Sr. Event Marketing & Experience Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$190K/yr – $220K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end touring event marketing with ownership of ticket sales, attendance, and campaign performance, while scaling globally with local market flexibility.

  • Own multi-channel campaigns across paid media, digital, PR, social, email, influencers, and local activations.
  • Optimize media planning, budgets, and attribution to maximize ticket revenue and attendance.
  • Coordinate with Brand, Creative, Sales, Production, and venue/ticketing partners to ensure flawless execution and rapid iteration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end marketing strategy for Nova's touring shows, with accountability for ticket sales, attendance, and campaign performance.
  • Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns across paid media, digital marketing, partnerships, PR, social media, email, influencer marketing, and local market activations.
  • Lead media planning, buying strategy, budget allocation, and performance optimization to maximize return on marketing investment.
  • Partner with Brand Marketing, Creative, Sales, Production, and external venue or ticketing partners to launch successful campaigns in every market.
  • Analyze campaign performance, audience insights, pricing trends, and sales data to continuously improve marketing effectiveness and customer acquisition.
  • Build repeatable marketing frameworks that can scale globally while allowing flexibility for local market needs.
  • Own relationships with external agencies, media partners, promoters, and ticketing platforms to ensure flawless campaign execution.
  • Stay deeply involved in campaign execution while continually testing new channels, technologies, and audience growth strategies.

Preferred

  • 10–15+ years of experience owning event marketing, experiential marketing, live entertainment marketing, or touring event marketing.
  • Proven success developing and executing marketing campaigns that drive ticket sales, attendance, and revenue growth for live entertainment or consumer events.
  • Strong experience managing large paid media budgets across digital, social, search, display, out-of-home, radio, television, and other marketing channels.
  • Deep understanding of customer acquisition, audience segmentation, CRM, marketing analytics, attribution, and campaign optimization.
  • Experience working with ticketing platforms, venue partners, promoters, and external marketing agencies.
  • Highly analytical with the ability to translate marketing performance into business outcomes and revenue growth.
  • Exceptional project management and cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Experience marketing global or multi-city touring productions, entertainment brands, or destination-based experiences.
  • Background with Cirque du Soleil, Feld Entertainment, Live Nation, AEG, Broadway touring productions, themed attractions, festivals, sports, museums, or similar consumer entertainment companies.
  • Experience launching new markets and developing localized marketing strategies across multiple regions.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Flexible PTO and paid sick leave
  • Paid parental leave
  • Company-paid holidays
  • Equity opportunities for eligible employees
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Nova Sky Stories

Global creative and storytelling studio on a mission to bring awe to live audiences through drone light show entertainment.

Founded in 2022
Boulder, Colorado, USA
69 employees (20 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.4%
Direct
63%
Referral
7.7%
Social
7.1%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~69

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (13% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Last Raise
Seed, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Seed

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