Industry Marketing Manager (IMM)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 12 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and accelerate Evention's market-facing narrative and demand programs for hospitality, translating messaging into campaigns, events, partnerships, and thought leadership while collaborating with leadership and cross-functional teams.

  • Lead industry campaigns and events to generate pipeline
  • Translate messaging into revenue-focused programs across hospitality stakeholders

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the CMO and Leadership to activate Evention’s strategic narrative across hospitality and adjacent industries
  • Translate company messaging into industry campaigns, event themes, customer initiatives, and market programs
  • Help refine how concepts like “Trust After Checkout” resonate in real-world commercial conversations
  • Ensure Evention consistently connects complex financial operations to business outcomes like margin protection, payroll confidence, compliance, operational efficiency, and brand trust
  • Support category-building initiatives that strengthen Evention’s position as the Financial Trust Layer for hospitality
  • Stay closely connected to customers, prospects, sales conversations, and market trends to continuously improve how Evention shows up in the market
  • Gather feedback from frontline teams and customer interactions to identify where messaging resonates, where confusion exists, and where opportunities emerge
  • Partner with commercial leadership to support pipeline-generating campaigns, strategic initiatives, and GTM execution
  • Help strengthen Evention’s credibility with enterprise operators, finance leaders, ownership groups, and hospitality decision-makers
  • Support Evention’s strategic presence across events such as HITEC and HOSPACE, hospitality associations such as HFTP, webinars, benchmark initiatives, and executive thought leadership programs

Requirements

  • 7+ years in hospitality SaaS industry in industry marketing, demand generation or GTM focused role required
  • Strong ability to simplify complex concepts into clear, commercially relevant messaging
  • Experience supporting pipeline-oriented marketing programs and industry campaigns
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities
  • Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills
  • Naturally curious about customer pain points, industry dynamics, and market trends
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally across marketing, sales, product, and customer teams, while also confident to present new ideas to leadership
  • High level of ownership and bias toward execution while also being a team player
  • Interest in AI tools, emerging technologies, and modern GTM workflows

Preferred

  • Experience working at a PE or VC backed company preferred

Benefits

  • Evention LLC offers benefits inclusive of medical and dental coverage, a 401k plan with matching, a commuter benefits plan, life insurance, vision insurance, and a bonus plan.
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Evention

4.6 Glassdoor

Evention is the financial trust layer for hotel, restaurant, retail, and entertainment operators, ensuring transactions remain accurate and trustworthy after checkout across systems, locations, and workflows. By continuously reconciling financial data and surfacing exceptions in real time, Evention highlights the exceptions that matter, routing them to the right teams and enabling the agentic workflows that drive resolution automatically. As a connective layer across POS, payments, labor, and third-party systems, Evention gives finance teams a validated foundation they can trust so they can lead with confidence while protecting margins and delivering the experience guests expect.

Founded in 2004
Chicago, Illinois, USA
112 employees (9 in marketing)
92% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$110K/yr – $120K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (5% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Private Equity

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$888
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.8%
Direct
39.2%
Referral
7.5%
Social
12.2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~112
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Industry Marketing Manager (IMM)

Evention · Chicago, IL · Hybrid