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Senior Marketing Events Lead

McLean, VA Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience) $135,000 - $175,000

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…