Events Manager

The Events Manager manages events for the Events department. The Manager collaborates with others to facilitate, administer, monitor, and maintain resources for various projects and initiatives.

Austin Texas Corporate Office-TX-CO

Austin, Texas-based Keller Williams Realty, LLC is the world's largest real estate franchise by agent count with a global network of offices and affiliated agents. The franchise is No. 1 in units and sales volume in the U.S. Since 1983, the company has cultivated an agent-centric, technology-driven, and education-based culture that rewards affiliated agents. If you're ready to join an award-winning team that champions bold innovation, puts people and service at the heart of business, and empowers you to make a real impact, then Keller Williams is where you belong.

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Operations and Project Management

• Owns events project plans and production schedules, ensuring milestones, dependencies, deliverables, approvals, and responsibilities are clearly defined and completed on schedule
• Oversees team and vendor responsibilities to ensure alignment with the scope, creative vision, production requirements, stakeholder expectations, and attendee experience for each assigned event
• Manages multiple vendors and production partners, maintaining accountability for scope, deadlines, service levels, and onsite performance
• Partners with the Director/Sr. Manager, Events to develop long-term event strategies that improve production quality, operational efficiency, attendee engagement, and overall event experience
• Collaborates cross-functionally with Marketing, Creative, Brand, Sponsor ships, PR, Technology, and other internal teams to deliver cohesive event experiences
• Tracks event budgets and production expenses, identifies efficiencies, evaluates scope changes, and supports reconciliation following each event
• Analyzes event performance, attendee feedback, operational challenges, and production outcomes and provides recommendations for continuous improvement
• Develops and maintains event standards, production processes, templates, documentation, and best practices that improve consistency and scalability across the event portfolio
• Serves as an escalation point for stakeholder, vendor, production, and attendee concerns, ensuring timely and effective resolution
• Manages speaker contracts and talent buying process for assigned events

Event Production & Execution

• Leads the planning, production, and execution of assigned large-scale events, general sessions, meetings, activations, and special events from concept through completion
• Partners with internal teams, creative partners, venues, and production vendors to translate event objectives and creative concepts into executable production plans.
• Manages production timelines, technical requirements, show schedules, room sets, floor plans, production schedules, and onsite operating plans
• Coordinates audiovisual, lighting, staging, scenic, rigging, power, internet, entertainment, and other technical production requirements in partnership with production vendors
• Reviews production proposals, technical specifications, equipment requirements, and vendor scopes to ensure solutions appropriately support the event while maintaining budget and operational efficiency
• Supports development and execution of show flow, rehearsals, speaker movement, presentations, entertainment, stage management, and other live program elements
• Oversees Project Plan for event load-in, installation, rehearsals, show execution, changeovers, load-out, and onsite production…