Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. We need an XR Event Manager to coordinate and oversee our pipeline of external events, maintaining the company’s image and positioning across the globe.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Primary Point of Contact for all Penrose’s industry engagements, ranging from industry conferences, speaking engagements, film festivals and product launches.
- Maintain accurate calendar and status updates for all events and respond in a timely manner to all incoming event and speaker requests
- Develop and effectively manage budgets, agendas and timelines for all company events
- Ensure timely execution and production of key industry events
- Negotiate with and manage external vendors contracted for event support
- Arrange and manage all technical, design and logistical requirements for company events
- Collaborate with other company managers to ensure proper staffing and organization of events
- Train and manage event staff and VR & AR docents following Penrose’s Demo best practices guidelines
- Accurately convey brand messaging and key talking points at all company events
- Develop event strategies to maximize brand awareness while capturing marketing opportunities
- Analyze the effectiveness of communications campaigns and events engagements by collecting data and producing reports required to evaluate effectiveness
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in communications & event planning
- Willingness to travel on short notice to conduct demos at events and represent the company world wide
- Demonstrated experience in managing and coordinating events
- Knowledge of third party web and enterprise applications for registration, housing management, email communications, and invitations, event guide apps, payment processing and travel management
- Ability to create, integrate and execute communications plans in coordination with marketing and content releases
- Excellent communication, written & organizational skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks on deadline in fast-paced environment
