# Director of Events and Experiences

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185K - $240K
**Category**: Events & AV Production
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Perplexity is seeking a Director of Events to own our external events worldwide: the ones we host, the stages we speak on, and the ones we sponsor.

You will set the strategy, run production, manage the budget, and build the team.

## Responsibilities

- Own events: hosted, speaking, sponsored. Strategy, budget, production, results.

- Set the calendar: decide which events we run, which we speak at, and which we skip.

- Produce hosted events: launches, dinners, summits, roadshows. Concept, programming, venue, vendors, run of show.

- Run the speaking program: pick the stages, prepare the speakers.

- Manage sponsorships: negotiate terms, design our footprint, and account for the spend.

- Run field events with Sales: get the right customers in the room, make sure someone follows up.

- Be Perplexity: our events should look and feel like our product. Work with Brand and Creative on every one.

- Lead the team: equal parts IC and manager.

- Build the system: playbooks, event tiers, intake, vendors, agencies, budgets.

- Measure: attendance, coverage, pipeline, signups. Know which events worked and stop doing the ones that didn't.

- Be on site: for the events that matter, you are in the room.

## Qualifications

- 12+ years producing events, including large hosted events, sponsorships, and field programs, ideally in-house at a technology company.

- Has built or led an events team.

- Has owned large budgets, agency relationships, and vendor contracts.

- Has negotiated sponsorships and knows a bad deal when they see one.

- Has run an executive speaking program: selecting stages, preparing speakers, managing the day.

- Knows production: run of show, staging, AV, registration, staffing, security, permits.

- Drives measurement: has built event attribution and tracked brand sentiment, and reports what each event returned.

- Can partner with Sales, Product, Comms, Brand, Finance, Legal, and executives.

- Power user of AI tools. Most of your work already runs through them, and you can show us how.

- Based in San Francisco or New York. Willing to travel internationally.

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## Skills

### Required
- event production
- budget management
- team leadership
- sponsorship negotiation
- speaking program management
- event measurement
- AI tools

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