Senior Marketing Events Manager with Security Clearance

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for an experienced and highly driven marketing events professional who can elevate how Iridium shows up on the global stage. As the Senior Marketing Events Lead, you will play a key role in shaping brand experiences that strengthen Iridium’s market presence across critical industries and global audiences. In this role, you’ll lead the strategy and delivery of high‑impact experiential programs spanning trade shows, conferences, executive engagements, partner forums, and customer experiences.

You’ll thrive if you bring creativity, operational excellence, and a passion for delivering memorable moments that advance brand perception and drive business outcomes.

What You’ll Do:

* Lead the strategy, development, and execution of global event and experiential marketing programs
* Create high‑impact experiences that elevate brand visibility, audience engagement, and market influence

* Modernize Iridium’s presence across trade shows, conferences, executive events, partner engagements, and industry activations

* Build immersive and engaging brand experiences that strengthen perception and create meaningful audience interactions

* Identify new opportunities to amplify Iridium’s presence across priority markets, verticals, and partner ecosystems

* Support executive visibility and thought leadership through strategic event participation and high‑value engagements

* Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure cohesive storytelling, integrated messaging, and aligned audience engagement

* Work with Demand Generation and Sales to incorporate events into pipeline-building and partner‑marketing strategies

* Connect digital and physical experiences into integrated campaigns that drive measurable business outcomes

* Lead operations for global events, including vendor management, booth development, logistics, onsite execution, budget oversight, and post‑event analysis

* Manage external agencies and production partners to ensure innovation, creativity, and high‑quality execution

* Define and track event success metrics, including engagement, pipeline influence, and ROI, to inform future strategies

* Analyze attendee insights and performance data to optimize experience design and investment decisions What You’ll Need to Succeed:
* Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Hospitality, Event Management, or related field

* 10+ years of relevant experience leading global events, experiential marketing, trade shows, conferences, or strategic brand engagement programs within technology, telecommunications, aerospace, SaaS, satellite, or enterprise B2B organizations

* Strong expertise in event strategy, experiential marketing, or brand experience roles

* Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and deliver high‑impact experiences in fast‑paced environments

* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques

* Can easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and comfortable providing constructive feedback to your team members and management

* Be able to analyze a situation or problem, generate effective solutions, and see those solutions through to completion

* Must possess the creativity and resourcefulness needed to make reliable decisions and determine methods on new assignments

* Can thrive in a dynamic environment by handling multiple tasks and managing shifting priorities

* Be proactive in sharing knowledge you’ve learned with others
Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:
* Experience supporting executive engagements or C‑level programs

* Background in B2B technology, aerospace, satellite, or telecommunications industries

* Familiarity with integrated demand generation or campaign‑driven marketing programs

* Knowledge of emerging experiential technologies and industry trends
We’ll also need you to:
* Be able to work in the office at least 3 or more days a week to foster collaboration with the team and stakeholders

* Collaborate effectively across multiple teams and…