Senior Global Events Manager

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Our Global Events marketing team is looking for a seasoned Sr. Manager, Global Events, who will own all content and production across our portfolio of events, including all keynotes and breakout content for ZenithLive and Tier 1 events. This role will have a focus in content and production strategy development, planning, and execution for the global events portfolio working closely with senior leadership, product marketing, product, sales and other cross-functional teams.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and own all content, production, and speaker management goals, processes, and timelines critical to the success of ZenithLive and all Tier 1 global events
• Responsible for project managing the development of user focused programming (upwards of 100+ sessions and 250+ speakers).
• Create and manage the global session agenda and run of shows including managing diverse speaker representation.
• Put together a process for finding excellent speakers (internal and external).
• Responsible for managing the entire content process (pre, during, and post), including developing content for vertical keynotes, project managing the PMM team with all breakout sessions, selecting and preparing speakers for their respective presentations, providing both remote and onsite event support to speakers, Identify and manage best onsite delivery and set-up for all content (including room sets and A/V needs), call-for-papers campaign, PR/legal approval, rehearsal timelines, reporting and analytics.
• Project management of PMMs include but not limited to; identify session leads (SMEs in for each topic), manage deliverables and deadlines, communicate expectations, timeline, and deadlines, communicate and train on virtual event best practices, scheduling and coordination amongst session leads, provide session templates, run content reviews, tech rehearsals and QA.
• Implement a content management system to improve efficiency and customer experience, enabling high-velocity planning and execution of events.
• Coordinate with the web team and session leads on securing and updating session titles, abstracts, speaker headshots, bios, agendas and tracks at all times for accurate event information.
• Produce calendars and timelines to guarantee that messaging is communicated appropriately through all marketing channels.
• Support the creation and distribution of digital materials for promotion. Work closely with our comms/pr and brand team to execute blog posts, speaker briefs, press releases and more.
• Create and execute various reports that share key findings throughout content development and post-event cycles.
• Support overall Global Event Team initiatives.

Minimum required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• A Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Marketing or Technology, preferred or, 5+ years of experience leading cohesive content and messaging strategies for keynotes, marketing initiatives or corporate messaging for physical and virtual conferences or trade shows.
• Strong project management experience and organizational skills including the ability to set and drive requirements across multiple functional areas is required.
• Content management system experience and strong Gsuite knowledge required.
• Enthusiastic team player with exceptional communication, writing, and interpersonal skills with high integrity and diplomacy.
• Fearless communication skills both verbal and written. You are comfortable speaking with anyone, at any level of the organization via presentation, written, and spoken channels; internal or ext