Events Specialist (AI)

Location: Hybrid, based in Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA; in-office attendance required. Travel of approximately 20%–30% domestically and internationally is required, including venue inspections, vendor meetings, and event execution. Periodic evenings, weekends, and non-standard hours are required during live event builds and program execution.

Annual base pay: $93,300.00–$139,900.00, plus possible incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.

Company

Cybersecurity and application delivery company focused on helping organizations create, secure, and run applications.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of large-scale marketing events, conferences, trade shows, and customer experiences, including post-event wrap-up.
• Develop project plans, critical-path schedules, milestone trackers, and program budgets in Uptempo, including spend, purchase orders, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Field Marketing, Demand Generation, Creative Services, and Sales on event themes, content, promotions, and account-based attendee acquisition.
• Source, negotiate with, and manage exhibit production houses, audiovisual and staging teams, venues, caterers, transportation providers, agencies, and other vendors.
• Oversee booth properties, demo station technical setups, partner deliverables, and on-site brand installations, with a focus on AI-centric events and attendee engagement.
• Establish lead qualification and sales handoff processes, analyze attendee feedback and session attendance, and report pipeline influence and event ROI.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Hospitality, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in event planning and project management, preferably within an enterprise B2B technology or SaaS organization.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce, Marketo, Uptempo, enterprise event registration platforms, badge scanning, and attendee mobile app platforms.
• Proven success leading complex, multi-day marketing events, large trade show booth presences, and cross-functional campaigns from strategy through execution.
• Experience managing RFP processes, negotiating master services agreements, and directing agency and production teams.
• Deep understanding of the enterprise event marketing ecosystem and exceptional project governance, organization, multitasking, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder influence across matrixed, cross-functional, and global teams, including senior leadership, account executives, and external partners.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills for communicating event logistics, program briefs, and metrics to diverse audiences.
• Ability to travel approximately 20%–30% domestically and internationally, communicate across multiple time zones, stand and walk for extended periods, and lift promotional or collateral items weighing up to 25 lbs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a diverse community focused on improving outcomes for customers and their customers.
• Hybrid work environment with professional office or home-office duties.
• Opportunity to work on live, digital, and hybrid experiences for global audiences.
• Benefits may include incentive compensation, bonuses, restricted stock units, and other company benefits.