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Job type full-time
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About drips:
Drips enables brands to connect with consumers through ai-powered, conversational texting®Backed by a proprietary natural language processing model, our platform has handled over half a billion humanized conversations to date, enabling us to deliver automation at a scale that no other competitor in the messaging industry has been able to matchThat’s why we’re the platform of choice for some of the world’s most recognizable brands.
Drips’ focus on empowering brands to capture intent and drive meaningful conversations has sparked rapid growth since the company was founded in 2016, and drips will nearly triple our 2019 sales this yearWe are well funded and looking to accelerate the next era of growth and expansion of our team.
However, we’re more than just a high-growth company; we’re also a communityEven though we work remotely, we still embrace the core values that help us achieve personal growthEvery member of the drips team has a direct impact on our company! if you want to love the product you work on, solve hard problems, and grow your career — we want to talk with you!
Job overview:
Drips is seeking an experienced event marketing manager to lead our event marketing strategy and executionThis role will require exceptional communication and organizational skills, a deep understanding of event marketing strategy and operations, and proven experience executing best-in-class eventsYou will drive the strategy, execution, and report on return on investment of industry-specific conferences, drips sponsored events and roadshows, and internal eventsYou will work very closely with demand generation, creative, sales, and client success teams.
Job responsibilities:
Lead the strategic planning of the annual and quarterly events calendar and budget
Plan, execute, and handle all aspects of conference sponsorships, including coordination of equipment and booth shipping, catering, marketing collateral and promotional giveaways
Work with marketing, sales and business development leadership to develop strategy and lead execution of events spanning the insurance, healthcare and financial services verticals
Work closely with internal teams to ensure each event meets the overall goals of the company
Work with the marketing team to plan and execute the pre, during, and post event promotions and social media campaigns
Handle individual event budgets, with focus on delivering high quality leads and generating pipeline, while maximizing the return on investment of each event
Report on return on investment for events based on pipeline and closed won deals sourced through events
Manage external vendor relationships
Qualifications:
3+ years of experience in a relevant event marketing role
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or related field
Strong ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage a high-volume event calendar
Experience leading and executing events/sponsorships and fulfilling the deliverables, including booth selection, lead retrieval, booth swag, etc.
Expert at pre-event operations including venue selection, budget creation and forecasting, booth preparation, event staffing, signage creation, ordering collateral and promotional items, purchasing and shipping supplies, housing and travel coordination, on-site services, etc.
Superb organization skills with the ability to hit deadlines, yet able to flex with dynamically changing priorities
Travel 25-50% required depending on event schedule
Core values:
Drips core values are central to how each employee executes in their role daily and exceedsBelow are how we exceed in each core value:
Lean – we find the right mix between administration and simply doing thingsOver complicating tasks can add time without providing benefit, however just doing things without a plan can add time when course correction is requiredTo exceed, we finish work in a timely manner while reviewing to make sure we are striking the right balance between the twoImplementing streamlining methods to existing processes ensure we evolve and stay lean.
Passion – expressing passion daily is the desire to do the job but evolving in the job to expand beyond the base role and taking on additional projects and roles to help teams outside your own while maintaining your individual workloadUnderstanding that all of the activities we take are to enable our clients, and thus drips as a whole to be successfulAsking the question, “how is what i am doing today, enabling the success of my teammates and my clients”.
Happiness – finding the balance in both your personal and work lifeParticipating in group and team activities as you see fit but understanding that life is about more than just coming into the office dailyDrips has overall wellness programs and additional benefits that assistTrue enthusiasm for what we do is essential but comes from understanding the business overall and how we fit into it.
Improve – never accepting the status quo and being entrenched in a process or workflowFinding ways to streamline and innovate while bringing those improvements to leadershipImprovement also means understanding the anticipated benefit and it improves our daily working experience, your teammates and drips clients overall.
Team – we support and assist our teammates, even if it is outside of our typical dutiesWe take on additional projects for their added value whether they impact your day-to-day work or notBeing part of a team involves being in close contact every day, respecting each other and the work we do is essential however to exceed in team, we move outside of our direct team, to the company team as a whole and understand how we impact everything and the value we provide.
Job type: full-time
Work location: multiple locations
