Simpler Media Group, Inc Hiring for Sr. Event Manager – Content – Remote Job at Remote Full Time

Ready for your next opportunity? Accelerate your events and conferences career by joining this quickly growing B2B technology focused media, events and research firm.

Simpler Media Group (“SMG”) is looking for a sophisticated, entrepreneurial event content manager with 5+ years of relevant experience to join our events team. You will play an important role in our content development and speaker recruitment processes, strongly influencing Events product content and strategy within virtual events, live events and webinars.

The Senior Manager of Content, Events, is a key position at our company. Your mission will be to:

1. Advance Content Program Development

2. Drive Speaker Pipeline Development.

3. Execute Speaker Recruitment

4. Coordinate Event Content Operations

WHO WE ARE

SMG is a native digital B2B technology publisher and producer of high impact research and a range of virtual and physical conferences. Our mission is to provide top tier knowledge and networking that advances careers.

We serve an online audience of 7 million+ community members spread across the globe, with the majority of our membership located in North America. We produce about 150+ original articles per month, weekly podcasts, unique industry research reports, hundreds of webinars and 8-10 conferences per year.

SMG publishes CMSWire and Reworked, and produces the Digital Experience Summit and Digital Workplace Experience conferences.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Reporting to the Senior Director of Events, the Senior Manager of Content will guide content development and speaker recruitment for a segment of the Events product line.

You must be highly skilled in shaping content across a variety of topical areas and across a variety of mediums.

This individual will play an integral role building speaker pipelines, recruiting speakers for slots remaining in 2022, and supporting the build of events as the organization returns to live opportunities in 2023 alongside its digital categories.

You must be able to excel in an editorial position with a marketing orientation ; candidates ideally have experience working in media, journalism, marketing or executive communications.

You will be creating a live representation of our editorial brand.

Content / Program Development:

• Develop content expertise in the core subject matters covered by CMSWire and Reworked

• Conduct content research across industry publications, practitioner blogs, competitor events and vendor sites; staying on top of industry trends and best practices

• Draft working copy for event websites, review and edit inbound abstracts from speakers, track and incorporate taxonomy and SEO keywords

• Manage content matrix to ensure targeted topics are covered, that sessions are diverse and unique, if any – flag and elevate risks to leadership

• Participate in speaker and sponsor onboarding calls, run speaker content calls to disseminate best practices and advise on themes and speaker selection

Speaker Bureau Development:

• Cultivate a large database of potential speakers. Conduct research on speaker candidates, including inbound requests to speak, existing leads within Salesforce, new leads, editorial contacts, call for speaker campaigns and other recommendations

• Manage speaker leads in Salesforce, including adding new leads, updating contact information,expanding upon records to build out data quality and comprehensiveness, creating and managing Salesforce reports, and collaborating with Salesforce users to increase data quality and speaker opportunities

• Prep spreadsheets for mass import of historical speaker and contact data

• Manage 360 degree invitation flow, from candidate decisioning with head of events, developing outreach strategies per contact, writing invitation invitation templates and customizing outgoing invitations, managing regular follows ups and informational calls, and confirming speakers for upcoming events and webinars

• Manage client intake for webinar speakers, including intake form, and identifying and booking speakers in alignment with client objectives

Operations:

• Coordinate with Editorial team on speaker needs, confirmations and tracking

• Conduct post-event survey reviews and report out on improvement and enhancement opportunities

• Participate in event dry runs, QA and live day support

• Participate in team meetings, staff meetings, happy hours etc., as a productive, engaged and collaborative team member

• Support event logistics and delivery as needed, including networking and engagement opportunities, customer service and other needs

• Effectively plan and manage to meet deadlines, utilizing team collaboration platforms like Asana, as well as self-driven management and goal setting

• Provide outstanding professional written and verbal communications with internal and external parties, in representation of SMG and our brands

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Min 3-5 years experience in marketing, public relations, project management, event planning,

• editorial, and/or content management

• Experience in digital workplace, customer experience or related fields

• Familiarity with learning methodologies and/or event engagement practices

• Motivated self-starter, comfortable working independently in a remote work environment

• Collaborative individual, receptive to constructive feedback conversations

• Organized and highly attentive to detail

• Access to high-speed, broadband internet is required

THE PERKS

* Competitive salary and full benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k),

* Fast paced but great work/life balance and 1/2 day Fridays

* Flexible, remote-first work culture that is results / OKR-driven

* A diverse team, flat management structure, agile business operations

* Strong digital literacy skills across the organization

* Lots of opportunity to develop new skills and grow your responsibilities.

This is a full time job that can be fully remote and is location agnostic. You must work during N. American business hours. Some light travel will be required, typically to conferences and company meetings.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 – $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

COVID-19 considerations:
Covid vaccination or proof of a negative test result are required for all in-person activities.

Work Location: Remote