Associate Event Manager, Creator Experiences

Worldwide Events and Experiences brings the best of Apple to life, showcasing our products, services and the values that drive our company. From global product launches and tailored creator experiences to impactful partner engagements and inspiring internal events, this team is charged with managing the end-to-end planning, production, in person experiences and all the unique details that make these events special. The team includes professionals with backgrounds in event design, management, operations, broadcast, and production. We’re looking for inventive and collaborative people from a variety of creative fields. If that’s you, then your next home may be here!

The Associate Event Manager, Creator Experiences will play a key role in bringing events to life - spanning launch programs, bespoke creator activations, and more - from initial vision through flawless execution. This role partners closely with teams across Apple, translating objectives and product priorities into clear event plans and ensuring multiple workstreams move forward seamlessly and to the highest standard. For creator experiences, you will help shape the formats through which we engage creators around Apple products and key cultural moments. The Associate Event Manager considers the creator experience holistically, ensuring programming provides the right balance of product education, creative freedom, content opportunity and hospitality, while contributing creatively to event concepts, environments and programming - always grounding ideas in audience needs, product priorities, feasibility and budget. It's a high-impact opportunity for someone who can help shape strategic direction and vision while executing seamlessly on the ground.

In this role you will partner with cross-functional stakeholders to shape event vision and strategy, ensuring alignment from concept through go-live.

Lead the planning and coordination of assigned events, managing timelines, budgets, and vendors to deliver flawless execution. Partner closely with agencies and production vendors throughout creative development, pre-production, installation, rehearsals, live execution and strike. Provide strong on-site support, troubleshooting issues in real time while maintaining a calm, solutions-oriented approach. Build strong relationships across teams at Apple to keep production plans aligned with broader business goals. Bring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset to a fast-paced, ever-changing event calendar. Translate vision into actionable production plans and timelines, including key documentation; clearly communicate these plans to partners to provide guidance on key project milestones. Support the planning and execution of Worldwide Events initiatives, including global product launches, creator experiences, WWDC and other key business moments. Help develop and evolve the formats through which Apple hosts and engages creators, considering the end-to-end experience and identifying opportunities to make programming more relevant, intuitive and impactful. Support the development of creator-facing product experiences, including briefing formats, product engagement, content capture environments, hospitality and supporting programming.

4+ years of relevant experience in event production, experiential marketing, creator programming, brand experiences, or related fields. Experience with creator, influencer, media, entertainment, or culturally focused programming preferred. Proficient in Mac and Mac tools (Keynote, Numbers, Pages).

Steeped in social and on the pulse of culture. You know what’s happening across music, art, entertainment and tech. You are detail obsessed and know the elements that make for a memorable and capturable experience. 
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently across internal and external teams. Strong project development and management experience, including building project plans, production schedules, budgets, presentations and operational plans. Demonstrated ability to independently lead agencies and vendors, establish expectations and drive work against agreed timelines and deliverables. Strong creative sensibility with an ability to contribute meaningfully to experience concepts while balancing creative ambition with operational realities. A deep appreciation for audience experience and an ability to consider the full journey from initial engagement through event completion. BA degree or equivalent preferred.