Senior Strategic Events Lead — Executive & Internal Programs

Abnormalsecurity; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Abnormal is seeking a Senior Strategic Events Manager to lead owned, executive, and internal events, with a focus on delivering premium experiences that drive pipeline and engagement. You will own end-to-end planning, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure flawless execution across a growing portfolio.

You will design agendas for executive audiences, manage budgets, and build scalable playbooks while maintaining top-level hospitality and adherence to brand standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in strategic events, executive programs, or field marketing — including direct experience owning executive-level programs.
• Proven ownership of complex, high-visibility owned events and executive programs from strategy through execution and analysis.
• A premium experience mindset. You're obsessive about details, operationally excellent, and you build moments that people remember.
• Strong program management chops: organized, proactive, structured, relentless about deadlines, and genuinely good at driving cross-functional work to an outcome.
• Experience delivering large internal events such as Sales Kickoff, sales incentive or club trips, or company offsites.
• Real budget, vendor, agency, and contract management experience across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Exceptional communication skills — polished agendas, briefing docs, and executive-facing comms that need no cleanup.
• Executive maturity. You're comfortable and credible in a room full of senior leaders, internal or customer-side.
• Composure under pressure. You can build the plan months out and solve the unexpected problem on-site in four minutes.
• Commercially minded. You understand how events drive brand, customer relationships, and pipeline — and you make decisions accordingly.
• Demonstrated use of AI to improve how you work: streamlining workflows, sharpening decisions, and creating leverage.
• Willingness to travel roughly 25%, primarily in North America.
• Cybersecurity experience is a plus, not a requirement. What matters is executive acumen, judgment, attention to detail, and exceptional execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of some of Abnormal's key strategic events — from strategy and budget through delivery, measurement, and post-event analysis.
• Own every component that makes an owned event work: venue and vendor selection, production, registration and attendee journey, hospitality, staffing, technology, and on-site operations — partnering with Brand Creative, Content, and Comms on creative, branding, and agenda.
• Build the run-of-show, the project plan, the timeline, and the contingency plan — then run the room.
• Partner with Sales, Strategic Alliances, Campaigns, Field Marketing, Product Marketing, and others to make sure every event is engineered for pipeline and customer engagement, not just attendance.
• Manage budgets, contracts, POs, and vendor deliverables with real rigor. Know where every dollar went and what it returned.
• Develop repeatable playbooks, templates, and standards so the portfolio scales without losing quality.
• Act as the event's point of contact for your programs — the person stakeholders trust to have it handled.
• Anticipate risk, elevate early and appropriately, and keep programs on track when priorities shift. They will shift.
• Executive Experiences: design and deliver premium executive programs, advisory boards, curated hospitality, and the executive tracks inside our larger events.
• Bring hospitality-grade instincts to a B2B environment and ensure touchpoints are intentional, frictionless, and elevated.
• Coordinate executive and VIP participation end to end — briefing materials, prep, on-site handling, and thoughtful follow-through.
• Represent Abnormal directly to senior customer executives with professionalism and a premium service mindset.

Job description

Abnormal is seeking a Senior Strategic Events Manager to lead owned, executive, and internal events, with a focus on delivering premium experiences that drive pipeline and engagement. You will own end-to-end planning, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure flawless execution across a growing portfolio.

You will design agendas for executive audiences, manage budgets, and build scalable playbooks while maintaining top-level hospitality and adherence to brand standards.