Onsite NY (3 days at least onsite)

Must-Have Skills

• 5–8 years experience in program management, events, executive communications, or business operations
• End-to-end program management for executive events, offsites, and speaking engagements (managing several concurrently)
• Experience influencing VP- and Director-level leaders without direct authority
• Experience building processes, operating rhythms, and playbooks from scratch
• Strong executive writing skills (briefings, talking points, run-of-show docs, recap notes)
• Understanding of sales or go-to-market organizations
• Proactive risk management and cross-functional stakeholder alignment

Nice-to-have Skills

• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience in marketing events or communications
• Experience scaling work through playbooks, AI-enabled workflows, and automation

Job Responsibilities:

• Requires 5–8 years in program management, events, executive communications or business operations.

Top skills:

end-to-end event and offsite delivery; executive speaker preparation; executive writing; influencing senior leaders; building intake processes and reusable playbooks.

Minimum:

• 5–8 years in program management, events, executive communications or business operations; experience leading large events, offsites or executive speaking engagements end to end, several at once; experience influencing VP- and Director-level leaders without direct authority; experience building processes and operating rhythms from scratch; strong executive writing and understanding of sales organizations.

Preferred:

• MBA or advanced degree; experience in a sales or go-to-market organization, marketing events or communications; experience scaling work with playbooks, AI and automation.

About the Role

• Client is seeking a temporary Program Manager (contract role to support planning and execution of executive-facing programs, events, offsites, and strategic communications.
• In this role, you will help drive end-to-end coordination across stakeholders, build operating rhythms and repeatable processes, and ensure high-quality delivery across multiple workstreams at once.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end program management for executive events, offsites, and speaking engagements, including
• timelines, stakeholder alignment, content readiness, logistics coordination, and post-event follow-through.
• Manage multiple programs simultaneously, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain operating rhythms (e.g., planning cadences, weekly updates, decision logs, stakeholder reviews).
• Produce clear, executive-ready written materials (e.g., program updates, briefing docs, run-of-show documents, talking points, and recap notes).
• Build scalable playbooks and documented processes to enable consistent execution and continuous improvement.