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Sardine is a leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, offering integrated solutions that unify data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. The company serves leading organizations including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com.
You will own and scale Sardine's global events program, managing everything from major industry conferences and tradeshows to the flagship SardineCon conference, executive dinners, happy hours, and partner events. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both strategic planning and on-the-ground execution across multiple regions and event formats.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning Sardine's global events calendar and end-to-end event planning and execution, from sponsorship negotiations and budgeting to venue selection, vendor management, logistics, production, staffing, and on-site execution.
- Overseeing on-site execution to ensure booths, branding, meetings, hospitality, and event experiences consistently meet high standards.
- Identifying, evaluating, and sourcing new event opportunities across industries, verticals, and regions, prioritizing those that reach the right audiences and deliver strong ROI.
- Building repeatable pre-event playbooks covering account targeting, meeting booking, staffing, team briefings, and promotion.
- Owning event performance reporting, tracking attendance, target account engagement, meetings, pipeline generation, influenced revenue, and ROI.
- Leading post-event retrospectives with internal stakeholders to improve execution and refine event selection.
- Managing the global events budget, including forecasting, sponsorship and vendor negotiations, cost optimization, and allocating investments.
- Building and leading an internal events team as the calendar grows, establishing clear responsibilities, processes, and systems.
- Managing external events agencies, vendors, and contractors, holding partners accountable for execution quality, timelines, and budgets.
You will work closely with marketing, sales, business development, account management, and product teams. The role requires regular travel, including internationally, to support major events.
Requirements:
- Significant experience leading B2B events or field marketing programs, ideally in enterprise SaaS, fraud prevention/AML, fintech, cybersecurity, or a related industry.
- Track record of managing a high volume of events across multiple regions and formats.
- Strong understanding of how events contribute to pipeline and revenue, with experience setting event goals, measuring ROI, and partnering with sales teams to drive business outcomes.
- Excellent project management and operational skills; ability to manage dozens of moving pieces, competing deadlines, and multiple events simultaneously.
- High standards for execution and brand experience; judgment to deliver consistently excellent booths, conferences, dinners, and customer events.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills; ability to bring together sales, marketing, product, executives, agencies, and vendors.
- Experience managing agencies, contractors, and internal team members, with ability to build teams and processes supporting a growing global events program.
- Comfort using CRM, marketing automation, and event management tools to track performance and connect event activity to business outcomes.
- Resourcefulness, ownership, and attention to detail; comfort rolling up sleeves and solving problems in real time.
- Willingness to travel regularly, including internationally.
