Director Global Events - Program Management

Role overview Lead the program management function for a global events portfolio, turning event strategy into a coordinated, measurable operating plan. You’ll oversee planning and delivery across flagship conferences, regional events, executive programs, customer and partner events, sales kickoffs, and trade shows. The role combines portfolio governance, cross-functional execution, financial oversight, and leadership of a distributed team.

Responsibilities - Build annual and multi-year portfolio plans, maintain the global calendar, and balance priorities, regional needs, budgets, and team capacity. - Assess event requests and business cases, set investment priorities, and advise senior stakeholders on where to scale, consolidate, or retire programs. - Establish program governance, phase gates, decision rights, planning cadences, templates, playbooks, and consistent event standards. - Lead complex, multi-workstream events and coordinate marketing, sales, content, production, logistics, finance, legal, product, and regional teams. - Oversee multimillion-dollar budgets, multi-currency forecasts, vendor relationships, and resource planning across employees and external partners. - Track portfolio measures such as budget adherence, attendee satisfaction, pipeline contribution, revenue influence, and return on investment; lead retrospectives and team development.

Requirements - At least 10 years in event program management, event operations, or related program leadership, including five or more years managing teams. - Track record managing a global portfolio of major conferences, customer and partner events, executive programs, sales kickoffs, and trade shows. - Experience building or leading a program management office or establishing scalable governance and operating processes. - Experience owning multimillion-dollar budgets, multi-currency forecasting, contract negotiations, and vendor partnerships. - Strong planning, prioritization, dependency management, and risk mitigation across concurrent programs. - Executive communication and influence skills, including leading distributed teams and working across regions; able to travel domestically and internationally.

Nice to have - A degree in business, marketing, communications, event management, or a related field. - Experience in technology, cybersecurity, IT services, or high-growth organizations. - Familiarity with portfolio tools such as Smartsheet, Asana, Monday.com, or Jira; event platforms such as Cvent; and CRM or marketing automation systems such as Salesforce, Marketo, or HubSpot. - Knowledge of international event logistics, risk management, and compliance.