About the Role BWZ operates 15+ professional development publications attracting 500k+ unique monthly visitors. Weve perfected the playbook for launching, scaling, and monetizing digital publications and now were building a worldclass events business to match. Were hiring a founding Head of Events to create, launch, and scale a new events division from scratch. Youll define the vision, design the event portfolio, execute the first marquee events, and build the systems and team that scale it. Events will span inperson, virtual, and hybrid formats. You will determine the right mix of formats across Csuite summits, executive roundtables, interviews, meetups, and contentdriven virtual experiences all designed to drive audience growth, editorial output, and commercial performance. This is not a scrappy, underfunded startup role. Youll have the capital, resources, and crossfunctional support of a profitable media company including brand, editorial, marketing, sales, and production teams while owning the freedom and responsibility to build a business line from zero. Critically, this is not a standalone function. Events must be deeply integrated with BWZs publications generating highvalue content, growing our audience, strengthening editorial authority, and fueling sponsorship opportunities. Youll build an events engine that powers and is powered by our media brands. If youve built events from scratch, brought them to profitability, and want the rare opportunity to build an events business with real backing this is the role. What You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities) Build the business - Define the event strategy, portfolio, calendar, and revenue model. - Define the role of inperson, virtual, and hybrid formats within the event strategy and portfolio. - Own P&L, pricing, budgeting, forecasting, and revenue targets. - Develop concepts aligned with editorial and brand priorities. - Identify highROI opportunities across formats, verticals, and geographies. - Ensure events amplify publications and strengthen brand authority. - Build the longterm vision for a scalable, profitable event business. Run the show - Lead endtoend execution of marquee and secondary events. - Build repeatable workflows and technical infrastructure that support inperson, virtual, and hybrid formats at scale. - Shape programming that delivers insight, authority, and mustattend value. - Oversee logistics: runofshow, AV, production, venues, vendors, staffing. - Deliver commercial outcomes: ticket sales, sponsorship revenue, audience growth. - Implement QA processes and elevate execution with finishing touches. - Drive attendee advocacy, referrals, repeat attendance, and organic buzz. - Ensure events generate highvalue content assets. - Manage crossfunctional alignment: Marketing demand; Sales sponsorship; Editorial content. Scale the system - Hire, build, and lead a highperforming events team. - Build SOPs, frameworks, templates, and planning rhythms. - Implement tools for coordination, PM, communication, accuracy, and reporting. - Improve throughput without sacrificing quality or profitability. - Build a culture of performance, experimentation, ownership, and improvement. - Ensure events become a predictable, scalable engine for content, audience, and revenue. Who You Are - A hybrid GM + operator with extensive experience leading event strategy, operations, programming, and commercialization ideally in media, SaaS, B2B information, or professional communities. - Ability to turn events into content engines that produce interviews, insights, editorial assets, and video. - Proven experience building and scaling year one events and expanding them into an events business. - Experience owning P&L, designing revenue models and improving margins. - A portfolio spanning conferences, summits, retreats, leadership dinners, meetups ideally tradeshows or festivals. - Experience designing for both small ( and largescale (>1,000) audiences. - Strong programming instincts for senior executive audiences, including experience securing highcalibre speakers. - Experience hiring, coaching, and scaling highperforming teams with strong standards. - Skilled collaborator across marketing, sales, editorial, brand, and production. - Commercially sharp, branddriven, deeply organized obsessed with delivering mustattend, highNPS experiences. Nice to Haves - Media or B2B publishing experience - Strong speaker / sponsor network - Global event operations - Membership community experience Salary Statement $200,000 - $250,000 a year This fulltime position is available as either a remote or hybrid position (depending on location), with an annual salary in the range of $200,000 to $250,000 CAD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge and experience for new hires based in Canada only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of Canada and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, fulltime employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package. About Us Were a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work. Our brands cover thought leadership for executives in project management, people management, product management, tech, marketing and many others - with the goal of connecting people with knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally in the age of AI. We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, weve grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 15 online publications. We enjoy an impactdriven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company. Weve previously ranked #30 in The Globe and Mails Fastest Growing Company list as well as Deloitte's Fast 50 program, received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Managerand were listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC! All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, were creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us. Want to learn more? Watch this video to learn why the team love working at BWZ! Diversity Equity and Inclusion Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veterans status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun! #J-18808-Ljbffr
Job Title
Head of Events