Employee Experience Lead – Internal Events

HighLevel

. Own the strategy for employee programs, initiatives, recognition, and events aligned with HighLevel’s culture, values, and business priorities .

Posted 10/26/2026full-timeRemote • IndiaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and executing employee engagement programs and large-scale corporate events, ensuring alignment with organizational culture and values. Proficient in program management, vendor coordination, and leveraging social media for community-building and recognition initiatives.

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Employee Engagement ProgramsEvent ManagementProgram ManagementCreative JudgmentStrong Writing Skills

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Hard Skills

Program ManagementEvent PlanningBudget ManagementData AnalysisSocial Media StrategyAI and Automation ApplicationSOP CreationVendor ManagementCultural Program DesignCommunity-Building Tactics

Soft Skills

CollaborationCustomer EmpathyAttention to DetailComfort with AmbiguityStorytelling

Industry Keywords

Employee ExperienceCorporate EventsHigh-Growth OrganizationGlobal RetreatInternal Communications

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the strategy for employee programs, initiatives, recognition, and events aligned with HighLevel’s culture, values, and business priorities
Design culture-defining programs that strengthen connection, recognition, belonging, and pride across a remote and distributed workforce
Own the annual employee experience calendar covering recognition moments, campaigns, events, and cultural activations
Develop creative ways to increase employee participation and community momentum
Track program participation and feedback and connect programs to broader engagement results
Lead end-to-end strategy and execution for Leadership Kickoff, HighLevel’s 1,700–2,000-person Global Retreat, and other flagship internal events
Ensure events reflect HighLevel’s culture, brand, and values through programming, environment, communications, content, and details
Design the full employee attendee journey from announcement through travel, onsite participation, and post-event follow-up
Manage event agencies and partners across venues, production, A/V, travel, hotels, transportation, catering, and other services
Build event plans, manage budgets and risks, establish readiness checkpoints, and lead onsite delivery and escalations
Draft communications for events, recognition, employee programs, campaigns, and culture initiatives
Partner with the Chief of Staff on company-wide messaging, executive communications, and channel strategy
Capture and share employee stories and outcomes that bring HighLevel’s culture to life
Use internal and external social media to amplify employee experiences, recognition, events, and culture
Create shareable moments and activate employee and leader voices
Bring current engagement, events, social media, and community-building trends into programs
Create SOPs, run-of-show documents, vendor briefs, and reusable program frameworks
Use feedback, participation, cost, and operational data to improve programs, vendors, and events
Apply AI and automation to planning, communications, attendee support, reporting, and repetitive workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of relevant experience in employee engagement and culture programs, internal events, program management, or a related field
Progressive experience ideally in a high-growth or global organization
Proven experience leading complex, multi-day corporate events through agency and vendor partners
Experience designing employee experience and engagement programs that strengthen connection, recognition, belonging, participation, and employee pride
Strong writing and storytelling skills for employee and event communications
Knowledge of social media and community-building tactics
Excellent program management across workstreams, timelines, dependencies, budgets, risks, and stakeholders
Experience selecting, briefing, managing, and holding vendors and agencies accountable
Strong creative judgment for engaging, memorable, on-brand, practical, and scalable experiences
Ability to design for different countries, cultures, time zones, accessibility needs, and employee populations
Ability to collaborate across Internal Communications, Marketing, Finance, Legal, People Operations, and business leadership without formal authority
Ability to build structure, fix processes, and create repeatable programs and playbooks
Customer empathy and attention to employee experience details
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to drive incomplete ideas toward clear outcomes
Able to overlap with US Eastern hours as needed
Able to travel internationally for flagship internal events

Benefits

Comp & perks

Global, remote-first work arrangement
International travel for flagship internal events
Opportunity to work on high-visibility employee experience, recognition, culture, and global internal events programs
Collaboration with global teams and leaders across the business