Senior Event Manager (US)

Planned; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Planned is seeking a Senior Event Manager to own end-to-end delivery of corporate events for enterprise clients, including large-scale programs. You will manage briefs, budgets, venues, and vendors, while mitigating risk and maintaining Planned's margin.

The role is remote within the United States, requiring leadership in fast-paced environments and comfort with AI to streamline day-to-day tasks. You will collaborate cross-functionally to improve event playbooks and templates used by the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of managing corporate or enterprise events end to end.
• Experience with programs of 100+ attendees and six-figure budgets.
• Proven venue and vendor negotiation experience.
• Strong budget tradeoffs between client experience and margin.
• Ability to manage a high volume of complex events under pressure.
• Comfort with AI tools to streamline event delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own a high volume of client events from intake to post-event reconciliation.
• Translate briefs into clear scopes, budgets, and vendor plans.
• Source and negotiate venues, AV, room blocks, and catering.
• Anticipate risks and resolve issues before they affect the client.
• Bridge client experience and product, surfacing feedback for playbooks.

Skills

Event management

Program management

Budget management

Vendor negotiations

Risk management

AI-enabled tools

Job description

View all jobs Senior Event Manager (US) United States Customer Success Remote Full-time Planned is the AI Event Intelligence Platform. Enterprises use Planned to source, manage, and pay for their meetings and events, with AI doing the work that used to take entire teams and agencies. We're on a mission to disrupt a $500+ billion industry. To achieve that, we want to work with brilliant minds and natural leaders who are driven to out-think, out-plan, and outperform the competition. We tackle every business decision with enthusiasm, and we love the work that we do! As our next Senior Event Manager, you’ll own the end-to-end delivery of complex corporate events for our largest enterprise clients (some of the most recognizable global logos). This is a role for someone who has already run corporate events at scale and can operate with minimal oversight. You’ll set the standard for how events are delivered at Planned, and your judgment will shape how our clients experience the platform.

What You'll Do

• Own a high volume of client events from intake through post-event reconciliation, serving as a senior industry expert
• Translate ambiguous or incomplete 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 - protecting both client budget and Planned's margin
• 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

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years managing corporate or enterprise events end to end, ideally including programs of 100+ attendees and budgets in the six figures
• Demonstrated venue and vendor negotiation experience - you've reviewed contracts, pushed back on terms, and know where the leverage is
• Sound commercial judgment: you weigh client experience against budget and margin, and you can explain the tradeoff
• Organized under a heavy load - you can manage a high volume of complex events without dropping details, and you thrive in fast-paced environments
• Comfortable operating in a tech-forward environment and adopting new tools quickly - you're already using AI to remove the manual work from your day-to-day

Not sure you meet all the role requirements, but have a passion for Planned and are eager to help build a great product?