Corporate Events Manager, Expo

Job Title: Corporate Events Manager, Expo

About the Team:

We build impactful experiences that drive awareness of Stripe, educate users and prospects on Stripe solutions, foster community, and deliver high-quality leads to our sales team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the experiential strategy across the full event campus by identifying creative opportunities to shape the attendee journey as a whole.
• Oversee all aspects of expo experiential design and campus-wide activations, ensuring cohesive, immersive experiences that reflect Stripe's goals, highlight products and customer stories, and support specific audience needs.
• Concept and lead physical experiences that bring Stripe products and customer stories to life.
• Partner with marketing, product, comms, and creative teams to understand business priorities and identify stories or moments that should be reflected in the environment.
• Align with creative and brand teams to ensure activations meet Stripe's design standards and quality bar.

Planning and Execution:

• Design and manage the placement of all expo elements to optimize attendee flow, visibility, and engagement.
• Lead internal demo planning and staffing, ensuring each experience is clearly scoped, strategically placed, and fully prepared to support product storytelling at scale.
• Manage all expo activations from early planning through onsite execution, ensuring cross-functional alignment and high-quality delivery.

Operations and Vendor Management:

• Work with internal teams to intake information, clarify goals, and recommend creative, on-budget activation solutions.
• Own day-to-day coordination with production vendors, including layout planning, lighting, AV, electrical, rigging, and build logistics.

Team Structure and Global Coordination:

• Work closely with the Stripe Sessions and Experiential Design leads, presenting concepts and strategies for feedback and approval.
• Coordinate across global teams and vendors in different time zones.

Minimum Requirements:

• 6+ years managing and executing tradeshows, driving attendee engagement and logistics.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with strong ability to adapt to changing environments and prioritizing tasks.
• Proven experience in effective communications and relationship management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with using Slack, Google drive, Figma, and Asana.
• Event planning experience in global markets.
• Extensive knowledge of large event venues globally.