Head of Event & Industry Content

About Us

SaaStr is the world's largest community for SaaS executives. Our community engages with us through our incredibly popular blog and content resources (1m+ social followers), our #1 podcast (130,000+ downloads), and most importantly, our #1 digital and IRL events (including the iconic SaaStrAnnual.com and SaaStrEuropa.com).

About You

SaaStr is looking for someone to own the management of all our global event content, together with a small team.

This person will own management, some of the sourcing, choosing, slotting, and iterating the core content for

PLEASE :)

• Look at SaaStrAnnual.com and let us know what you think you could own, what we could do better, what you like and what you don't!
  
  

Responsibilities

• Own the event session agenda across our digital and in-person in events, including creating the complete session schedule, managing speaker selection, and gender diversity ratios, producing a run-of-show, coordinating speaker logistics, leading tech rehearsals, and working with our internal team members and external partners to ensure a successful live event
• Understand the nuts and bolts of event content production. Participate in all aspects of pre, production, and post from scheduling speakers to pre-roll videos on all events and projects
• Work as a speaker expert to support the creation of digital and print materials for promotion, including blog posts, speaker briefs, press releases and more
• Help source (via inbound and outbound methods) speakers and content for our global events
• Communicate and build relationships with our speakers, address their needs, and set expectations for the event
• Conduct market research and trend analysis of Cloud and SaaS industries to determine the right speakers for each of our events
• Manage the speaker communications calendar, including writing copy for updates to speakers in order to maintain and grow relationships with industry leaders
• Travel is required to provide support for onsite execution of events - will be local (SF) as well as domestic & international
  
  

Qualifications

• You’re a strong, confident writer
• You’re a fearless communicator, not afraid to cold-call large public companies and PR firms
• You love building and maintaining relationships
• You’re extremely comfortable learning technology and have a passion for SaaS
• You have strong administrative skills, and can easily multi-task, follow up and manage competing priorities all under tight deadlines
• You’re a self-starter, but when something is over your head you aren’t afraid to ask for help
  
  

Experience

• 5-8+ years of content or event experience
• 1-3 years of customer support/service experience a plus
• Prior SaaS experience a must
• Knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of Salesforce and Marketo a plus
  
  

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