The Opportunity:
Shutterstock is seeking an Event Manager to manage the planning, production, and execution of Shutterstock’s tentpole events, industry conferences, trade shows and festivals.
Responsibilities:
- Manage all aspects of events including event timelines, vendor management, logistics, production, shipments etc.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine event goals and strategy
- Provide creative input and work closely with the creative team on all event marketing collateral
- Negotiate with vendors and work with on-site A/V, vendors, caterers, venues, site management
- Report on event feedback and provide post-show reporting
- Update event budgets, track spending, and process payments
- Be hands on with all aspects of event preparations and logistics
- Proactively incorporate best practices, creative and fresh thinking to enhance our branded experiences
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience in event and/or trade show production; with international experience preferred
- Experience managing and executing events with and without agency support
- In-depth knowledge of technical and logistical aspects of live production
- Strong program management, organizational and communication skills
- Experience handling multiple projects and stakeholders
- Detail-oriented, highly organized
- Excellent computer skills: presentations, information organization, and spreadsheets
- Self-starter able to prioritize and manage multiple projects on different timelines
- Excellent flexibility and collaborative work style.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, be a creative thinker, and have the ability to take initiative.
- Occasional extended hours and weekend work necessary
- Domestic and international travel is required
- Foreign language would be a plus
Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V
About Shutterstock:
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 190,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 125 million images and more than 6 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Shutterstock has customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media; and Webdam, a cloud-based digital asset management service for businesses.
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