Marketing Programs Specialist III - US

San Antonio, TX (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $124K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate Rackspace’s event program end to end from strategy and speaker lineups to logistics, budgeting, and ROI tracking while partnering with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Legal to execute high impact industry events.

  • Event Strategy: Define target events, messaging, and ROI expectations; align with Salesforce/Marketo to capture leads and measure impact.
  • Execution & Ops: Own venue research, contracts, staffing, A/V, on site logistics, and cross team coordination.
  • Cross-Functional Partnerships: Collaborate with Marketing, Corporate Communications, Senior Leadership, and external agencies to create a unified event program and product focus.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Schedule, organize, set up, and conduct industry events, conferences, and trade shows.
  • Research industry events, conferences, and trade shows ensuring we are attending the most strategic events to enhance ROI.
  • Work collaboratively with Senior Leadership, Accounting, Finance, Sourcing, Legal, etc. to ensure the success of contracting events.
  • Works closely with Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Senior Leadership, and other groups.
  • Create overall event plan.
  • Formulate intriguing message the prospect market.
  • Coordinate procurement of giveaways and collateral.
  • Plan additional marketing opportunities and booth activities.
  • Identify speakers and coordinate sessions.
  • Partner with outside creative agencies.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of corporate/professional event management or similar experience.
  • Excellent time management, writing, communication, decision-making, presentation, human relations, and organizational skills.
  • Detailed oriented.
  • Ability to successfully work and promote inclusiveness in groups of all sizes, helping lead teams towards a common goal.
  • Ability to communicate technical info and ideas so others will understand.
  • Ability to frequently represent Rackspace, to the outside market, through face-to-face interactions with customers, prospects, partners, and media.
  • Ability to communicate technical info and ideas so others will understand.
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Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology® is the operator of the full enterprise AI stack from governed private cloud to AI inference and agents in production. With an Outcomes-as-a-Service model built on secure infrastructure, data foundations and forward-deployed engineering, we deliver business results for regulated and mission-critical industries where governance, sovereignty and uptime are non-negotiable.

Founded in 1998
San Antonio, Texas, USA
7.1K employees (128 in marketing)