Head of Corporate Events

The role

You will lead the team and strategy for high-visibility moments including global tradeshows, user conferences, and company kickoffs. You will manage a team of 4-5 people and a multi-million dollar budget.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of 4-5 corporate events professionals
• Own end-to-end planning and execution of CriblCon, annual Company Kickoff, and annual President's Club
• Set strategy and manage execution across a global tradeshow calendar of 12-14 shows per year
• Own and manage a multi-million dollar events budget
• Partner with executive leadership to plan and stage high-visibility moments
• Build cross-functional partnerships across Comms, Brand & Creative, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, ProdEng, and Sales
• Establish and evolve event strategy, processes, and playbooks
• Manage vendor and agency relationships and negotiate contracts
• Define and report on event success metrics
• Represent the events function in cross-functional marketing leadership discussions

Required qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in corporate events, field marketing, or event marketing
• 3+ years of experience directly managing and developing a team
• Experience owning and managing multi-million dollar budgets
• Ability to work effectively with senior executives
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Excellent organizational, negotiation, and vendor management skills
• Willingness to travel to the majority of Cribl's global events (~40% travel)
• A calm, decisive leadership style

Nice to have

• Experience planning and executing large-scale user conferences, internal company events (kickoffs), and incentive/recognition trip programs (President's Club)

Benefits

• health
• dental
• vision
• short-term disability
• life insurance
• paid holidays
• paid time off
• fertility treatment benefit
• 401(k)
• equity

About the company

Cribl is a remote-first company building telemetry infrastructure for the AI era. They partner with IT and Security teams at many of the world's biggest enterprises.