Senior Manager, Marketing Events
Upwork- Full Time
- Posted : 2 years ago
TELECOMMUTE Location: Remote, Work from Home
Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We help connect companies large and small with top independent talent from around the world. Simply put, our mission is to create economic opportunities so people have better lives.
Every year, more than $2 billion of work is done through Upwork by skilled independent professionals who want the freedom of working anytime, anywhere.
Upwork’s Field and Event Marketing team is seeking a motivated, creative, and highly organized Senior Manager, Marketing Events that will play a vital role in shaping, delivering, and measuring events that contribute to the growth of the company.
In this role, you will work closely with the Director of Field & Marketing Events to create and implement digital, in-person and hybrid experiences for customers and prospects. You will build brand visibility through hosted, partner and sponsored events that highlight creative, innovative, and forward thinking Upwork culture and products. The ideal candidate has a passion for marketing events and understands how to shape them to raise brand awareness, foster customer loyalty, and has experience with driving event strategy, management, creative planning and logistics that bring them to life, especially for an enterprise audience. If you have the skills, we have a people first, collaborative and high-quality culture organization where you can thrive.
Responsibilities and Duties- Research and identify strategic trade shows and events that will help grow brand awareness and drive sales
- Create event budgets, timelines, run of shows, event briefs and post-event follow-ups and debriefings
- Drive strategy and development of our exhibit properties, collateral, and promotional give-aways & collaborate with internal and external resources to design, build and install tradeshow booths
- Work directly with tradeshow and event management teams to secure exhibit space and conference sponsorships
- Act as an on-site point of contact at events including overseeing deliveries and transportation of supplies, attendee check-in and organization of on-site details
- Research and suggest venues, and negotiate details for hosted customer events
- Prepare post event analysis for each event, incorporating feedback and improvement recommendations
What it takes to catch our eye:
- Project management expertise and superior organizational skills, attention to detail and an ability to anticipate needs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate and integrate with geographically dispersed points of contact
- Self-starter and independent judgement with financial oversight of event budget(s)
- Strong problem-solving ability with prioritization and experience working under tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment
- Ability to travel up to 50% both national and international scope
Come change how the world works.
At Upwork, you’ll shape talent solutions for how the world works today. We are a remote-first organization working together to create exciting remote work opportunities for a global community of professionals. While we have physical offices in San Francisco and Chicago, currently we also support hiring of corporate full-time employees in 15 states in the United States. Please speak with a member of our recruitment team to determine whether you are located in a state in which we are hiring corporate full-time employees.Our vibrant culture is built on shared values and our mission to create economic opportunities so that people have better lives. We foster amazing teams, put our community first, and have a bias toward action. We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work and grow together through development opportunities, mentorship, and employee resource groups. Oh yeah, we’ve also got amazing benefits.
Upwork is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Skills
- Sales
- communication skills
- Marketing
- Organization skills
- Problem Solving
- Time management
- Analysis
- Event Marketing
- Project Management
- Event Management
- Written & Verbal Communication
- Collaborative
- Budget Management
