Company Name: AGS
Location: New York, NY
Type: Full Time
Job Description:
The Director of Corporate Events is responsible for spearheading high-impact corporate and employee engagement event activations, leading initiatives from ideation through flawless execution. This role ensures seamless, on-brand experiences that elevate WBD brands, strengthen employee engagement, and support broader corporate relations objectives.
The Director must balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution, overseeing both high-level vision and day-to-day event logistics. Working closely with internal clients, executive stakeholders, and cross-functional partners, the Director builds and delivers compelling event experiences that align with company culture, brand standards, and business goals.
This role plays a critical role in shaping how employees and stakeholders experience WBD through meaningful, innovative, and flawlessly executed corporate events and engagement activations.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
Strategic Planning + Insights
- Support the development and implementation of event strategies that align with corporate objectives and brand standards.
- Manage and communicate a comprehensive event calendar, ensuring alignment with key business priorities.
- Create and manage detailed event scenarios, planning and milestone tracking for all events.
- Deliver regular updates to executive stakeholders on event progress and strategic opportunities.
- Stay informed on industry trends and technologies to bring fresh ideas to event experiences.
- Event Activation: Pre-Production / On-Site Prep
- Acts as the primary event producer for corporate and employee engagement events, overseeing and leading the full life cycle of event creation from concept through delivery.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration to develop best-practice event strategies, ensuring project taskforces are aligned on deliverables, timelines, roles, and responsibilities.
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders including Corporate Relations, Internal Communications, P&C and Brand teams to translate business objectives into impactful event experiences.
- Source, manage, and lead vendors and production partners, ensuring adherence to event strategy, brand guidelines, creative direction, and approved budgets.
- Develop and manage comprehensive event processes, including concept development, catering, furniture, décor, entertainment, branded activations, and experiential elements.
- Guide decision-making with key stakeholders while balancing creativity, logistics, budget, and risk considerations.
Event Activation: Event Execution
- Lead and oversee all event elements on-site, coordinating closely with venues, vendors, production teams, and internal staff.
- Serve as the primary escalation point during live events, identifying fast solutions, and implementing contingency and backup plans as needed.
- Ensure flawless execution, guest experience, brand alignment, and operational excellence during all phases of event activation.
- Event Activation: Post-Production
- Create detailed reports for client groups outlining results and key learning’s for major WBD events and initiatives
- Manage invoicing, budget reconciliation, and final financial wrap-up for all events.
- Capture insights and feedback to continuously refine event strategies, processes, and engagement impact.
Must Have Skills / Requirements
- Experience working in large-scale Employee event production
- Experience working in large-scale External event production
Required Experience and Qualifications
- 8+ years in event marketing and execution and/or employee engagement activations
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field
- Proven relationships with event design and production. Familiarity with conceiving and executing large scale events.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once.
- Equipped with strong management skills, attention to detail and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage multiple vendors, projects, tasks and navigate budgets, negotiations, and technical complexities of each project
- Creativity is a must. Ability to activate brands in non-traditional ways.
- Must be a flexible, focused and energetic team player with commitment to high-quality deliverables
- Dedication to quality, sense of urgency, and ability to thrive under pressure
- Flexibility, outstanding organizational and time management skills, and a creative approach to problem solving
- Strong written and oral communications skills
- Creative leadership – experience in guiding fabrication of event elements.
- Diplomacy is a must. You should be able to project confidence when dealing with difficult personalities. Ability to interact with a diverse and dispersed employee base, championing communication across the organization both internationally and domestically.
- Technical and creative skills in building decks/presentation (Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Suite of Apps, etc.)
- Ability to work at a fast pace under strict deadlines
- Must be able to travel on an as-needed basis
- Must be able to conduct business during non-business hours, including weekends, when necessary and be “on call” as needed
- Adobe Creative Cloud knowledge is a plus
- AirTable experience
AGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
