Own end-to-end experiential activations from concept to delivery with budget oversight and vendor leadership, while keeping teams aligned and delivering on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Be able to work both independently and within a team to concept, budget, pitch, and produce successful activations, all with varying budgets.
• Strong storytelling/presentation skills and ability to create client-facing decks (write ups and finding corresponding visuals).
• Understand feasibility when fleshing out projects/budgets and builds client’s trust in their strategy and recommendations.
• Create project timelines, production schedules, and overall event documentation.
• Seek advice and support from appropriate team members when issues arise, maintaining a calm and levelheaded approach
• Coordinate and lead communication as the conduit between experiential/production partners, clients and internal teams to ensure on-time delivery and alignment between all parties.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to be solution-oriented are key; as well as being able to pivot with rationale and clear communication on next steps.
• Pro-active in finding new vendors or opportunities to expand service offerings; eager to learn and continue to evolve with this industry.
• Background in technology and production, including vendor relations and ability to speak general terminology is desired.
• Ability to physically attend client/lead agency meetings, oversee builds at production shops, install/strike, site visits, and activations all with client’s best interest top of mind.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in work field
• 2+ years’ event planning/experiential/production experience
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, with attention to detail
• Working knowledge of Creative Suite preferred
• Self- starter, able to take on small and medium scale projects, multi-projects and be able to prioritize appropriately
• Comfortable working with Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Must be friendly, professional and capable of building rapport with our vendors, our clients and our colleagues.
• Illinois, New York: $40,000.00-$75,000.00

Preferred

• Background in technology and production, including vendor relations and ability to speak general terminology is desired.