Responsibilities

• Manage the fulfillment, scheduling, and tracking of trade advertising campaigns across digital, print, email, social, radio, television, and events.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for media partners, association partners, vendors, and community organizations while building and maintaining strong external relationships.
• Coordinate partnership contracts and agreements, deliverables, timelines, approvals, and execution in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, content, experience, programming, sales, and production teams to ensure partnership assets and campaigns are delivered accurately and on time.
• Maintain partnership calendars, campaign trackers, asset libraries, and shared documentation.
• Lead the planning and execution of year-round event marketing initiatives, including community events, meetups, booths, activations, and industry events.
• Coordinate event logistics, promotional timelines, and on-site marketing support for external events and activations.
• Provide general support for ongoing marketing initiatives and departmental needs.
• Supports the on-site execution of conference and festival marketing for SXSW & SXSW EDU and generally supports the overall production of both events through various marketing operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field
• 2-4 years of experience in partnerships, marketing, event marketing, or a related role
• Proficient at managing partner relationships, sponsorship deliverables, media trades, or integrated marketing campaigns
• Skilled at supporting or executing event marketing initiatives, activations, conferences, meetups, or experiential campaigns
• Experience negotiating or coordinating contracts, promotional agreements, or marketing deliverables preferred
• Ability to balance relationship management, multiple campaign timelines and deliverables, and event logistics in a fast-paced environment
• Strong project management and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Highly developed written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Proactive, self-motivated team player with strong prioritization and follow-through skills
• Familiarity with collaboration and project management tools such as Slack, Airtable, and Google Workspace
• Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends in support of events and activations as needed

Preferred

• Knowledge and passion for innovation, tech, film, TV, music, and education industries are a plus