Experiential Events Manager

About the role

As an Experiential Events Manager at Pogo, you'll own conferences, dinners, and IRL events as core growth channels. You'll run a high volume of events year-round, end-to-end, from logistics and project management to evaluating which ones are worth doing again—and bring creative, memorable activations to how Pogo shows up in person.

• Own end-to-end logistics for our conference and event programs—venues, vendors, travel, materials, staffing, follow-up
• Build and maintain relationships with event organizers, venues, and partners
• Evaluate ROI for every event—which earned their spot, which didn't, and what to do differently next time
• Bring great taste to how Pogo shows up, at every IRL touchpoint, including event displays, dinner menus, and swag
• Design creative, experiential activations that make Pogo stand out to a niche audience of insights and research leaders—the hook, not just the booth
• Travel up to 2x a month to ensure the highest priority events run smoothly
• Partner with sales and marketing to make sure events convert
• Run guerrilla marketing experiments to cut through at the events that matter most

Requirements

• Likely 3–7 years of experience in conference servicing, field marketing, experiential programs, or events at a tech company or creative agency
• Strong operations chops—you can project manage many events at once with hundreds of moving parts and not drop the ball
• Ability to build relationships with anyone—especially event hosts—to unlock the best slots, partnerships, and venues
• Great taste and creative instinct—you care how things look and feel, and you can invent the activation, not just execute it
• Ability to evaluate spend honestly and make the call to cut what isn't working
• Operate autonomously—you don't need someone telling you which conferences to consider or which vendors to call
• Willingness to travel up to 2x a month (primarily within the US)
• Actively use AI tools in your workflows

Bonus: guerrilla marketing creativity, consumer insights experience, extensive travel experience.

Why you might be excited about this opportunity

• Own one of the most visible parts of our GTM strategy—conferences, dinners, and in-person experiences are a core growth channel, not a side project
• Run events that actually matter—we focus on highly intentional experiences that create meaningful relationships and drive real business outcomes
• Have a direct impact on revenue—you'll work closely with sales and leadership to shape how events convert into pipeline and customer relationships
• Help define the playbook early—as an early member of the marketing team, you'll shape our field marketing strategy, vendor relationships, and event standards
• Get out from behind the desk—if you enjoy building relationships face-to-face, traveling, and creating memorable experiences, this role offers that regularly

Why you might not be excited about this role

• This isn't a traditional brand marketing role—we care about ROI, pipeline, and relationship-building, not just polished events or vanity metrics
• This is an in-the-trenches role—you'll be on the ground at events ~2x a month and own every operational detail yourself
• The role can be operationally intense—you'll handle vendor issues, logistics, travel, shipments, last-minute changes, and post-event follow-up
• We move quickly with very little structure—you won't have large agency support or endless planning cycles
• Travel and context-switching are part of the job—you'll juggle multiple events, partnerships, and experiments while traveling frequently
• We expect more than 9 to 5—raw hours make an impact at our current stage, though we trust you to create a flexible schedule

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO with a minimum 20 days vacation policy