Director, Events & Experiences

Currently, BWZ's core product is our network of online publications. We have a portfolio of 15+ professional development brands that bring in 500k+ unique monthly visitors and we've developed a successful playbook for launching, producing, monetizing, and growing publications.

We’re looking for someone to do the same for events, a new business unit we want to develop, in parallel and in support of our membership products. This linked blog post is great inspiration for the opportunity at hand.

This is an entrepreneurial effort, we are looking for an experienced event producer who has a track record of starting events from scratch and bringing them to successful sustainability. The ideal candidate understands the unique challenges that first-year events have, and can expertly guide on-the-ground execution teams who must manage the uncertainty of the startup event. 

The Director, Events & Experiences will create, kickstart and execute the flagship event series for BWZ, and recruit a team to announce, project-plan for, and execute our first events in 2025 for C Suite executives.

You'll conceptualize, kickstart and develop the world's best C Suite events, translating strategic vision to executional capability and the development of a highly profitable business line, in its own right, and in support of other b2c commerce initiatives.

You understand what makes an incredible, memorable, must-attend event, and you make it happen. You are familiar with the strain and challenge of starting an event brand from the ground up. You are proficient at building new teams, identifying credible vendors and team members, keeping everyone aligned to quality results. You create and evolve the strategy, finesse the planning and manage the production to develop events at an ever-increasing quality, and profitability.

You're the glue for the events team and beyond, holding everything together, keeping the team accountable for process and results. You connect and collaborate within Brand, Commerce, Media, Sales and Marketing to maximize the value and utility of the events in support of the broader business. You care about the revenue metrics, be it selling tickets or closing sponsorships.

You're actively engaged with prototyping and developing startup baseline best practices for event planning, execution, and process development. You lead by example, set the team up for success, develop and elevate the team, creating the process, tools, exemplars and best practices.

You identify as a self-starter and enjoy the hustle it takes to build something from nothing. This is a position that will require a comfort level with the uncertainty the unknown brings, and get charged by seeing your creative and operational vision come to life.

You constantly raise the bar, coaching and supporting to help the team understand what good looks like - and support them in getting there themselves.

This full-time position is available as either a remote or hybrid position (depending on location), with an annual salary in the range of $125,000 to $175,000 CAD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge and experience for new hires based in Canada only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of Canada and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, full-time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

Black and White Zebra is a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.

Our brands cover project management, product management, people management, customer experience, quality assurance and others, with the goal of connecting people with the knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally.

We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, we’ve grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 14 online publications. We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.

We’ve recently ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail’s Fastest Growing Company list and received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager—and we’re listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC.

All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we’re creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.

Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran’s status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun!