Senior Events Manager, Zoox
$166-184k
Offers Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Stock Appreciation Rights
Office located in Foster City, CA
Autonomous vehicle technology
Be an early applicant
Autonomous vehicle technology
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166-184k
Offers Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Stock Appreciation Rights
Office located in Foster City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To reimagine transportation from the ground up.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who can balance creative vision with operational excellence
- 8+ years of progressive experience in strategic events management, preferably in innovative technology
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing event strategies that connect events strategy to broader business objectives
- Strong track record of managing complex, high-visibility events with multiple stakeholders
- Experience building and optimizing event management processes and systems
- Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to influence across organizational levels
- Outstanding budget management capabilities with focus on maximizing impact of investments
- Proficiency with event management platforms and data analysis tools
- Maintains exceptional attention to detail while managing the broader strategic picture
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and emerging opportunities
- Knowledge of virtual and hybrid event approaches—experience with Splash preferred
What the job involves
- Zoox is seeking a strategic Senior Events Manager to lead our external events program and shape how we engage with key audiences
- This role serves as a critical bridge between our strategic objectives and their execution through creative, effective events that elevate the Zoox brand
- Drive the vision and strategy for Zoox's external events program, ensuring alignment with overall business and brand objectives
- Transform business goals into innovative event concepts that enhance brand perception and drive measurable outcomes
- Lead a comprehensive events portfolio spanning large-scale productions, targeted industry activations and smaller engagement opportunities
- Develop and oversee the program budget, with accountability for ROI across all event investments
- Build and maintain the events roadmap, balancing long-term strategic initiatives with emerging opportunities
- Create and implement governance processes for event requests, evaluations, and approvals
- Lead the continuous improvement of event processes based on data-driven insights and industry best practices
- Establish comprehensive metrics framework to evaluate event effectiveness across brand impact, audience engagement, and business outcomes
- Partner with internal stakeholders to align event strategy with business priorities and secure buy-in for major initiatives
- Collaborate with Marketing, Corporate Communications, and Brand teams to ensure consistent messaging and visual identity across all touch points
- Manage external agency relationships, balancing creative and execution capabilities
- Mentor and develop the events team, building capabilities that enhance our overall execution excellence
Our take
Zoox, a self-driving vehicle company, was founded to make personal transportation safer and more enjoyable for all. It has aimed to achieve this goal by creating a new mode of driverless transportation, thus eradicating the safety and logistical issues that come with human drivers.
It revealed its custom vehicle design in December 2020, showcasing something different from just a car without a driver. Uniquely, all four wheels are independent of one another, and the vehicles have no front or back, making them more agile than a standard car. Zoox claims that it is different from other industry players because it has created an entire driverless ecosystem, including the vehicle itself, allowing it to have more control.
The company is fast becoming a major player in an industry that is predicted to be worth $2 trillion by 2030. Electric motors are highly desirable, particularly in an urban environment, as governments look for ways to reduce emissions and improve air quality. Zoox is aiming to play a vital role in this evolution towards more sustainable urban mobility. Amazon acquired the company in 2020 and, despite a general downturn in the sector through 2022, is building a Zoox factory and budgeting $1 billion per year for future development and production.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2019
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2018
$500m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Affinity groups and sports clubs
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Our crew’s health and happiness is our first priority. We offer comprehensive health and mental health support, a wellbeing program, and unlimited and flexible paid time away
- We invest in our crew—and their families—for the long term. That includes generous family planning support, caregiver support, and strong cash compensation with great equity upside
- We look after our crew when they’re in the office too. Our famous food program is a great example, featuring a daily changing menu of local and sustainable dishes
- There’s a busy calendar of social events at Zoox, with more sports teams than you can count. And, of course, playing with robots is an important part of the job description
Company HQ
Vintage Park, Foster City, CA
Leadership
Aicha Evans
(CEO, not founder)Having studied at the George Washington University, Aicha started her career with 2 years in Engineering at Skyworks before joining Intel, where she spent over 11 years. She left her role as Corporate Strategy Officer in February 2019 to join Zoox as CEO.
Jesse Levinson
(CTO)Prior to co-founding Zoox, completed a Computer Science PhD at Stanford University. Also created Pro HDR, a million+ selling mobile photography app.
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