Event Director
£70,000 - £85,000 DOE + 20% Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Hybrid
London
Our client is a long-standing and trusted provider of large-scale, international networking events, memberships and news covering the AI/Data Centre / Tech and Telco space.
Due to ambitious growth plans the need has arisen to hire an Event Director to lead across their flagship events portfolio.
These events are large-scale in nature, circa 3000-8000 attendees, they are flagship, industry leading events.
Role Summary:
Reporting to the Managing Director, you will shape event propositions, drive growth, and ensure each product meets its commercial, strategic, and brand objectives.
You will manage and mentor a team of Senior and Product Managers, working cross-functionally with content, marketing, operations, and sales to deliver world-class event experiences.
This is a key role for a strategic yet hands-on product leader who can balance growth with commercial discipline, ensuring that every event evolves in line with customer needs and market opportunities.
Crucially, you must love producing commercial events as this role is still very much hands on, building relationships with key speakers, partners and working with SPEX.
Profile Required:
*Circa 8 + years’ experience in B2B events, media, or community-led businesses, including 3+ years in a product or portfolio leadership role.
*Strong background in conference production
*Proven ability to grow event brands commercially and strategically.
*Strong commercial and analytical skills — comfortable with budgets, P&L ownership, and KPI tracking.
*Deep interest in (or experience with) the telecoms, data centre, or technology sectors.
*Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with confidence at senior industry level.
*Strong people leadership experience, with the ability to motivate and mentor cross-functional teams.
*Entrepreneurial mindset — curious, creative, and outcome-focused.
Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London.
We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence. Our clients range from small start up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.
We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.