Event Lead (Contract)

What is Polygon Labs?
Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 225 million, over 1.2 million smart contracts created and 2.56 billion total transactions processed since inception. The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
Job Summary
We are looking for a seasoned, strategic event lead to support our global marketing and community efforts. You will be responsible for contributing to and executing individual events that support overall business goals, community plans and key messages —before, during and after the event. 
The ideal candidate will be passionate about Polygon technology, and have an event, community and strategic marketing background that includes event marketing strategy, developing and producing multi-channel event programs (including in-person, virtual and hybrid events) through solid positioning, messaging, project management, contract negotiating, and cross-functional relations.
 A successful candidate will be a fast learner who is curious, analytical, comfortable with ambiguity and working independently, able to think strategically while focusing on details, and scaling high impact projects.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Develop and produce multi-channel event programs through solid positioning, messaging, event planning, project management, contract negotiating, and cross-functional relations, to bolster the perception of Polygon technology in the marketplace
• Share and scale assets and experiences, maximize efficiencies and cultivate new ideas that benefit programs globally
• Provide direction and exert influence in shaping experiences or programs
• Manage large teams of internal cross-functional collaborators and third-party agencies and vendors across complex events, fostering open communication and driving excellence in delivery
• Develop and review creative concepts for events, and work with cross-functional teams and internal/external collaborators to build and enhance programs
• Profit and loss responsibility, budget and planning for complex programs
• Work in collaboration with PR and industry marketing peers to ideate, negotiate and execute large-scale sponsorships at key industry events
• Deeply understand external collaborators’ goals and metrics, building solutions to capture and provide event KPIs 
• Foster feedback loop with cross-functional teams to continually measure event effectiveness
• Define and refine event metrics as part of overall event strategy effectiveness
• Evaluate and report on event's success as part of overall business goals
• Contribute to and set team-level goals and functional strategy
• Leverage external data and insights to inform strategy
• Ability to travel frequently for events

Qualifications

• 6-8 years experience of event marketing strategy experience, with an emphasis on web3, crypto, developer landscape the last 2-3 years and proven experience executing culturally-relevant events
• Thorough understanding of the web3 industry, key associations, partners and media landscape
• Bonus: Experience creating and evolving experiences that showcase the Polygon technology stack — Polygon PoS, zkevm, Miden, – with proven results building developer event experiences with and aligning use of these technologies to business goals
• Experience working in close collaboration with agency creatives, designers, and producers on a variety of digital and interactive projects
• Experience concepting, programming and producing events of all sizes — from intimate C-level experiences, to large scale events – both company-owned and industry-led
• Highly organized, self-motivated, solution-oriented and able to think creatively and quickly with a strategic lens
• 5+ years working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across various levels of the organization, building trust and fostering collaboration
• Demonstrated project management skills of complex programs and budgets of $1M+
• Experience working well under pressure with tig