Vice President of Events

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The Opportunity:

Are you an innovative and experienced events leader with a passion for collaborating to create unparalleled experiences? Do you have a vision for how a holistic event strategy can propel brand awareness, win new customers, and create deep advocacy for product solutions as businesses leaders contemplate the next phase of work? And can you operate on strategic and roll-up your sleeves operational levels to maximize event ROI and deliver world-class execution through your team?

If you’re that person, we’d like you to lead our Global Events Strategy and Execution capability for our rapidly growing technology company.

The VP of Global Events will lead Workhuman Live – our immersive, premier “user” conference. Workhuman Live created and continues to drive a movement, inspiring working professionals everywhere to think about how they can deliver value for their organizations by helping employees feel more valued through recognition. And through other events (executive, regional, digital, industry, third party, internal and more) this person will ensure every experience brings humanity back into the workforce and creates a deep sense of connection and interest in our brand to drive profitable growth and advance our mission.

This position reports to the VP, Customer Marketing and partners with core stakeholders including: Brand Marketing; Customer Success, Sales, Product, and Finance teams.

Reporting to: VP, Customer Marketing

Location: Framingham, MA

What You will be Doing:

  • Set annual strategy for event investment, selection, cadence, and presence to achieve our strategic growth goals and maximize ROI
  • Articulate the role and goal of digital and in-person events
  • Set and lead strategies for audience composition, content, communication, design, logistics and IT/technology
  • At an event level - Lead all aspects of revenue and event pro forma planning - including decision criteria to do or not do an event, location and date selection, pricing and promotions strategy, sponsorship package development
  • Partner with Executive team to align on goals, purpose, ROI, manifestation of key product and brand messages, and success metrics; Lead cross-functional team to achieve these success metrics
  • Champion continuous evolution of key narratives, product demo/product engagement experiences, and main messages derived from workplace issues, persona trends, and customer feedback
  • Collaborate with Sales and Customer Success teams to ensure events accomplish shared goals of building and accelerating pipeline, deal progress, existing customer share expansion, and advocacy
  • Steward and maintain the vision for the Workhuman brand, ensuring brand consistency across all event platforms, ie., annual conference to regional tradeshows and third party events
  • Lead post mortems to senior management
  • Analyze agencies, vendors and overall market conditions to determine present and future procurement needs for events
  • Partner with IT/MerTech teams to continuously identify the right mix of technologies, apps, and vendors necessary to create incredible event experiences regardless of delivery format
  • Deep familiarity and comfort with the technical components of event production
  • Fluent in the systems used to support logistics
  • Strong vendor network
  • · Lead, grow, and develop a talented team of internal, external, and IT event professionals

The Skills You Will Bring:

General Management

  • Minimum 18+ years of experience in Event Strategy, Execution and Design with 10 years of people management responsibilities
  • Diplomatic assertiveness
  • Ability to travel up to 33% of time

Strategy, Planning and Execution

  • Expert knowledge of events strategies (online, in-person and hybrid), tactics, best practices and emerging practices
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex, high-leverage high-profile events involving senior management and experience personalization

People Organization and Development

  • Ability to benchmark organizational structures and process to build world-class, “future-proof” event capabilities across people, process, and technology
  • Operates with a “no surprises” commitment to business partners and stakeholders and is a role model for communication and collaboration

Analytical Mindset

  • Strong analytic skills with clear ability to link event plans to business results and company goals
  • Agency management and multi-million-dollar budget management/revenue generation experience

Purpose and Passion

  • Wide network of industry, agency, and vendor relationships to tap into as additional capabilities are needed
  • A problem solver, able to deal with ambiguity and quick changes of direction as needed
  • Event planning must be in your DNA

Who We Are:

At Workhuman, we love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity. 

Here you can be yourself, learn, and grow with some of the best people you’ll ever meet. Be inspired to do your best work, celebrate life’s most meaningful moments, and truly experience the benefits of an award-winning workplace. 

  • Workhuman® is used by millions of employees across 160 countries.
  • Our core values are; Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.
  • We are #2 Great Place to Work in Ireland for the 2018 medium-sized workplace category and have been named one of the 2018 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe.
  • Check out our state-of-the-art offices in Framingham, MA and Dublin, Ireland. 

