Event Marketing Associate
About Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.
By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.
About this role
In this role, you’ll own delivery of thoughtful and curated experiences as a core contributor to Faire’s global event marketing program. You will be a strategic partner to marketing leadership and owner of end-to-end event management, with a focus on conception, coordination and execution of high quality events for our entrepreneur community.
The ideal candidate for this role is a people person at their core, with a high degree of detail orientation, project management experience, and strong communication skills.
What you’ll do
- Plan and execute world class event experiences (virtual and in-person) including sourcing and scheduling speakers, managing event promotion and registration, managing event materials including marketing briefs, event deliverables and run of show documentation.
- Partner with marketing leadership to develop field marketing program strategy and event positioning per activation.
- Drive digital event promotion, management and follow-up, including coordination of promotion, registration and follow-up workflows, as well as sales enablement program.
- Offer hands-on support and staffing coordination at all events ensuring event success and seamless operations across touchpoints and stakeholders.
- Deliver operational excellence across scaled events program, including maintenance of event calendar, management of all vendors and logistics, and clear documentation of post-event wins, learnings and ROI.
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience leading external events program
- Ability to manage projects of varying scope simultaneously and successfully
- Meticulous attention to detail and superior organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across marketing, comms and GTM teams
- Effective written and verbal communication; ability to copyright event communications, draft internal and external-facing briefs, and prep executive stakeholders
- Flexibility to manage complex and fast-changing program elements and prioritize effectively in response
- Ability to travel 40% and work nights if/when required
Why you’ll love working at Faire
- We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.
- We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
- We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
- We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.
Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.
Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.