Head of Brand Marketing Events

Full time Marketing - Advertising

Job Description

We are Semrush, a global IT company developing our own product – a platform for digital marketers. New stars are born here, so don’t miss your chance.

We’re looking for a strong brand leader who would scale our presence to new audiences and create a unique experience for them with a set of brand activations.

Who you are:

  • You’ve managed large-scale brand activations that attracted millions of people, and you know how to tie it to revenue. Your experience lies in organic channels, creative stunts, and out-of-the-box campaigns, all executed by you and your team. You give reasons for people to generate the WOM. You know how social media works and know how to get the audience to talk about your brand.


Tasks in the role

  • Create and execute an event-based marketing strategy including (but not limited to) our own in-person conference, online events, side events, and stage presence
  • Manage brand activations, including Spotlight, our in-person conference, to grow it to a 5,000-people conference within a few years, ensuring on-time delivery and within budget guidelines
  • Create campaigns and messaging that capture the hearts and minds of our users. Connect the emotional values of our audiences to the functional purpose of our products and transform this into immersive, engaging experiences.
  • Partner with global marketing leadership to get buy-in and commitment from channel owners for campaign promotion
  • Measure, analyze, and report on the success of campaigns in terms of business impact
  • Build and execute the strategy for partner marketing and sponsorships
  • Build and manage the annual budget, meet with the finance team to report and update on the spend and outcomes
  • Manage a small team of project managers/program managers/campaign managers and a large team of external vendors


Who we are looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in strategy and tactics for brand campaigns, both hands-on and as a team lead
  • Experience managing brand campaigns with annual budgets over $10M/year (excluding the paid media spend)
  • Demonstrated success in overseeing or creating rich and relevant brand campaign experiences
  • Highly creative, ‘hands-on’ leader who embraces ambiguity and defines a way forward
  • Strong results-based mentality, analytical skills, and data-driven thinking (must be comfortable working with numbers, metrics, and spreadsheets; reporting on the ROI of our efforts)
  • Outstanding listening, interviewing, meeting facilitation, storytelling, and writing skills
  • A leader who can inspire and direct a wider team that doesn’t report to you
  • Excellent communicator, capable of building and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders
  • Extraordinary verbal and written English skills
  • A strong mix between B2B and B2C experience is preferred


Not required, but a plus

  • You speak multiple languages (ES, DE, FR).
  • You possess extreme ownership. You take responsibility for the outcome. You get things done, and you make decisions.
  • You care. You love what you do, and it’s more than work to you—it’s passion.
  • You are proactive. You call out what’s not working, and you offer solutions to ensure the best path forward.
  • You are curios. You’re interested in trying new things. You ask, “What if?” You’re always learning, always questioning.
  • You are respectful. You treat everyone with respect and expect it in return. You believe everyone is doing their best and share feedback in a polite and productive way.
  • You share our common values: Trust, as we prefer to speak up and be our true selves; Sense of Ownership, as it’s not worth wasting time on something you don’t believe in; and enthusiasm for Constant Change, as we are always looking to make things better.