Event Strategy Lead

Company: Workday, Inc.
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: January 20, 2023

Job Description:

Your work days are brighter here.At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That's why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don't need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.About the TeamThe Workday Experience Marketing organization delivers best-in-class, innovative, and compelling integrated event experiences that drive business impact by growing brand value, strengthening relationships, differentiating Workday, and delivering business results.The Event Strategy practice leads cross-functional teams to develop integrated measurable event plans and programs aligned with Workday business priorities and marketing objectives. Our responsibilities include event strategy and experience design, event performance management, event marketing communications, audience acquisition and demand generation, global field enablement and engagement, and integrated campaign alignment.About the RoleWe're hiring an Event Strategy Lead to support Workday's global corporate event portfolio. We are a data-driven organization and apply insights gleaned from our data to continually optimize our event programs. We are seeking a passionate and experienced Event Strategy leader to support our growth and act as a key partner in driving optimal marketing and business outcomes. The highly collaborative and data-minded candidate will have a unique balance of event strategy, performance management, and sales enablement experience.As the Principal, Event Strategy, you'll have a deep understanding of our global marketing strategy and goals, and our key global and regional campaign initiatives. This role will work closely with the Experience Marketing leadership, team members in Marketing as well as with the Revenue Operations and Marketing Business Insights advisors, and will be a trusted partner in driving event marketing excellence.Your primary responsibility will be to translate our event performance metrics into practical insights and recommendations, uncovering patterns in the attendee journey and unlocking opportunities for ongoing improvements. We're looking for someone who is energized by collaborating with others and is a strategic problem solver who thrives on interpreting meaningful metrics to help the organization optimize our event strategies and activities and make data-driven decisions.

• Drive global event performance, measurement, and reporting, including post-event surveys, measurement recaps, and KPI's
• Digest data and translate insights into understandable stories and trends, and offer relevant and concrete insights for a business audience
• Represent and integrate Experience Marketing programs into marketing campaigns
• Facilitate Experience Design process to build strategic event blueprints for global event programs
• Leverage and align marketing campaigns, messaging, and positioning to our event strategic blueprints to ensure event programs are crafted to meet broader business objectives, while maintaining an audience-first perspective for event attendee journeys (pre-event to post-event)
• Partner with other shared services teams, including marcom, brand and creative, event technology and digital, customer marketing, corporate communications, and integrated marketing to ensure smooth collaboration, alignment and agilityAbout YouBasic Qualifications
  • 12+ years of experience in event strategy including event performance management, marketing communications, sales enablement and engagement, and partner strategy
  • Passionate about results, supporting analytics needs, measuring event and campaign performance, and marketing return on investment
  • Experience working directly with event business owners and broader set of key team members to define and implement the overall key performance indicators for each event to ensure success against objectives
  • Benchmark industry standard methodologies to measure and improve our organization's performance
  • Experienced in communicating insights and facilitating performance reviews with senior leadership audience
  • Masterful at cultivating relationships with internal and external partners and cross-functional teams to lead change/marketing transformation ----Other Qualifications
    • Experience working with event programs that support sales and drive pipeline
    • Experience driving event audience development and acquisition
    • Knowledge of lead flow optimization and tying insights back to demand funnel outcomes
    • Proactive about seeing opportunities across the customer journey and partnering with team members to influence action
    • Knowledge of SFDC reporting, Tableau, Marketo, event technologies such as Rainfocus and Vivastream
    • Demonstrated success in growing value of global event programs and return on investment, as well as achieving goals and OKRsAs a federal contractor, -Workday -is -requiring -all new hires -to verify -that -they -are -fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 -within 72 hours of -beginning employment with Workday, consistent with applicable law. -Workday -is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates who are not vaccinated due to a sincerely held religious belief, medical reasons, or other legally-protected reason should contact - -to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations or exemptions Workday is able to offer.Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

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