Events & Sponsorship Manager – One Social District

Join our team as we opening our new restaurant & Food Hall in the new One
09 building in downtown Madison this summer! Located overlooking Lake Monona, One 09 will include a first-floor public food hall, promenade and plaza overlooking the Lake Monona waterfront. Learn more about our new home here -

Each Mainstreet Ventures
restaurant is unique from its décor to its menus. Mainstreet Ventures fine dining concepts include seafood, steak, Italian, and American cuisines. The Mainstreet Ventures standard of excellence exemplified at each restaurant is to deliver quality, consistency, and enjoyment of each guest’s dining experience. Each location prepares food from an all scratch kitchen and each head chef offers creative features with a focus on seasonal and local produce.

Our goal is to consistently exceed our guest’s expectations by providing memorable dining experiences in each of our creative and distinctive restaurants.

The Events & Sponsor ships Manager is a revenue-generating role responsible for building and monetizing the One Social District as a premier and unique Madison destination. The position’s primary mandate is driving private-dining,event, group-dining, and catering sales across the District, including One Prime, One Social Food Hall, Blue Jack, andthe One Social Promenade; it also secures sponsorship and partnership revenue and coordinates the programming that makes the District a place guests return to season after season.
This is a hybrid sales-and-execution role. It pairs proactive, outbound sales with hands-on event detailing, client service, and District activation. The person in this seat is comfortable both detailing an intimate private dinner and closing a corporate sponsorship — treating the bookings that fill the venues as the priority, with sponsorship as an additive stream on top.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for private dining, buyout, event, and catering inquiries across One Primeand One Social; respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.
• Proactively solicit corporate clients, associations, nonprofits, university partners, wedding and social planners,and community groups to generate new event, dining, and catering bookings.
• Sell One Prime’s private dining and buyout capacity (corporate dinners, holiday parties, milestone occasions) andOne Social’s event spaces and group dining.
• Develop the District’s catering business — on-site private events, drop-off, and off-site catering — partnering with the culinary teams on custom menu planning for corporate, social, and community clients.
• Maintain an active sales pipeline; represent One Social District at networking events and in industry organizations such as Destination Madison and NACE.

• Identify, pitch, and close corporate sponsors, activation partners, and brand collaborations for One Social District spaces, programming, and signature events.
• Develop tiered sponsorship packages and custom proposals (naming, presenting, activation, in-kind) with clear deliverables, inventory, and pricing.
• Build a pipeline of local and regional corporate partners through proactive outreach, presentations, and site visits; carry the relationship from first contact through signature.
• Manage sponsor activations end-to-end — pre-event logistics, on-site delivery, and post-event recap — and drive renewals into multi-year commitments.
• Track sponsorship revenue against annual targets and report pipeline, bookings, and renewal rate on a regular cadence.

• Plan and coordinate a calendar of recurring District programming — live music, seasonal…