Senior Manager of Event Marketing

Join DAT, a leading company in the freight and logistics industry, as a Senior Manager of Event Marketing. In this hybrid role based in Denver, Colorado or Seattle, Washington, you will be responsible for driving DAT's event program, including three signature customer events and up to 20 trade show events annually. You will make strategic decisions about event content, audience, and format while managing all logistics, budgets, and vendor relationships. You will lead a team of event specialists and collaborate with segment leadership to align event programming with business objectives. This position offers remote/hybrid flexibility, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for career development.

• Plan, budget, and execute DAT's three proprietary events: Broker Executive Symposium, Carrier Summit, and Shipper Summit, as well as manage the company's trade show presence across multiple industry events.
• Collaborate with segment leadership on event content, speaker lineups, audience composition, and format, and coordinate across marketing pillars to ensure event-related deliverables are executed on time.
• Build and maintain post-event reporting including attendance, pipeline influence, customer sentiment, and ROI analysis, and manage the annual event calendar, space selection, sponsorship inventory, and overall event budget.
• 4-6 years of experience in event marketing within a corporate marketing or agency environment, with demonstrated ownership of executive-facing customer events; large corporate event experience a plus
• Proven experience managing multi-day proprietary events for enterprise customers, not just trade show booths
• Effective communicator across customers, vendors, executive leadership, and internal stakeholders
• Strong strategic judgment: ability to assess customer and competitive dynamics and make decisions about event content and audience
• Proven ability to manage direct reports and agency partners
• Exceptional project management skills with proven ability to manage competing priorities and hard deadlines across multiple simultaneous events independently, without requiring approval on every detail
• Bachelor's degree required
• Experience in B2B technology, SaaS, or marketplace environments; freight/logistics industry experience a significant plus
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with proven ability to coordinate across marketing, sales, product, and executive teams
• Negotiate contracts, book venues, and manage all logistics for events ranging from 30 to 1,000+ attendees