Company description

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Job summary

Red Hat's Marketing Communications team is looking for an Events Coordinator to join us in Raleigh, NC. In this role, you will plan and implement industry sponsorships and tradeshows and provide support for Red Hat-branded events within the technology industry. You'll manage the strategy, vendors, planning, budget, and event delivery. As an Events Coordinator, you will deliver exceptional Red Hat experiences and promote expanded global awareness through events. This is a great opportunity to become part of a cross-functional team responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing.

Primary job responsibilities

• Oversee planning, delivery, and follow-up activities for industry event sponsorships and tradeshows
• Communicate effectively and manage internal and external stakeholders and vendors
• Support both internal and external Red Hat-branded events
• Identify and implement effective processes and procedures to ensure smooth and professional events
• Oversee budget management and tracking
• Manage post-event metrics and reporting
• Travel up to 40% when needed
• Support part of the online events program, including webinar rehearsals and speaker dry-runs, content reviews; schedule events with the global calendar and Event Central

Required skills

• 1-2 years of event strategy development and delivery experience
• Project management experience involving multiple stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a closely related degree
• Experience communicating with senior-level executives
• Outstanding problem solving, writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to identify and develop performance measures and benchmarks
• Motivated, with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while working with a wide variety of cross-functional teams and vendors
• Skilled in process documentation and guideline creation
• Creative thinking skills; ability to explore or implement a modern or unconventional approach to solving problems

Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, uniformed services, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.