Stateside Brands LLC

Experiential Manager

Job Overview

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Employment Type

Full-time
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Compensation

Type:
Salary
Rate:
Range $80,000.00 - $110,000.00
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Work Schedule

Day Shifts
Weekend Shifts
Night Shifts
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Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Professional development opportunities
Business casual dress
Employee Discounts

Job Description

Stateside Brands is a rapidly growing spirits company dedicated to crafting premium-quality beverages including Surfside Iced Teas and Lemonades, Stateside Vodka, and Stateside Vodka Sodas. With a strong emphasis on innovation and quality, Stateside Brands has built a diverse portfolio that exemplifies its commitment to excellence in the beverage industry. The company’s dynamic growth trajectory and passion for producing unique and high-quality products position it as an exciting and influential player in the contemporary spirits market. Stateside Brands prioritizes delivering exceptional consumer experiences through its distinguished product lines, underscored by cutting-edge marketing and experiential engagement strategies.

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Job Requirements

  • Experience in experiential marketing or related fields
  • Proven agency and vendor management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to handle multiple complex events and budgets
  • Excellent project management and communication abilities
  • Flexibility to work non-standard hours for live events
  • Background in beverage alcohol or similar industry is an advantage
  • Knowledge of live event permits and compliance
  • Analytical skills for measuring event performance

Job Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in experiential marketing, event production, or consumer engagement roles
  • Proven experience managing agencies and external partners from briefing through execution
  • Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-market activations and budgets
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in fast-paced environments
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative, solution-oriented mindset
  • Willingness to work nights, weekends, and holidays as required for live events
  • Prior experience in beverage alcohol, CPG, lifestyle, or adjacent industries is strongly preferred
  • Experience with professional sports, music, festivals, or large-scale live events
  • Familiarity with permits, compliance, and regulations related to live events
  • Strong analytical mindset with experience measuring and reporting experiential ROI

Job Duties

  • Own the strategic vision for national experiential programs across consumer and trade-facing events including festivals, partnerships, retail activations, sponsorships, and brand-led experiences
  • Translate brand strategy and business objectives into compelling, on-brand live experiences that drive awareness, trial, and loyalty
  • Serve as the experiential subject-matter expert, setting standards and best practices for live activations across the organization
  • Oversee end-to-end execution of multiple events at once including ideation, briefing, budgeting, and agency onboarding through on-site execution and post-event recaps
  • Manage agencies, production partners, and vendors by providing clear briefs, KPIs, and expectations to ensure high-quality, on-brand execution
  • Design and implement activation frameworks, playbooks, and toolkits that allow Surfside experiences to be replicated, localized, or scaled efficiently across markets
  • Develop memorable, content-worthy activations that forge emotional consumer connections and drive organic social sharing
  • Establish standardized processes for activation planning, approvals, execution, and reporting
  • Partner closely with Brand Marketing, Sales, Trade Marketing, Partnerships, Legal/Compliance, and Finance to ensure experiential programs are aligned with broader business goals and act as a bridge between internal teams and external partners to deliver seamless execution
  • Partner with Brand and Design teams for the look and feel of all experiential footprints to seamlessly convey all brand guidelines and current messaging
  • Provide brand messaging and training to ambassadors that work the experiential events
  • Own experiential measurement by defining KPIs, analyzing results, and capturing consumer insights to continuously improve activation strategy and execution

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Experience

Expert Level (7+ years)

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