enterprise clients. You will set the standard for events and shape the client experience on our platform.

You'll lead high-volume events, negotiate with venues and suppliers, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve playbooks. This role requires experience at scale and comfort with AI-enabled processes in a fast-paced, tech-forward environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing corporate or enterprise events end to end, with 100+ attendees and six-figure budgets.
• Demonstrated venue and vendor negotiation experience.
• Strong commercial judgment balancing client experience with budget and margin.
• Ability to manage a high volume of complex events under heavy load.
• Comfort with tech-forward environments and using AI to automate tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own a high volume of client events from intake through post-event reconciliation as a senior industry expert.
• Translate ambiguous briefs into clear scopes, realistic budgets, and defensible venue and vendor recommendations.
• Source and negotiate with venues and suppliers - room blocks, F&B minimums, attrition and cancellation clauses, AV, and BEOs.
• Anticipate and resolve risk before it reaches the client: supplier fall-through, date changes, headcount swings, permitting and compliance issues.
• Serve as the bridge between client experience and product - surface friction patterns to Product and Engineering, and help improve the playbooks and templates the wider team runs on.

Skills

Event management

Negotiation

Budgeting

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools

Job description

Planned, the AI Event Intelligence Platform, is seeking a Senior Event Manager to own end-to-end delivery of complex corporate events for enterprise clients. You will set the standard for events and shape the client experience on our platform.

You'll lead high-volume events, negotiate with venues and suppliers, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve playbooks. This role requires experience at scale and comfort with AI-enabled processes in a fast-paced, tech-forward environment.