Director, Corporate Events & Experiences

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

Job Overview:

The Director, Corporate Events & Experiences brings global brand experiences to life, delivering on objectives through focused creative and operational execution.

This role is the centralized global event and experiences leader, serving as the primary point of contact for strategy decisions, integrated team orchestration for experiences, and follow-through measurement. This role will oversee all corporate owned (1st party) and sponsored (3rd party) events, virtual and physical. Defining and upholding the brand is paramount, along with a keen vision for growth and excitement over time. As a systems thinker, this new hire will ensure streamlined, unified strategies across our organization, regardless of location. This leader will be the architect of many important customer journey experiences with Neo4j, and we’re looking for an innovator who is excited to take creative swings and help us grow our brand.

Core Responsibilities Include:

• Anchor Experiences on Marketing Goals and Strategies: Have a clear understanding of marketing goals, campaigns, and messaging to design a strategic vision and annual plan for how events and experiences support our objectives, partnering with others for alignment. Includes third-party conferences, webinars and virtual events.
• Event Vision & Communication: Develop and voice corporate event vision in all wider forums, driving clarity and decision-making for progress. Communicate effectively and quickly about schedules and scope, driving clarity and efficiency for your team and others. When changes arrive, your experience allows quick problem-solving because you have done this before.
• Integrated Event & Experience Planning: Events are moments along the journey, so integrated planning is imperative for a consistent experience. For Corporate Events, oversee integrated planning from briefing through measurement, ensuring on-track communications and execution.
• Expand Creativity: Develop ‘what if’ scenarios that bring our brand to life in exciting, new, and intelligent ways, in partnership with brand, creative, and content. Explore untapped experiences, physical and virtual, well-established or pop-up, to target and delight our personas in a polished way. Consider new ideas, things to discontinue, or doing things entirely differently for near or future horizons. Draft clear and comprehensive event briefs documenting your vision for scale, efficiency, and clarity.
• Event Definition and Adoption: With your team and others, define & refine all event definitions and standards with agreed-upon objectives, measurements, and materials for execution, globally. Iterate on the event types and details as the company evolves, always driving adoption and clarity. Oversee the development of event kits, guidelines, scorecards, and other materials in some cases.
• Uphold Operational Excellence: Guide event team to deliver event execution excellence, including global adoption of shared event tools, integrations, timeliness, and production value.
• Lead by Example: Encourage ideas, positivity, and adaptation with a small team of three alongside agency partners. Drive quick decision-making, diplomacy, and follow through with integrity. Identify gaps and resource management for ebb and flow.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years in integrated event strategy, planning, management, and leadership
• Excited about the art of the possible, bringing forth a vision for what could be adapted to time, budget, and team
• Strong coach and leader, putting ego aside. Willing to adapt, guide, listen to others, and self-identify as a lifelong learner
• Adept communicator with the ability to build strong relationships and influence colleagues in a collaborative, diplomatic style
• Experience with contract negotiation, hotels and venues, space planning, event RFPs, and event agency management/contractors
• Experience in managing large, complex events, both virtual and physical
• Knowledge of standard workflows, processes, and tools for effective and timely event execution
• Thrive in ambiguity where decisions may be iterative to keep moving forward in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization. Willingness to pivot and adjust.
• Exemplary time management, facilitation, and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritize large numbers of projects in a thoughtful, logical manner
• Demonstrate the attributes of being approachable (friendly, inclusive), intentional (clear, focused), and confident (assured, driven)

The annual base salary range for this position based in the United States is listed below. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on Neo4j’s compensation practices, job related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and trainings, in addition to geographic location. Based on the factors above, Neo4j utilizes the full width of the range.

In addition to the range below, US employees are eligible for a stock option grant and certain roles are eligible for an annual bonus. Employees in this position are also eligible to participate in the Company’s standard benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k), paid time off, and certain leaves of absence.

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry across the globe, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.

• Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $100M ARR and still rapidly growing.
• Raised biggest round of funding in all of database history ($325M Series F).
• Backed by world class investors like Google Ventures (GV), Neo4j has raised over $582M in funding and is currently valued at $2Bn. This puts them among the most well-funded database companies in history.
• 75% of Fortune 100 use Neo4j with more than 800 enterprise customers including Comcast, eBay, Adobe, Lyft, UBS, IBM, Volvo Cars and many more.
• Emil Eifrem (CEO) has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation and customer success.
• Countless awards in the industry. Massive Enterprises and individual developers/ data scientists love Neo4j. Strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact Study pegged Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all of the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

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