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# Vice President, Audience & Event Marketing at Forbes

- **Company:** Forbes
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/forbes/jobs/6115389004

## Job description

Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century. Fueled by journalism that informs and inspires, Forbes spotlights the doers and doings shaping industries, achieving success and making an impact on the world. Forbes connects and convenes the most influential communities ranging from billionaires, business leaders and rising entrepreneurs to creators and innovators. The Forbes brand reaches more than 140 million people monthly worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature ForbesLive events and 49 licensed local editions in 81 countries.

Forbes is seeking an entrepreneurial and strategic Vice President, Audience & Community Marketing to lead audience growth, community engagement, and commercial audience strategy across the ForbesLive portfolio. Reporting to the Group Vice President, ForbesLive, this executive will play a critical leadership role in shaping the continued growth of one of the industry's premier live event businesses. As Forbes expands globally and launches new event formats across its flagship franchises, this leader will develop and execute strategies that grow audiences, cultivate engaged communities, unlock new commercial opportunities, and create exceptional experiences across both B2B and B2C events. The Vice President will define the long-term audience and community growth strategy for the ForbesLive portfolio while serving as a key architect in developing and launching new event platforms, franchises, and growth initiatives that will shape the next chapter of ForbesLive. Working cross-functionally with ForbesLive, Sales, Sponsorship, Editorial, Product, Marketing, and other key teams, this executive will ensure every ForbesLive event attracts the right audience, delivers an exceptional attendee experience, creates meaningful value for partners, and contributes to the continued growth and profitability of the business.

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial self-starter with a proven track record of building and scaling audiences for world-class conferences, executive summits, festivals, and consumer events. They combine strategic vision with operational excellence and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where innovation, collaboration, and execution are critical to success.

Location: This role is a hybrid role based in the New York Tri-State Area. Domestic and international travel is required to support the ForbesLive portfolio, client engagements, and strategic business initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Audience & Community Strategy

- Develop and lead the audience strategy across the ForbesLive portfolio, ensuring each event attracts high-value audiences aligned with editorial, commercial, and brand objectives.
- Partner in the development and launch of new B2B and B2C event franchises, creating new growth opportunities that expand and diversify the ForbesLive portfolio.
- Expand Forbes' audience footprint globally through strategic partnerships and year-round engagement strategies that deepen attendee relationships, drive loyalty and repeat participation, and establish ForbesLive as an always-on professional community.

Audience Growth, Performance & Insights

- Own the end-to-end audience acquisition strategy across paid, owned, earned, partner, social, video, and emerging channels, leveraging creative storytelling to maximize registration growth, attendee quality, and return on investment.
- Develop and optimize audience lifecycle marketing across CRM, email, automation, and first-party data to drive acquisition, engagement, retention, and repeat attendance.
- Build a culture of experimentation by leading ongoing testing and optimization across audience segmentation, messaging, creative, offers, pricing, and conversion funnels.
- Establish a data-driven audience operating model that leverages customer insights, predictive analytics, automation, personalization, and AI-powered marketing tools to identify growth opportunities, improve campaign performance, increase operational efficiency, and strengthen commercial results.
- Collaborate with leadership to establish portfolio- and event-level audience forecasts, registration goals, performance metrics, and dashboards that inform investment decisions and business planning.

Business Leadership & Commercial Growth

- Serve as a senior leader within ForbesLive, partnering closely with the Group Vice President and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer on the overall growth and financial performance of the business.
- Partner in the management of the ForbesLive audience P&L, overseeing audience-related revenue and delegate ticketing strategy.
- Develop audience pricing and go-to-market strategies that maximize attendance and profitability.
- Partner closely with Sales and Sponsorship teams to translate audience composition, engagement, and insights into greater sponsor value and new commercial opportunities, including premium experiences, community offerings, and emerging business models.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing audience and community marketing team while fostering a culture of innovation and accountability.

The Ideal candidate:

- Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams while driving audience strategy, event marketing, community growth and commercial event management.
- Proven success growing audiences and ticketing revenue for large-scale B2C and B2B conferences, festivals, media events, or experiential platforms.
- Experience managing P&L performance and developing commercial growth strategies.
- Deep expertise in multi-channel audience acquisition, CRM and lifecycle marketing, first-party data, customer analytics, experimentation and conversion optimization, and the use of predictive analytics, AI, and emerging technologies to drive growth and engagement.
- Demonstrated success building engaged communities that extend beyond live events.
- Proven ability to lead and develop people, communicate a clear vision, align stakeholders around shared goals, navigate competing priorities, and build strong cross-functional partnerships with executive leadership.
- Strategic, entrepreneurial mindset with a proven ability to embrace change, evaluate emerging technologies and translate new ideas into scalable growth.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally in support of ForbesLive events and business initiatives.

