Senior Trade & Industry Events Manager
Block, Inc. is a technology company building tools for economic empowerment, operating a portfolio of financial brands including Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto. It serves sellers, consumers, artists, and bitcoin users through payments, banking, buy-now-pay-later, music streaming, and bitcoin self-custody and mining products.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. builds technology aimed at increasing access to the global economy. Its brands each unlock different aspects of the economy: Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers; Cash App is an easy way to spend, send, and store money; Afterpay (Clearpay in the UK) helps customers manage spending over time; TIDAL is a music platform empowering artists as entrepreneurs; Bitkey is a self-custody bitcoin wallet; and Proto builds open, accessible bitcoin mining hardware and services. Block has been a long-time advocate for bitcoin, integrating bitcoin buying/selling and Lightning Network payments into Cash App and Square, funding open-source bitcoin infrastructure through Spiral (including the Lightning Development Kit), and engaging in bitcoin policy advocacy through groups like COPA, the Digital Energy Council, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and the Texas Blockchain Council. The company also runs a significant open source program (contributing to projects like Goose, an on-machine AI developer agent, OkHttp, Retrofit, gRPC, Envoy, and MySQL) and an AI research effort, including co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation with Anthropic and OpenAI. Block serves individual consumers, small and medium-sized businesses/merchants, artists, and developers.
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About the Role
You will oversee Square's trade show and industry event program across retail and food and beverage sectors. You will lead large-scale event planning and execution, manage booth production and logistics, develop sponsorships, generate qualified leads, manage vendors and budgets, maintain event processes, and travel to key events.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in trade show management, event marketing, or experiential marketing
- Experience managing large-scale trade show programs
- Strong project management skills
- Experience generating and tracking qualified leads
- Experience managing budgets of $500,000-$1,000,000 per event
- Vendor management and negotiation skills
- Communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- Retail or food and beverage industry background preferred
- Experience in national field event programs preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of Tier 1 trade show activations
- Develop and execute the annual trade show strategy
- Manage event budgets and track ROI
- Create and negotiate experiential sponsorships
- Identify and evaluate new event opportunities
- Implement lead capture and follow-up processes with sales teams
- Collaborate with creative, product, sales, and partnership teams
- Manage agencies, warehousing partners, booth fabricators, AV providers, and contractors
- Maintain inventory, shipping, booth asset, and vendor documentation processes
- Travel to key trade shows and industry events
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning