Senior Events Marketing Strategist

Justworks•New York, NY

8d•$131,000 - $169,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Justworks is seeking a creative and experience-obsessed Senior Events Marketing Strategist to own and elevate our most important brand moments. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Events, this role leads end-to-end execution of our Tier 1 & 2 portfolio - including flagship tradeshows, conferences, internal events, community activations, and strategic brand partnerships. You are strategic and AI forward - you build systems that scale them. You use AI tools and smart workflows to work faster, brief more clearly, and improve continuously. You operate with minimal oversight, and bring a sharp point of view on what great looks like, from first touchpoint to post-event follow up. You design experiences that grow awareness, shift perceptions and drive impact. Every event is an opportunity to change how people think about Justworks and you design with that in mind.

Requirements

You have a minimum 7+ years of experience managing events.
You understand how events shape how people feel about a brand, and you design with that awareness.
You bring intentionality to every touchpoint because you know that’s where perception shifts happen.
You have experience supporting or executing co-branded activations and understand how to balance partner goals with brand integrity and audience experience.
You care deeply about the details that shape audience experience—from invitation through follow-up - and ensure seamless delivery.
You work effectively with Brand, Field Marketing, Community, and external partners to align messaging and execution without overcomplicating the process.
You manage multiple programs simultaneously, stay organized under pressure, and operate confidently with minimal oversight.
You actively use AI in your day-to-day work - for research, drafting, analysis, and workflow automation and you're always looking for new ways to apply it.
You can teach others and help elevate team capability, not just your own.

Nice To Haves

You believe in concentrated investment over volume. You push for the bold choice, make the case for quality over quantity, and aren't afraid to sunset what isn't working in service of what will.
You don't just execute - you build the infrastructure that makes great execution repeatable. You create templates, document processes, and design workflows that outlast any single event.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end strategy and execution for Justworks' highest-priority events, with a disciplined focus on concentration of investment and maximum brand impact. You establish the brief, drive the experience design, manage vendors and production, and lead onsite execution. You set the bar - and continuously raise it for what a Justworks event looks, feels and achieves.
Embed AI tools and scalable systems into every phase of event planning - from brief generation and vendor research to onsite runbooks and post-event reporting. You don’t just use AI for efficiency; you build repeatable, documented workflows that elevate the entire teams’ output. You build to scale, develop repeatable playbooks and evaluation frameworks, and identify and advocate for tools that improve speed and quality.
Lead planning and execution for key internal events. You partner cross-functionally to deliver experiences that align internal stakeholders and reflect our evolving brand - not just logistics done on time, but moments that matter.
Drive the events execution layer of our community and brand partnership programs. Collaborate with the Brand, Community, Field Marketing & Partnerships teams to ensure these activations are purposeful, on-brand, and tracked against clear outcomes. Help build the business case for partnership renewals or pivots based on performance data.
Translate brand values into tangible, high-quality guest experiences. You come to every vendor call, venue walk, and design review with the full picture in mind. You catch what others miss and you fix it before it shows up on-site.
Develop clear, detailed event briefs that define audience, goals, messaging, experience design, and success metrics. Partner closely with Brand, Community, Field Marketing, and Content teams to ensure consistent storytelling and seamless execution across every touchpoint.
Own budgets for assigned Tier 1 events and partnership activations. Track spend against forecast, flag tradeoffs proactively, and manage shared assets (including large-format booth infrastructure) responsibly across teams.
Track performance across engagement metrics (attendance, participation, partner reach, qualitative feedback, meetings, community growth) and event-influenced pipeline where applicable. Deliver clear post-event reporting and recommend improvements to continuously elevate program quality. Build post-event reporting that actually drives decisions - attendance, engagement, pipeline influence, partner outcomes, qualitative feedback. Deliver clear, timely recaps and recommendations that feed directly into program planning for the next cycle.