The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000 - $200,000

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

## #LI-PM1

#LI-Hybrid This role may evolve over time. While this job description outlines the primary responsibilities, additional duties may be assigned as business needs change. Forbes aims to offer employees the flexibility they need in order to be successful. Some positions may require candidates to be based in a specific location for consideration while some roles may be fully remote (within the U.S.) if it aligns with the needs of the position. This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington. Due to business operations and compliance requirements, we are unable to consider applicants based outside these states at this time.

Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.

[Staff and Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.forbes.com/privacy/staff_applicant/) [Notice of E-Verify Participation](https://www.forbes.com/careers-at-forbes/e-verify-participation/)

## About Forbes

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Forbes is an American business magazine and digital media brand that provides journalism, rankings, and live events focused on finance, industry, investing, entrepreneurship, and success.
- **Entity Type**: Private (owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014)
- **Headquarters**: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- **Founded**: 1917
- **Founders**: B. C. Forbes

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Media and Publishing (business magazine, digital content, events)
- **Target Customers**: B2C (readers, subscribers) and B2B (advertisers, partners, event attendees); audience includes business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and high-net-worth individuals
- **Mission Statement**: “Forbes gives people the knowledge, resources, inspiration, and connections they need to achieve success.” [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)

## Products & Services
- **Forbes Magazine (Print & Digital)**: Twice-quarterly business magazine covering finance, industry, investing, marketing, technology, science, politics, and law. [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes)
- **Forbes.com**: Digital platform featuring original journalism, a contributor network of 2,500+ freelancers, and the BrandVoice content marketing program. [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes)
- **Forbes Lists & Rankings**: Signature lists such as Forbes 400, Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Global 2000, World’s Billionaires, World’s Most Powerful People, and America’s Wealthiest Celebrities. [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes)
- **ForbesLive**: Signature live events that convene influential communities (e.g., Power Women’s Summit, Forbes Under 30 Summit). [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)
- **ForbesBLK**: Global platform spotlighting Black entrepreneurs, professionals, and leaders; includes content and networking events. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)
- **ForbesWomen**: Community and editorial platform celebrating female leaders, featuring the World’s Most Powerful Women list and the 50 Over 50 list. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)
- **Forbes EQ (Equity Quotient)**: BrandVoice platform for underrepresented groups to share stories and expertise. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)
- **Licensed Local Editions**: 49 editions in 81 countries, produced under license. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (Forbes attempted a SPAC merger in 2021 at a $630 million valuation but later canceled; current valuation undisclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $165 million in 2021 (34% year-over-year growth, with consumer business up 83%). [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Integrated Whale Media Investments (owner); BrandVoice partners (advertisers); ForbesLive event sponsors; licensed edition partners globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Monthly brand reach of 140 million people; 49 licensed editions in 81 countries; return to profitability in 2021; continued hiring for roles such as Senior Manager, Compensation, Director, ForbesLive, and Associate Video Producer. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/careers-at-forbes/) [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/forbes)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Iconic Brand Trust**: Over a century of credibility in business journalism; widely recognized lists and rankings drive authority and audience engagement.
- **Contributor Network & BrandVoice**: Scalable content model that attracts a vast contributor base and generates significant digital revenue (>10% from BrandVoice).
- **Global Licensed Editions**: Strong international presence without heavy capital expenditure, enabling localized content and partnerships.
- **Proprietary Data & Rankings**: Exclusive data sets (e.g., billionaire net worth, company valuations) create recurring high-traffic content and thought leadership.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digital Transformation & Innovation**: Expanding digital revenue through BrandVoice, events, and data-driven products; embracing new technologies and platforms.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Scaling initiatives like ForbesBLK, ForbesWomen, Forbes EQ, and the HBCU Scholars program to attract diverse talent and audiences.
- **Live Events & Community Building**: Growing ForbesLive to deepen connections among influential communities (billionaires, entrepreneurs, creators).
- **Content Expansion**: Continual refresh of editorial lists and new verticals (e.g., Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes 50 Over 50) to maintain relevance and engagement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Forbes emphasizes Boldness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation as core values – promoting creativity, collaboration, and ethical journalism. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active DEI programs including the Forbes HBCU Scholars Program (paid internship for Black journalism students), ForbesBLK, and ForbesWomen networks.
- **Work Flexibility**: Some roles listed on the careers page are remote eligible (e.g., “United States” as location for positions like Associate Video Producer and List Insights Manager); headquarters roles are in Jersey City, NJ. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/forbes)
- **Career Development**: Offers a Forbes Fellowship program for early-career journalists, mentorship opportunities, and clear paths for internal growth.
- **Global Exposure**: Opportunity to work with a brand that reaches 140 million people monthly and partners with 49 international editions.

## Sources
1. [Forbes Careers Page (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/forbes)
2. [Forbes – Who We Are](https://www.forbes.com/connect/who-we-are/)
3. [Forbes – Careers at Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/careers-at-forbes/)
4. [Forbes Wikipedia Entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes)

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