--- title: 'Director, Strategic Events at Box' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-strategic-events-box-redwood-city-ca-united-states-san-francisco-ca-v1gzacndjca2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Director, Strategic Events at Box - **Company:** Box - **Location:** Redwood City CA United States San Francisco CA, United States - **Compensation:** $193k–$241k - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/boxinc/jobs/8163303 ## Job description ## Why Box needs you Box is looking for a strategic events leader who can define how we show up in the market and ensure our event investments drive measurable business impact. This role is critical as we sharpen our strategy across marquee events, sponsored industry moments, and the broader event portfolio, bringing greater clarity to where we invest, why we invest, and how those programs support pipeline and brand goals. We need someone who can operate as a true strategic partner to executive leadership, bring cohesion across teams, and elevate how Box presents itself through memorable, high-impact experiences. This person will create stronger alignment between strategic events and field priorities and build the framework that guides our event strategy going forward. ## Your impact at Box - Own and evolve Box’s strategic events vision, including marquee moments such as BoxWorks, Dreamforce, Google Next, and other high-impact national and sponsored events. - Develop a clear event strategy that connects Box-led and third-party events to business objectives, audience engagement, pipeline targets, and brand goals. - Evaluate the right mix of events for Box to sponsor, host, and scale, ensuring investments are aligned to measurable return and long-term impact. - Partner closely with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams including Field Marketing, Partner Marketing, Product Marketing, Brand, PR, Content, and Sales to align priorities and execution. - Lead the strategic planning behind large-scale customer experiences while guiding teams and agency partners responsible for production, logistics, and execution. - Build and refine a repeatable playbook and operating framework for how Box approaches events, ensuring consistency in brand presence and decision-making across programs. - Define strategic team structure, priorities, and operating models across strategic events and adjacent functions to support Box's long-term vision, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and ownership to meet key business objectives. - Bring executive-level communication and influence to the role, distilling ideas, driving alignment, and helping senior leaders make informed decisions about event strategy and investment. ## Who you are Box executives are engaged, passionate leaders who prioritize customer centricity, innovation, and growth. As an AI-first company, XLT members bring a growth mindset and proactively leverage AI to make faster, smarter decisions that amplify their impact across the business. As a leader in this role: - You have led large-scale customer conferences and strategic event portfolios, ideally including events in the 3,000-8,000 attendee range, and understand how to scale programs thoughtfully over time. - You bring both strategic vision and hands-on event leadership, with the ability to define the “why” behind event investments while also understanding what it takes to execute them successfully. - You have strong executive presence and are comfortable engaging senior leaders, shaping decisions, pushing back when needed, and earning a seat at the leadership table. - You know how to work cross-functionally and navigate complex stakeholder environments, especially across marketing, sales, product, and executive teams. - You have experience managing across agencies and internal teams, and you know how to get the best work from both. - You are creative, thoughtful, and audience-minded, with fresh ideas for how Box can show up in compelling and differentiated ways. - You are highly analytical about budget, impact, and return, and can translate event strategy into measurable business outcomes. - You thrive in fast-moving environments where scope is evolving, resources are constrained, and strong judgment is required to prioritize effectively. Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our [benefits and perks](https://cloud.app.box.com/file/680236394456?s=3u38zhdv4gac9h0j7lmumm7arbe14yqa). In accordance with OFCCP compliance, here is the [Pay Transparency Provision](https://cloud.box.com/s/sv4dcjqb4tfyfc456rltlucuedth4aln). San Francisco Pay Range $192,500—$240,500 USD Box is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual base salary (or OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as: knowledge, skill level, experience, and work location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. For more information, check out our [benefits and perks](https://cloud.app.box.com/file/680236394456?s=3u38zhdv4gac9h0j7lmumm7arbe14yqa). In accordance with OFCCP compliance, here is the [Pay Transparency Provision](https://cloud.box.com/s/sv4dcjqb4tfyfc456rltlucuedth4aln). Redwood City Pay Range $192,500—$240,500 USD ## About Box ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Box provides an Intelligent Content Management platform that enables enterprises to manage, collaborate on, and secure content, with deep AI integration to unlock insights and automate workflows. