Marketing Event Manager

NMI is seeking a seasoned Marketing Event Manager to lead the strategy, planning, and execution of all major events - including 3rd-party conferences, partner events, webinars, and NMI-hosted experiences. This is a senior-level individual contributor role for someone who can operate independently, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver best-in-class event experiences that strengthen NMI’s brand and support revenue goals.

You’ll work across Marketing, Sales, Channel, Product Marketing, and executive leadership to ensure every event is executed with excellence, creativity, efficiency, and measurable impact. This role reports to the Director of Channel Marketing.

What You’ll Do

Event Strategy & Leadership

• Own the end-to-end planning and execution of NMI’s event calendar across North America and key partner markets.
  
  
• Develop strategic event plans aligned to marketing and sales goals - including audience strategy, messaging, lead capture, KPIs, and post-event follow-through.
  
  
• Partner with Channel Marketing to integrate events into broader go-to-market and partner engagement initiatives.
  
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Sales to drive pre-event outreach, meeting scheduling, partner engagement, and onsite alignment.
  
  
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Corporate Marketing, and Demand Gen to deliver cohesive event themes, signage, demos, collateral, campaigns, and follow-up workflows.
  
  
• Serve as the main point of contact between internal teams, executive stakeholders, and external vendors.
  
  

Vendor & Budget Management

• Source and manage event vendors, agencies, venues, booth builders, A/V, catering, printing, technology partners, and more.
  
  
• Negotiate contracts, manage budgets, and ensure cost-effective, high-quality event execution.
  
  
• Track expenses and provide ongoing financial reporting and reconciliation.
  
  

Onsite Execution

• Lead onsite operations - including booth setup, partner meetings, event staffing, and real-time troubleshooting.
  
  
• Ensure premium-quality brand representation and a seamless experience for attendees and internal stakeholders.
  
  

Performance Measurement

• Define event KPIs and track results including leads, meetings, pipeline influence, partner engagement, and brand awareness.
  
  
• Deliver post-event reports, insights, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
  
  
• Optimize event strategy with data-driven decision-making and creative problem-solving.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of event management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS, fintech, or payments.
  
  
• Proven track record of independently leading complex trade shows, conferences, and hosted events.
  
  
• Exceptional project management and organizational skills - able to manage multiple events simultaneously.
  
  
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence and partner effectively with executives and cross-functional teams.
  
  
• Expertise in vendor management, contract negotiation, budgeting, and timeline ownership.
  
  
• Highly resourceful, proactive, and adaptable - able to thrive in fast-paced environments.
  
  
• Experience with Salesforce, project management platforms (Asana, Monday.com, etc.), and webinar tools is a plus.
  
  
• Willingness to travel 25–30%.

As well as being a part of something exciting everyday, you will also receive the following benefits:

• A remote first culture!
• Annual salary of $90,000 – $115,000, dependent on experience
• Flex PTO
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Company volunteer days

What we do!

NMI enables our partners with choice, and challenges the one-size-fits-all approach to payments. You've probably used NMI in the last 24 hours without even realizing it. We’re the platform that powers success for innovative tech created by SMBs, entrepreneurs and fintech startups. We’re creative problem solvers who help visionaries smash through boundaries and think beyond what’s possible so they can think about what’s next. But we’re not just built for the tech savvy. We democratize the latest payments technology so that everyone can realize the benefits of easy payments across the full spectrum of commerce. We’re all about enabling more payments in more ways and more places.

We believe that having a diverse group of employees strengthens both our work and our workplace. We’re focused on making NMI more diverse and welcoming with initiatives like having a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion action group, diversity goals for hiring, anonymized resume screening, affinity groups such as our Women's network and LGBTQ+ Network, open forums for discussions on diversity and social justice, and measuring inclusion and belonging as part of our regular employee engagement surveys.

Equal Opportunity

NMI is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation or sexual identity, genetic information, citizen status (except those that do not have the legal right to be employed in the United States), disability, military service, service member, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Please be aware that all offers of employment are made subject to receipt of satisfactory background and financial checks.

Please be aware that NMI does not operate a license for the sponsorship of those who are not already eligible to work within the US. Unfortunately, therefore we cannot process any application from individuals unable to provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to commence work in the US.

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