Head of Experiential (London or NY Based)

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 6 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive and own Oner Active’s global events program, shaping strategy, production and partnerships across brand moments, community activations, and multi-market execution.

  • Must-have: Extensive experience delivering high-impact events in fast-paced consumer brands.
  • Standout: Ability to scale programmes internationally and manage complex productions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owning the global events strategy for Oner Active, ensuring all events and activations align with brand vision, marketing objectives and commercial priorities.
  • Developing a clear annual events roadmap, spanning brand moments, cultural moments, collection drops, community events, pop-ups and partnerships.
  • Continuously identifying new, innovative event formats and opportunities to elevate Oner Active’s presence and cultural relevance.
  • Leading, mentoring and developing the events team setting clear direction, standards and expectations.
  • Creating scalable processes, frameworks and ways of working that support growth while maintaining creative excellence.
  • Fostering a collaborative, high-performance team culture that balances creativity, accountability and executional excellence.
  • Providing hands-on support to the team on key events, flagship moments and complex productions.
  • Setting the creative bar for all events, ensuring each experience is distinctive, on-brand and emotionally engaging.
  • Partnering closely with Brand, PR, Creative and Sponsorship teams to develop compelling event concepts and integrated brand moments.
  • Ensuring every touchpoint from venues and styling, to talent, gifting and guest experience, reflects Oner Active’s identity, mission and tone of voice.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience leading and delivering high-impact events, ideally within sportswear, fitness, lifestyle or similarly fast-paced industries.
  • Proven experience owning an events function, including strategy, budgets and team leadership.
  • Strong creative instincts with the ability to translate brand storytelling into compelling real-world experiences.
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex, high-visibility events with measurable business impact.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence influencing at senior level.
  • Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing budgets, suppliers and ROI.
  • Comfort operating in a start-up or scale-up environment, thriving amid change, ambiguity and rapid growth.
  • Outstanding organisational and project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple workstreams simultaneously.

Preferred

  • A naturally hands-on leader who’s calm under pressure and solution-oriented in live environments.
  • Deep passion for fitness, strength training and community-driven brands.
  • Experience scaling event programmes internationally.
  • A balance of big-picture thinking and detail obsession, equally comfortable in creative ideation sessions and production spreadsheets.
  • An innovative mindset, unafraid to challenge conventions and raise the bar.
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Oner Active was once a simple dream, a dream to create active wear that helped women worldwide feel extraordinary in every single way.Our mission is to empower all women every step of the way throughout their fitness journey. We want women to feel secure, comfortable and confident whilst training with classic, effortless and timeless designs that look amazing on all.Why Oner?🩺 HealthCare Cashback Scheme🏖 25 days holidays + all Bank Holidays💻 Work Anywhere for up to 30 days🤝 Employer pension contributions up to 5%💰 70% Oner Active Discount🏋️♀️ Oner Active Clothing Allowance🧘♂️ Lots of Support including Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing

Greater London, England, GBR
214 employees (60 in marketing)
13% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
705.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.5%
Direct
47.8%
Referral
3.6%
Social
3.8%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~214

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
35 (16% of company)
Median Career Experience
5 years
Median Tenure
2.1 years