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About the Role
Versant is seeking a Vice President, Corporate Events to set the strategy and lead execution for our highest-profile corporate, client, partner, and employee experiences. This leader will develop an integrated events and hospitality program that strengthens relationships, advances business priorities, and brings the distinct value of Versant’s brands to life.
Responsibilities
- Set the enterprise events strategy, developing and leading a multi-year corporate events and hospitality strategy aligned with Versant’s business priorities, growth agenda, brand positioning, and stakeholder needs.
- Establish an annual portfolio, planning calendar, prioritization model, and operating rhythm that enables teams to focus resources on the moments that matter most.
- Serve as a strategic adviser to executive stakeholders and lead the creative direction and end-to-end delivery of major corporate events, executive meetings, industry conferences, client and partner hospitality, and brand activations.
- Partner across Golf, Sports, News, Entertainment, Fandango, and other businesses to bring Versant’s portfolio to life around key properties and commercial opportunities.
- Lead, develop, and empower the events team while establishing clear roles, capabilities, standards, and scalable ways of working.
- Build strong partnerships with agencies, production companies, venues, hospitality providers, and other suppliers, and oversee selection, contracting, and performance in partnership with Procurement and Legal.
- Own event budgets, forecasting, vendor negotiations, production standards, and financial stewardship.
- Establish repeatable playbooks, intake and approval processes, measurement frameworks, and risk-management practices that improve quality, speed, consistency, and cost discipline while supporting guest safety, accessibility, security, privacy, and responsible hospitality.
- Collaborate closely with Communications, Marketing, Sales, Partnerships, Ad Sales, Finance, Legal, Security, workplace and technology teams, and business leaders.
- Provide clear executive and stakeholder communications throughout the event lifecycle, proactively navigating decisions, risks, contingencies, and competing priorities.
- Establish meaningful measures of attendee experience, brand impact, commercial outcomes, and operational performance.
- Use qualitative and quantitative insights, along with emerging trends in events, hospitality, experiential marketing, technology, and audience engagement, to continuously improve Versant’s experiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in corporate events, experiential marketing, hospitality, live events, or related programs, including senior leadership experience and demonstrated success delivering complex, high-profile programs across multiple stakeholder groups and geographies.
- Deep expertise across event strategy, creative development, live production, guest experience, hospitality, financial management, contracting, vendor negotiation, and on-site operations.
- Proven people leadership, including experience building and developing teams and leading agencies, production partners, vendors, and other external partners.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to counsel, influence, and build credibility with senior leaders, clients, partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience managing significant budgets, negotiating commercial agreements, and balancing creative ambition with responsible financial stewardship.
- Exceptional communication, project-management, prioritization, and problem-solving capabilities, with sound independent judgment and the ability to remain resourceful and effective under pressure.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally and to work nights, weekends, and variable schedules when required by events.
- Experience in media, entertainment, sports, news, golf, hospitality, or another fast-moving, consumer-facing industry.
- Experience developing client and partner hospitality around major sports, entertainment, cultural, or industry tentpoles.
- Familiarity with event technology, registration and CRM platforms, measurement frameworks, and the use of audience insights to improve event performance.
Skills
- Executive presence
- Creative judgment
- Operational rigor
- Calm and decisive leadership
- Event strategy
- Creative development
- Live production
- Guest experience
- Hospitality
- Financial management
- Contracting
- Vendor negotiation
- On-site operations
- People leadership
- Team building
- Agency leadership
- Production partner leadership
- Vendor leadership
- External partner leadership
- Commercial acumen
- Financial acumen
- Budget management
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Project management
- Prioritization
- Problem-solving
- Independent judgment
- Resourcefulness
- Adaptability
- Event technology
- Registration platforms
- CRM platforms
- Measurement frameworks
- Audience insights
Location
- New York, NY
- Orlando, FL
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Senior leadership experience
- 8+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
Salary/Compensations
- NY $200-$230,000 plus bonus and LTI
- USD 200000 - USD 230000 - yearly
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Variety of other discounts and perks
About the Company
- VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections.
- It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment.
- These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.
Equal Opportunity
- VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
- If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
- VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization.
- Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.