Event Manager

Event Manager

Job Description

Location: Onsite min 3 days per week: New York, NY or Burlingame, CA.

Schedule: 40 hours

Duration: 12 months

Pay: $80/hr - $85/hr (DOE)

The Planet Group is an experienced, highly motivated, detail-oriented Experiences Producer to work cross-functionally to lead, execute and support a range of events, activations and product demonstrations. This producer will join the Product Experiences team within the Global Experiential and Industry Marketing Team. This is a contract position for at least 12 months and requires in-office presence at least 3 days per week in our New York, NY or Burlingame, CA offices.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support and execute events and experiences
• Design, develop and scale the delivery of Product Experiences in support of internal and external stakeholders
• Provide creative production and logistics expertise for events including experience consultation, demo design, staffing, tech and on-site support
• Create partnerships with marketing, product and creative teams
• Support the development of processes and playbooks that streamline and scale our operations
• Partner with agencies to plan and execute experiential
• Availability and willingness to travel up to 25%
• Establish and support strategic measurement and marketing plans for events
• Support post-reporting processes and data collection

Job Qualifications:

• 5+ client-facing experience of event management, production or within a creative agency
• Knowledge coordinating virtual and in-person events
• Experience in cross-functional collaboration, organizational design and systems planning
• Communication and presentation experience with proven track record of working with executive leadership
• Experience managing vendors
• Experience with standard project management tools and methodologies
• Experience managing production budgets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience using judgment and analysis, providing practical, timely and proactive communication guidance and support Experience with and proficiency in assessing data reports for metrics, trends, and patterns for communications and event-related metrics
• Production of large scale, complex events
• Program/ project management (bias for operations and highly organized)
• VR + AI Experience
• Preferred QUALIFICATIONS:
• Hands on experience with Wearables
• Global experience
• Relatively tech savvy is a super nice to have, level 1 troubleshooting
• Someone that has been in-house is ideal. Fortune 500 companies.

Typical Day-to-Day in the role

• Working closely with immediate team and extended stakeholders to manage all aspects of product demos within events such as Game Developers Conferences, CES, Coachella, Superbowl, NBA ALL Star as well as various first party events such as Connect, partner activations, press launches, policy events, etc.

EEO Statement

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The Planet Group and our companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.