Senior Global Events Manager

As a Senior Global Events Manager, you'll bring the GitLab brand to life through a variety of events. You'll work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to develop, execute, and report on end-to-end events. In this role, you will manage post-program deliverables, including event analysis, reports of budget, attendee feedback as well as oversee and onboard different vendor and partner contractors.

What you'll do in this role

• Lead on-site execution and management, including staffing and resourcing for a portfolio of events
• Manage the related budget for assigned events, including sponsorship, event booth execution and experience (when applicable), while balancing ROI and aligning spend to strategic goals
• Exemplary analytical skills and proven aptitude to use data to optimize program performance and inform future strategies.
• Elevate the experience for both internal and external participants to differentiate GitLab and engage customers and prospects
• Develop and deliver event enablement to include pre-event briefings, at-event briefings, and drive post-event follow-up briefings and event retrospectives
• Partner with internal cross-functional teams to create event agendas, campaigns, and content that meet engagement targets.
• Oversee creation of event communications and promotion for programs, in partnership with demand generation and sales development teams, to drive attendance and engagement from internal teams
• Deliver reporting analysis on performance and business impact for designated events and activities
• Planning and production for large scale first, third party and internal sales events, including brief development, project management, designing, sourcing, and delivering the desired event experience
• Collaborate with sales team to generate ongoing feedback loop to help drive more prospects/customers to events
• Extends the Senior Corporate Event Manager Responsibilities.
• Plan and operate a in a transparent manner for cross-organizational visibility and be a leader in sharing best practices with other corporate event managers.
• Drive assigned work streams associated with team programs where you are not the lead, including staffing, resourcing, and on-site execution.

We're looking for

• Relevant, progressive experience in corporate events.
• Exerts significant influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of the team.
• Expertise in budget and project management and superior organizational skills.
• Expertise in core event logistics and managing complex event programs.
• Helps shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Confidently ships large scale campaigns and events with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Represents GitLab and its values in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions. Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Ability to solve complex problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Actively seeks out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team, propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster.
• The ability to advocate for improvements to event quality, results, and efficiency that have particular impact across your team and others.
• The ability to plan for tight deadlines and unexpected complexities.
• Excellent communicator with proven aptitude to clearly convey ideas and data in written and verbal presentations to a variety of audiences.
• The ability to work effectively under pressure and on multiple project requests simultaneously.
• Ability to travel and comply with the company’s travel policy.
• Capacity to easily transition from high level strategic thinking to creative and detailed execution.
• Provides mentorship for all event managers on the team to help them grow in their tactical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.