Live Event Producer Jobs

Bisnow is looking for someone with 1 - 3 years of Commercial Real Estate (including property management) experience or Live Event Production (identifying key topics/ prospecting speakers) experience. This position will report into the Chicago office 3-4 days per week - hybrid remote role.

BISNOW OVERVIEW

BISNOW is an industry leading, vertically integrated B2B platform serving the trillion dollar commercial real estate industry across North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland.

Our mission is to inform, connect and advance the commercial real estate community to do more business. From events and news to marketing services, talent solutions and now DaaS, BISNOW reaches millions of all-digital readers as well as thousands of event attendees, speakers, sponsors, advertisers and businesses looking to do more deals within CRE.

Operating in almost 50 MSA’s across North America, the UK and Europe, we tend to think globally, but strive to connect people hyper-locally.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pre and post-event meetings by providing direction, guidance, and feedback to all involved.
• Diligently research CRE, programming ideas and top-notch speakers for your events.
• Manage multiple events in various stages of production. This requires you to be extremely organized, detailed and have good time management skills.
• With your team, build from scratch and then manage the event experience. This involves researching out-of-the-box content ideas, recruiting and placing C-level executives on each conference, working side-by-side with sales to drive sponsorship and managing the event experience throughout the entire process.
• Work with different departments at Bisnow to reach goals that can often be lofty. Bisnow is a sales-driven business and this role is one that requires an individual who can work with and support the sales team in achieving shared goals, no matter how ambitious they might be.
• Provide excellent service, support and communication to event speakers & sponsors.
• Keep communication lines open through all departments on the status of events and projects.
• Work collaboratively and cooperatively with members of all other departments.
• Identify potential speakers & establish contact with said individuals; persistently recruit prospects using phone and email.
• Manage speaker relations and touchpoints - from the idea of the event to day-of execution.
• Utilize and establish contacts within the community to promote Bisnow and event attendance including partnerships with associations and local groups.
• Educate potential speakers on why it makes sense to spend their time speaking at one of your events.
• Persistently brainstorm fresh and relevant topic ideas with your teams to adapt to trends within the industry.
• Constantly look for innovative solutions to improve content and the attendee experience at your events.

What are we looking for?

• Commitment to accuracy, quality, consistency and transparency.
• Entrepreneurial and ambitious.
• The ability to establish and maintain relationships with key people in CRE.
• Innate hustle, raw intelligence, infectious enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity.
• Hands-on, roll up your sleeves worth ethic. Tenacity is expected.
• Receptive to feedback and always open to constructive criticism.
• Demonstrated interest in commercial real estate.
• Ability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.
• Never give up attitude. Positive mental state of mind and a strong desire to be challenged on a daily basis.
• Ability to manage, develop and launch multiple projects under time-sensitive deadlines.
• Flexibility and the ability to handle situations creatively as well as jump into projects as needed and the initiative to notice a need and offer assistance where applicable.
• 1 - 5 years of production or property management experience.
• Creativity and a healthy sense of humor.
• Great teammate with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven, with very strong project management and meticulous organizational skills.

What's in it for you?

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - this includes maternity and paternity leaves as well.
• Referral Bonus Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• Dependent Care Account
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - effective the 1st of the month following your start date.
• You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).
• 7 days paid sick leave
• Competitive compensation structure!
• 9 paid Holidays
• 401K
• Pet Friendly Offices