Team Building Event Host (Chicago)

teambuilding.com•Chicago, IL

19h•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for fun and engaging hosts to run team building events for corporate groups. For example, you'll be facilitating highly competitive guacamole making competitions, leading diverse groups on renegade scavenger hunts of museums, and engaging colleagues in high energy trivia events! About teambuilding.com In 2013, we started Museum Hack, leading unconventional tours of the best museums for thousands of happy tourists, first-dates, friend groups and more. This venture organically grew to include team building events for companies like Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Chipotle. In 2020, we rebranded as teambuilding.com . To date, we have hosted tours and events for 45,000+ teams and 1,000,000+ participants, earning 75,000+ 5 Star Reviews on Google Reviews and our verified ratings. Our experiences are mentioned in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist. In 2021, the Inc 5000 listed teambuilding.com as the #1 fastest growing private B2B company in America and #15 overall. Along the way, we learned exactly what makes a team building experience successful, and we have helped hundreds of thousands of teams build stronger and more fun-fueled connections. Basically, team building starts here.™ About the Role Oh hey, you found our secret sauce... We call our collection of in-person and virtual experiences "Originals", which are led by our expert host team. Our event hosts bring their authentic personalities and professionalism to our internally crafted content, delivering consistent, high quality, stealth team building events. Our most common feedback from participants is that our events are more fun than expected, and that’s largely due to the way our hosts enable engagement between participants and intuitively meet people where they’re at, while delivering content in formats that exceed client expectations. Our company’s mission is to build happier teams, and our hosts are at the heart of that mission.

Requirements

Age 21+
Have reliable transportation for self-reporting to events in and around the Chicago metropolitan area.
Flexible weekday availability. Events typically run within the hours of 10am - 7pm, with the occasional event starting earlier or later.
Excellent communication skills.
Extremely dependable self-starter.
Comfortable being in and sharing the spotlight.
Able to learn and memorize content, and deliver it naturally.
Ability to think on your feet, improvise, and creatively problem-solve in front of guests.
Willingness to attend and successfully pass training, including skills demos.
Ability to stand for 2-4 hours and manage supplies of up to 30 lbs.
Willing to utilize our communication platforms (texts, email and Slack) for internal communication.

Nice To Haves

Strong preference for candidates with a performance background in one or more of the following: theater, improv, stand-up comedy, MC-ing, tour guiding.
Very comfortable and familiar with breaking the 4th wall/crowd work.
Experience in customer-facing service positions (serving tables, retail, front of house, etc.)
Bonus if you have creative writing experience (playwriting, sketch comedy, marketing copyright, blogging, novelist, etc.) in addition to performance experience, but not necessary!

Responsibilities

hosting and cohosting teambuilding.com Originals events in the Chicago metropolitan area, with possible light regional travel as needed
working with our internal team to order supplies for your events
self-reporting to various venues
learning material on a sometimes quick timeline
being ready to adapt to any twists or turns that come up in the moment
connecting with the client in the time leading up to the event, either through a pre-event phone call or via text
delivering the best possible vibes on the day
split the supply load with the host
keep score for events
run tech elements when applicable
DJ with your favorite party music
take pictures throughout each event
help your host with any clean up