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Events Manager

Primary Venture Partners

Primary Venture Partners

Administration
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Oct 15, 2024

About the company

Primary is the largest early stage venture firm in the world, with $1 billion in assets under management and a staff of 50 working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, Vestwell, and many more.

The firm takes a low-volume, high-conviction approach—and devotes unreasonable resources toward making sure founders can succeed. With an Impact team that outnumbers investors 2:1, operational experts spend 100% of their time making hires, signing customers, and enabling future fundraising to supercharge growth. This partnership with top-tier founders makes companies in Primary’s portfolio 2x more likely to raise a Series A and 19x more likely to reach a billion-dollar-plus valuation—a third of Fund I companies are unicorns, less than a decade out.

About the role

This is the opportunity to oversee major events end-to-end and have true ownership of the firm’s most important strategic marketing pillar.

What you’ll do

  • Conceptualize and execute major milestone gatherings like NYC Summit and NYC Tech Awards for 500-2,000 guests

  • Coordinate ~50 smaller events for our tech and startup communities throughout the year, in collaboration with our office manager, investors, external partners, and sponsors

  • Manage freelancer, agency, and venue relationships, paperwork, etc

  • Operate with a client services mentality internally as well as with cohosts, speakers, VIPs, and sponsors

  • Own event guest list creation and make sure we meet target demographics

  • Learn and own our event invite systems—luma for casual events and Swoogo for more involved ones

  • Own all documentation of sponsorships, with the ability to grow into being the primary point of contact for sponsors and a P&L owner

  • Measure and define success in terms of how events contribute to our brand and deal flow

About you

  • 4+ years of experience working in a brand events role or similar

  • Experience with and significant responsibility for running 500+ person events

  • Experience coordinating with vendors, sponsors, speakers and/or juggling complex stakeholder environments

  • Enjoys brand collaborations

  • Strategic lens as well as execution oriented

  • Design fluency is a plus, but freelancers are available to support

  • Intense sense of ownership and entrepreneurial creativity

All candidates must be available to work at least 3 days a week at Primary's office in NYC.

Compensation is market competitive and will include upside in our fund. The targeted range is $100-$125K.