Senior Event Manager

About the Opportunity

The company is modernizing the veterinary software and pet parent healthcare experience. Its suite of platforms features a market-leading procurement marketplace, an ultra-modern home delivery ecommerce experience, and a next-generation practice management system. More than 25,000 hospitals across all 50 states rely on the company daily, supporting tens of thousands of veterinarians who care for tens of millions of pets each year. The organization is modernizing the 50 billion dollar plus animal health industry by giving veterinary organizations the tools to focus more on patient care. Backed by top venture investors, the company is a fast-growing, mission-driven organization. The team is searching for talented and passionate people who want to help shape the future of veterinary care.

The team is looking for someone exceptional to own the company's most important in-person experiences, from multi-day leadership summits with top customers and industry leaders to the annual company retreat and team offsites. This role will take events from a broad idea to an exceptional experience, owning everything from the venue and programming to the budget, logistics, hospitality, and hundreds of details in between. This is a highly autonomous role for someone with exceptional taste, operational rigor, and hospitality instincts. The objective will be provided, not the playbook, and the individual will be trusted to figure out how to create an experience people will remember.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the company's major events end to end, from the first idea and event strategy through planning, execution, and the final guest departure.
• Lead flagship customer and executive gatherings, the annual company retreat, and team offsites, creating thoughtful, high-touch experiences for groups ranging from intimate executive gatherings to 200+ person events.
• Turn broad objectives into exceptionally detailed event plans spanning venues, programming, hospitality, travel, production, staffing, budgets, logistics, and the overall attendee experience.
• Find exceptional hotels, venues, restaurants, speakers, and partners, build strong relationships with them, and negotiate aggressively and creatively to get the best possible experience and value.
• Serve as the clear owner across internal teams and external partners, driving decisions, timelines, budgets, and execution without requiring significant oversight.
• Anticipate what could go wrong before it does, from major logistical challenges to tiny details an attendee might notice, and solve the inevitable surprises quickly and calmly.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience owning complex, high-touch events from start to finish, whether corporate events, executive gatherings, customer conferences, retreats, weddings, or similarly ambitious live experiences.
• Obsession with every detail. Noticing the things others miss, thinking through the experience from every attendee's perspective, and believing the smallest touches can be the difference between a good event and an exceptional one.
• Independently led complex, multi-day events and comfortable keeping hundreds of decisions, dependencies, vendors, and logistics moving at once.
• Genuine enjoyment of sourcing and negotiating. Enjoying finding the perfect hotel, venue, restaurant, or partner just as much as negotiating the contract, pushing for better terms, and figuring out how to make the budget go further.
• Exceptional hospitality instincts and a strong sense of taste. Knowing how to make people feel genuinely welcomed and cared for, and understanding that something memorable doesn't have to mean something extravagant.
• Remarkable resourcefulness and calmness under pressure. When plans change or something goes wrong five minutes before guests arrive, the instinct is to take ownership, make a decision, and solve it.

Benefits

• 100% remote within the USA
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Automatic 401k contribution
• Employee referral program
• At home office set up
• Bi-annual company retreats
• Open vacation policy
• Equity
• Monthly team events

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is $100,000/year - $170,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. For Colorado, the salary range is $110,000 - $140,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Actual compensation may vary based on skills, qualifications, and experience.