Experiential Marketing Manager

Golden, CO (On-site)

$65K/yr – $75K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own experiential event activations for multiple client accounts, driving planning, budgeting, and on-site execution to deliver measurable consumer engagement.

  • Own day-to-day client contact and activation delivery across programs.
  • Manage budgets, timelines, and vendor coordination to scale activations and improve results.
  • Collaborate with creative and production teams to turn concepts into live experiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for assigned client accounts, ensuring exceptional communication, responsiveness, and service.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, venues, vendors, agencies, and internal stakeholders.
  • Lead planning and execution of experiential marketing programs, sponsorship activations, consumer engagement initiatives, and special events.
  • Manage multiple client accounts and projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Develop strategic recommendations and activation concepts that align with client objectives and marketing goals.
  • Create and manage project workbacks, event plans, budgets, staffing plans, and activation timelines.
  • Coordinate sponsorship assets, experiential elements, branded environments, promotional materials, and event logistics.
  • Manage the preparation, packing, transportation, setup, breakdown, and organization of event assets and equipment, ensuring all materials are event-ready and maintained to company standards.
  • Partner with creative, operations, and production teams to bring activation concepts to life.
  • Manage event staffing, training, and on-site execution to ensure a best-in-class consumer experience.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Event Management, or related field.
  • 3+ years of experience in client services, experiential marketing, sponsorship marketing, event marketing, or related fields.
  • Experience managing client relationships and serving as a primary point of contact.
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple experiential programs simultaneously.
  • Experience managing budgets, timelines, vendors, and event logistics.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple teams.
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and multitasking abilities.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word).
  • Ability to travel and support events, including occasional holidays, nights, and weekends.

Preferred

Benefits

  • Health Care Coverage (Podium pays up to $500/month)
  • Company-sponsored life insurance
  • 401K after 1 year (4% employer match)
  • Paid Vacation/PTO accrues at start of employment
  • Quarterly Paid Mental Health Day
  • Automotive Stipend - $150/month for vehicle used to transport assets, mileage reimbursed
  • Employee discounts on ski, snowboard, cycling, and outdoor gear/clothing
  • Comp game tickets to select Denver professional sports teams
  • Comp time earned for weekend and holiday work
  • Comp Day Policy
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Podium Marketing

Since 1997, Podium Marketing has worked in the sports and event marking arena managing programs for some of the most successful players in the sports and entertainment businesses. Podium Marketing is a multifaceted engagement marketing group that specializes in delivering effective, results driven services customized to our clients needs. Podium’s staff consists of a unique blend of strategic planners, former athletes, marking minds and event specialists who are dedicated to delivering distinctive marking solutions.

Founded in 1997
Golden, Colorado, USA
59 employees (16 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~59

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
15 (25% of company)