Director, Experiential Strategy

KPMG

$130K — $180K *
Hospitality & Recreation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum ten years leading experiential marketing or large-scale meetings and events.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred, high school diploma or GED required.
  • Expertise in program management and project execution in complex environments.
  • Proven executive-level stakeholder management skills in brand-governed organizations.
  • Strong strategic judgment with a creative and operational focus.
  • Experience managing agency-led models and vendor ecosystems, preferred background in luxury services.
  • Authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

  • Own accountability for KPMG's marquee events, ensuring alignment with priorities and standards.
  • Advise senior leaders on experience design and audience strategy in high-stakes environments.
  • Lead complex programs from concept through execution, ensuring adherence to project timelines and interdependencies.
  • Establish and execute operating standards and governance models for event delivery.
  • Orchestrate cross-functional teams to ensure operational excellence and brand consistency.
  • Direct agency and vendor ecosystems, setting performance expectations for successful delivery.
  • Uphold KPMG's values by acting with integrity and professionalism.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental plans and vision coverage.
  • Disability and life insurance options.
  • 401(k) plans with employer contributions.
  • Robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health.
  • Personal Time Off based on job classification and years of service.
  • Paid holidays, including year-end and mid-year breaks.
Full Job Description
KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Experiential Strategyto join our Events and Meetings organization.

Responsibilities:
  • Own enterprise-wide accountability for the firm's marquee events and experiences, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, brand standards, and risk management requirements
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic counsel on experience design, audience strategy, and delivery approaches in high-stakes, executive-level environments
  • Lead complex, multi-workstream programs from concept through execution, ensuring adherence to project plans, timelines, interdependencies, and risk mitigation with a disciplined, solutions-oriented approach
  • Establish, reinforce, and execute operating standards, governance models, and delivery frameworks that drive consistency in leader experience, execution quality and brand application across the firm's most complex events portfolio
  • Navigate a complex internal ecosystem by orchestrating cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure accountability, operational excellence, and consistent brand application across all touchpoints
  • Direct and manage agency and vendor ecosystems across creative, production, and logistics, setting scopes of work, performance expectations, and success metrics to ensure exceptional delivery; apply a strong creative and experiential lens to shape storytelling, content flow, and audience engagement strategies that elevate the quality, relevance, and impact of live experiences
  • Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:
  • Minimum ten years of recent experience leading experiential marketing, enterprise events, or large-scale meetings and conference programs
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or universityis preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required
  • Advanced program and portfolio-level management expertisewithin complex, high-visibility events and meetings environments withexceptional project management capabilities navigating multiple departments anddeliverables, with an acute focus and attention to detail
  • Executive-level stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and lead amid strong personalities and competing priorities; proven success operating in highly matrixed, brand-governed organizations with multiple senior stakeholders; demonstrated leadership and project management of high-profile experiences involving senior executives and external stakeholders
  • Strong strategic judgment, balanced with creative sensibility and operational discipline; decisive, composed, and solutions-focused under pressure in fast-paced and high-risk environments
  • Deep experience with agency-led delivery models, complex vendor ecosystems, and significant budgets; background in high-touch hospitality, executive services, or luxury service environments strongly preferred
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)


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