Global Events Manager

Global Events Manager at Unity Technologies

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Remote, USA

The Opportunity

We are seeking an enthusiastic and detail-oriented event professional to join our Global Events team. This Global Events Manager role will manage the planning and execution of both first-party events and third-party tradeshows, working closely with internal stakeholders from marketing, product, and sales teams to achieve company-wide goals and priorities.

This person will manage various tasks as assigned on all elements of a program; including research, registration and list management, and vendor relations. This person needs to be an exceptional teammate who can handle multiple projects at once while being passionate about live events.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage the planning and smooth execution of corporate and sales events, including trade show activations, ensuring experiences align with business objectives and reflect the company’s brand values.
• Lead key planning and logistics including venue selection, catering, transportation, and audio-visual requirements.
• Coordinate event timelines, ensuring all deadlines are met and stakeholders are kept informed.
• Create registration forms and track event attendance using various event platforms; owning follow up with marketing workstreams to ensure post-event tracking is accurate.
• Oversee event budgets for assigned programs, including purchase order creation, approvals, and reconciliation in partnership with the Finance and Procurement teams, ensuring adherence to budgetary constraints.
• Analyze event metrics and provide insights to improve future events.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years experience working cross-functionally with logistical planning, and event production.
• Excellent communicator with a high level of attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• A proactive and detail-oriented approach to problem-solving.
• Someone who is adaptable as deliverables and requests change mid-project.
• Ability to travel 30%.

Additional Information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page (https://unity.com/careers).

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity (https://www.unity.com).

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Key skills/competency

• Event Management
• Project Coordination
• Vendor Relations
• Budget Management
• Event Logistics
• Stakeholder Communication
• Tradeshow Activation
• Marketing Events
• Data Analysis
• Problem Solving