Director, Experiential Strategy

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KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Experiential Strategy to join our Events and Meetings organization.

Responsibilities:

• Own enterprise-wide accountability for the firm's marquee events and experiences, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, brand standards, and risk management requirements
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic counsel on experience design, audience strategy, and delivery approaches in high‑stakes, executive‑level environments
• Lead complex, multi‑workstream programs from concept through execution, ensuring adherence to project plans, timelines, interdependencies, and risk mitigation with a disciplined, solutions‑oriented approach
• Establish, reinforce, and execute operating standards, governance models, and delivery frameworks that drive consistency in leader experience, execution quality and brand application across the firm's most complex events portfolio
• Navigate a complex internal ecosystem by orchestrating cross‑functional teams and external partners to ensure accountability, operational excellence, and consistent brand application across all touchpoints
• Direct and manage agency and vendor ecosystems across creative, production, and logistics, setting scopes of work, performance expectations, and success metrics to ensure exceptional delivery; apply a strong creative and experiential lens to shape storytelling, content flow, and audience engagement strategies that elevate the quality, relevance, and impact of live experiences
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum ten years of recent experience leading experiential marketing, enterprise events, or large‑scale meetings and conference programs 
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required; advanced degree or relevant certifications are preferred
• Advanced program and portfolio‑level management expertise within complex, high‑visibility events and meetings environments with exceptional project management capabilities navigating multiple departments and deliverables, with an acute focus and attention to detail
• Executive‑level stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and lead amid strong personalities and competing priorities; proven success operating in highly matrixed, brand‑governed organizations with multiple senior stakeholders; demonstrated leadership and project management of high‑profile experiences involving senior executives and external stakeholders
• Strong strategic judgment, balanced with creative sensibility and operational discipline; decisive, composed, and solutions‑focused under pressure in fast‑paced and high‑risk environments
• Deep experience with agency‑led delivery models, complex vendor ecosystems, and significant budgets; background in high-touch hospitality, executive services, or luxury service environments strongly preferred
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)