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# Corporate Events Manager

Do you love producing amazing customer experiences? Do you thrive on bringing strong brand experience and learning opportunities to life? Are you a detail-oriented marketer with a strong events and engagement marketing background?

### Responsibilities
* Lead execution of corporate events and swag to amplify our brand story and image at national and international trade shows, internal events, user conferences, brand activations and all other events.
* Proactively manage and strategize all event needs. End-to-end event management, from lead-handling and content creation to venue selection and event execution.
* Establish event goals and budget: gather and track ROI, engagement analytics, and feedback to consistently assess and implement opportunities for improvement.
* Develop pre-event, at-event, and post-event marketing plans in conjunction with product marketing, content, alliances, demand generation and field teams.
* Advance, maintain, and manage external partners and vendors for multiple events and swag, including negotiating optimal terms.
* Partner with internal cross-functional teams to create event agendas, campaigns, and content that meet engagement objectives.
* Lead creation of event communications and promotion for event programs, in partnership with demand generation and sales development teams, to drive attendance.
* Develop and deliver event enablement to include pre-event briefings, at-event briefings, and drive post-event follow-up briefings and event retrospectives.
* Solicit speaking sessions for all relevant corporate conferences and industry trade shows.

### Requirements
* 3+ years corporate marketing events planning and management experience in the high-tech industry.
* Independent worker capable of managing multiple deadlines with little supervision.
* Ability to work smart under pressure and efficiently on multiple project requests simultaneously, and to deal with potential for tight deadlines and unexpected complexities.
* Strong communicator and collaborator; able to work with a variety of teams and personalities, possessing excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* Proven skills interacting with executive/senior management teams.
* Strong project management and decision-making skills.
* Very detail-oriented.
* Flexible work schedule and the ability to travel approximately 50% of the time.
* Ability to use GitLab
* **Additional Requirement for Europe candidates**:
  * Must be in Europe and must be fully eligible to travel within the EU.
  * Regional knowledge and existing network of vendors in EMEA.

## Hiring process

Candidates for these positions can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our [team page](/company/team/).

* Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute [screening call](/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#conducting-a-screening-call) with one of our Global Recruiters.
* A 45 minute interview with our Manager, Corporate Events
* A 30 minute interview with one of our Corporate Events Managers
* A 45 minute interview with our Director or Corporate Marketing
* A 45 minute interview with our Chief Marketing Officer
* Finally, our CEO may choose to conduct a final interview
* Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

### Hiring Process for Europe

Candidates for these positions can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our [team page](/company/team/).

* Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute [screening call](/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#conducting-a-screening-call) with one of our Global Recruiters.
* A 45 minute interview with our Manager, Corporate Events
* A 30 minute interview with one of our EMEA Field Marketing Manager
* A 45 minute interview with our Director or Corporate Marketing
* A 45 minute interview with our Chief Marketing Officer
* Finally, our CEO may choose to conduct a final interview
* Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

# Senior Corporate Events Manager

Do you love producing flawless customer experiences? Do you thrive on bringing strong brand experience and learning opportunities to life? Are you a detail-oriented marketer with a strong events and engagement marketing background? Do you like thinking outside the box and providing innovative solutions and experiences?

### Responsibilities

* Lead execution of corporate events and swag to amplify our brand story and image at national and international trade shows, internal events, user conferences, brand activations and all other events.
* Proactively manage and strategize all event needs and participation.  This includes event research, identification, and selection. End-to-end event management, from lead-handling and content creation to venue selection and event execution. Establish event goals and budget: gather and track ROI, engagement analytics, and feedback to consistently assess and implement opportunities for improvement.
* Develop pre-event, at-event, and post-event marketing plans in conjunction with product marketing, content, alliances, demand generation and field teams. Lead creation of event communications and promotion for event programs, in partnership with demand generation and sales development teams, to drive attendance and meet engagement objectives.
* Maintain, manage and advance partnerships with external partners and vendors for multiple events and swag, including negotiating optimal terms.
* Solicit, oversee preparation, and manage keynotes and speaking sessions for all relevant corporate events and industry trade shows.

