Senior Manager of Event Marketing, DAT
$150-170k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan + target bonus
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Digital freight marketplace
Open for applications
Digital freight marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-170k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan + target bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver actionable information and solutions that help customers succeed.
Role
Who you are
- 4-6 years of experience in event marketing within a corporate marketing or agency environment, with demonstrated ownership of executive-facing customer events; large corporate event experience a plus
- Proven experience managing multi-day proprietary events for enterprise customers, not just trade show booths
- Strong strategic judgment: ability to assess customer and competitive dynamics and make decisions about event content and audience
- Exceptional project management skills with proven ability to manage competing priorities and hard deadlines across multiple simultaneous events independently, without requiring approval on every detail
- Negotiate contracts, book venues, and manage all logistics for events ranging from 30 to 1,000+ attendees
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with proven ability to coordinate across marketing, sales, product, and executive teams
- Experience in B2B technology, SaaS, or marketplace environments; freight/logistics industry experience a significant plus
- Effective communicator across customers, vendors, executive leadership, and internal stakeholders
- Proven ability to manage direct reports and agency partners
- Bachelor's degree required
What the job involves
- DAT is looking for a Manager of Event Marketing to join our team working hybrid in Denver, Colorado or Seattle, Washington
- The Manager of Event Marketing is the driver of DAT's event program: three signature customer events (Broker Executive Symposium, Carrier Summit, Shipper Summit) and up to 20 trade show events annually
- This role requires someone who can make strategic decisions about event content, audience, and format while managing all logistics, budgets, and vendor relationships
- The Manager leads one Sr Events Specialist and manages agency partners for logistics support
- Plans and executes DAT's three proprietary events: Broker Executive Symposium, Carrier Summit, and Shipper Summit
- Plan, budget, and execute DAT's trade show presence across 12-15 industry events annually (MATS, TIA, Gartner Supply Chain, TAI, Revenova, McLeod, and others)
- Collaborates with segment leadership on event content, speaker lineups, audience composition, and format Negotiate venue contracts, manage vendor relationships, and oversee event budgets ranging from individual trade show booths to multi-day proprietary conferences
- Partner with segment marketing leaders to align event programming with business objectives for carrier, broker, shipper, and Outgo segments
- Coordinate across marketing pillars (content, creative, demand gen, comms) to ensure event-related deliverables (collateral, promotional campaigns, PR coverage, lead capture) are executed on time
- Supervise the Sr Event Specialist and any additional direct reports on day-to-day execution
- Build and maintain post-event reporting including attendance, pipeline influence, customer sentiment, and ROI analysis
- Manage the annual event calendar, space selection, sponsorship inventory, and overall event budget
- Serve as an internal resource on event best practices, vendor relationships, and industry event trends in freight and logistics
- Have ability to travel up to 30% for events, site visits, and vendor meetings. Peak travel during spring and fall event seasons
Application process
- Job Application Deadline: 7/4/2026
Our take
DAT Freight & Analytics operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America, deploying freight-matching and analytics solutions to companies all across the freight logistics industry. At its core, the company exists to help businesses optimize their freight operations and achieve pricing power over a hyper-dynamic marketplace.
The company derives its data from the millions of freight matches powered by its platform, as well as a database of market transactions. This enables it to provide transportation brokers, carriers, industry analysts and other organizations with clear and actionable insights into market trends.
Having been a market leader for over 40 years, the company has grown from being a single bulletin board at a gas station in Oregon to seeing its technology deployed to millions of end users. DAT has been consistently focused on R&D and the expansion of its offering, including by acquisitions such as that of the freight-matching Convoy Platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Remote/hybrid flexibility
- 20 days PTO from day one, plus 10 paid holidays annually
- Wellness allowance
- Parental leave
- Career development paths
- Leadership training, mentorship programs, education reimbursement & industry certifications
- Performance bonuses & annual merit increases
- Immediate 401(k) matching
- Stock purchase program
- Premium health coverage, plus dental & vision
- Mental health support
- FSA/HSA options
- Life insurance
Company HQ
Denver Tech Center, Greenwood Village, CO
Leadership
Jeff Clementz
(President and CEO)Formerly CEO and President at Shift, SVP/GM of Marketplace and Partner Operations at Walmart (where they spent 6 years) and VP/MD for Australian and NZ at PayPal (where they spent 12 years).
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