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Events Manager

Gorgias

Gorgias

Administration
Paris, France
Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2023

Meet Gorgias, the customer service platform designed for ecommerce merchants, and built to provide amazing experience to shoppers at scale on Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magento. Our product empowers merchants to manage all their customer service in one place over email, live chat, voice, Facebook, Instagram, and SMS.

Everything we do is for our customers, and we’re currently serving over 12,000+ ecommerce merchants, including : Steve Madden, Timbuk2, Decathlon, and Sports Illustrated. They love us for our innovative product, our focus on their ecommerce needs, and, of course, our lightning-fast customer service response time.

We raised $25 million in our Series B round in December 2020 and $30 million in our Series C round in 2022. We more than doubled in size in every meaningful way: annual recurring revenue, the size of our customer base, and the size of our Gorgias team, for starters.

We’re still growing fast and looking for new teammates who want to grow with us.

Join our team for the opportunity to:

👩🏼‍💻Work with smart, passionate people every day

💪 Get extreme ownership over your work and results

🧠 Be treated like the expert you are

About the Team

The Marketing team is hiring an Events Manager, with preference given to those with B2B experience. This is your chance to join a winning team driving half of the revenue of a fast-growing Tech Startup.

You will report to Jeremy Horowitz, Sr. Partner Marketing Manager and work closely with our events team within the Marketing team.

What You’ll Do

  • Help the events team drive Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through finding, organizing, coordinating events initiatives with strategic partners, event organizers, and technology partners.

  • Strong organizational and management skills required to track and manage events. Take calls with partners to discuss event coordination, planning, scheduling, and promotion.

  • “Get work done” attitude and extreme ownership in your projects

  • Create landing pages for events - having great writing skills is preferred!

  • Track and constantly test all marketing initiatives with data to continually improve them.

  • Become intertwined in eCommerce within the Shopify, Magento, and BigCommerce ecosystem.

Who You Are

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment (individually coordinating 15-20 events per month!)

  • Experience with virtual event platforms

  • Excellent French and English. Spanish / German would be a plus

  • 4+ years of previous experience in organizing turnkey events

  • Ability to coordinate freelancers (design / copy / creatives / contractors / venues)

  • Strong organizational, management, writing, and communication skills

  • Ability to travel internationally for various events (mostly within the EMEA region)

  • Experience collaborating with partners and vendors

  • Passion for learning! You want to improve every day

  • Previous experience in ecommerce / SaaS (preferred)

  • Previous experience with CRM (preferred)

Perks & Benefits

  • 🏖️ 5-week vacation plus 2 weeks RTT (We follow each country's appropriate PTO Laws)

  • 🤕 Paid sick leave

  • 🧸 Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

  • 💻 MacBook Pro

  • 🍽️ Personal credit card to buy lunches (we use Swile)

  • 🏥 We provide private health insurance (we use Alan)

  • 💆🏻‍♀️ Get up to €700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)

  • 📚 Get up to €2000 of learning material per year (includes books, courses, and training sessions that are easily identified and linked with your job scope. This also covers individual coaching!)

  • 🥰 Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we’re going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats! (Here is the photo album from our last company retreat in Mexico in 2022, when we were a total of 200 people!)

The role requires a 2 days/week presence in the Paris office.

Why join us?

🚀 We're among the fastest-growing startups in the eCommerce ecosystem

🦄 We've built an extremely efficient go-to-market engine

🥇 Work with a talented team you'll learn a lot from

🙏 Join a company where automation and good & clean data are core beliefs shared by all

🎥 Here is an interview with one of our team member’s experiences from our most recent company retreat to Cancun!

More cool things to know about Gorgias... 😁

Gorgias ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Gorgias is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact accommodation@gorgias.com