Global Events Manager, Flagship Events

Twilio Twilio · Enterprise · United States · Remote · Marketing

Twilio is seeking a Global Events Manager to lead their annual flagship conference, SIGNAL. This role involves end-to-end event lifecycle management, from strategy and production to budget oversight and project management, with a focus on creating a world-class attendee experience for developers, technologists, and executives. The manager will collaborate with global stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and manage multi-million dollar budgets, ensuring seamless execution across different regions and analyzing event success through KPIs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead SIGNAL Strategy: Serve as the primary project lead for our flagship conference, working with stakeholders to define the attendee journey, event themes, and strategic goals to drive brand equity and pipeline. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate event strategies into broader marketing initiatives and meet our key results.
  2. End-to-End Production: Orchestrate all aspects of large-scale logistics, including venue sourcing, budget management, vendor coordination, production, operations, experiential engagement, sponsorship and onsite execution.
  3. Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as the central hub for SIGNAL, collaborating with leadership, product marketing, GTM sales, and brand creative teams to understand their needs and incorporate them into the event planning while ensuring a unified brand voice.
  4. Full-Cycle Project Management: Lead global status meetings, drive rigorous project timelines, and manage complex workstreams (sponsorship, registration, content, and demand gen) ensuring that all tasks and deadlines are tracked and met.
  5. Financial Stewardship: Build and manage multi-million dollar event budgets, prioritizing cost-effectiveness, contract negotiations, and detailed ROI reporting.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in high-growth tech event marketing
  • Proven track record of managing "Flagship" level events
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • extensive experience advising and collaborating with C-level executives
  • Demonstrated ability to manage event strategy, execution, and post-event analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to lead by influence, aligning product, sales, and marketing teams toward a singular event vision
  • A strategic thinker with a proactive, solution-oriented growth mindset
  • capable of thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where quick pivot skills are essential
  • Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with Airtable, Swoogo, Slack, and Google Suite
  • Experience managing events across multiple international regions
  • deep understanding of global cultural trends in the developer community
  • Familiarity with the technical and operational side of events (AV, lighting, live-streaming, labor, materials, printing, etc)

What the JD emphasized

  • large-scale user conferences (2,000+ attendees)
  • Flagship Experience
  • manage large budgets
  • complex vendor ecosystems
  • intricate project timelines