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About the Role & Consensus

Held since 2015, Consensus is the only festival showcasing and celebrating all sides of the blockchain, crypto, and Web 3 ecosystems, and their wide-reaching effect on commerce, culture, and communities. Each year, Consensus brings tens of thousands of attendees together to hear from sought-after thought leaders and experience a wide range of discussions, meetings, parties, music performances, dinners, experiences, and much more. In 2025, we will launch Consensus Hong Kong & Consensus Toronto.

We are seeking an Events Programming & Speaker Success Coordinator to join our growing team. This individual will support the events programming team for Consensus Hong Kong (Feb 18-20, 2025), and Consensus 2025 (May 14-16 in Toronto) by maintaining the speaker database, managing speaker onboarding and relations, ensuring the marketing and events teams have all needed programming assets, updating speakers and agendas on the website and helping the team adhere to programming timelines.

This role will be required to work onsite from our NYC office based near Union Square. Required days per week is at the discretion of the hiring manager and may shift to more/less based on business needs.

What You’ll Do:

Maintain the Consensus and Events programming database
Manage speaker onboarding and communications
Coordinate pre-event logistics and prep calls for speakers
Monitor and update speaker and agenda postings on the website
Assist in content development through original research and relationship development
Ensure the marketing and events teams have all needed programming assets
Engage with Speakers as main point of contact, both for their session, as well as canvassing for their business goals around the event, and working with other internal teams to facilitate successful overall experience for them at the event(s).

What You Have

Highly collaborative, superb organizational skills, effective communicator and tech savvy
2+ years experience in content creation or event programming
Strong writing skills and attention to detail
Ability to multitask and creatively problem solve under deadline and in a live-event environment
Prior work or strong interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain a plus
Comfortable with multiple technology and data management systems: event platforms, Airtable, Google Suite, Excel etc
Comfortable with the demands of a start-up culture with limited resources

CoinDesk Inc and CoinDesk Indices Inc. are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $90,000 - $100,000 + discretionary annual target bonus + benefits. Offered salary may vary based on geographic location, including city and state, and will be reflective of job-related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

In an effort to attract, retain, develop and promote the most qualified individuals, CoinDesk is committed to treating all applicants and employees in a nondiscriminatory manner with respect to the terms and conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status/service, physical or mental disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law. This mandate governs all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, promotion, training, education, social and recreation programs, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits.

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ACCOMMODATION

CoinDesk is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request.

Please note that only a member of CoinDesk’s Talent Acquisition team will reach out to you directly from an @coindesk.com or @coindesk-indices.comemail in regards to any and all opportunities at CoinDesk. Disregard emails from any other addresses or persons. If you’re selected to move onto the next phase of our hiring process, a member of our team will reach out to guide you through our interview process. We look forward to connecting!

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