If you were in the Employee Experience Events Lead role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Designing on-brand experiences that reflect our purpose and values while delivering logistical excellence across event timelines, budgets, and deliverables
- Leading the planning and production of assigned employee events, including experience design, vendor management, registration, communications, site operations, partner collaboration and on-site execution
- Contribute to the building of a global playbook for employee events that balances centralized brand standards with regional flexibility and ownership
- Managing relationships with external vendors including event production companies, AV partners, tenting, catering, venues and permits
- Collaborating with internal cross-functional partners (e.g. Product Education, Brand, Employee Impact) to ensure cohesive and inclusive experience delivery
- Building and presenting compelling PowerPoint decks to communicate concepts, strategies, and post-event impact to stakeholders
- Translating abstract concepts or cultural ideas into tangible event touchpoints (e.g. installations, activations, rituals, programming)
- Bringing a thoughtful and inclusive approach to event planning, with consideration for environmental impact, accessibility, and the well-being of all participants
- Staying ahead of trends in live experience, experiential design, and outdoor events to inspire ongoing innovation
- Leveraging communication platforms as social tools to connect our global employee community
- Exploring and implementing technology solutions that support event management, including registration, translation, hybrid engagement, and post-event analytics
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Identifying opportunities and evolving new and existing employee experience events and recognition programs, as needed
- Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Brand and Community Marketing, to align events with company goals and values
- You have 5+ years of event management experience, along with a post-secondary diploma or certification in Event Management, Communications, Project Management, or equivalent experience in lieu
- You are an empathetic and proactive communicator, and care about engaging people in an inclusive manner
- You have a strong understanding of event management, creating experiences that resonate with the target audience
- You have a highly collaborative working style and have a demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships
- You establish systems and programs to ensure projects, events, and processes are running smoothly
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You embrace a growth mindset and are passionate about learning and growing in your role
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
- You bring a designer’s mindset to experiences—thinking through flow, moment mapping, and intentional storytelling
- You’re deeply organized, cool under pressure, and proactive in resolving challenges before they arise
- You have excellent PowerPoint or Keynote presentation skills—you know how to visually and narratively sell an idea
- You’re comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and enjoy working with creatives, builders, and business partners alike
- You bring a lens of inclusion, access, and care to your work and consider how different people experience space
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What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running.
Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories.
In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.