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:
B uild 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…