Director of Events

Job description

We’re hiring a Director of Events to design bold event activations across the tradeshow circuit and at our own conference, BRIDGES. Events have become one of our highest-ROI growth channels, and we're doubling down. We need someone who can sharpen the creativity, expand the scale, and turn every activation into measurable pipeline. This role is part builder, part strategist. One week you're standing up an in-booth activation at a tradeshow. The next, you're shaping the agenda for BRIDGES - our flagship event bringing together 500+ leaders across K-12, higher education, and state and local government alongside the AI companies building for them. What you'll do: Build the field engine. Take what's already working and turn it into a repeatable, scalable system across partners, vendors, and contractors. Push us from good to great on every dimension: targeting, staffing, pre-show outbound, in-booth experience, and post-event follow-through. Own BRIDGES end-to-end. Strategy, programming, sponsorships, speaker pipeline, attendee experience, and key metrics such as, pipeline generated, customer love, and the relationships we build "across the bridge" between public and private sector leade...