Perks & Benefits for our Happy Healthy Humans:

  • Comprehensive Health Plans 
  • Fully paid parental leave (12-week maternity/4-week paternity) effective day 1
  • Peer-to-peer recognition program 
  • 401(k)
  • Tuition Reimbursement 
  • Commuter bus from downtown Boston
  • On-site fitness center
  • Wellness rewards and reimbursements
  • Fully stocked kitchen (cold brew on tap - snacks and coffee machines as far as the eye can see…) 
  • Regular celebrations for employees, families and special guests
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Technology we use

  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
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    • IllustratorDesign
    • MiroDesign
    • ConfluenceManagement
    • HootsuiteCMS
    • WordpressCMS
    • Chorus.AICRM
    • DocuSignCRM
    • LinkedIn SalesNavigatorCRM
    • OutreachCRM
    • SalesforceCRM
    • MarketoLead Gen
    • ZoomInfoLead Gen
    • Microsoft TeamsCollaboration
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration
    • TrelloProject Management

Location

We're located on Crossing Boulevard, right off of Rt. 9 in Framingham. Our office is easily accessible from Rt. 9, Rt. 495, and Rt. 90.

An Insider's view of Workhuman

What's something quirky about your company?

I think there are numerous things that are quirky about our company, all of them great! This company stands out in having created a culture that values the human connection. We’ve created an atmosphere of promoting each other, of being each other’s biggest champions, and making sure we all thrive and develop into the best versions of ourselves.

Laury

Director, Workplace Experience

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

Collaboration is a core part of our team’s daily life; we work closely with everyone from Product Management and Engineering to Customer Success and Sales. With the teams split between Framingham and Dublin, we’re regularly using new tools with different teams to improve our ability to brainstorm and communicate user flows.

Adam

Director, Product Strategy

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I started my business development role here with just 6 months of software sales experience. My manager knew my aspirations of becoming a Sales Exec. and helped me achieve this goal in less than 2 years. At Workhuman, not only are you given the technology to be successful, but you have amazing resources around you to grow professionally.

Bobby

Corporate Sales Executive

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

These days, we are dealing with a variety of stresses and change is constant. One of the most powerful ways to align teams and help people reach their full potential is so simple and can be easily missed- recognize an employee for their contributions! That positive connection carries far beyond the moment it occurs.

Jason

SVP, Global Sales

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

Workhuman is not only in the business of changing the future of work for other companies, we are already thriving in that state ourselves. It’s so exciting to join a group of brilliantly passionate employees who are genuine, kind, and grateful to each other and working together on our mission to bring others into this human movement.

Erica

People Analytics Consultant

What are Workhuman Perks + Benefits

Workhuman Benefits Overview

There are a lot of benefits to working human, but let’s start with the most meaningful. We value the whole human – not just what you bring to the office every day, but everything about you and who you are. Here, people are empowered to be themselves and do the best work of their lives.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Employees are encouraged to plan and participate in philanthropic activities through the Workhuman Gives program. 8 hours of paid volunteer tour
Partners with nonprofits
Previous partnerships have included Catie's Closet, Girls Inc., Tech Gives Back, and the Department of Child and Family Services.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
President's club
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Workhuman encourages employees to find the work-life blend that meets their needs.
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Our ERGs are something we are very proud of! We have 5 ERGs running including: Parents at Workhuman, The Women's Network, SPARKLE (LGBTQIA+), Sustainability, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Short term and long term disability benefits are available
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Health insurance is provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA and includes prescription drug coverage. Workhuman also provides deductible reimbursements via our health reimbursement arrangement.
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Eligibility rules apply.
Company equity
RSU grant
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Dependant Day Care FSA Available
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Workhuman also provides 4 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker, or for adoption/foster.
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Workhuman hosts seasonal events where employees can invite their family members and children to attend.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

In addition to our compensation and benefit offerings, employees are able to fully immerse themselves into our product.

As superusers of our own social recognition platform, our employees are constantly being recognized for their efforts at work by their managers and company leaders, as well as their colleagues and peers. We celebrate success in the office and outside of the office with our Life Events tool, and our Conversations tool gives employees the ability to navigate their priorities and goals, give and receive feedback, and manage check team check ins.

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