Events Specialist
Luminari
Administration
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Oct 11, 2024
We’re LumiQ – an audio-first professional education platform for CPAs. We help CPAs get their continuing professional development/education (CPD/CPE) hours/credits through engaging podcasts with business leaders (the CFOs of Slack, Shopify, Yelp, Yahoo!, TD Bank, and Wealthsimple just to name a few). CPD/CPE is the yearly required learning that CPAs generally dread doing. They’re tired of dealing with boring webinars, irrelevant content and out-of-date product experiences. That’s why they’ve flocked to LumiQ and our mission to make professional education enjoyable.
With hundreds of companies signed up, we’re at the precipice of launching a global movement that’s going to massively change the professional education and podcasting industries.
Despite our lightning growth, we tend not to subscribe to the mantra of “move fast and break things.” Our goal is to build a profitable company, where our employees can learn and grow, and where customers see real value and genuinely enjoy using the product. We are building a company meant to last, and if this resonates with you, we hope you will consider joining us on our journey to transform professional education!
Reporting to our Director of Marketing, the Events Specialist will be responsible for driving
revenue and developing client relationships through planning and executing on sponsored
conference attendance and LumiQ hosted events.
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Planning and organizing sponsored conference attendance and hosted events. This can include everything from securing contracts to following up with sales reps post conference for feedback
- Researching and evaluating conferences that align with our target market
- Shipping conference materials, swag and gifts: ordering and managing packing materials, creating shipping labels, and working with shipping companies/couriers to ensure timely delivery
- Collaborating with marketing team members to create collateral and booth materials for print, organizing speaking engagements, and supporting event-related marketing campaigns
- Ordering and managing swag for conferences, events, and for the internal team.
- Working with the Revenue Operations team to manage conference attendees and reporting. Developing and maintaining relationships with conference organizers, partners, and vendors
- Other marketing duties as assigned
Who You Are:
- Have 1-2 years of experience managing and executing on events. This is a perfect role for someone who has contributed to an event’s team before, and wants to take the next step in their career and take more ownership of the function.
- Exceptionally organized and excel in project management: you manage your time well, meet deadlines, plan ahead, successfully work with project stakeholders, can work under tight timelines, and manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Excellent communication skills: you frequently provide updates on projects, proactively communicate challenges, ensure priorities are aligned, and can build rapport with team members and vendors
- Proactive problem solver: you can predict problems that may arise and suggest solutions
- Great attention to detail: you’ve thought of all the small details in executing an event and ensure the conference materials you ship are error-free.
- You know your way around budgeting and reporting, with a drive to see ROI on all of your events
- Adaptable and flexible in a startup environment, you’re also curious to learn more about B2B marketing
- Bonus if you have experience managing B2B conference sponsorships
If you think your experience is most of the way there we’d still love to meet you!
Please note this is a flexible hybrid role based out of Toronto, Canada. Employees will be expected to be able to commute to the office once a week for mandatory team training and company-based activities.
Benefits and Perks:
Health Benefits are available after 3 months with us, including a yearly health spending account. You'll also have access to an Employee Assistance Program for additional support if needed.
Monthly team social events (Super Smash Bro party, hot chocolate bar, Blue Jays game, Hot One's Challenge are just a few examples of what we have done in the past)
Schedule flexibility We know our employees have lives outside of work and don’t mind if you need to run to a mid-day doctor's appointment or pick up a kid early from school!
Nomad policy Work remotely 4 weeks of the year from anywhere in the world
Office space at one of Canada’s most well-regarded startup accelerators—OneEleven (Front and John Street) which includes ping pong and foosball tables, monthly learning events, and a great opportunity to grow your personal and professional network with dozens of other startup folks in the spaceThe company received a strategic investment from Vertu Capital in 2024 which will help us work towards our goal of global expansion and helping make professional education enjoyable for all CPAs.