Marketing Communications & Events Specialist - Contract

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$25/hr – $28/hrMid LevelContract

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

The role focuses on coordinating national tradeshows and events, aligning with sales, and building content across channels. It requires a marketing background with event execution experience and strong collaboration. Preferred candidates have experience measuring event impact and working with CRM tools, and the role offers a benefits package including health and retirement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the marketing coordination and execution for national tradeshows, industry events, and sponsorships
  • Develop and manage event timelines, deliverables, and promotional plans
  • Partner with sales and growth teams to align event goals, target accounts, and meeting-setting strategies
  • Coordinate booth logistics, branded environments, collateral, swag, and vendor partners
  • Manage lead capture strategy and ensure proper handoff for post-event follow-up and reporting
  • Support on-site execution as needed, ensuring a high-quality and consistent brand presence
  • Build, maintain, and execute social content calendars across multiple platforms
  • Collaborate with design and growth teams to align messaging with brand goals
  • Draft and edit blog posts that position Lessen as a thought leader in the property services and facilities management space
  • Support SEO strategy with relevant, engaging content

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field.
  • 2–4 years of marketing or communications experience, preferably in B2B or SaaS industries.
  • Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone for different audiences.
  • Experience supporting or executing tradeshows, conferences, or field events.
  • Hands-on experience with Marketing Cloud or similar platforms for email and campaign management.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered marketing tools (e.g., for content creation, analytics, or automation).
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects and events simultaneously.
  • Creative mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
  • Strong collaboration skills across marketing, sales, and operations teams.

Preferred

  • Experience measuring event performance and reporting on pipeline impact
  • Experience with Sprout Social or other similar social media calendar planning tools
  • Experience with Salesforce or other similar CRM platform/systems

Benefits

  • Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability options
  • 401K retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation, federal and floating holidays
  • Maternity/Paternity Pay
  • Career advancement opportunities
  • All the tools you'll need to be successful
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Lessen

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Lessen makes caring for, and improving real estate properties simpler, faster, and better through best-in-class, fully outsourced, and on-demand property services. For commercial and residential properties, we deliver faster renovations and turns, hassle-free maintenance, reduced issues through preventive maintenance, and capital projects that are on time and on budget, all while improving the experience of tenants/residents. Who we serveOur customers include distributed real-estate portfolio owners and managers in both commercial and residential markets. In commercial markets, we serve distributed properties such as commercial banks, healthcare, retail, grocery, REITs, telecommunications, logistics, and industrial businesses. Our residential customers include owners/operators of single-family home portfolios, multi-family units, home builders, and warranty providers.Powered by tech -- perfected by peopleLessen's technology suite, One by LessenTM connects clients with property owners and our network of over 30,000 vendors in over 55 trades. One by Lessen helps clients manage work orders, streamline processes, and control costs. It enables improved communications through user-friendly mobile apps for operations, tenants/residents, and vendors that shorten repair times, and optimize projects. Lessen's professional field project managers offer boots-on-the-ground services and streamlined processes that leverage Lessen’s network of service professionals in over 100 markets nationally. We help our customers overcome labor shortages, reduce headcount and overhead, and grow and scale their businesses. Both clients and vendor affiliates also benefit from our supply chain and buying power to secure project materials at lower costs. Lessen LLC is a venture-backed, privately held company with offices in Scottsdale and Chicago. To learn more, please visit http://www.lessen.com.

Founded in 2019
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
1K employees (17 in marketing)
28% recommend to a friend
31% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
111.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$458
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.5%
Direct
66.4%
Referral
6.4%
Social
0.8%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (2% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$735M
Last Raise
$500M
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2023
    Series Unknown • $500M
  • Jan 2023
    Debt Financing
  • May 2022
    Series B • $30M

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