About the Role
As an experienced member of the Creative Journey & Branding team, this role is responsible for planning, developing, and executing branding and attendee experience initiatives for Gartner’s global conferences and events. The position combines creative vision, operational excellence, and project management to deliver engaging experiences that enhance the attendee journey across in-person and virtual environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creative journey for Gartner’s external conferences and internal corporate events, overseeing branding, environmental design, attendee engagement, and digital touchpoints.
- Manage conference and event projects from concept through execution, ensuring seamless delivery of branding, production, and attendee experience initiatives.
- Project manage the planning, production, and implementation of signage, event builds, branding elements, furniture, and experiential components.
- Integrate digital platforms and technology solutions into the overall conference experience.
- Partner with Gartner business units to understand event objectives and provide strategic recommendations.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of operational processes, project management frameworks, and best practices.
- Foster strong relationships with vendor partners, ensuring the delivery of innovative, high-quality, and brand-aligned solutions.
- Apply a creative, proactive, and solutions-oriented mindset to continuously improve conference experiences.
- Manage event budgets with accuracy and accountability, including forecasting, cost negotiations, risk identification, and financial recommendations.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure successful planning, communication, and execution of conference branding and attendee experience initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 3+ years of experience in event management, experiential marketing, branding, conference planning, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing creative and operational event initiatives within a collaborative team environment.
- Proven project management skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Experience managing external agencies, production partners, and vendor relationships.
- Knowledge of event design, environmental branding, space planning, and attendee experience development.
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Creative, innovative, and strategic thinker with a passion for delivering exceptional event experiences.
- Strong financial acumen, including budget management, forecasting, and cost control.
- Client-focused and solution-oriented with a collaborative approach to stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrated sense of urgency, sound judgment, professionalism, and confidentiality.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace applications, including PowerPoint, Excel, Sheets, and Slides.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Willingness and ability to travel approximately 30% of the time.
Skills
- Event Management
- Experiential Marketing
- Branding
- Conference Planning
- Project Management
- Creative Vision
- Operational Excellence
- Digital Platforms
- Budget Management
- Vendor Management
- Microsoft Office
- Google Workspace
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree preferred
Benefits
- World-class benefits
- Highly competitive compensation
- Disproportionate rewards for top performers
- Flexibility and support for thriving in a hybrid work environment
About the Company
- At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.
- Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.
- Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories.
- We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters.
- The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.
- Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally.
- We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team.
- Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.
- We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results.
- Gartner is the world authority on AI.
- At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution.
- Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys.
- We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact.
- You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.
- Over 13,000 client enterprises worldwide rely on Gartner for actionable, objective business and technology insights.
- Our teams of thinkers and doers know that staying curious is the best way to shape the future, for ourselves and our clients.
- Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally.
- We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future.
Equal Opportunity
- The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.
- Gartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities.
- If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability.
- You may request reasonable accommodations by calling Human Resources at +1 (203) 964-0096 or by sending an email to ApplicantAccommodations@gartner.com.