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: BOX) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA - **Founded**: 2005 - **Founders**: Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith, Sam Ghods, Jeff Queisser ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Cloud Content Management, Enterprise Software, AI-powered Productivity, Data Governance & Security - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises of all sizes, including 97,000 companies and 68% of the Fortune 500 (as stated on Box’s about page) - **Mission statement**: “Power how the world works together” ## Products & Services - **Box Content Cloud**: The core cloud-based platform for storing, sharing, collaborating on, and managing content with built-in security and compliance controls. - **Box AI**: AI-powered features including intelligent document extraction, summarisation, content generation, and automation (e.g., Box AI for Agent Orchestration, Search Relevance, and Core Agents). - **Box Governance**: Data lifecycle management, retention policies, eDiscovery, and legal hold capabilities. - **Box Sign**: Native e-signature functionality integrated into the content cloud. - **Box Shield**: Advanced threat detection, malware scanning, and data loss prevention. - **Box Relay**: Workflow automation and business process orchestration. - **Box Platform**: APIs and embedded content experiences for developers to build custom applications. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not provided in search results – refer to latest SEC filings (10-K/10-Q) for current figure. - **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Not explicitly stated in search results – as a public company, annual revenue is disclosed in SEC filings (most recent fiscal year revenue ~$1 billion+ range). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in search results – typical major partners include Google Cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce, and many systems integrators. - **Growth Signals**: - Serving 97,000 companies and 68% of the Fortune 500. - Active hiring across AI, engineering, product, and customer success. - Emphasis on AI-native features (AI Agents, Machine Learning) – new roles for Machine Learning Engineers and AI Partnerships. ## Competitive Advantages - **Enterprise trust & compliance**: SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and deep integrations with major enterprise ecosystems (Microsoft, Google, Salesforce) make it a secure choice for regulated industries. - **Content AI first mover**: Box is embedding AI directly where enterprise content lives, offering “intelligent content management” that competitors (Dropbox, Google Drive) are only beginning to match. - **Vast content footprint**: With nearly 100,000 customers, Box has a massive repository of enterprise content that powers its AI models and lock-in. - **Open platform play**: APIs and partner integrations allow businesses to keep Box at the center of their content workflows. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-native evolution**: Box is aggressively adding AI features across its platform – from AI Agents to machine learning for search and content understanding – to transform content management into an intelligent automation hub. - **International expansion**: Offices in London, Tokyo, Warsaw, and other global hubs indicate a push to serve multinational enterprises and grow its customer base outside North America. - **Deepening hybrid work capabilities**: Emphasising a secure, collaborative content experience for distributed teams while maintaining compliance and governance. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & values**: Box promotes a candid, growth-mindset culture with values like “Be an owner. It’s your company,” “Blow our customers’ minds,” and “Take risks. Fail fast. GSD.” Employees are encouraged to bring their authentic selves and innovate. - **Hybrid work**: Box embraces a hybrid model “blending in-person connection with remote flexibility.” Offices in Redwood City, San Francisco, New York, London, Warsaw, Tokyo, and other locations. - **Benefits** (from careers page): - Equity grants for all new hires. - Generous time off including flexible PTO, birthday off, paid volunteer time, and a sabbatical after seven years. - Monthly wellness subsidy. - Inclusive family support (parental leave, fertility benefits). - Global mental health and wellbeing resources. - **Growth culture**: Annual Hackathon, learning programs, clear career paths (management and individual contributor tracks), and opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI projects. - **Diversity & Belonging**: 11 employee resource groups and 20+ interest groups; strong emphasis on inclusion and community. ## Sources 1. [Box About Page](https://www.box.com/en-gb/about-us) 2. [Box Careers – Life at Box](https://careers.box.com/en/life-at-box/) 3. [Box Careers – Our Teams](https://careers.box.com/en/our-teams/) 4. 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