Event Coordinator/Manager

LeadStack Inc. is an award-winning, one of the nation’s fastest-growing, certified minority-owned (MBE) staffing services provider of the contingent workforce.

As a recognized industry leader in contingent workforce solutions and Certified as a Great Place to Work, we’re proud to partner with some of the most admired Fortune 500 brands in the world.

We have an immediate contract position with one of our direct client.

Job Title : Event Coordinator / Manager

Contract Duration : 5-6 months to start (potential for contract to hire based on performance / budget)

Pay Rate : $48-$50 / hr W2

Job Site : San Francisco, CA 94107 (must be local and will work weekends as most events are on Saturdays / Sundays, 40 hours per week must be flexible).

Gas mileage for local travel will be reimbursed (all events will stay within San Francisco area).

Years of experience : 3+ years of experience in events productions (someone who is comfortable with setting up, managing, shutting down and reporting on events full cycle)

This is a full-time position which requires nights and weekends to regularly oversee, support and improve operational needs.

This position is primarily based out of our San Francisco office, with travel to our events as needed throughout the Bay Area.

Looking for someone local to San Francisco to be a community manager to run events . This will be an Event Coordinator / Event Manager type of position where the candidate will run end-to-end events.

This candidate will be working cross functionally with the marketing team . The candidate will execute ideas and run a team of staff to complete events (this staff will include students / event employees who are paid hourly, and they will manage these individuals during the event days).

A mix of restaurant (specifically with connections / service, not necessarily cooking / server experience) and events / hospitality experience would be great ( sales experience is a plus since they will be negotiating / speaking with vendors directly).

Required Technology : Excel, Google Docs / Google Sheets

Top 3 Skills the HM is looking for :

End-to-end events production experience

Being interlocked / have connections within the community

Management of staff / coordination of staff members

Description :

About the Team : Client’s mission is to grow and empower local economies. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, connects people with the local businesses they care about helping grow businesses and the communities that support those businesses.

To further this mission, we’re looking for an experienced event creator who will sit at the intersection of growth, brand and community, to drive awareness of our newest in-store product .

About the Role

You’ll be joining the Going Out team, which is focused on building millions of in person connections between Merchants and Consumers by driving in store sales.

We are building from the ground up, and this team has been working on the problem for less than a year, which means you’ll have a big opportunity to shape strategy and build with us.

As the San Francisco Community Manager, you will be responsible for bringing Going Out into the community physically, with activations that spark curiosity and conversation.

You will be our brand ambassador in the market, and will know San Francisco events and the food scene better than anyone else.

You are capable of operationally standing up an event, coordinating the logistics , with the end goal of inviting new customers to trial our new product .

This role relates to the success of Going Out by acting as a direct connection to our customers. The hospitality, knowledge, and operational excellence provided by this role defines how we are perceived by the public.

This role introduces potential partners and future business leads to Going Out as a platform. Through close collaboration with the operations and marketing teams, you will build our in market presence, owning the ideation and execution of Going Out events, helping be the voice of product to drive awareness and more connections in the community!

The Skills

• We Need Identify and connect with trending events : Able to find impactful events that resonate with the community and our product, helping connect more new users to Going Out.
• Create new events : Ability to identify our core value propositions and effectively communicate them to our customers in person through events and activations to drive excitement and action.

You will champion hospitality values, fully embodying our event production standards to create unique and creative experiences for our customers.

Operationally execute event : Logistically coordinate teams to run smooth events, thinking through our vendor partners, our activation staff and the community.

You will tackle and solve challenging guest issues that require resourcefulness, creative thinking and collaboration.

• Take ownership of the public event : including hospitality, production, execution, client management and all other logistical needs.
• Ownership of the events : You will be the front line of all our public events including hospitality, production, execution, client management and all other logistical needs.

You are excited about the opportunity to own the event end to end, from set up to reporting.

On the ground team experience : Foster and maintain a positive work environment with emphasis on motivation and teamwork with excellent customer service on the day of the event.

Encourage participation and ownership by all team members, along with a continuous focus on event execution and customer hospitality.

• Build to a better product : Partner closely with research and marketing to develop a deeper understanding of the consumer audience and surface opportunities to product leadership to inform the roadmap.
• Values / Team Fit Bias for action & scrappy : We are a startup within a bigger business, we need the mindset to move fast, break things and deploy imperfection.

We want to learn fast, and build the right business that will grow 1000x.

Strong convictions, loosely held : Collaborative Mindset, bringing options to the table to help progress a problem ( No, but what if rather than No ).

You will be working with passionate people who bring ideas, and we will need someone who can effectively influence the best outcome.

• Customer obsessed : Relentless need to understand and better solve for customer wants and needs, bringing data and insights to Product & S&O to champion the voice of the customer.
• Team player : As a startup, there will be times where asks fall out of your scope, but we move faster together if we all lean in.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in events production 3+ years of management experience in the hospitality industry of San Francisco
• 1-2 years sales or customer service experience (preferred) Proven track record of driving successful go-to-market launches that drive adoption and bottom line impact
• Other Vendor / third party management experience preferred
• Valid CA Driver’s License and Clean Driving Record

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