Sr Corporate Events Manager

The role

The Sr Corporate Events Manager will support the event portfolio including Pulse conferences, trade shows, virtual events, and internal programs. This role involves managing planning, execution, budgets, vendors, and reporting across multiple events.

What you will do

• Lead assigned programs end to end, owning the plan, timeline, and results.
• Own planning and execution of assigned flagship events, including content, speakers, venues, and logistics.
• Run trade shows and the quarterly virtual event series.
• Manage logistics and delivery for internal programs such as Revenue Kickoff and Quarterly Company Meetings.
• Manage event budgets, contracts, and agency and vendor relationships.
• Partner with Demand Generation, Sales, Customer Success, and Campaign Managers on promotion and registration.
• Track attendance, pipeline, and retention results for each event.
• Report on event impact to senior stakeholders.
• Build AI-assisted workflows to reduce manual operational work.

Required qualifications

• 12 years of relevant experience
• bachelor’s degree (or equivalent with some post-graduate work)
• Hands-on experience managing end-to-end execution of large events (1,000+ attendees)
• Experience across multiple event formats, including trade shows, virtual events, executive or VIP programs, and internal events
• Strong budget, contract, and vendor management skills
• Ability to work independently and represent the team with senior stakeholders
• Familiarity with softwares and platforms such as Cvent, Splash, Notion, SFDC, Google Suite, Slack
• Experience working with full-service event agencies and external production partners
• Experience using AI in day-to-day work

Nice to have

• Experience producing global events or managing multi-region logistics
• PMP, CMP or similar certification
• Experience in customer success, post-sales, or retention, or in a related B2B software category

Benefits

• fully covered medical premiums (employee-only)
• flexible PTO
• 401(k) plan
• dental and vision coverage
• remote work options
• $10,000 lifetime fertility stipend
• access to coworking spaces around the globe
• Recharge Holidays - one long weekend each quarter

About the company

Gainsight is the AI-powered retention engine behind the world’s most customer-centric companies. The Gainsight CustomerOS platform orchestrates the customer journey from onboarding to outcomes to advocacy.