Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, budget, and execution for 2F's flagship annual symposium, from concept through day-of operations and post-event measurement.
• Build experiences that last. Design the highlight moments—the unexpected venue, the activation with a line around the block, the standout swag people actually keep, the stunt that earns its way onto someone’s LinkedIn without us asking—that leaves a lasting impression of 2F in people's minds.
• Generate fresh, counterculture, off-the-wall concepts that make 2F the standout in a crowded, conservative market—and have the rigor to pull them off.
• Run our happy hours, socials, and executive dinners—the high-touch engagements where deals and partnerships actually move—and reinvent the format so they don't feel like everyone else's.
• Manage sporting and action-sports activations and suite hospitality, including racing partnerships and VIP programs.
• Lead trade show presence and large-scale booth activations: design direction, vendor management, logistics, staffing, and lead capture—with a creative point of view that refuses the default.
• Build customer engagement programs that deepen relationships across our customer and partner base.
• Partner with sales and demand gen to connect activations to pipeline and measurable outcomes.
• Manage external vendors, venues, agencies, and production partners—pushing them past their comfort zone and holding them to deadlines, budgets, and our quality bar.
• Bring an ecosystem-first instinct: lead with customers and partners and their wins, not with us.

Requirements

• 5+ years running experiential, events, or field marketing—ideally including large-scale (250+ people) flagship events.
• A portfolio of moments people still remember—and a sense for how those moments connected back to the business.
• Bold, unconventional ideas you actually shipped—not decks of concepts that died in committee. We want to see the stunt, the activation, and the moment that worked because they were different.
• End-to-end ownership: strategy, budget, logistics, vendor management, and measurement.
• Existing relationships and fluency within the defense tech, govtech, or national security ecosystem. (Highly, highly preferred.)
• The taste to know the difference between weird-for-weird's-sake and weird-that-works—and the discipline to land the plane every time.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with tight timelines and high standards.
• Willingness to travel and a hospitality instinct that shows up under pressure.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
• 401(k) + 3% company contribution
• Wellness perks
• Equity incentive plan
• Tech + office supplies stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
• Parental leave
• Work virtual, located near one of our hubs