Event manager
Kahoot!, Norway
Job Description
Description
Are you an energized event manager ready to amaze millions of users and deliver world-class event activities with great commercial impact? Maybe you’re also looking for your next adventure, something truly meaningful and unique? Then Kahoot! has the job for you! We’re looking for an awesome Event Manager!
This job can be located in Oslo or Copenhagen, or where you would like to live and work.
About Kahoot!
Kahoot! is on a mission to make learning awesome! We want to empower everyone, including children, students, and employees to unlock their full learning potential. Our learning platform makes it easy for any individual or corporation to create, share, and play learning games that drive compelling engagement. In addition, our family of apps takes math learning to a new level and empowers children to learn to read through play. Learners of all ages can make language learning natural with immersive visuals and play through our Drops apps. Organizations can connect and engage their work teams with Actimo, our employee engagement platform. Launched in 2013, Kahoot!’s vision is to build the leading learning platform in the world. In the last 12 months, more than 250 million games have been played on the Kahoot! platform with 1.5 billion participating players in 200 countries. The company is headquartered in Norway with offices in the US, the UK, France, Finland, Estonia, Denmark and Spain. Let’s play!
Our K!rew
At Kahoot! we champion a positive culture of collaborative learning and innovation. With a team of more than 250 employees representing 40 different nationalities, we’re a diverse and fun bunch of people! We work hard and celebrate our wins, tackle challenges with original ideas and learn something new every day.
We’ve been growing steadily over the past year and joined forces with Actimo, Dragonbox, Poio, Drops, Whiteboard and Motimate. As a group, we’re on a mission to make learning awesome together. The values guiding us are: we are playful, we are curious and we are inclusive!
The team
You will be working closely together with key roles in the customer experience team as well as our product organization and report to the head of Product Marketing.
Responsibilities
The Event Manager’s main responsibility is end-to-end to plan and deliver remote and in person company events with high quality and in accordance with set goals.
The Event Manager will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Plan and deliver remote and in person global company events from start to finish including defining goals, format, requirements, target audience and objectives
- Continuously identify improvements to enhance experience and outcome of the event
- Prepare budgets and ensure adherence
- Source and negotiate with speakers, vendors and suppliers
- Lead and coordinate all operational activities to deliver event
- Ensure event is completed smoothly and coordinate actions to resolve any problems that might occur
- Evaluate the event results, learnings and share with stakeholders
- Lead promotional activities for the event
- Work closely with the marketing and communications team to align internal and external communications
Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor or MSc/MA in PR, Events, hospitality or similar
- Experienced project manager comfortable managing multiple stakeholders and hard deadlines
- Some years of experience from planning and delivering successful events and tradeshows, both remotely and in person
- Comfortable with working closely with business area leads as well as marketing/communications stakeholders
- A real team player always focusing on the team achievements
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Comfortable in with a high-pace working environment
Benefits
Here are some of the benefits we provide to our team members in the Oslo office:
- A competitive compensation package
- Share option plan
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Home broadband allowance
- Mobile subscription
- Lunch contribution
- Social and company events
- Friendly, international environment
If you will be working from another site, the benefits will be similar.