Events and Engagement Manager leading community engagement and fundraising initiatives for United Way in Central Texas. Collaborating with diverse stakeholders to drive philanthropic efforts and manage key events.
About the role
- Director of Global Events at IonQ, overseeing strategy and execution of global events. Focused on pipeline acceleration and strengthening relationships in quantum computing.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the global events strategy, ensuring all events directly support revenue goals, strategic accounts, and key market priorities.
- Design an integrated events portfolio spanning flagship events, industry conferences, executive engagements, partner programs, and ABM experiences.
- Align event investments to pipeline generation, deal acceleration, customer expansion, and strategic market positioning.
- Build a scalable global events framework that can support rapid company growth and expanding international markets.
- Partner with Sales leadership to align events to priority accounts, target industries, and strategic opportunities.
- Design event engagement models that help sales teams create meaningful interactions with decision makers and influencers.
- Lead the development and execution of global flagship events that establish the company as a category leader.
- Partner with product marketing to ensure flagship events serve as major narrative moments for the company’s platform vision and roadmap.
- Define the company’s presence at global industry conferences and strategic market events.
- Continuously evaluate the industry event landscape to ensure the company invests in the highest-ROI events for reaching target buyers.
- Build curated executive programs and VIP experiences that deepen relationships with top customers, partners, and prospects.
- Partner with account teams to design custom events and workshops for strategic accounts.
- Enable executives to effectively engage customers through structured experiences such as: C-suite roundtables, strategic advisory councils, innovation briefings, and private product demonstrations
- Collaborate with ABM and field marketing teams to create account-specific event strategies that engage key buying committees.
- Design bespoke experiences such as: invitation-only dinners, innovation labs, industry-focused workshops, executive retreats.
- Establish clear frameworks for measuring event impact; implement data-driven approaches to optimize event strategy and investment allocation.
- Build and lead a high-performing global events team responsible for planning and executing programs across regions.
- Partner with regional marketing leaders to ensure global consistency while enabling local market relevance.
- Manage external agencies, vendors, and production partners to deliver world-class event experiences at scale.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in global events, experiential marketing, or field marketing in a high-tech or enterprise technology environment
- Proven track record of designing events that drive measurable pipeline and revenue impact
- Experience leading large-scale flagship events and strategic industry activations
- Strong understanding of enterprise sales cycles and account-based marketing strategies
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Sales, Product Marketing, and executive leadership
- Experience managing global teams, agencies, and complex event logistics
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and executive-presence skills
- Demonstrated ability to align diverse stakeholders across product, marketing, and sales organizations.
- Exceptional program management and organizational leadership skills.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where strategy and execution evolve rapidly.
- Strategic thinker who remains hands-on in high-growth, high-complexity environments.
- Brings a mindset that is curious, analytical, customer-obsessed, commercially minded…and energized by ambiguity in early or fast-evolving markets.
- Highly organized, self-directed, and capable of balancing long-term strategy with near-term execution demands.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Matching 401K
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Parental/adoption leave
- Legal insurance
- Home internet stipend
- Pet insurance
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