Figma is hiring a
Events Manager

Summary

Figma is hiring an Events Manager to support the team in planning and executing educational livestreams, global user conferences, and brand marketing initiatives. The role involves owning and driving experiential event strategy, managing multiple work streams for Config, and fostering cross-functional communications across the Marketing organization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in event marketing including producing conferences of various sizes, sponsorship management, and brand activations
• Experience with owning all aspects of planning events big and small, such as conferences, sponsorships, brand activations, and proprietary events
• A community oriented mentality!
• Experience developing experiential marketing strategy. You’re comfortable defining success metrics for an event, sharing out results and using your findings to inform future planning
• Strong project management and event production skills. You like managing multiple work streams simultaneously, sweat the small stuff and leave no detail untouched
• You’re comfortable building on existing foundations and implementing processes across multiple work streams and teams
• Effective relationship builder. You can build relationships quickly and effectively and make sure to nurture them along the way
• Experience working with event production agencies and are comfortable managing them
• Has experience managing project budgets up to $2M

Responsibilities

• Help guide the events team strategy, focusing on educational livestreams, global user conferences, and brand marketing initiatives
• Be a core part of the planning and execution of Figma’s annual user conference, Config
• Develop event goals and work cross-functionally to track metrics essential to the success of all Figma events
• Own multiple work streams for Figma’s global user conference, Config, including Sponsorships and 30,000+ square foot space of activations
• Own agency relationships for event production and execution
• Build and track event budget and expenses. Partner with the legal and finance teams to track contracts and expenses
• Plan events from start to finish, including leading cross-functional kickoffs, establishing meeting cadences, liaising with external partners, and lead on-site logistics and schedule post-event retros

Benefits

• Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement
• Figma offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles