Fluent is seeking a Marking Events & Communications Manager to elevate how our brand shows up across the industry through high-impact events, executive visibility, and consistent external storytelling.
This role is responsible for planning and executing Fluent’s industry presence — ensuring events, communications, and brand touchpoints are thoughtful, polished, and aligned with company messaging. Reporting to the Director, Communications & Events, this person will lead end-to-end event execution while supporting external communications and brand storytelling efforts.
What You’ll Do:
Events & Industry Presence
- Lead planning and execution of Fluent’s presence at tradeshows, sponsored events, hosted dinners, and brand activations.
- Manage the full event lifecycle — including logistics, vendor coordination, budgets, timelines, and onsite execution.
- Coordinate speaker submissions, executive participation, and supporting materials in partnership with Product Marketing.
- Develop event briefs and messaging outlines to ensure alignment with company positioning.
- Manage event budgets and contracts to ensure programs are delivered on time and within scope.
- Partner with Growth Marketing to support event promotion and post-event reporting.
Communications & Brand Storytelling
- Support execution of Fluent’s external communications calendar, including event announcements and company updates.
- Coordinate PR outreach and media engagement in partnership with the Director.
- Draft event-related communications, recaps, and executive talking points.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing to ensure messaging consistency across event materials and communications.
- Own Instagram as a brand storytelling channel, highlighting Fluent’s culture, industry presence, and event moments.
- Partner with Brand Design to ensure all materials reflect Fluent’s visual and verbal identity.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience in event marketing, communications, or brand experience — ideally within a B2B or technology environment.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously.
- Experience coordinating vendors, budgets, and logistics for events.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail.
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, sales, and creative teams.
- Comfort contributing to reporting and tracking performance metrics.
- Willingness to travel as needed to support events.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field.
About Us
Fluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLNT) is a commerce media solutions provider connecting top-tier brands with highly engaged consumers. Leveraging diverse ad inventory, robust first-party data, and proprietary machine learning, Fluent unlocks additional revenue streams for partners and empowers advertisers to acquire their most valuable customers at scale. Founded in 2010, Fluent uses its deep expertise in performance marketing to drive monetization and increase engagement at key touchpoints across the customer journey. For more insights visit: https://www.fluentco.com/
Benefits
At Fluent, we like what we do, and we like who we do it with. Our team is a tight-knit crew of go-getters; we love to celebrate our successes! In addition, we offer a fully stocked kitchen, catered lunch, and our office manager keeps the calendar stocked with activity filled events. When we’re not eating, working out, or planning parties, Fluent folks can be found participating in networking events, and bonding across teams during quarterly outings to baseball games, fancy dinners, and a variety of activities. And we have all the practical benefits, too…
- Competitive compensation
- Ample career and professional growth opportunities
- Headquarters with an open floor plan to drive collaboration
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Pre-tax savings plans and transit/parking programs
- 401K with competitive employer match
- Volunteer and philanthropic activities throughout the year
- Educational and social events
- The amazing opportunity to work for a high-flying performance marketing company!
Salary Range: $95,000 to $115,000 base, + competitive bonus. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Fluent salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
Candidates may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors seeking personal information. Fluent recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with an @fluentco.com domain. Any outreach by Fluent via other sources (e.g. text, other domains etc) should be ignored.
Fluent participates in the E-Verify Program. As a participating employer, Fluent, LLC will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Fluent, LLC follows all federal regulations including those set forth by The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC). The OSC enforces the anti-discrimination provision (§ 274B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.
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