Events & Field Marketing Manager

Reporting to CMO, we’re looking for a organized, proactive, detail-oriented Events & Field Marketing Manager to join Rival Technologies. In this role, you’ll help deliver high-quality trade shows, conferences, customer events, executive dinners, and regional gatherings across Canada and the U.S. by owning timelines, logistics, vendors, budgets, and attendee communications, working with smart, kind people who care about building useful technology, solving real customer problems, and having fun while moving fast.

This role is open to candidates based in Vancouver, Canada, with a hybrid working model designed to support connection, focused work, and real life outside of work.

Who are we? 

When you join Rival Group, you’re not just accelerating your career—you’re also helping shape the future of customer insights and market research.

We’re a forward-thinking, results-driven organization obsessed with helping innovative brands get closer to their customers in a way that feels fresh, organic, and fun. Rival Technologies, the tech arm of our business, is the world’s best conversational research platform and one of Vancouver’s fastest-growing tech companies. 🚀 Reach3 Insights, our consulting side, is an award-winning 🏆 market research agency with offices in Chicago, Toronto, and Vancouver. Together, we’re helping brands like Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s, Dell Technologies, REVOLT TV, and Roblox get better insights they can use to deliver better products, create more impactful marketing campaigns, and improve the end-to-end customer experience.

Our customers LOVE our tech and services. We’re growing fast—and we’re inviting great people to join us on the ride 🎢

If making measurable, immediate impact while having fun sounds like your jam, then we invite you to apply! 👇

What you’ll own:

• Build and maintain detailed event plans, deadlines, checklists, budgets, and responsibilities across multiple concurrent events, tracking dependencies, following up with contributors, and flagging risks early with practical recommendations.
• Own event logistics and vendor coordination, including venues, catering, audiovisual, registration, accommodations, transportation, booths, signage, merchandise, collateral, shipping, speaker logistics, technical checks, rehearsals, setup, troubleshooting, and teardown.
• Deliver a high-quality attendee experience and complete event closeout by ensuring communications and production details are accurate, reconciling expenses and invoices, organizing event assets, coordinating handoffs to sales and marketing, and documenting lessons learned.

What you bring:  

• 4+ years of relevant experience in corporate events, conferences, or trade show management, ideally in B2B technology or professional services.
• Hands-on experience independently coordinating multiple events, vendors, deadlines, budgets, attendee communications, registration platforms, project management tools, and spreadsheets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence working with customers, senior leaders, speakers, vendors, and external partners.
• A practical, solutions-oriented mindset with the judgment to work through incomplete direction, ask focused questions, anticipate risks, and recommend clear next steps.
• Strong organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage several events at once, adapt quickly as priorities shift, stay composed under pressure, and deliver accurate work on time and within approved budgets.
• A collaborative, accountable approach: you own outcomes, communicate early, follow through on commitments, and close the loop without repeated reminders.

For product, engineering, or technical roles: 

• Experience managing end-to-end event execution from initial planning through final reconciliation, including schedules, vendors, budgets, attendee communications, event materials, on-site delivery, and post-event handoffs.
• Experience supporting field marketing or events in B2B technology, SaaS, or professional services environments is an asset.
• Sound judgment around quality and accuracy, with a consistent habit of checking names, titles, schedules, locations, quantities, budgets, production details, and vendor commitments before release or confirmation.
• Comfort working through ambiguity, documenting decisions, coordinating across sales, marketing, leadership, design, content, and vendors, and keeping stakeholders informed as plans evolve.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with event registration platforms, project management tools, spreadsheets, and event operations across Canada and the U.S.; willingness and ability to travel, including occasional evening and weekend work.
• Experience working in B2B technology, SaaS, professional services, insights, research technology, or another fast-paced client-facing environment.

Why us for your next career adventure?  

💵 Fair compensation

We’re committed to pay equity/fair pay practices and closing the gender salary gap. 

• In determining salary, Rival Technologies considers many factors including the successful candidate’s skillset and experience as well as internal equity. The salary range for this position is $70,000 to $ 90,000 CAD, with the upper portion typically reserved for tenured employees who have developed extensive job knowledge and expertise within the company.

Our compensation package also includes:

• Home office, Internet and Cellphone stipends
• RRSP plan with employer matching
• Parental leave top up

💆‍♂️ Flexibility and time off

• Hybrid working model and home office benefits
• Comprehensive paid time off that covers vacation, sick, and personal days. 

🩺 Health and wellness

• Extended health and dental plan
• Health spending account
• Generous sick, personal, and mental health days
• $1,000 annual mental health benefits with Canada Life

🤝 A great place to work you can be proud of

According to a survey of our employees conducted by an independent agency:

• 91% of our people believe management practices are equal and impartial
• 86% have pride in their work and the organization
• 91% agree that their teammates are friendly, supportive and welcoming

Our values at Rival:

• Courage
• Results
• Energy
• Kinship

The not-so-fine-print 🧐

If you think you’re a good fit, please connect with us ASAP with your resume. You must be eligible to work in Canada to be considered for this role. At Rival, we value the unique qualities and experiences that each candidate brings to the table. We believe in a personal approach to hiring and take the time to thoroughly review each resume ourselves. Rest assured, we do not use AI or automated systems to review or filter resumes. Every application is carefully reviewed by our hiring team to ensure a fair and personalized evaluation process. If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that individuals in underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion. Rival provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Rival is also committed to fostering a culture of belonging, which includes ensuring an accessible work environment and employment practices. If you require accommodation at any point in the selection process, please email [email protected]

Finally, we know from time to time emergencies happen and you may need to reschedule an interview — we understand and encourage you to be in communication without worrying about losing the opportunity or your credibility.

Please note given our security and compliance certifications, final applicants will be required to undergo a background check.

No recruiters and no phone calls, please!