Senior Event Marketing Manager

Elastic is an open source search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co

At Elastic, our Corporate Marketing Team designs and executes best-in-class events and experiences that establish Elastic as a trusted advisor to the world’s largest organizations. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Event Marketing Manager who is a collaborative team player with big ideas, and someone willing to dig in on any details necessary to ensure success. In a highly visible role amongst senior leadership, the ideal candidate will support our global calendar of third-party conferences and proprietary programs to enhance Elastic’s brand awareness, foster lead engagements, and create new sales opportunities.

You’ll Spend Your Time

• Planning and executing events from conception to completion, ensuring all logistical details are meticulously handled and the experience maximizes engagement and value.
• Leading vendor relationships and partnering with agencies and service organizations to achieve event goals efficiently and effectively.
• Collaborating with marketing, sales, and engineering teams to understand their business targets and strategize alignment with the company’s brand and messaging.
• Creating and managing event budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring cost-effectiveness.
• Working in partnership with Procurement to negotiate contracts with vendors and service providers to optimize resources and secure all required InfoSec and Privacy approvals.
• Tracking return on investment, engagement, and audience feedback to measure results, assess opportunities for improvement, and optimize future events for an exceptional attendee experience.
• Anticipating and mitigating potential risks related to events. Developing contingency plans and safety protocols to address unforeseen disruptions.

What You’ll Need

• 10+ years of experience in B2B marketing or event management with a demonstrated ability to engage effectively with users and leadership.
• Capable of leading, creating, and presenting a long-term vision, and with a supporting strategy to achieve it. Equipped with a business focus and delivery approach that enables engagement at the executive level.
• Proven effectiveness in collaborating with cross-functional team members, approaching challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Energy, flexibility, and aim to create real and measurable business results. Visionary mindset to align event goals and measurement of success with company business priorities and goals.
• Experience in executing integrated, ROI-driven marketing and lead generation campaigns.
• Self-starter with outstanding organizational and time management abilities, keen attention to detail, and thinking steps ahead in the process.
• A dedication to perfecting small details and exceeding user experience expectations
• Previous collaboration with sales teams, demonstrating an understanding of how to support and accelerate their efforts.
• A data-driven mindset, with experience in analyzing campaign results to derive actionable business recommendations and insights.
• Comfortability with multitasking, catering to various stakeholders, within a fast-paced work environment.
• Flexibility to travel up to 40% of the time and manage a remote work environment

Physical Requirements

• Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects
• Ability to endure long hours of standing or sitting onsite at tradeshows.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be m