Job description
About You
You are a seasoned event marketing leader with deep experience managing trade shows and field events across EMEA. You thrive in complex, fast-moving environments, love solving problems, and excel at cross-functional collaboration. You are highly autonomous and thoughtful — someone who doesn’t just ask questions, but does the work to find answers, evaluate options, and present decision-ready insights to leadership. You balance independent execution with strong judgment, knowing when to ask for input and when to confidently move forward.
About Us
Constructor is the next-generation platform for search and discovery in ecommerce, built to explicitly optimize for metrics like revenue, conversion rate, and profit. Our search engine is entirely invented in-house utilizing transformers and generative LLMs, and we use its core and personalization capabilities to power everything from search itself to recommendations to shopping agents. Engineering is by far our largest department, and we’ve built our proprietary engine to be the best on the market, having never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology. We’re passionate about maintaining this and work on the bleeding edge of AI to do so.
Out of necessity, our engine is built for extreme scale and powers over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries. It is used by some of the biggest ecommerce companies in the world like Sephora, Under Armour, and Petco.
We’re a passionate team who love solving problems and want to make our customers’ and coworkers’ lives better. We value empathy, openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and are excited by metrics that matter. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they do best can lead to great things.
Constructor is a U.S.-based company that has been in the market since 2019. It was founded by Eli Finkelshteyn and Dan McCormick who still lead the company today.
About the Position
We are looking for a Senior Event Marketing Manager (Contract) to lead Constructor’s EMEA events while a full-time team member is on maternity leave. This is a senior-manager-level, fully remote, individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Global Events (based in Washington, D.C. / Eastern Time).
The contract runs from August 15, 2025 to April 15, 2026, structured to allow a 1-month onboarding period before the full-time team member begins maternity leave, followed by 6 months of leave coverage and a 1-month transition period upon their return.
This role requires approximately 30% travel across EMEA, primarily to events in Germany, the U.K., and Sweden – this includes multi-day travel to support on-site event execution.
This person will be responsible for independently planning and executing Constructor’s presence at industry trade shows, conferences, and field events. You’ll manage every aspect of the event lifecycle — from strategy and vendor management to onsite execution and post-event lead follow-up — while collaborating closely with our EMEA sales and SDR teams, and cross-functionally with the broader marketing team.
Although you’ll work autonomously day-to-day, key decisions — especially those involving budget, brand, and activations — must be reviewed and approved by the Director of Global Events. You should be prepared to present research-backed recommendations to streamline decision-making and keep things moving.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Event Execution + Logistics
- Lead all logistics for trade shows, conferences, and field various events across EMEA
- Manage the exhibit booth vendor relationship to ensure all exhibitor deadlines are met and that booth logistics and services are thoroughly planned and executed — including graphic submissions, AV and technical requirements, booth furnishings, internet, electrical, rigging, freight, lead retrieval, catering, and more.
- Oversee vendor relationships, contracts, and deliverables
- Coordinate lead capture, export, and CRM handoff with RevOps and Marketing Ops
- Research and evaluate activation opportunities; prepare clear pros/cons and logistics breakdowns for leadership approval
- Coordinate internal logistics such as registration, hotel room blocks, travel recommendations, and attendee checklists; ensure all stakeholders complete required actions and deadlines are met
Sales & SDR Team Partnership
- Serve as the main point of contact for the EMEA sales and SDR teams
- Collaborate on event promotion strategies, persona-based messaging, and account targeting
- Lead pre-event kickoff calls and “know before you go” briefings
- Own all sales comms via Slack, ensuring clarity and alignment
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with internal partners across:
- Demand Generation (for pre- and post-event promo)
- Product Marketing (for messaging and positioning)
- Marketing Ops (for SFDC + Hubspot campaigns and pre and post-event reporting)
- Content & Design (for booth graphics and content promo)
Project Management
- Own all documentation: event program briefs, staffing plans, timelines, attendee guides and various trackers
- Maintain accurate budgets, submit invoices, and provide post-event ROI analysis
- Use Asana to manage all event tasks, milestones, and dependencies
Judgment & Leadership
- Operate independently but collaboratively — know when to escalate for approval
- Bring a problem-solving mindset: dig deep, cross-reference sources, and present decision-ready summaries
Respond to ambiguity with initiative, curiosity, and structure
- 10+ years of experience in B2B event marketing and trade show management
- Demonstrated success managing complex event programs across EMEA
- Fluent in German (spoken and written) — critical for local events and sales collaboration
- Strong preference for candidates based in the U.K. or Germany
- Deep knowledge of booth logistics, vendor negotiation, and event ops
- Excellent communication skills — especially over Slack, Asana, etc
- Experience leading omni-channel marketing plans to promote company presence at industry trade shows and events (e.g. email, social, SDR outreach, digital ads)
- Comfortable working across time zones (your manager is based on U.S. Eastern Time)
- Proactive and resourceful — not just task-oriented, but solution-oriented
- Familiarity with Salesforce and marketing automation platforms (preferred) such as Hubspot
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, with impeccable project management skills and a proactive approach to building systems that improve efficiency, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration
- Willing and able to travel up to 30% throughout Europe
🏝️ Unlimited vacation time – we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
💰 A competitive compensation package including stock options
🌎 Fully remote team – choose where you live
🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees
🧑🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
🏥 Company-sponsored US health coverage (100% paid for employee)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor
At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.
