Events Marketing Manager, EMEA

Reports to: B2C/B2B DoorDash Reservations Global Events Lead

Introduction

This role will lead the strategy and execution of SevenRooms EMEA event portfolio, delivering merchant experiences, consumer activations, strategic partnerships, sponsorships, and industry events that accelerate business growth, strengthen brand awareness, and deepen engagement across the region.

This isn’t a traditional event marketing role. It’s an opportunity to define how SevenRooms Reservations show up across some of the world’s most dynamic hospitality markets, shaping the brand as we continue to grow across EMEA.

You’ll own a diverse portfolio of experiences – from industry conferences and merchant events to consumer activations, strategic partnerships, and sponsorships – that build brand credibility, strengthen merchant relationships, and drive measurable business growth.

Sitting at the intersection of hospitality, brand, partnerships, and commercial strategy, you’ll help shape our regional go-to-market approach while creating culturally relevant experiences that resonate across multiple countries and audiences. You’re not just delivering events – you’re building the experiential and partnership strategy that will define our presence across EMEA.

As the primary owner of event strategy across EMEA – including the UK, Central Europe, and the Middle East – you’ll manage a diverse portfolio of B2B and B2C initiatives across multiple markets and stakeholder groups, with a high level of autonomy and decision-making given the scope of the region.

What you’ll be doing

• Own the strategy, planning, and end-to-end execution of the annual EMEA event portfolio across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East – spanning industry conferences, merchant events, consumer activations, sponsorships, and strategic partnerships.
• Lead vendor negotiation and contract management, budget tracking and reconciliation, and project management across every event, keeping a clear pulse on risks, dependencies, and action items.
• Develop creative briefs and concepts that produce differentiated, high-impact brand experiences, and brief and manage marketing agencies across retainer and project-based engagements.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Integrated Marketing, Legal, Content Marketing, and Strategy & Ops, and externally with marketing agencies, SevenRooms customers, and hospitality organizations, to deliver aligned, high-impact experiences.
• Use CRM and event tech platforms (e.g. Splash, Bizzabo, Eventbrite) to manage event logistics, and lead data analysis and post-event reporting to demonstrate ROI and inform future strategy.
• Leverage AI across the event lifecycle – from ideation, content creation, and localization to project management, reporting, performance analysis, audience targeting, and partnership research – to work more efficiently and creatively.
• Be accountable for success metrics including pipeline generated or influenced through regional B2B events, merchant acquisition/engagement/retention, brand awareness and share of voice across priority EMEA markets, strategic partnership growth, meetings booked, deal acceleration, event ROI and cost efficiency, and on-time delivery across production milestones.

Our humble expectations

• Executive polish – a confident, concise communicator who operates comfortably with senior stakeholders.
• Strong written communicator – able to produce clear, structured, culturally aligned documentation and briefs.
• Bias for action – moves with speed, anticipates needs, and proactively drives work forward.
• Calm under pressure – steady, solutions-oriented, and composed during high-stakes moments.
• Creative thinker – able to develop creative briefs that produce differentiated, high-impact brand experiences.
• Superior organization – consistently manages multiple projects simultaneously and keeps a pulse on all risks, dependencies, and action items.
• Hands-on experience with vendor negotiation and contract management, budget tracking and reconciliation, project management, CRM and event tech platforms (Splash, Bizzabo, Eventbrite), data analysis and post-event reporting, creative briefing and concepting, and agency briefing and management.
• Comfort leveraging AI, and can raise the bar on how we use it.

What’s in it for you

As the primary owner of event strategy across the UK, Central Europe, and the Middle East, you’ll shape how SevenRooms Reservations show up across some of the world’s most dynamic hospitality markets. You’ll have a high level of autonomy and decision-making, working at the intersection of hospitality, brand, partnerships, and commercial strategy, and building the experiential and partnership strategy that will define our presence across EMEA.

About SevenRooms

In 2011, Joel Montaniel, Allison Page, and Kinesh Patel founded SevenRooms after noticing that hospitality operators were missing a critical ingredient in the systems they were using to run their business: guest data. What began as a mission to help restaurants better understand and serve their guests evolved into a powerful platform used by merchants around the world.

With best-in-class tools for marketing, operations, and guest experience — all deeply integrated with its industry-leading CRM — SevenRooms empowers operators to drive revenue, streamline operations, and deliver experiences that keep guests coming back.

In 2025, DoorDash acquired SevenRooms to strengthen its in-store strategy and expand its merchant-first offerings. The combination brings together DoorDash’s scale, reach, and digital innovation with SevenRooms’ in-store capabilities to support hospitality businesses across every channel — from discovery and delivery to on-premise dining.

As DoorDash builds out its in-store capabilities, SevenRooms plays a central role in enabling merchants to grow their businesses and connect more meaningfully with guests, whether they’re ordering online or dining in. This move reflects DoorDash’s broader commitment to empowering local businesses, fostering stronger connections between consumers and the places they love, and building technology that meets merchants — and their customers — wherever they are.