Oversee planning and execution of employee events that enhance culture and engagement, collaborating with various departments and managing budgets.
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Employee Experience Events Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our culture by designing and executing impactful events and experiences that foster connection, recognition, and engagement across our global teams. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Employee Experience Events, you will plan, implement, and scale key initiatives, ensuring alignment with our company values and vision.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team:
The People & Culture Enablement and Experience team leads business management, project management, employee experiences and events. Through thoughtful experiences, impactful meetings, meaningful interactions and activations in our spaces, we create the conditions for teams and the business to thrive.
This team is the conduit between People & Culture experiences, programs and projects, and our cross-functional partners - enabling growth, scaling our capabilities and activating our culture to achieve our business goals. We create and implement standard operating principles to ensure a consistent experience for our global and regional employees. We work in close partnership with our cross-functional partners within People & Culture, and across the organization.
If you were in the Employee Experience Events Lead role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Designing on-brand experiences that reflect our purpose and values while delivering logistical excellence across event timelines, budgets, and deliverables
- Leading the planning and production of assigned employee events, including experience design, vendor management, registration, communications, site operations, partner collaboration and on-site execution
- Contribute to the building of a global playbook for employee events that balances centralized brand standards with regional flexibility and ownership
- Managing relationships with external vendors including event production companies, AV partners, tenting, catering, venues and permits
- Collaborating with internal cross-functional partners (e.g. Product Education, Brand, Employee Impact) to ensure cohesive and inclusive experience delivery
- Building and presenting compelling PowerPoint decks to communicate concepts, strategies, and post-event impact to stakeholders
- Translating abstract concepts or cultural ideas into tangible event touchpoints (e.g. installations, activations, rituals, programming)
- Bringing a thoughtful and inclusive approach to event planning, with consideration for environmental impact, accessibility, and the well-being of all participants
- Staying ahead of trends in live experience, experiential design, and outdoor events to inspire ongoing innovation
- Leveraging communication platforms as social tools to connect our global employee community
- Exploring and implementing technology solutions that support event management, including registration, translation, hybrid engagement, and post-event analytics
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Identifying opportunities and evolving new and existing employee experience events and recognition programs, as needed
- Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Brand and Community Marketing, to align events with company goals and values
- You have 5+ years of event management experience, along with a post-secondary diploma or certification in Event Management, Communications, Project Management, or equivalent experience in lieu
- You are an empathetic and proactive communicator, and care about engaging people in an inclusive manner
- You have a strong understanding of event management, creating experiences that resonate with the target audience
- You have a highly collaborative working style and have a demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships
- You establish systems and programs to ensure projects, events, and processes are running smoothly
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You embrace a growth mindset and are passionate about learning and growing in your role
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
- You bring a designer’s mindset to experiences—thinking through flow, moment mapping, and intentional storytelling
- You’re deeply organized, cool under pressure, and proactive in resolving challenges before they arise
- You have excellent PowerPoint or Keynote presentation skills—you know how to visually and narratively sell an idea
- You’re comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and enjoy working with creatives, builders, and business partners alike
- You bring a lens of inclusion, access, and care to your work and consider how different people experience space
Equal Opportunity
Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.
Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.
All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.
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Top Skills
Event Management Software
Keynote
PowerPoint
ARC'TERYX North Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Office
2220 Dollarton Hwy, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7H 1A8
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