Events Lead
AI risk platform that helps financial institutions prevent fraud, ensure compliance, and detect money laundering through behavioral analysis and device intelligence.
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About Sardine
Sardine helps financial institutions prevent fraud and ensure compliance by analyzing user behavior and device intelligence in real-time. Users can detect identity theft, payment fraud, account takeovers, and money laundering while streamlining KYC/AML processes. Sardine provides risk management with AI agents, case management, and regulatory reporting tools.
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About the Role
You will own the global events calendar and lead events from strategy through on-site delivery and follow-up. You will select opportunities, negotiate sponsorships, manage budgets and vendors, build event playbooks, measure pipeline and ROI, and develop scalable event operations.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading B2B events or field marketing programs
- Experience managing a high volume of events across regions and formats
- Understanding of event pipeline and revenue contribution
- Experience setting event goals and measuring ROI
- Project management and operational skills
- Cross-functional leadership with sales, marketing, product, executives, agencies, and vendors
- Experience managing agencies, contractors, and internal team members
- Experience using CRM, marketing automation, and event management tools
- Willingness to travel regularly, including internationally
Responsibilities
- Own the global events calendar across conferences, tradeshows, executive dinners, happy hours, partner events, and field marketing programs
- Lead end-to-end event planning and execution
- Negotiate sponsorships, manage budgets, select venues, and manage vendors
- Oversee on-site booths, branding, meetings, hospitality, staffing, and event experiences
- Identify and evaluate new event opportunities across industries, regions, and formats
- Build pre-event playbooks for account targeting, meeting booking, staffing, briefings, and promotion
- Track attendance, account engagement, meetings, pipeline, influenced revenue, and ROI
- Lead post-event retrospectives and improve event selection and execution
- Manage the global events budget, forecasting, cost optimization, and investment allocation
- Build and lead an internal events team
- Manage external agencies, vendors, and contractors
- Travel regularly, including internationally, to support major events
Benefits
- Equity
- Early exercise for options, including pre-vested options
- Remote-first work arrangement
- Flexible paid time off
- Year-end break
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- 4% 401k or RRSP matching
- MacBook Pro
- One-time home-office setup stipend
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual learning stipend