The Event Producer Role

SPC is a community for open exploration, a process that relies on exposing our members to new ideas, people, and challenges. This role is an opportunity to facilitate events that promote learning and connection across a community of talented people.

Below are examples of events that makeup our events calendar:

Internal Events that allow members to learn from each other. Examples include Demo Days and peer-learning sessions.

Social Events that help members authentically connect. Examples include Wine Wednesdays, happy hours, hikes, and cookouts.

External Speaker Series that facilitate members’ exploration. Previous speakers have included Nobel Laureates like Dr. Perlmutter and Dr. Doudna, civic leaders like Mayor Breed, CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, and hundreds of others.

Hackathons & Conferences that focus on building. In the past we’ve collaborated with other companies and organizations like Stripe or Crypto Funds to organize community wide hackathons.

Bi-yearly community gatherings like summer picnics and holiday parties.

Responsibilities include

• Strategize and plan SPC’s yearly event calendar in collaboration with internal stakeholders and members
• Help recruit and curate a stellar speaker roster. Serve as the point person for managing speakers and content to create delightful, engaging and inspiring experiences
• Act as day-to-day producer responsible for the successful execution, scheduling and logistics
• Collaborate with marketing partner to develop brand, content and messaging to market pre and post event
• Implement, maintain and update processes and playbooks for repeatability and scalability of events
• Develop and execute data collection strategies and processes to ensure desired content and analytics are tracked, recorded and leveraged for future programs

We are a small, lean team. We expect you to operate with autonomy and roll up your sleeves. SPC is a member-led community, so we’re constantly evolving based on our members’ ideas. Your role will grow accordingly. As we explore new formats and programs for members, you’ll have the mandate to design and implement them, evaluate our experiments, and make recommendations for pivots or new directions. In other words, be bold, innovative, and even sometimes unorthodox in your approach.

About South Park Commons

South Park Commons (SPC) is a community of technical builders, tinkerers, and domain experts that challenge you, encourage you, and help you build and validate your ideas. We believe good ideas rarely come about in isolation. We are a safe zone that promotes judgement-free exploration and development of new ideas.

For technologists in the -1 to 0 stage in their career, SPC is the best place to be.

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