Principal Event Manager , Amazon Global Communities

The Amazon Global Communities Events team is seeking an experienced Principal Event Manager to lead one of our biggest proprietary events and support other events by owning key work streams for the team. Your responsibility as an event expert will include developing event and creative strategy, building communication plans, and act as the single threaded leader for all event components. You will define the goals of program work streams, build your core working team, manage budget and timelines, and oversee a variety of vendor and venue partners to ensure all stakeholders are working together to deliver a high-quality experience. You will also utilize exceptional communication skills to write strategic attendee journey docs, manage executive leadership reviews, remove roadblocks for your event teams and lead the writing of post event debriefs.

The ideal candidate has a proven history of leading complex, large scale events with operational excellence across all program components. This candidate must be strategic, creative, able to lead internal and external teams, flourish in a fast-paced environment, and understand how to execute effectively and flexibly. The successful candidate will possess the ability to influence stakeholders, complete complex tasks and projects quickly with little to no guidance, react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround, and take effective action without having to know the complete picture. This person will be able to effectively work within a small team, both knowing when to delegate and also rolling up their sleeves and getting stuff done when needed – no detail will be too small and they'll never say "that's not my job". They’ll obsess over details, display poise and sophistication in fast-moving situations, embrace ambiguity, and deliver results.

Role can be based out of Nashville or Seattle.

Key job responsibilities
Key responsibilities for the position include:

• Oversee planning, production, and execution of events that are virtual and / or in-person.
• Assist in the definition and creation of event goals, while keeping customer needs in mind, to ensure event success.
• Serve as event project manager. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: workback schedules, pre-event consultation, venue selection, agency selection/management, agenda development, attendee journey and event flow, event promotion and registration management, budget creation and oversight, on site staffing, final event metrics and reporting.
• Expertly drive pre-event weekly core team meetings, including ownership of event planning documentation tracking deadlines and anticipating road blocks before they become escalations.
• Build and distribute regular pre-event status reports and post-event reports.
• Work closely with business partners to track and achieve business goals.

About the team
Have you seen the any of the Amazon delivery vehicles driving around your neighborhood? Did you know those drivers actually work for small business owners called Delivery Service Partners that partner with Amazon to deliver packages?

The Amazon Global Communities team (AGC) builds innovative and engaging community-focused products for external Amazon partners like the Delivery Service Partner (DSPs). Small businesses are critical to many aspects of Amazon’s ecosystem and the AGC team helps these partners be successful by fostering community connections, accelerating learning opportunities, and providing customer feedback mechanisms on program and product initiatives and updates.

Basic Qualifications

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in event management and event marketing.
• Experience in a leadership level role over large scale corporate conferences.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred qualifications:

• B2B marketing or experiential marketing experience.
• Attention to detail, excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects and responsibilities.
• Demonstrable, successful history of defining event and creative strategy and proven executional excellence.
• Proven track record of continually advocating on behalf of your internal and external customers.
• Decisive, action-oriented, and able to motivate, inspire, and lead cross-functional teams in different geographies and business units.
• A strong leader and excellent communicator who can drive consensus and articulate program recommendations and tradeoffs to senior executives.
• Ambitious self-starter with demonstrated ability and willingness to roll up sleeves and execute to get the job done.
• Strong drive for results, with the ability to manage independently and take calculated risks while thinking big and outside the box.
• A career path that demon