Director/Sr. Director Corporate Events

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If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Director/Sr. Director of Event Marketing who will work on building our brand and developing experiential conferences and tradeshows to contribute to Kong awareness and pipeline. As a marketing events strategist, you’ll be responsible for developing a vision for each event and working with our internal teams, industry organizations, and external vendors to define and deliver event programs that drive awareness, excitement as well as pipeline and revenue. This is a unique opportunity to build and scale our events program, working on our demand generation events, community events, and our industry path-breaking annual API Summit.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Develop a vision for Kong experiential events that map our leadership in our category and in the industry while keeping our core users, the developers excited about our technology and platform.

• Lead the strategic planning and creative development of event initiatives, proactively managing all event needs from branding, agenda design, content creation, and venue selection to event execution

• Partner and collaborate with Kong executives and co-founders, Kong demand generation, branding, and social marketing teams, as well as the open source community, around event promotion, visibility and strong execution.

• Gather and track ROI, registrations, attendance, engagement analytics throughout the events, and feedback to consistently assess opportunities for improvement

• Willingness and excitement to travel globally

What You'll Bring:

• Ability to think strategically as it pertains to event development and execution from concept to finish, but can also perform tactical duties as required to accomplish a common goal

• 15+ years of event management and planning experience, including experience working in a SaaS or B2B technology company

• Great interpersonal and leadership skills to lead part or the whole company in the development and execution of events. You are an effective communicator and a problem solver who rallies everyone around projects.

• Great interface to anyone internally: Executives, Sales & GTM teams, Product teams, Finance and procurement teams and the rest of the marketing team; and great interface externally with vendors, community, attendees and tradeshows partners.

• Experience managing and delivering against multiple projects simultaneously in a very fast-moving environment

• Out of the box mindset - good is not good enough

Bonus Points:

• Experience with early-stage through IPO companies

• Held other roles in marketing

• MBA

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become “API-first” and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally — from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises — unleash developer productivity, build securely, and accelerate time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.

Compensation Range: $171K - $240K