### Requirements
* 5+ years corporate marketing events planning and management experience in the high-tech industry.
* Independent worker capable of managing multiple deadlines with little supervision.
* Ability to work smart under pressure and efficiently on multiple project requests simultaneously, and to deal with potential for tight deadlines and unexpected complexities.
* Strong communicator and collaborator; able to work with a variety of teams and personalities, possessing excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* Proven skills interacting with executive/senior management teams.
* Strong project management and decision-making skills.
* Very detail oriented.
* Flexible work schedule and the ability to travel approximately 50% of the time.

### Hiring process

Candidates for these positions can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our [team page](/company/team/).

* Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute [screening call](/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#conducting-a-screening-call) with one of our Global Recruiters.
* A 45 minute interview with our Manager, Corporate Events
* A 30 minute interview with one of our Corporate Events Managers
* A 45 minute interview with our Director or Corporate Marketing
* A 45 minute interview with our Chief Marketing Officer
* Finally, our CEO may choose to conduct a final interview
* Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

# Corporate Events Manager, Sales Events

Do you love producing amazing customer experiences? Do you thrive on bringing strong brand experience and learning opportunities to life? Are you a detail-oriented marketer with a strong events and engagement marketing background?

### Responsibilities
* Lead execution of corporate events and swag to amplify our brand story and image at sales events and trainings.
* Proactively manage and strategize all event needs. End-to-end event management, from registration and content creation to venue selection and event execution.
* Establish event goals and budget: gather and track ROI, engagement analytics, and feedback to consistently assess and implement opportunities for improvement.
* Develop pre-event, at-event, and post-event communication plans in conjunction with product marketing, content, and corporate.
* Advance, maintain, and manage external partners and vendors for multiple events and swag, including negotiating optimal terms.
* Partner with internal cross-functional teams to create event agendas, and content that meet engagement and training objectives.
* Lead creation of event communications and promotion plan for event programs. Be diligent about followup on questions.
* Develop and deliver event enablement to include pre-event briefings, at-event briefings, and drive post-event follow-up briefings and event retrospectives.

### Requirements
* 5+ years corporate marketing events planning and management experience in the high-tech industry. Bonus if you have worked in field marketing or sales background.
* Independent worker capable of managing multiple deadlines with little supervision.
* Ability to work smart under pressure and efficiently on multiple project requests simultaneously, and to deal with potential for tight deadlines and unexpected complexities.
* Strong communicator and collaborator; able to work with a variety of teams and personalities, possessing excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* Proven skills interacting with executive/senior management teams.
* Strong project management and decision-making skills.
* Very detail-oriented.
* Flexible work schedule and the ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.

### Hiring process

Candidates for these positions can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our [team page](/company/team/).

* Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute [screening call](/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#conducting-a-screening-call) with one of our Global Recruiters.
* A 45 minute interview with our Manager, Corporate Events
* A 20 minute interview with one of our Sales Leadership (Director of sales and Customer Enablement and/ or VP of Field Operations)
* A 30 minute interview with our Director or Corporate Marketing
* A 30 minute interview with our Chief Marketing Officer
* Finally, our CEO may choose to conduct a final interview
* Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

# Production Manager

This role will focus on corporate marketing event production, strategy, and campaigns to ensure corporate event marketing productions reflect corporate goals and drive campaign strategy. This person will be the glue that makes sure all content elements for events have been communicated among stakeholders. This role will achieve event program goals, identify areas for improvement, and implement best practices and process improvements related to the overall management and execution of production-related content logistics and operations.

