* As an event producer for GitHub, you will craft unique experiences for our thriving, one-of-a-kind community. Events play a key role in connecting our current and future customers, highlighting the community, spreading the GitHub message, as a platform for significant product announcements, and uniting our distributed workforce. Our busy events calendar includes multiple conferences, customer events, internal summits, and even a charity dodgeball tournament.
* You'll be a part of an events team that is responsible for the strategy and execution for both customer-facing and internal events. You will coordinate with nearly every internal department along the way, including sales, marketing, social impact, communications, support, finance, engineering & product. Significant experience leading projects with cross-functional teams, reporting to multiple stakeholders including senior leadership, is crucial to this role.
* You should be highly creative and exceptionally organized. We have bold and big ideas, so you will also manage a series of vendors and contractors to bring our events to life. A great event producer brings enthusiasm, creativity, and superb communications skills to the challenge of creating unique experiences for the attendees.
**You should have experience with:**
* Developing strategy for, and executing on, dynamic events for a range of audiences.
* Producing industry events ranging from intimate 50-person gatherings to multiple-thousand attendee conferences.
* Striking the right chord for internal events, developer events, enterprise events, and everything in between.
* Content development and speaker engagement within the technology industry.
* Creating unusual event experiences that surprise attendees and exceed expectations.
* Developing a unique visual identity for events.
* Integrating company brand & voice into physical spaces.
* Budget development and oversight to deliver events on or under budget.
* Open and frequent communication with internal departments, external vendors, and attendees.
* Vendor selection and management, including site selection, catering, technical infrastructure, transportation, and others.
* Working independently and autonomously, managing multiple competing priorities.