Responsibilities

• Develop and manage Vantor’s enterprise event strategy, helping determine where the company should invest its time, resources, and presence based on customer relevance, strategic importance, market visibility, and commercial opportunity.
• Executive & Government Engagement - Provide strategic event leadership that goes well beyond logistics, with the judgment and presence to support senior executives, government leaders, customers, partners, and other high-profile stakeholders across defense, intelligence, commercial, and international markets.
• Vantor Experience - Partner across Marketing, Product, Communications, and the business units to continuously elevate the Vantor experience at conferences, trade shows, customer engagements, and other live environments. Ensure the company’s technology, solutions, and broader spatial intelligence story are presented in a compelling and differentiated way.
• Cross-Functional Integration - Work closely with Communications, PR, Product Marketing, Sales, and Business Development to ensure event strategy, messaging, media opportunities, executive engagement, customer outreach, and follow-up efforts reinforce one another.
• Event Function Leadership - Strengthen the operating model, capabilities, standards, and accountability of the events function while supporting the varied priorities of Vantor’s global businesses.
• Customer-First Event Discipline - Establish a more disciplined approach to event planning by grounding each investment in a clear audience, business objective, and desired outcome. Develop post-event review practices that help Vantor continuously refine its portfolio and investment decisions.
• Measurement & Commercial Impact - Establish meaningful KPIs and reporting that connect event activity with customer engagement, pipeline development, relationship progression, market visibility, and other relevant business outcomes.
• Budget & Investment Management - Help establish priorities across the event portfolio and ensure investments are being made thoughtfully and strategically, with appropriate consideration of business impact and return.
• Roles and Responsibilities - Reporting to the Vice President of Marketing, the Sr. Manager of Events will own how Vantor shows up in person across the customer, industry, government, and partner environments most important to the company. This leader will operate as a strategic partner to Marketing, Communications, Sales, Business Development, Product, and business-unit leadership, treating events as an extension of Vantor’s commercial and brand strategy.

Requirements

• Deep events expertise and a sustained commitment to the discipline, reflecting a leader who sees events as a strategic business capability rather than simply an executional marketing activity.
• Experience developing and managing sophisticated event programs within government, defense, intelligence, aerospace, technology, or comparably demanding B2B environments strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about an event portfolio, including event selection, audience prioritization, investment decisions, customer engagement, and measurement.
• Significant experience partnering directly with senior executives and other high-profile stakeholders in settings where expectations and organizational visibility are high.
• Strong executive presence and polish, paired with the humility and operating range to move seamlessly from senior-level engagement to hands-on execution.
• Demonstrated command of event measurement and the commercial fluency to connect investment and audience engagement to meaningful business outcomes.
• Experience working across Sales, Business Development, Product, Marketing, and Communications to create integrated event strategies and experiences.
• Ability to understand sophisticated technology and mission use cases and translate them into compelling experiences for government, commercial, and partner audiences.

Preferred

• Experience operating across geographically distributed organizations and supporting both domestic and international events is preferred.
• Background in complex B2B technology, ideally geospatial intelligence, defense technology, aerospace, Earth observation, software, data, or an adjacent deep-tech market.

Benefits

• Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers
• Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.