### Responsibilities
* Ensuring there is  a DRI for all content-related tasks for corporate marketing events to see through a successful execution of all elements of the event. This includes making sure all elements of branded events have an owner and reporting back on updates and deadlines.
* Working closely with event DRI, GitLab digital production and Local to provide quality AV systems and on‐site support for live corporate events. Collaborates to build event orders for audio, video, staging, and lighting systems. Assist in the planning and coordination of productions, including but not limited to scouting locations, talent, and crew.
* Working hand-in-hand with digital production on how content is used and promoted  post- event. Potential writing and/or editing treatments and scripts for multimedia packages.
* Liaising with internal teams to assist with pre- and post-production for GitLab-branded audio and video projects and events, including but not limited to Contribute, Sales Events, Commit user conferences, Technical Evangelism, Community, Employment branding, sales enablement, social, and livestreams.
* Writing keynote scripts and acting as the day-of contact for speakers and running the day-of show for all event production-related needs for opening and closing keynotes. 
* Working with brand, design, and social media to make sure brand is represented in slide decks.
* Managing local production staff and accounts. 
* Owning the integrated marketing campaigns and connecting the dots between demand generation, content marketing, and corporate events. 
* Managing the corporate events branded website design and execution to drive ticket sales and properly promote our events overall. 
* Manage our self-hosted events Call For Proposals (CFP) process, working hand-in-hand with internal and external thought leaders on their talk submissions.
* Review slide decks and develop a speaker training program.

### Requirements
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Exceptional organizational skills
* Relationships in the software DevOps space are a plus
* Strong knowledge with live corporate events and conferences.
* Highly collaborative, fostering strong relationships across all parts of the business and must enjoy learning/sharing knowledge
* This position will require doing occasional work on‐site and includes occasional weekend work
* Anticipated travel 15 to 20%
* 5+ years in events work and 2+ in software or tech related space

### Performance Indicators
* Staying within or under budget on AV, staging, projects. 
* Positive speaker and audience feedback on produced events (from survey results).
* Continued speaker engagement.
* Expansion of speaker and vendor catalogue. 

### Hiring process

Candidates for these positions can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our [team page](/company/team/).

* Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 20 minute [screening call](/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#conducting-a-screening-call) with one of our Global Recruiters.
* A 30 minute interview with our Manager, Corporate Events
* A 30 minute interview with our Chief Marketing Officer
* Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

# Manager, Corporate Events
The Manager, Corporate Events reports to the Sr. Director of Corporate Marketing and is responsible for leading a team of corporate events managers. In this leadership role, you must first be an experienced corporate events manager yourself. Then, you will be a player/coach, helping to coordinate a team of event managers. Leads GitLab’s corporate events direction and vision, aligning to the company’s goals and developing, designing, delivering on a multi-event strategic plan. Also, requires a creative thinker that drives new ideas and innovation into the events program, inspiring the broader team and delivering exceptional event experiences for customers, partners, employees, and other key stakeholders.

### Responsibilities
* Excel at all of the corporate events manager responsibilities above.
* Lead strategic and creative development of corporate events and swag strategy to amplify our brand story and image at national and international trade shows and events.
* Strategically connect business priorities, objectives, and key messages for complete brand experience.
* Develop and manage external partners and vendors for multiple events and swag, including negotiating optimal terms.
* Be a team player responsible to build out and manage processes that will ensure the success of our events across functional groups and with production partners.
* Create corporate event marketing swag vision and strategy that integrates brand, design, content, corporate events, and PR to increase awareness and engagement, and express brand personality with every interaction.
* Coordinate with design to develop swag strategy as part of brand persona. Evoke spirit of brand and personality in swag items.
* Perform all management tasks for managing an effective, results-driven team.
* Participate with peers in creating and executing the Corporate Marketing strategy.

### Requirements
* 5-7 years corporate events planning and management experience in the high-tech industry.
* Strategic marketing experience that goes beyond event operations/production, and includes strong understanding of marketing communications, campaigns, event messaging, product and corporate content, and customer experience.
* Independent worker capable of managing multiple deadlines with little supervision.
* Ability to work smart under pressure and efficiently on multiple project requests simultaneously, and to deal with potential for tight deadlines and unexpected complexities.
* Strong communicator and collaborator; able to work with a variety of teams and personalities, possessing excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* Proven skills interacting with executive/senior management teams.
* Strong project management and decision-making skills.
* Very detail oriented.
* Flexible work schedule and the ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.

### Hiring process

Candidates for these positions can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our [team page](/company/team/).

* Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute [screening call](/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#conducting-a-screening-call) with one of our Global Recruiters.
* A 45 minute interview with our Director or Corporate Marketing
* A 45 minute interview with our Director, Product Marketing
* A 45 minute interview with our Chief Marketing Officer
* Finally, our CEO may choose to conduct a final interview
* Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email