Events and Experiences Lead

Kastle•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Kastle is hiring an Events and Experiences Lead to own its global events program, which is expected to include more than 50 events across North America in 2027. The role spans event strategy, audience development, production, execution, and measurement, creating experiences for senior banking and lending executives that support target accounts and markets. Events range from private dinners and customer gatherings to roadshows and major industry conferences. The Lead will work directly with the founders, sales team, customers, and marketing. This hands-on role requires excellent taste, operational discipline, commercial awareness, and the ability to manage an ambitious international calendar. The position is based in person at Kastle’s San Francisco office, with frequent domestic and international travel and evening or weekend work around events. The team typically works around 60 hours per week, beginning at 8:00 AM.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience in B2B events, field marketing, or experiential marketing, with examples of programs personally delivered.
Excellent taste and the ability to create distinctive, appropriate experiences for senior audiences.
Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage many details and deadlines across multiple events.
Commercial awareness of how events build relationships and help enterprise sales teams win business.
Strong hosting skills, including noticing who needs an introduction or welcome and ensuring guests feel included.
Resourcefulness, decisiveness, negotiation ability, vendor accountability, and quick problem-solving.
Ownership of event work from planning through team coordination and final breakdown.
Comfort with frequent domestic and international travel and evening or weekend work around events.

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering international events.
Experience working with executive audiences.
Experience building an events program at a growing technology company.

Responsibilities

Own the global events calendar, deciding where Kastle participates and what it hosts, while aligning events with target accounts and markets and managing schedules, budgets, and deadlines across regions.
Develop executive dinners, customer gatherings, roadshows, conference activations, and other distinctive experiences.
Partner with sales on account lists, personal invitations, outreach, and meeting bookings; own registration and attendance.
Set and maintain event quality across venues, food, programming, design, hospitality, invitations, arrivals, introductions, and departures.
Bring customers and prospects together for candid conversations, prepare customer speakers, and create opportunities for peer learning.
Manage end-to-end production, including sourcing venues, negotiating vendor agreements, managing agencies and local crews, coordinating shipping and travel, and leading on-site execution.
Create detailed event schedules, brief team members, rehearse presentations and demos, and develop backup plans; make decisions calmly when circumstances change.
Agree on goals and follow-up owners before each event; track target-account attendance, qualified meetings, opportunities created, deal progression, and spend.
Build scalable event formats, vendor relationships, and operating processes; review events and apply lessons to future programs.
Work with marketing to extend event impact through conversations, customer stories, and approved photography and video.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) plan
Health and wellness membership support
Company meals
Team offsites
Creative ownership and clear responsibility for results
Opportunity to build Kastle’s global events and experiences program from an early stage
Direct work with founders and leaders in financial services