Trade Show Event Manager

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🕒 September 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105.8k - $193.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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Alkira

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☁️ SaaS

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🤝 B2B

SaaS • Enterprise • B2B

Alkira is a cloud networking company that provides a network-as-a-service platform to connect enterprise sites, data centers, and public cloud networks with a single, software-defined overlay. It offers a cloud-native approach to building, managing, and securing multi-cloud and hybrid-network connectivity, delivered as a managed/SaaS service to enterprise and service provider customers.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end execution for Tier 1 and Tier 2 third-party events • Support the External Event Strategy lead in executing portfolio plans and event strategies • Own event planning documents, timelines, project plans, run-of-shows, staffing schedules, and execution workstreams • Manage event agencies, vendors, venues, and production partners • Lead onsite event logistics, stakeholder engagement, staffing, issue resolution, and overall operations • Develop and manage event staffing plans • Produce customer dinners, executive roundtables, receptions, hospitality programs, meeting experiences, and partner engagements • Coordinate Sales, Product Marketing, Communications, Brand, IT, and Partner Marketing teams • Create scalable event processes, templates, and planning tools • Manage budgets, timelines, vendor deliverables, brand standards, and organizational requirements • Track event results and contribute to post-event reporting, insights, and recommendations • Identify opportunities to improve attendee engagement and create innovative activations • Help Alkira, a Lumen company building an enterprise networking platform, deliver event experiences that support business objectives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of professional experience, or 6+ years with a Master's degree • 5+ years of experience executing large-scale third-party events, conferences, trade shows, or experiential marketing programs • Experience supporting major industry events such as AWS re:Invent, Microsoft Ignite, Cisco Live, Gartner Symposium, Mobile World Congress, or similar programs • Ability to manage multiple complex event workstreams simultaneously with exceptional attention to detail • Experience developing project plans, staffing schedules, run-of-show documents, production timelines, and operational frameworks • Experience managing event agencies, vendors, production partners, and venue relationships • Success leading onsite event operations and serving as the primary event producer in high-pressure environments • Experience planning and executing ancillary events including customer receptions, executive engagements, hospitality programs, and networking experiences • Strong project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills • Ability to collaborate across Sales, Product, Marketing, Communications, and executive leadership teams • Highly organized and self-directed; comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous or rapidly changing priorities • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25–40% • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored visa support • Preferred: agency experience, telecom background, B2B marketing experience, event production, partner marketing, and 8+ years of experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Background screening may include criminal records, motor vehicle reports, and/or drug screening depending on position requirements • Equal employment opportunity protections • Applicant privacy and data protection safeguards

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