Account & Event Operations Manager

• Own a portfolio of approximately 10 sponsor accounts from signed agreement through activation, recap, and renewal.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for sponsors, building trusted and long-term relationships.

• Manage sponsor calls, agendas, follow-ups, action items, and ongoing communication.

• Track every sponsor commitment and deliverable, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

• Translate partner briefs and objectives into clear internal action plans.

• Coordinate with Production, Programming, Marketing, and Leadership to ensure sponsor expectations are met.

• Proactively identify risks, resolve issues, and keep projects moving.

• Build relationships across the sponsor organization, including brand teams, agencies, and senior leadership.

• Host and support partners at events, represent AATM professionally, and facilitate meaningful introductions.

• Turn successful activations into compelling recaps and identify opportunities for renewals, upsells, and deeper partnerships.

• Translate sponsor objectives into targeted guest lists and curated rooms.

• Research, prioritize, and recruit relevant senior leaders, creatives, artists, technologists, and decision-makers.

• Use your industry knowledge and network to identify high-value people beyond existing lists.

• Help grow and nurture AATM's year-round community of attendees, alumni, VIPs, speakers, and partners.

• Build relationships that extend beyond individual events and strengthen the AATM network over time.

• Support end-to-end execution across summits, dinners, and special activations.

• Take ownership of special projects that require strong organization, follow-through, and cross-functional coordination.

• Manage projects such as speaker onboarding, host committee coordination, partner activations, and guest logistics.

• Keep internal stakeholders aligned on timelines, responsibilities, risks, and next steps.

• Step into general operations and project management responsibilities as needed in a fast-moving, lean environment.

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• Experience managing client, sponsor, partner, or account relationships.

• Experience coordinating events, conferences, summits, activations, or other complex projects.

• Strong project management skills and a track record of managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Experience working with senior executives, VIPs, speakers, brands, or other high-profile stakeholders is strongly preferred.

• Sponsors feel exceptionally well taken care of and see you as a trusted partner.

• Every partner commitment is tracked, communicated, and delivered.

• Events run smoothly because you've anticipated problems before they happen.

• The right people are consistently in the room.

• Sponsors, speakers, and VIPs leave feeling that AATM is uniquely thoughtful and well connected.

• Relationships continue to grow between events, not just during them.

• Your work helps turn great event execution into stronger partnerships, renewals, and growth.