Joby Aviation

Events Manager

Joby Aviation$93K — $128K *
Hospitality & Recreation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Minimum 5+ years of event management experience.
  • Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects independently.
  • Excellent communication skills to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
  • Ability to travel globally up to 50% of the time.
  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
  • Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute assigned marketing events including trade shows and corporate events.
  • Coordinate logistics such as registrations, catering, and security for events.
  • Procure, manage vendor services, and handle contract negotiations.
  • Provide hands-on onsite management for domestic and international events.
  • Collaborate with teams to prepare internal and external participants for events.
  • Manage schedules, budgets, and event assets for consumer and stakeholder events.
  • Drive continuous improvement in events through best practices and lessons learned.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off and healthcare benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with a company match.
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance.
Full Job Description
Overview

As an Event Manager in Joby’s fast-paced environment, you will be responsible for providing event, logistics, and project management as part of our Marketing & Communications team. Reporting to the Events Lead, this role will manage assigned events from initial planning through onsite execution and final closeout. Through world-class events and experiences, you will play a key role in bringing Joby’s technology to communities around the world, creating memorable moments that inform, inspire, and engage potential customers, partners, policymakers, and other key stakeholders. The ideal candidate is extremely detail-oriented, proactive, collaborative across multiple teams, a strong communicator, a team player, and highly organized. The key to success in this role is the ability to adapt to ever-changing conditions and roll up your sleeves to solve problems when needed.

Responsibilities
  • Plan and execute assigned marketing events including trade shows, live demonstrations, corporate and partner events
  • Coordinate logistics, including shipping, registration, attendee tracking, marketing assets, credentials, signage, catering, transportation, security and AV
  • Procure and manage vendor services, including contract negotiations, vendor onboarding, purchase orders, invoice tracking and final payment
  • Provide hands-on onsite management for assigned domestic and international events
  • Collaborate with teams to ensure internal and external participants at each event are prepared
  • Assist the team as necessary with hotel and travel arrangements, including negotiating group hotel rates
  • Assist executive assistants with meeting planning during events as necessary
  • Serve as the day to day point of contact for assigned events, keeping internal teams, vendors and partners informed of deadlines, decisions and responsibilities
  • Manage schedules, budgets, and event assets for assigned consumer and stakeholder events
  • Maintain active event information within the global events calendar, trackers and shared planning tools
  • Work with the wider creative team to deliver world-class activations, concepts and experiences that effectively represent the Joby brand
  • Develop and maintain event timelines, run of shows, staffing plans, contact sheets and planning documents
  • Conduct site visits and document venue, infrastructure, logistics and guest experience requirements
  • Track event expenses and support final budget reconciliation and event closeout
  • Coordinate domestic and international shipping, freight, event assets and onsite deliveries
  • Drive continuous improvement in our events, ensuring the most efficient use of resources and capturing best practices thorough post event Lessons Learned
Required
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • Minimum 5+ years of event management experience
  • Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects independently
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
  • Ability to travel globally up to 50% of the time
  • Possession of a current passport and ability to support international travel
  • Strong organizational skills with a strong attention to detail
  • Positive attitude and willingness and ability to work well with others
  • Proven ability to work in a fast paced, often changing environment with efficiency and accuracy
  • Ability to take initiative and ownership over sometimes ambiguous tasks and situations with little oversight
  • Experience independently managing assigned events from planning through onsite execution and closeout
  • Strong vendor management experience, budgeting, negotiating and project management skills
Desired
  • Experience planning both domestic and international events
  • Experience with trade shows, product launches, aviation events or large scale public activations
  • Experience with consumer facing events or customer experience
Additional Information

Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The target base pay for this position is $93,600 - $128,700/yr. The compensation package will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Joby also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with a company match, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and more.

About Joby Aviation

Joby Aviation is an aerospace company that is developing an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban air mobility. The company's aircraft is designed to be quiet, efficient, and environmentally friendly, and is intended to provide a faster and more convenient mode of transportation for urban commuters. Joby Aviation was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California. The company has received funding from a variety of investors, including Toyota and JetBlue Technology Ventures.
Learn more about Joby Aviation
Size
500 employees
Market Cap
$2 billion
Industry
Founded
2009
NASDAQ

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