Director, Global Events

About the role

The organization is seeking a full-time Director, Global Events based in the United States to lead the execution of its global event program across in-person, digital, and sponsored experiences. Reporting to the Head of Scientific Growth (Marketing), this senior individual-contributor role oversees the attendee and speaker experience across symposia, mixers, dinners, digital talk series, scientific conferences, sponsorships, and sales tabletop events. The Director partners closely with Sales, Science, and Marketing to ensure events are well executed, support commercial priorities, and deliver a consistently high-quality experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of organization-hosted symposia, mixers, and dinners.
• Manage the full attendee journey, including registration, communications, vendors, logistics, on-site experience, and follow-up coordination.
• Partner with Sales to operationalize invitation and attendance strategies while ensuring a high-quality customer experience.
• Own event budgets, vendor management, and execution against established event plans.
• Coordinate Sales and Science team attendance at 40+ scientific conferences annually, including registration, internal coordination, and supporting marketing actions (with no exhibits or booths currently planned).
• Manage event sponsorships, including attendance planning, registrations, sponsor deliverables, promotional coordination, and event readiness.
• Work with sales administration to support sales team site visits revolving around events, sponsorships, and conferences.
• Oversee logistics for the digital talk series, including speaker coordination, scheduling, communications, and platform readiness.
• Ensure registration, attendance, and follow-up activity are integrated into HubSpot.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to improve follow-up workflows and the overall attendee experience.
• Maintain the annual event calendar and ensure key activities, deadlines, and ownership are clearly documented.
• Ensure events and attendee activity are consistently tracked in HubSpot.
• Build and maintain standard operating procedures, templates, and repeatable processes to support consistent execution across the event portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and the customer experience.

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of experience in event management, field marketing, experiential marketing, or a related function.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex in-person and digital event programs.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, sponsorships, and event logistics.
• Experience with HubSpot or a comparable CRM and marketing automation platform.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with Sales and technical or scientific teams.
• Strong customer-service orientation with a high bar for attendee and speaker experience.
• Exceptional organization, project management, and attention to detail.
• Comfort traveling domestically and internationally approximately 30% of the time for hosted symposia and mixers.

Preferred:

• Life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or scientific event experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, variable compensation, and equity
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees and dependents
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave and childcare flexible spending account
• Home office setup stipend for remote work
• Paid time off and flexible leave policies
• Professional development support