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Bring bold ideas to life through unforgettable experiences. As Senior Manager, Events, you’ll help shape and execute high-profile live experiences that connect audiences, advertisers, and partners with Hearst Magazines’ iconic brands while advancing broader business objectives.
About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)
Hearst Magazines’ portfolio of 30 iconic brands in the U.S. inspires and entertains audiences across all media platforms. From digital and print to social and video, our brands reach millions of people every month, delivering trusted content and experiences that inform, entertain, and inspire.
Key Responsibilities (What You Are Doing)
- Lead the planning and execution of assigned live experiences from initial concept through onsite delivery, budget reconciliation, and post-event reporting.
- Develop and manage event budgets, production timelines, logistics, staffing plans, guest communications, project plans, and operational materials to keep programs on schedule and on budget.
- Partner with sales, marketing, editorial, and other internal stakeholders to translate business, audience, and client objectives into compelling event experiences.
- Execute sponsorship activations and client deliverables, supporting advertiser and partner relationships throughout the event lifecycle and ensuring commitments are fulfilled at a high standard.
- Manage relationships with venues, vendors, production companies, and other external partners, establishing clear expectations and driving successful execution.
- Create detailed production documents, including run-of-shows, floor plans, timelines, and onsite operational plans that enable seamless collaboration and execution.
- Coordinate VIP experiences, talent logistics, hospitality, guest needs, and sponsor activations to deliver thoughtful, premium experiences for attendees and partners.
- Anticipate and solve production and operational challenges, adapting quickly in fast-moving environments while tracking event performance and contributing to post-event insights.
Qualifications (What We’re Looking For)
- 7+ years of experience in event management, experiential production, or a related field, with demonstrated success delivering premium consumer, corporate, or brand experiences.
- Strong knowledge of event strategy and production, including budgeting, timelines, logistics, vendor management, onsite operations, and post-event reconciliation.
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex events and priorities simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail and delivering against deadlines.
- Strong project management and presentation skills, with the ability to turn ambitious ideas into clear, actionable production plans.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with clients, internal stakeholders, creative partners, vendors, and talent.
- Experience supporting sponsorship activations and client deliverables is strongly preferred.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented approach and the ability to make sound decisions in dynamic, high-pressure event environments.
- Willingness and ability to travel and work evenings or weekends as event schedules require.
- This role is based in New York City and follows a hybrid schedule, with an expectation of working in the office four days per week.
Benefits (What We Offer)
- Work with the Best: Collaborate with top-tier professionals across media, advertising, tech, fashion, lifestyle, and publishing, shaping the future of these dynamic industries.
- Grow Your Skills: Unlock your potential with access to innovative training programs, immersive workshops, and exclusive industry events.
- Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid work, empowering you to balance professional success with personal priorities.
- Foster Connection & Belonging: Join our Employee Resource Groups and help create a welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered.
- Wellness First: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance from Day 1.
- Plan for Your Financial Future: Enjoy competitive financial perks, including a 401(k) plan with a generous company match.
The base salary range for this role is $90,000-$122,000. This position is not eligible for bonus or commission compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Hearst Magazines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in event management, experiential production, or a related field
- Demonstrated success delivering premium consumer, corporate, or brand experiences
- Strong knowledge of event strategy and production, including budgeting, timelines, logistics, vendor management, onsite operations, and post-event reconciliation
- Ability to manage multiple complex events and priorities simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining attention to detail
- Strong project management and presentation skills
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with clients, stakeholders, creative partners, vendors, and talent
- Experience supporting sponsorship activations and client deliverables
- Proactive, solutions-oriented approach and sound decision-making in dynamic, high-pressure event environments
- Willingness and ability to travel and work evenings or weekends as event schedules require
- Based in New York City and able to work in the office four days per week under a hybrid schedule
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
