Event Director- Digital Infrastructure

Location: 4 Bouverie St, London EC4Y 8AX

Hybrid working: 3 days in office, possible international travel several times a year.

About Us: techoraco are a long-standing and trusted provider of large-scale, international networking events, memberships and news covering the complete digital infrastructure ecosystem from fibre, data centres, wireless access, subsea and satellite and their suppliers and investors. For over two decades, our events have connected the leaders from more than 150 countries with 33,000 customers meeting annually at our series of powerhouse events which include the flagship brands: ITW, Metro Connect USA, Capacity Middle East, Datacloud Global Congress and Capacity Europe.

Role Summary: Reporting into the Chief Product Strategy Officer, you will lead the strategic vision, deliver flagship event products, shape event propositions, drive growth, and ensure each flagship event meets its commercial, strategic, and brand objectives. You will manage and mentor a team of producers and work cross-functionally with content, marketing, operations, and sales to deliver world-class event experiences that have one coherent event vision. This is a key role for a strategic - yet hands-on - product leader who can balance growth with commercial discipline, ensuring that every event evolves in line with customer needs and market opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Events Leadership & Strategy: Lead product strategy and development for a defined event [or events] within the techoraco portfolio. Conduct extensive research, analyse data, competitive landscapes, addressable market, identifying trends and opportunities on a 24-month horizon. Translate senior management strategic objectives into actionable plans for each event — including value proposition, audience growth, feature innovation, and brand positioning. Shape the overall roadmap and identify new opportunities for future event launches or feature expansion. Ensure product strategy aligns with market trends (AI infrastructure, sovereign digital policy, sustainability, hyperscale growth, etc.). Secure industry leaders as keynote speakers.
• Market Intelligence & Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct ongoing market analysis to track industry trends, competitor positioning, and audience needs with a 24-month lens. Cultivate a community of deep relationships with trusted sources among the leaders of the industry in your regions. Create segmented engagement strategies and adapt content to cross-channel campaigns. Originate and curate high quality content to fuel marketing campaign. Represent techoraco externally at industry events, partner meetings, and client sessions as a thought leader.
• Commercial & Performance Ownership: Work with commercial and marketing leads to define pricing, sponsorship packaging, and GTM strategies. Track performance metrics (delegate mix, NPS, retention, sponsorship yield) and implement plans for continuous improvement. Project manage the full delivery of your events and inspire and influence your project team to work towards the same targets, objectives and milestones. Work closely with BDDs to review sales pipelines, shapes value propositions for sales and marketing to ensure the event pitches align to the event strategy and objectives. Support forecasting, reporting, and portfolio reviews with the portfolio Managing Director.
• Product Development & Innovation: Secure key speakers from the digital infrastructure landscape. Identify and form key partnerships with influential stakeholders. Identify and pilot new product features — such as advisory councils, awards, innovation showcases, and digital matchmaking tools. Champion the customer experience, ensuring every event is insight-led, differentiated, and commercially viable. Lead post-event reviews and feedback loops to drive iterative product improvement.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Lead and mentor senior conference producers, providing mentoring, development, and performance feedback. Foster a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, creativity, and commercial accountability. Work closely with Content, Marketing, Operations, and Sales to ensure end-to-end delivery excellence.

Attributes:

• 8+ years’ experience in B2B events, media, or community-led businesses, including 4+ years in a large-scale event leadership position.
• Proven success of leading 3000+ person events.
• Proven ability to grow event brands commercially and strategically.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills — comfortable with budgets, P&L oversight, and KPI tracking.
• Deep interest in (or experience with) the telecoms, data centre, or technology sectors.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with confidence at senior industry level.
• Strong people leadership experience, with the ability to motivate and mentor cross-functional teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset — curious, creative, and outcome-focused.

Benefits: We offer a competitive compensation package which empowers our employees to thrive both professionally and personally. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, employer matching retirement plan, flexible work arrangements, vacation time & paid holidays, tuition reimbursement & learning resources.

EEO Statement: Techoraco provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.