Senior Strategic Events Manager

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Job Summary: 

The Senior Strategic Events Manager is responsible for establishing and leading Early Warning’s strategic events program, elevating our reputation across the national payments and financial landscape. This role will have a range of responsibilities, driving impact at prominent industry forums and facilitating smaller, high-stakes roundtable events with key stakeholders, such as policymakers, regulators, banks, and thought leaders.

Essential Functions

• Designs and executes a comprehensive event strategy, encompassing large-scale forums (e.g., Aspen Ideas Festival, The Clearing House Annual Conference), targeted, grassroots events like roundtables and stakeholder convenings, and anything in between. Aligns event objectives with Early Warning’s business goals, policy, and social impact. 

• As a new position, leads the creation of the strategic events function. Develops a framework for event selection, objectives, and success metrics, ensuring the program’s long-term value and scalability.  Longer-term, is responsible for identifying new opportunities and innovative approaches for the Company’s event programs. 

• Works closely with internal teams—Marketing, Communications, Government Relations, etc. —to ensure cohesive messaging, positioning, and strategic alignment across all event engagements. 

• Collaborates with senior leadership and external stakeholders to secure meaningful engagement opportunities and ensure Early Warning’s presence is impactful at key events.  

• Defines and tracks event KPIs, assessing both large-scale and grassroots event impacts through attendee engagement, media coverage, and feedback. Translates post-event insights into recommendations for future improvements. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree. 

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in events, stakeholder engagement, or a related field. 

• Background in the payments or financial industry with a solid understanding of relevant trends, challenges, and stakeholder dynamics. 

• Experience in designing and implementing strategic event plans that support both high-level and grassroots objectives, with the flexibility to manage varying scales of engagement.

• Ability to build a best-in-class strategic events program with a commitment to advancing Early Warning’s mission to being a force for good, empowering trust and simplifying finance. 

• Ability to work at both the high-level vision for the function and hands-on execution of events. 

• Proven success in executing complex event logistics, timelines, and budgets for multiple stakeholders, ensuring high-quality outcomes in both large and small event settings. 

• Exceptional writing and presentation skills, with experience in managing relationships with senior executives, policymakers, and industry leaders. 

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a new role with an evolving scope, skilled at cross-functional coordination and able to bring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset to the role. 

• Experience and comfort engaging with government officials or public sector stakeholders is a plus, though not required. 

• Background and drug screen.

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers. Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation. Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

The base pay scale for this position in:

New York, NY in USD per year is: $150,000 - $165,000.

Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness 

•  Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

• Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!

Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees. 

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