Senior Global Events Manager

The opportunity

Unity is looking for a Senior Global Events Manager. The ideal candidate has experience delivering both large (1.5k+ attendees) and small scale events. They will help fuel marketing and sales efforts by developing experiences in which customers leave inspired, educated, and excited to create more! This person will report to the Director of Corporate Events and be a key member of the global events team. This role collaborates with many Unity teams - spanning marketing, revenue, product and others.

What you'll be doing

• Act as the key decision maker on events and strategic partner to stakeholders.
• Lead and manage live event production elements including but not limited to: tech and platform sourcing, all AV, F&B, transportation, emergency and security protocols, permitting processes, build-out and load-out operations, staffing and labor requirements, talent and executive management, budget management, vendor and agency sourcing, creative design and registration management.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to understand their business needs and goals. Work in partnership to create valuable experiences for our customers and users.
• Ensure all marketing activities are value-positive and aligned to business objectives and key results.
• Establish, track, and report on event metrics, including attendance, engagement, and ROI. Continually assess opportunities for improvement and optimization of future events.

What we're looking for

• Experience leading large scale events as primary decision maker.
• Strong B2B virtual and live event experience, with a preference toward experience in the technology or gaming industry or similar sized global customer-facing events. Optional but preferred experience with developer focused events. Proficiency in event management software and tools.
• Proven track record creating, managing and executing business events, including demonstrated ROI.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a high-energy, fast-paced global environment, striking the right balance of data and judgment to make high impact decisions.
• Expert in managing cross-functional teams - ensuring all team members are delivering against the requirements of assigned roles. Skilled contract negotiator with a demonstrated track record of finding creative ways to do more with less with allocated budgets.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• International relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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