Head of Events, Works in Progress

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<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2>

<h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.</span></p>

<h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3>

<p>Works in Progress is Stripe's magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world. We publish an eclectic mix of articles on policy, economics, business, technology, science, history, arts and culture, published online and in print. We have a fast-growing global audience, primarily in tech, finance and politics, and we are building out the team across editorial, design, operations and commercial.</p>

<h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2>

<p>You will build and run a commercial Works in Progress events program, focusing on the US. You will design events that people want to attend and that you can sell and grow sponsorship for. You will identify sponsors and partners, approach and pitch to them, and be responsible for meeting pre-agreed revenue and audience targets.</p>

<p>We currently offer infrequent events as one of the perks of being a subscriber to the magazine. Our existing community events program includes subscriber events in cities all over the world, particularly San Francisco; New York; Washington, DC; London; Dublin; and Brussels. </p>

<p>You will assess where there are opportunities to raise revenue from our

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