Senior Manager, Flagship Events

About Fora

Fora is the modern travel agency, empowering anyone with a passion for travel to build a thriving advisory business. We're modernizing the $100B+ travel agency industry by combining powerful technology, data, and community to enable thousands of entrepreneurs to build on our platform. Our business-in-a-box platform gives travel entrepreneurs everything they need to launch and scale, from cutting-edge tools and personalized training to a vibrant community and exclusive industry partnerships. At the heart of it all is our mission: to help the next generation of travel entrepreneurs turn their love for travel into a fulfilling career, whether full-time or part-time. We believe that everyone, from seasoned professionals to first-time advisors, can build something both profitable and personal.

Founded in 2021 by seasoned entrepreneurs, Fora has grown steadily since, expanding to a team of 200+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City. In 2025, we announced our $60 million Series B and C investment rounds, led by Thrive Capital and Insight Partners, with participation by previous investors including Forerunner and Heartcore Capital. We've also been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Startup 2024, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025 and 2023, and Built In 2025 Best Places to Work.

We're building the first truly unified platform for all travel needs—leveraging the best of human expertise and technology to transform how people plan and book travel.

About The Role

Fora is seeking a Senior Manager, Flagship Events to lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of our largest and most visible event programs, including Live Forum, Networking Roadshows, and other large-scale brand and community experiences.

This role owns a focused portfolio of flagship events and is responsible for delivering high-impact, scalable programs that drive advisor engagement, strengthen partner relationships, and elevate Fora’s brand. You will operate end-to-end — defining event strategy, managing budgets, and leading execution across programming, production, and communications.

This is a highly hands-on role for someone who can seamlessly move between big-picture thinking and detailed execution, while building the systems and workflows needed to support efficient, repeatable event delivery.

Reporting to the Head of Advisor Events, this role works cross-functionally to ensure flagship events are executed at a consistently high standard and deliver measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Event Ownership: Own end-to-end strategy and execution of flagship events, including conferences, multi-day programs, and multi-city series, ensuring a consistently high standard across programming, production, and attendee experience.

• Event Portfolio Strategy: Lead the development and evolution of Fora’s flagship event portfolio, defining goals, structure, and success metrics aligned to advisor engagement, partner value, and brand impact.

• Planning & Execution Management: Develop and manage detailed event plans, timelines, and run-of-show documents to ensure seamless execution across complex, large-scale programs.

• Attendee Journey: Oversee attendee experience across all touchpoints, including registration, communications, and on-site execution, ensuring a clear and cohesive experience at scale.

• Strategic Prioritization: Drive planning and prioritization across the flagship events portfolio, balancing multiple complex workstreams and timelines.

• Operational Infrastructure: Build and maintain structured workflows and processes that support efficient planning and execution across complex events.

• Systems, Automation & AI Enablement: Own and evolve the systems that power flagship events, including ticketing, registration, and internal workflows; leverage tools like Airtable, Zapier, and AI to automate processes, improve data visibility, and build scalable frameworks that reduce manual work and increase efficiency.

• Budget & Financial Management: Own event budgets, including forecasting, expense tracking, revenue considerations, and post-event reconciliation, with strong financial discipline.

• Performance & Commercial Impact: Track and communicate the commercial impact of events — including advisor engagement, supplier relationship development, and business outcomes — to inform future programming decisions and continuously improve event offerings.

• Team Leadership: Manage and develop a small team, providing direction, structure, and support to ensure successful execution across multiple programs.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Brand and Content, Partnerships, Finance, Training, Communications, and advisor segment owners to align on event goals, programming, and resource planning.

Requirements

• 6–9+ years of experience in large-scale networking events, conferences, or leadership summits, including managing programs with 800+ attendees

• Proven experience owning complex events end-to-end, from strategy and programming through execution and post-event analysis

• Strong systems mindset with a demonstrated ability to solve problems, build workflows from scratch, and independently identify better ways of working using tools, automation, and AI

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to build structured plans, manage timelines, and drive execution across complex initiatives while managing multiple workstreams simultaneously

• Demonstrated experience managing event budgets and P&L, including forecasting, cost tracking, and reconciliation

• Deep experience with event technology and registration platforms such as Splash, Cvent, Bizzabo, or similar

• Highly curious and resourceful, with a bias toward figuring things out, learning new tools quickly, and continuously improving how work gets done

• Excellent communication skills, with experience managing cross-functional stakeholders and large-scale attendee communications

• Experience managing or mentoring team members

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in travel, hospitality, community-driven, or experiential brands

• Experience supporting sponsorship strategy or partner-driven event revenue

• Background in fast-paced or startup environments

Compensation

Compensation for this role varies based on experience, with an indicative range of $120K–$150K + equity. Final compensation will depend on the level at which the candidate is hired, as we’re considering multiple levels for this role.

• Unlimited vacation

• Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)

• Dental & Vision Insurance

• Wellhub Memberships

• 401k plan with company match

• Commuter Benefits

• Supplemental Life Insurance

• Stock Options

This role is based in our beautiful New York City office (Tribeca/Fidi) with lots of natural light and great views.

Our Values

We’re forging our own path

Fora has always been about driving change within the industry. We’re not interested in maintaining the status quo.

We’re stronger together

Community is our cornerstone and collective power is our strength. We believe we can all go further when we operate together, using our combined leverage to unlock better opportunities and outcomes for our advisors, partners, and travelers.

We believe in technology

We believe technology is an answer to some of the most fundamental challenges the travel industry faces. We believe advancements in AI, bold investments in our platforms, and a world-class data infrastructure will transform the work of our advisors and our partners, while creating better travel experiences for travelers.

We’re here to serve

We operate in service of our community and believe that when they’re empowered to focus on what they do best, we all win. It’s why we relentlessly advocate for our advisors and prioritize their best interest every step of the way.

We mean business

Fora is equal parts fun, meaningful work and serious travel business. We’re unlocking opportunities for thousands of travel entrepreneurs, delivering a stream of high-quality guests at scale for our partners, and providing a superior travel experience for our travelers. It’s a better equation for the future of our industry.

WORK AUTHORIZATION

Authorization to work in the United States is required for full-time roles based in our New York City office. Fora is unable to sponsor or assist with U.S. work authorization. Roles based outside of the United States are not subject to this requirement.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Fora is committed to an equitable hiring process and an inclusive work environment. BIPOC and traditionally underrepresented candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We will not discriminate and will take action to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any other characteristic protected by law.