Job Description

From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. With our most recent round of funding, we’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school. Learn more about Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round .

Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.

Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

Your Impact:

Handshake is hiring a Field Marketing Coordinator on the Employer Marketing Team. You’ll be responsible for supporting day-to-day logistics for our portfolio of virtual and in-person field events - executive roundtables, enablement webinars, our flagship conference (Access), third-party strategic events and other ad-hoc integrated field marketing campaigns. Most activities are expected to be virtual for now due to Covid-19, with opportunities to travel in-person for select events.

This is a highly collaborative role where you’ll work with the extended Marketing Team (Product Marketing, Demand Generation, Corporate Marketing), our Field Teams (SDRs, AE’s, CSM’s and AM’s) as well as external vendors and contractors.

This is a high-growth opportunity to be a key contributor in the execution of our ambitious goals and have a huge impact as we build a truly world-class SaaS platform to democratize access to careers for students.

Your Role:

• Support Field Marketing & Event team across a variety of virtual and in-person events and sponsorship executions
• In partnership with Marketing Operations create event campaigns within Salesforce and ensure proper tracking
• Create and build event landing pages in Splash
• Support with budget tracking and invoicing. In partnerships with Field Marketing Managers, liaise with legal to help execute contracts.
• Manage back-end virtual event operations using Zoom Webinar and Hopin including setup and testing
• Maintain and ensure Field Marketing & Event calendar is up to date
• Own the strategy for Handshake’s swag store including inventory management
• Support and advise on general field marketing activities including but not limited to: social media promotion, development of target account invitation lists, event and vendor research, competitor intel
• Contribute to tracking event marketing best practices, monitoring industry trends, and making recommendations for growth
• Eventually facilitate preparation for on-site events (printing, shipping, setup, etc.)

Your Experience:

• 2+ years of demonstrated ability in a Sales or Marketing role in the technology sector (software industry experience preferred); Event planning experience a plus
• Strong project and program management skills; ability to work independently against tight deadlines, set priorities, problem-solve and improvise
• A sense of creativity to push boundaries
• Outcome oriented mentality
• Passion for Handshake’s mission and opening up access to opportunity for all students

Bonus Areas of Expertise:

• Experience with a project management tool like Asana and SFDC a plus
• Previous event planning experience
• Previous vendor management

Benefits:

• Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
• Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
• Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
• Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, sports, game nights, book clubs.
• Learning: Learning & Development opportunities for you to grow your skills and career.
• Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
• ...And much more!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

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