Role Type: Full-time

Reports to: Owner & Creative Director

Work Model: Edmonton-based, with a mix of remote work, in-person meetings, site visits, and event delivery. Evening, weekend, and travel availability will be required based on event schedules.

Compensation: $75,000 - $85,000

About Foundry Events

Foundry Events creates unforgettable experiences in unexpected places.

We produce festivals, block parties, mountain moments, street activations, cultural experiences, corporate adventures, public events, community gatherings, and the kind of "wait, who made this happen?" moments people actually talk about afterward.

We care about the whole experience: the feeling in the air, the way people move through a site, the artist no one saw coming, the sponsor activation that actually belongs there, the signage that saves the day, the permit that keeps the party legal, and the tiny operational detail that quietly prevents the whole thing from becoming soup.

This role is part creative producer, part event operator, part relationship manager, part business builder, and part make-it-real strategist.

You will work closely with the Owner & Creative Director and Foundry's project teams to shape event concepts, build programming, manage partners and stakeholders, oversee logistics, support marketing strategy, improve systems, and elevate the guest experience.

This is a senior role for someone who can hold the big picture, the tiny details, and the weird middle bits that only reveal themselves once the rental truck is already on site. What you'll own:

You will:

• Develop event concepts, themes, formats, and programming ideas.
• Curate experiences that feel fresh, thoughtful, fun, place-based, and worth showing up for.
• Source and recommend artists, performers, speakers, makers, musicians, facilitators, vendors, creators, and unexpected humans who make events better.
• Build agendas, event flows, activations, guest journeys, schedules, and programming frameworks.
• Think through how people arrive, move, gather, linger, discover, participate, and remember the experience.
• Balance meaning, fun, accessibility, sponsor value, client goals, budget, and operational reality.
• Help ensure each event feels specific to its place, audience, season, and purpose.
• Know when an idea is brilliant, when it is boring, and when it is brilliant but needs a stronger production plan.
• Keep Foundry's programming sharp, generous, creative, and never phoned in.

2. Event Production & Delivery

You will:

• Own event plans, timelines, workbacks, checklists, and production schedules.
• Manage venues, sites, permits, vendors, contractors, suppliers, staff, partners, and event crews.
• Build and manage run-of-show documents and production plans.
• Coordinate logistics including registration, signage, AV, catering, rentals, staffing, transportation, guest flow, weather planning, accessibility, safety, and site operations.
• Oversee budgets, cost tracking, and profitability.
• Identify risks early and build calm, practical solutions before anyone needs to panic.
• Lead event-day execution with calm, clarity, and good judgment.
• Make efficient decisions when weather changes, vendors are late, performers need help, clients are nervous, or the site gets weird.
• Run post-event debriefs and turn lessons into stronger systems.
• Build repeatable processes so events get smoother, not harder, as Foundry grows.

3. Partnerships & Relationships

You will:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, sponsors, speakers, artists, vendors, venues, municipalities, tourism partners, community groups, and collaborators.
• Make people feel taken care of before, during, and after an event.
• Represent Foundry in meetings, site visits, partner calls, stakeholder conversations, and event environments.
• Identify partnership opportunities that fit the event, the audience, the brand, and the business.
• Support sponsorship and partner fulfillment in ways that feel integrated, valuable, and genuinely connected to the guest experience.
• Create or manage partner briefs, sponsor recaps, proposals, communication templates, and relationship materials.
• Keep communication clear, warm, timely, and professional.
• Approach relationships with care, clarity, and respect, especially when working with artists, community partners, Indigenous collaborators, equity-deserving communities, and public-sector relationships.

4. Marketing Strategy & Positioning

You will:

• Clarify the story, hook, audience, and value proposition for each event.
• Shape marketing strategy for public events, festivals, activations, and partnership-driven work.
• Help define key messages, campaign angles, proof points, and event positioning.
• Work with designers, writers, photographers, videographers, contractors, and collaborators to bring marketing assets to life.
• Guide event pages, email, print, digital campaigns, social content direction, sponsor materials, sales materials, and post-event recaps.
• Use event outcomes, audience feedback, photos, stories, and partner wins to make future marketing stronger.

5. Business Development

You will:

• Work with the Owner & Creative Director to identify new events, clients, partnerships, programming, and revenue opportunities.
• Evaluate ideas based on brand fit, audience value, budget, operational complexity, and business potential.
• Support pricing, packaging, proposals, and offer development.
• Help improve event profitability and commercial clarity.
• Build relationships that may lead to future clients, partnerships, activations, collaborations, or recurring work.
• Bring market insight into planning conversations.
• Help decide which opportunities Foundry should chase, which should wait, and which deserve a gracious no.

6. Systems, Templates & Process

You will:

• Use Foundry's project management software to document event planning, programming, partner management, marketing, and production processes.
• Enhance and streamline templates for event plans, budgets, workbacks, run-of-show documents, speaker briefs, artist briefs, partner communications, sponsor recaps, proposals, and debriefs.
• Create systems that allow events to be repeated, improved, delegated, and scaled.
• Help create structures so other people can successfully plan, sell, market, manage, and deliver Foundry-quality work.
• Build rhythm around planning, production, marketing, relationship management, delivery, and post-event learning.
• Help make Foundry more scalable, transferable, and valuable over time.

Who You Are

You are a creative operator. You know how to make things feel good and run well.

You can walk onto a site and see the flow, the problems, the possibilities, and the missing power source. You can talk to a sponsor, calm a vendor, brief an artist, rewrite a plan, fix a schedule, and still notice whether the whole thing feels alive.

You like people. You like places. You like making things happen.

You are not precious about ideas. You are practical enough to execute and imaginative enough to make the work better.

You bring:

• Strong programming and experiential judgment.
• Excellent event planning and production skills.
• Strong relationship management instincts.
• Good business development judgment.
• Strong marketing and positioning instincts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High follow-through and personal accountability.
• Calm under pressure.
• Comfort with ambiguity, weather, moving parts, and imperfect information.
• Ability to turn vague ideas into clear plans, systems, timelines, and budgets.
• Professional maturity with clients, sponsors, artists, vendors, municipalities, community partners, and senior stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have experience in several of the following areas:

• Event programming.
• Event management or event production.
• Festivals, public events, activations, tourism events, hospitality events, cultural events, or community experiences.
• Experiential marketing or experience design.
• Partnership management.
• Sponsor, stakeholder, client, artist, vendor, or speaker relationship management.
• Business development.
• Event marketing.
• Budget management.
• Working directly with owners, executive directors, producers, contractors, and senior leaders.

Experience in any of the following would be an asset:

• Outdoor events, street festivals, destination events, mountain events, music programming, markets, conferences, corporate retreats, or large-scale public activations.
• Municipal permitting or public-space event logistics.
• Tourism, hospitality, arts, culture, music, food and beverage, or local business communities.
• Proposal development.
• CRM or relationship management systems.
• Managing contractors, creatives, vendors, performers, and event staff.
• Sustainability, accessibility, equity, diversity, inclusion, and community impact practices in events.

Please send your resume via Isarta and include a short note answering:

• Why are you interested in Foundry Events?
• Tell us about an event, activation, festival, program, or experience you helped lead from idea to execution.
• Tell us about a time an event went sideways and how you handled it.
• Tell us about a client, partner, sponsor, artist, vendor, or stakeholder relationship you helped strengthen.
• What makes an event unforgettable?

Not because the answer is mysterious. Because the answer is Foundry.