Industry Marketing Manager

About the Organization Evention is redefining financial trust after checkout. Hospitality, retail, and entertainment businesses run on complex ecosystems of payments, payroll, tips, OTAs, and financial systems. But checkout is not the end of a transaction. It is the moment payment is authorized, not the moment financial accuracy is proven. As transactions move across systems, small errors can quickly turn into margin leakage, compliance risk, operational friction, and brand impact. Evention exists to close that gap. As the financial trust layer for complex, high-volume operators, Evention helps organizations continuously validate financial activity after checkout to ensure what was paid, processed, and reported is accurate across systems, locations, and workflows. Our platform automates reconciliation, surfaces exceptions before they become larger problems, and helps finance and operations teams protect margins, improve compliance, and lead with confidence. Since 2004, Evention has partnered with leading hospitality, retail, gaming, grocery, convenience, and entertainment brands to solve problems most businesses do not realize they have until they become costly. We are building a company that moves quickly, values curiosity, and challenges legacy ways of working. If you enjoy solving meaningful problems, working cross-functionally, and helping shape what comes next, you will fit right in.

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Industry Marketing Manager (IMM)
Revenue-Oriented Industry Marketing Role
Role Summary
Hospitality runs on trust, but that trust is constantly tested after checkout as transactions continue moving across payment systems, payroll workflows, OTAs, reporting layers, and financial operations. That complexity creates margin leakage, operational friction, compliance risk, and brand exposure that most operators still underestimate. Evention exists to close that gap.

This role partners closely with the CMO to help bring Evention’s “Trust After Checkout” narrative to market through campaigns, events, thought leadership, benchmark initiatives, and strategic programs. You will stay close to customers, industry trends, commercial conversations, and competitive movement to continuously sharpen how Evention shows up in the market.

The industry already knows Evention. What it does not yet fully understand is the scale of the problem we solve and the cost of not solving it. Your role is to help close that gap.

We are looking for someone who moves quickly, thinks commercially, ships often, and uses AI tools and emerging technologies to help a lean team execute at a high level.

Industry Narrative & Market Activation
Partner with the CMO and Leadership to activate Evention’s strategic narrative across hospitality and adjacent industries
Translate company messaging into industry campaigns, event themes, customer initiatives, and market programs
Help refine how concepts like “Trust After Checkout” resonate in real-world commercial conversations
Ensure Evention consistently connects complex financial operations to business outcomes like margin protection, payroll confidence, compliance, operational efficiency, and brand trust
Support category-building initiatives that strengthen Evention’s position as the Financial Trust Layer for hospitality

Commercial & Market Alignment
Stay closely connected to customers, prospects, sales conversations, and market trends to continuously improve how Evention shows up in the market
Gather feedback from frontline teams and customer interactions to identify where messaging resonates, where confusion exists, and where opportunities emerge
Partner with commercial leadership to support pipeline-generating campaigns, strategic initiatives, and GTM execution
Help strengthen Evention’s credibility with enterprise operators, finance leaders, ownership groups, and hospitality decision-makers

Industry Presence & Thought Leadership
Support Evention’s strategic presence across events such as HITEC and HOSPACE, hospitality associations such as HFTP, webinars, benchmark initiatives, and executive thought leadership programs
Help identify market opportunities, partnerships, speaking engagements, and industry programs that align to Evention’s growth strategy
Coordinate research, benchmark, and market insight initiatives that strengthen Evention’s authority around post-checkout financial operations and financial trust
Contribute to content, panels, webinars, and event programming that help shape how the industry thinks about financial accuracy after checkout

AI-Forward Marketing Execution
Leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate execution, improve research quality, streamline workflows, and uncover market insights
Explore new ways to improve marketing speed, personalization, GTM effectiveness, and market visibility using AI
Build scalable workflows that help a lean team operate with the speed and output of a much larger organization
Help push the organization forward in how AI is applied across modern B2B marketing and customer engagement

What Success Looks Like
Evention’s messaging consistently resonates in market conversations and customer interactions
Industry programs and campaigns contribute to pipeline creation and progression
Evention strengthens its positioning as the Financial Trust Layer for hospitality operators
Benchmark and thought leadership initiatives generate engagement, credibility, and market visibility
Evention’s presence at strategic industry events drives stronger market awareness and commercial momentum
Customer and market feedback loops improve GTM execution and messaging clarity
Marketing moves faster without sacrificing quality or strategic focus
Cross-functional alignment improves across marketing, sales, product, and customer-facing teams
Evention strengthens its authority around Trust After Checkout and post-checkout financial operations

Location
Location: Chicago, IL (Downtown Loop) — Hybrid preferred. We also welcome fully remote candidates located in MI, FL, NC, or MA.

Eligibility
Eligibility: Applicant must be eligible to work in the USA without sponsorship. Evention does not sponsor .

Salary Range
Salary Range: $110,000 - 120,000 depending on Experience

Benefits
Benefits: Evention LLC offers benefits inclusive of medical and dental coverage, a 401k plan with matching, a commuter benefits plan, life insurance, vision insurance, and a bonus plan.

Position Requirements
What We’re Looking For
7+ years in hospitality SaaS industry in industry marketing, demand generation or GTM focused role required
Experience working at a PE or VC backed company preferred
Strong ability to simplify complex concepts into clear, commercially relevant messaging
Experience supporting pipeline-oriented marketing programs and industry campaigns
Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities
Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills
Naturally curious about customer pain points, industry dynamics, and market trends
Comfortable working cross-functionally across marketing, sales, product, and customer teams, while also confident to present new ideas to leadership
High level of ownership and bias toward execution while also being a team player
Interest in AI tools, emerging technologies, and modern GTM workflows

This is a lean, high-output marketing team focused on speed, execution, and market impact. Success in this role comes from strong prioritization, commercial awareness, adaptability, and close alignment with leadership, not from excessive process or trying to do everything at once. The right person for this role is energized by building, experimenting, learning from the market quickly, and helping push a new category narrative into hospitality. This role is best suited for someone who combines strategic thinking with a bias toward execution and wants to help shape how the industry thinks about financial trust after checkout.

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