Event Marketer, Kickstarter
$120k
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Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
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Crowdfunding platform for creative projects
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$120k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help bring creative projects to life.
Role
Who you are
- Experience producing brand, cultural, community, industry, or experiential events from concept through completion
- A strong creative instinct and the practical ability to turn an idea into a compelling physical or virtual experience
- Exceptional project management, organizational, and budget-management skills
- Established relationships with high-quality vendors, venues, production partners, and event specialists
- Confidence managing multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines without losing sight of the guest experience or strategic objective
- Strong negotiation skills and a reputation for being resourceful and responsible with budgets
- A calm, solutions-oriented approach to the inevitable changes and challenges of live and virtual events
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- An understanding of how events can support brand building, community development, relationship management, and business growth
- Enthusiasm for Kickstarter’s mission and the creative communities we serve
What the job involves
- Kickstarter is seeking an Event Marketer to join our Marketing team, reporting to the Director, Brand and Communications
- The right person can transform ambitious ideas into memorable, well-executed experiences for creators, backers, partners, and cultural communities
- This role combines creative thinking with exceptional experiential operational discipline
- The Event Marketer will help shape the experience, identify what will make it distinctive, and manage the many details required to bring it to life—on time, within budget, and at a consistently high standard
- The right person is highly collaborative, deeply organized, resourceful with budgets, and connected to a strong network of vendors and production partners
- They understand that great events are not simply gatherings; they are strategic expressions of the Kickstarter brand and opportunities to deepen relationships, create cultural relevance, and drive measurable outcomes
- Plan and execute Kickstarter’s portfolio of brand, creator, category, industry, and community events
- Translate strategic and creative concepts into clear event plans, production timelines, budgets, and onsite experiences
- Collaborate with Brand, Communications, Outreach, Growth, Editorial & Content, and other teams to define each event’s audience, purpose, creative direction, and measures of success
- Develop event formats and experiences that feel distinctive to Kickstarter and meaningful to the communities we serve
- Own end-to-end event operations, including venues, vendors, production, staffing, travel, run-of-show, guest experience, risk planning, and onsite execution
- Source, negotiate with, and manage agencies, fabricators, production teams, venues, caterers, and other event partners
- Build and maintain a strong, diverse network of trusted vendors and cultural partners across key markets
- Manage event budgets with discipline and creativity, finding ways to maximize impact without compromising the quality of the experience
- Establish repeatable planning tools, processes, and standards that enable the team to execute efficiently across multiple events
- Anticipate challenges, make thoughtful decisions under pressure, and keep collaborators aligned throughout the planning process
- Partner with Communications and across Marketing to extend the impact of events through content, media, social amplification, and post-event engagement
- Evaluate event performance and apply insights to improve future programming and investment decisions
Our take
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that is dedicated to the creative ecosystem, providing its community of painters, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, and all other creatives with a space to raise money for specific projects.
Kickstarter Campaigns operate on an “all-or-nothing” basis, meaning that if a campaign misses a deadline, they don’t get any of the money pledged to their project, however, creators are able to set deadlines and funding goals themselves in order to make the success of their campaign more manageable.
The company also launched a new feature in early 2023, called Drip, which enables creators to receive continued support from backers through subscription-based payments, ensuring sustainable funding for their projects.
By ensuring creatives retain 100% ownership of their work, the company simplifies the fundraising process by eliminating the need for long and complicated grant application processes, donors asking creators to make modifications, or last-minute edit requests from investors. Since its launch in 2009, 22M people around the globe have pledged over $7.2B to help fund projects such as the early version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Mar 2011
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $120m
Company benefits
- Continuous Learning: Curiosity is our compass. We welcome experimentation, failure, and the courage to try again. We invest in many kinds of trainings and workshops to make sure our team is always building new skills.
- Community: Join an Affinity Group like Black At Kickstarter, Parents, Azns, Queerstarter, or Gender Justice. Attend the many exciting social and cultural events available to Kickstarter employees. These include speaker series, product demos, concerts from teammates, pre-release film screenings, industry meetups, and more.
- Social Contribution: Every year Kickstarter donates five percent of our after-tax profit to organizations that fight systemic inequality and promote arts education. All full-time employees can nominate recipient organizations and apply to join the committee that ultimately directs our contributions.
- Stipends: We offer a yearly reimbursable stipend for Remote Working and Wellness.
- Fully Remote Work: Work flexibly. All full-time employees can live and work anywhere we are registered as an employer. See below for a list of current locations. We anticipate this list will continue to expand as we grow our distributed workforce.
- Benefits: Among other benefits, we offer a three percent safe harbor 401K contribution, world-class healthcare coverage, 16 annual paid vacation days, paid holidays, and 25 annual paid volunteer hours to all full-time employees.
Leadership
Everette Taylor
(CEO)Founder of ET Enterprises. Former CMO of Artsy and Skurt. They also previously worked as Head of Growth (Interim) at Microsoft China.
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