Event Marketing Specialist

Event Marketing Specialist We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. This Marketing Event Specialist will play a critical role in bringing Plaid’s most important in-person, virtual, and hybrid events to life. They will support end-to-end event execution, from planning and logistics to onsite and live production, ensuring every detail is thoughtfully managed and flawlessly delivered. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams, agencies, and vendors, this role helps keep complex programs aligned, on track, and scalable as Plaid grows. Over time, they will help build the systems and workflows that power consistent, high-quality event experiences—while gaining hands-on exposure to live production and executive-level programs. Responsibilities - Support end-to-end planning and logistics for Plaid’s flagship keynote event, customer events, and virtual programs, such as webinars. - Own and manage end-to-end production of a Plaid hosted webinar – working cross-functionally with marketing, creative, content, operations, and speakers. - Manage venue research, sourcing, walkthroughs, contracting, and day of operations. - Own registration workflows, attendee communications, and onsite check-in experience. - Coordinate run of show elements, production timing, and backstage operations. - Partner with production agencies and vendors to execute livestreams, stage management, and technical setup. - Support creation of event assets including signage, staging needs, audience engagement, and meeting rooms. - Assist with scheduling, logistics, and production coordination for video shoots, demo recordings, and other creative assets. - Support talent coordination, location prep, equipment needs, and shoot day operations. - Help plan and execute high touch executive summits for customers, prospects, partners, and industry leaders. - Manage attendee list operations, scheduling, communications, seating, and white glove onsite experience. - Partner with agencies to manage travel plans and transportation logistics, ensuring a smooth and cohesive experience for all attendees. - Coordinate internal and external briefing materials, agendas, speakers, and prep for participating leaders. - Work closely with product marketing, product, design, comms, legal, marketing operations and sales to ensure alignment across events and launches. - Own timelines, task tracking, and status updates that keep programs moving. - Manage vendor relationships including production teams, agencies, A/V partners, and event support staff. Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in event management, event marketing, production coordination, field marketing, or a similar role. You know how events come together behind the scenes and what it takes to make them run smoothly. - Proven ability to own and execute strategy, content, and management of webinar or simu-live virtual event programs. - Experience tracking event campaign performance, measuring ROI, results, and metrics. - Willingness to travel for onsite events and summits. You take initiative, solve problems quickly, and own every detail when on the ground. - You sweat the details. You are known for being organized, precise, dependable, and able to keep multiple workstreams mo ... (truncated, view full listing at source)