Elastic Senior Event Marketing Manager 

United States 

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You’ll Spend Your Time

• Planning and executing events from conception to completion, ensuring all logistical details are meticulously handled and the experience maximizes engagement and value.
• Leading vendor relationships and partnering with agencies and service organizations to achieve event goals efficiently and effectively.
• Collaborating with marketing, sales, and engineering teams to understand their business targets and strategize alignment with the company’s brand and messaging.
• Creating and managing event budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness.
• Working in partnership with Procurement to negotiate contracts with vendors and service providers to optimize resources and secure all required InfoSec and Privacy approvals.
• Tracking return on investment, engagement, and audience feedback to measure results, assess opportunities for improvement, and optimize future events for an exceptional attendee experience.
• Anticipating and mitigating potential risks related to events. Developing contingency plans and safety protocols to address unforeseen disruptions.

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of experience in B2B marketing or event management with a demonstrated ability to engage effectively with users and leadership.
• Capable of leading, creating, and presenting a long-term vision, and with a supporting strategy to achieve it. Equipped with a business focus and delivery approach that enables engagement at the executive level.
• Proven effectiveness in collaborating with cross-functional team members, approaching challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Energy, flexibility, and aim to create real and measurable business results. Visionary mindset to align event goals and measurement of success with company business priorities and goals.
• Experience in executing integrated, ROI-driven marketing and lead generation campaigns.
• Self-starter with outstanding organizational and time management abilities, keen attention to detail, and thinking steps ahead in the process.
• A dedication to perfecting small details and exceeding user experience expectations
• Previous collaboration with sales teams, demonstrating an understanding of how to support and accelerate their efforts.
• A data-driven mindset, with experience in analyzing campaign results to derive actionable business recommendations and insights.
• Comfortability with multitasking, catering to various stakeholders, within a fast-paced work environment.
• Flexibility to travel up to 40% of the time and manage a remote work environment

Physical Requirements

• Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects
• Ability to endure long hours of standing or sitting onsite at tradeshows.