Director, Internal Events
Job Overview:
Are you an experienced and ambitious events professional? We’re looking for a creative, and strategic leader to craft the future of internal events at Arm. You’ll guide our high-performing team to design and deliver experiences that connect, inspire, and energise our people. This is a chance to lead with purpose, bringing our strategy and culture to life through memorable, people-first events.
Based at our Cambridge headquarters, this role reports to the VP of Internal Communications and Community (UK-based). You’ll be responsible for the internal events strategy and lead all aspects of a vibrant calendar of experiences that support Arm’s vision. You’ll collaborate with teams across the business to ensure our events are meaningful, inclusive, and seamlessly delivered.
You’ll combine critical thinking with hands-on leadership - balancing creativity, commercial awareness, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Define the vision: Lead and evolve our global internal events' strategy, aligning it with business priorities and our people experience goals.
- Lead the team: Encourage, grow, and support a team of event professionals—fostering creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Deliver with impact: Lead all aspects of the planning and execution of Arm’s internal events' portfolio, ensuring every experience is memorable, inclusive, and well-managed.
- Collaborate widely: Work with senior leaders, Internal Communications, the Global Events Team, People Team, and other partners to align on goals and outcomes.
- Champion innovation: Stay on top of emerging trends and technologies—especially AI—to keep our events fresh and future-ready.
- Handle resources: Lead on budgeting, governance, and vendor relationships - including forecasting, reporting, and contracts.
- Prioritise experience: Lead the end-to-end delegate journey, from branding and experience design to post-event evaluation and feedback.
- Mitigate risk: Ensure risk is proactively managed across the portfolio.
- Mentor and support: Encourage a strong feedback culture within the team, with regular check-ins, clear goals, and ongoing development.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience in end-to-end global event leadership, with experience leading a team.
- Experience in running multi-million pound budgets ($5m +)
- A consistent track record of strategic global event planning and delivery at scale, including budget ownership and engagement with senior leaders
- Strong commercial skills
- Outstanding communication and influencing skills
- Outstanding project management, prioritisation, and decision-making capabilities.
- A confident and curious attitude, with the ability to challenge the status quo and think creatively under pressure
- Willingness to travel to global event locations
In Return:
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of internal events at a global organisation and inspire thousands of people around the world. If you're a creative leader who thrives in a dynamic, fast-moving environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Accommodations at Arm
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Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.