The Role
The Events Manager will lead strategic partnerships and events aimed at enhancing brand visibility and audience engagement, managing relationships and executing high-impact experiences.
Summary Generated by Built In
Company And Culture
Complex is the definitive platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge content, commerce and live experiences with unparalleled scale. Through innovative content, Complex tells stories of music, streetwear and style, sports, art and beyond. Its content engages in a dynamic conversation with the audience, reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of convergence culture. A powerful media juggernaut paired with a curated marketplace, Complex is redefining the way fans interact with their favorite brands and artists and reshaping the future of digital culture and commerce.
Why We're Hiring
Head of Events, Brand Partnerships is a senior leadership role that focuses on driving strategic partnerships with brands through event-based marketing and experiences. This individual is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with brand partners, developing event strategies, and overseeing the successful execution of high-impact events that align with the company's business objectives.
The Brand Partnerships, Head of Events, will lead the creation and execution of large-scale events, experiential marketing campaigns, and brand activations that drive brand visibility, audience engagement, and revenue growth. This role involves collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including marketing, sales, creative, and production teams, as well as key brand partners, to deliver best-in-class event experiences. The ideal candidate will have a strong network within the brand and sponsorship ecosystem and possess a proven track record of delivering successful, high-profile events.
What You'll Do
- Develop and implement Brand Partnership event strategies that maximize brand exposure, customer engagement, and revenue.
- Collaborate with brand partners to create tailored event experiences that elevate brand messaging and customer engagement.
- Manage relationships with external vendors, suppliers, and partners, ensuring successful event execution
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (marketing, creative, etc.,) to ensure seamless integration of event and partnership initiatives.
- Coordinate and execute pop-up events, both as stand-alone experiences and as part of larger events
- Lead end-to-end event execution, including budgeting, resource allocation, timelines, and post-event analysis.
- Ensure all events are executed to the highest standards and deliver on KPIs such as attendance, engagement, media coverage, and ROI.
Who You Are
- 8+ years of experience in event management, brand partnerships, or experiential marketing, with a strong track record of delivering successful large-scale events.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strategic partnerships and sponsorships.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong leadership and team management experience, with excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Creative and strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and event marketing trends.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines.
What We Offer
- Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Benefits FSA
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
- Paid Parental leave
- 401k with 4% match
- Pet Insurance
- Legal and Identity Theft Plans
- Vacation time and sick days
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.
Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.
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The Company
What We Do
Complex NTWRK champions the people, brands and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. We're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002. From pop culture and style (Complex), music discovery (Pigeons and Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) — if you want to be part of what's next and build valuable relationships with the audiences who live in it, join us at Complex NTWRK.
Complex NTWRK creates and distributes original programming with premium distributors including Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Snap, Fuse, Pluto TV, Roku and more. Our content spans across music to movies, sports to video games, sneakers, fashion to food and more. In 2016, Complex launched its flagship event ComplexCon in Long Beach, California, to bring the "Internet to life."
