[Hiring] Director, Global Events @Drug Hunter

Role Description

We are looking for a Director, Global Events to lead the execution of Drug Hunter’s global event program across in-person, digital, and sponsored experiences. Reporting to the Head of Scientific Growth (Marketing), this senior individual-contributor role will oversee the customer and speaker experience across:

• Symposia
• Mixers
• Dinners
• Flash Talks
• Scientific conferences
• Sponsorships
• Sales tabletop events

The Director will partner closely with Sales, Science, and Marketing to ensure events are well executed, support commercial priorities, and deliver a consistently high-quality experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in event management, field marketing, experiential marketing, or a related function.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex in-person and digital event programs.
• Exceptional organization, project management, and attention to detail.
• Strong customer-service orientation with a high bar for attendee and speaker experience.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, sponsorships, and event logistics.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to partner effectively with Sales and technical or scientific teams.
• Experience with HubSpot or a comparable CRM/marketing automation platform.
• Life sciences, biotech, pharma, or scientific event experience strongly preferred.
• Comfortable traveling for Drug Hunter-hosted symposia and mixers (~30% domestic & international).

Requirements

• Lead end-to-end execution of Drug Hunter-hosted symposia, mixers, and dinners.
• Manage the full attendee journey, including registration, communications, vendors, logistics, on-site experience, and organizing follow-up needed.
• Partner with Sales to operationalize invite and attendance strategies while ensuring a high-quality customer experience.
• Own event budgets, vendor management, and execution against established event plans.
• Coordinate Sales and Science team attendance at 40+ scientific conferences annually, including registration, internal coordination, and supporting marketing actions.
• Manage Drug Hunter sponsorships, including attendance planning, registrations, sponsor deliverables, promotional coordination, and event readiness.
• Work with Sales team admin to support Sales team site visits revolving around events, sponsorships, conferences, etc.
• Oversee logistics for Drug Hunter’s digital Flash Talk series, including speaker coordination, scheduling, communications, and platform readiness.
• Ensure registration, attendance, and follow-up activity are integrated into HubSpot.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to improve follow-up workflows and the overall attendee experience.
• Maintain the annual event calendar and ensure key activities, deadlines, and ownership are clearly documented.
• Ensure events and attendee activity are consistently tracked in HubSpot.
• Build and maintain SOPs, templates, and repeatable processes that support consistent execution across the event portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and the customer experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, variable compensation, and equity.
• Broad range of medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees and their dependents, including generous coverage for a platinum PPO healthcare plan.
• Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance.
• Cancer and critical illness coverage.
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave (after 1 yr tenure) and childcare FSA plan.
• 401(k) + employer match (3-5%).
• Home office set up stipend for fully remote employees.
• Learning and development support.
• Generous and flexible vacation and leave policies.