Box Inc

Director, Strategic Events

Box Inc$192K — $240K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience leading large-scale customer conferences and strategic event portfolios (3,000-8,000 attendees)
  • Proven ability to define strategic vision and manage event execution
  • Strong executive presence and proficiency in stakeholder engagement
  • Experience managing both agency and internal teams effectively
  • Creative mindset with innovative ideas for event differentiation
  • Analytical skills to assess budget, impact, and return on investment
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving scopes.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Box's strategic events vision and marquee moments
  • Develop event strategies aligned with business objectives and audience engagement
  • Evaluate and select events for sponsorship and hosting that ensure measurable returns
  • Partner with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams for alignment
  • Lead planning for large-scale customer experiences, managing production and execution teams
  • Build a repeatable framework for consistent brand presence across events
  • Define team structure and priorities to support long-term strategic visions.

Benefits

  • Equity and benefits package available
  • Commitment to fair and equitable compensation practices
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced and innovative environment.
Full Job Description
Your impact at Box
  • Own and evolve Box's strategic events vision, including marquee moments such as BoxWorks, Dreamforce, Google Next, and other high-impact national and sponsored events.
  • Develop a clear event strategy that connects Box-led and third-party events to business objectives, audience engagement, pipeline targets, and brand goals.
  • Evaluate the right mix of events for Box to sponsor, host, and scale, ensuring investments are aligned to measurable return and long-term impact.
  • Partner closely with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams including Field Marketing, Partner Marketing, Product Marketing, Brand, PR, Content, and Sales to align priorities and execution.
  • Lead the strategic planning behind large-scale customer experiences while guiding teams and agency partners responsible for production, logistics, and execution.
  • Build and refine a repeatable playbook and operating framework for how Box approaches events, ensuring consistency in brand presence and decision-making across programs.
  • Define strategic team structure, priorities, and operating models across strategic events and adjacent functions to support Box's long-term vision, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and ownership to meet key business objectives.
  • Bring executive-level communication and influence to the role, distilling ideas, driving alignment, and helping senior leaders make informed decisions about event strategy and investment.
Who you are

Box executives are engaged, passionate leaders who prioritize customer centricity, innovation, and growth. As an AI-first company, XLT members bring a growth mindset and proactively leverage AI to make faster, smarter decisions that amplify their impact across the business.

As a leader in this role:
  • You have led large-scale customer conferences and strategic event portfolios, ideally including events in the 3,000-8,000 attendee range, and understand how to scale programs thoughtfully over time.
  • You bring both strategic vision and hands-on event leadership, with the ability to define the "why" behind event investments while also understanding what it takes to execute them successfully.
  • You have strong executive presence and are comfortable engaging senior leaders, shaping decisions, pushing back when needed, and earning a seat at the leadership table.
  • You know how to work cross-functionally and navigate complex stakeholder environments, especially across marketing, sales, product, and executive teams.
  • You have experience managing across agencies and internal teams, and you know how to get the best work from both.
  • You are creative, thoughtful, and audience-minded, with fresh ideas for how Box can show up in compelling and differentiated ways.
  • You are highly analytical about budget, impact, and return, and can translate event strategy into measurable business outcomes.
  • You thrive in fast-moving environments where scope is evolving, resources are constrained, and strong judgment is required to prioritize effectively.


Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our benefits and perks.

San Francisco Pay Range

$192,500-$240,500 USD

Redwood City Pay Range

$192,500-$240,500 USD

About Box Inc

Box, Inc. is a cloud content management and file sharing service for businesses. The company provides a platform for managing and collaborating on content across multiple devices and applications. Box serves a wide range of industries, including healthcare, finance, and media. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Learn more about Box Inc
Size
2,172 employees
Market Cap
$4.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$43.4 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+17%
Revenue
$770.7 million
NASDAQ

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