Director of Partnership Events
Founded in 1999, Viking Global Investors (“Viking”) is a global investment firm with a long-term, fundamental, research-intensive approach to investing. Viking manages more than $56 billion of capital across public and private investments. Viking has offices in Stamford, New York, Hong Kong, London, and San Francisco, and is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, please visit vikingglobal.com.
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JOB FUNCTION
Viking is looking for a Director of Partnership Events to build and lead a dedicated events function for the Firm. This is a newly created role. The Director of Partnership Events will own Viking’s marquee client events and bring expertise in event strategy, guest experience, sourcing, creativity, budgeting, contract negotiation, and KPIs. The role is intended to expand Viking’s event programs in support of client engagement and deal sourcing, provide leverage to the business lines that run events today without dedicated support, centralize vendor relationships to extract more value from them, and partner with Corporate Communications on the Firm’s growing conferenc