Head of Community and Events

The Free Press is one of the world’s fastest-growing media companies, with over 1 million subscribers and over 140,000 paying customers. Our growing community is passionate about what we do, and many of them consider TFP their “new home” for both understanding the world and meeting others who share their open-mindedness. Connecting this group of people is an essential business objective, and we are rapidly expanding our offerings of unique, memorable experiences that embody our ethos and deepen our special bonds. We are looking for an experienced, passionate community and events leader to grow our experiential business, including our flagship live debate series, salons, a first of its kind ideas festival, as well as unique community-oriented digital and live experiences that activate our passionate audience. This person will be responsible for all community initiatives as well as full event life-cycle from strategy and vision to execution. This person will work closely with others across the company to bring the singular TFP community to life. 

• Community engagement: Design and implement creative strategies for lighter-touch community building, to supplement in-person experiences; including premium subscriber benefits
• Event strategy and design: Develop a timeline and concepts for unique live experiences, with a variety of formats for different events from small gatherings to 1,000+ attendee events, including subscriber-led meetups in which TFP is not directly involved
• Financial smarts: Setting, allocating, and managing budget for the full-year experiential strategy 
• Sponsorship excellence: You know how to build and service deep relationships with major sponsors who are willing to commit early to TFP event concepts. Work with our sales team and agency partners to source and execute other sponsorship opportunities
• Audience management: Have judgment to manage and gather the right group of subscribers to each event, with an eye to making each experience special and indicative of the unique bond between TFP and its subscribers
• Event staffing: Hiring project-based events team members and managing agency partners, vendors, and additional staffing needed to execute events
• Creativity and flexibility: Be comfortable with events that are added as news changes, and be open to concepts and approaches that challenge the status quo and sameness of today’s marketplace

• 5+ years of experience in consumer brand or editorial brand community and/or events , plus:
• You are passionate about TFP and bringing our community together
• You’re a doer and a pragmatist, but hyper-focused on details
• You’re enthusiastic and adaptable, with a proactive and creative approach to problem-solving
• You embrace the scrappy start-up environment and have a willingness to jump in wherever needed to help the team succeed
• You are committed to TFP values which include independent-minded journalistic ethics and always telling our subscribers the truth about what we do and how we do it
• You have impeccable taste and care just as much about small details (tablecloths!) as you do about the big picture (building the enterprise value of The Free Press)!
• You like to travel