Events Manager

Alpaca Health•New York City, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Alpaca Health helps clinicians become entrepreneurs, starting in autism care. We give BCBAs the software, payer contracting, and back-office muscle to launch and scale their own practices, so power in healthcare shifts back to the people actually giving the care. We have raised over $14M from investors like Core Innovation Capital, Adverb Ventures, and South Park Commons. We serve hundreds of families and are growing 30% month over month. We also move fast. Last week we threw a festival for 600 people, planned in under two weeks, with real alpacas on site. That is the energy around here. If that sounds like your kind of chaos, keep reading. We are hiring an Events Manager to own Alpaca's marquee moments end to end. Community festivals, clinic grand openings, BCBA conferences, launch parties in brand new states: you plan them, run them, and make them unforgettable. This is a builder role for someone equally comfortable setting the creative vision and taping down extension cords the morning of. For proof of the bar: we just produced a festival for 600 people in under two weeks, with real alpacas on site. We want someone who reads that and thinks "cute, I can do bigger." You will bring ideas nobody expects from a healthcare company (a pop-up that takes over a city block, a family carnival, a conference that actually feels fun) and then make them real, on time and on budget.

Requirements

You are a self-starter who does not wait for permission. You see the moment, you build the plan, you run it.
You have taste. Your events look and feel intentional, not generic, and you care how every touchpoint reads.
You are full of bold ideas and pragmatic enough to pull them off on a real budget and a tight deadline.
You are wildly organized, calm under pressure, and you genuinely love a countdown clock.
You have personally run real events, not just supported them, and can walk us through a plan and a budget from memory.
You are scrappy and resourceful, you get more done with less, and you never say "not my job" the morning of.
You care about our families and know how to make a space feel welcoming for kids who experience the world differently.

Nice To Haves

You have pulled off something slightly insane on a tight timeline (and have the story to prove it)
Experience with brand or experiential events, not just corporate logistics
Comfort with content capture on site (you know a great moment when you see one and make sure it gets filmed)

Responsibilities

Own events end to end: Concept, budget, vendors, logistics, run of show, staffing, day-of execution, and load-out
Signature events (yes, Alpaca Fest), clinic grand openings, conferences, launches, and community gatherings
Own the timeline and the money, and keep both under control even when we move fast
Design events people actually remember: Bring big creative ideas to every event and sweat the details that make them land, the ones guests notice and the ones they only feel
Build events that are genuinely inclusive and sensory-friendly, made with our families in mind
Make every event a marketing moment: Partner with brand and social on invites, content capture, and recap so each event lives online long after load-out
Land local press and turn a single day into lasting momentum
Build the machine: Turn every event into a repeatable playbook so each new-market launch gets easier and better
Track turnout, cost, leads, and referrals, and beat your last number every time