Director, Event Management

This role serves as a key partner to the business, owning the end-to-end design and delivery of the business area’s most complex, high-visibility internal events.

Beyond logistical execution, this role helps shape the overall event strategy, ensuring every experience reinforces organizational priorities, strengthens culture, and advances business objectives at the highest levels.

Key Responsibilities And Duties

• Serves as the primary point of contact to business leadership, translating priorities and organizational goals into thoughtfully designed, high-impact experiences that drive alignment, engagement, and business outcomes across the enterprise.
• Manages end-to-end planning and execution of high-profile internal events, including but not limited to leadership team meetings, quarterly business review meetings, and business area summits.
• Advises business leaders on event strategy and format, providing subject matter expertise to actively help shape the program.
• Collaborates with cross-functional partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders, to influence key decisions that ensure seamless coordination and event delivery.
• Leads venue sourcing and contract negotiations in partnership with Event Sourcing, to secure favorable terms, manage risk, and optimize event experiences within financial parameters.
• Partners with Internal Communications to ensure events are aligned with broader organizational messaging, change initiatives, or cultural moments.
• Owns post-event assessment, including attendee feedback, budget reconciliation reporting, and lessons learned documentation to inform future programs.
• Owns budget planning, forecasting, financial reporting and stewardship for assigned events; identifies cost optimization opportunities to drive maximum return on investment for each program.
• Helps establish and continuously elevate standards of excellence for event design, ensuring all experiences authentically reflect TIAA’s brand identity, executive presence expectations, and strategic narrative.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of managing end-to-end planning and execution of high-profile, complex internal events for the CEO and other C-suite executives (including but not limited to leadership team meetings, quarterly business review meetings, and business area summits.)

Preferred Experience:

• 7+ years of managing end-to-end planning and execution of high-profile, complex internal events for the CEO and other C-suite executives (including but not limited to leadership team meetings, quarterly business review meetings, and business area summits.)
• CMP certification is a huge plus
• Experience in CVENT
• MS Word and Excel

Base Pay Range:

$100,000/yr – $141,000/yr

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

Company Overview

Every worker deserves a secure retirement. For more than 100 years, TIAA has delivered it for millions of people. Founded to help educators retire with dignity, today weʼre a market-leading retirement company fueled by world-class asset management. But weʼre not just another legacy financial services firm. Weʼre fighting harder than ever before for our clients and the many Americans who need us.

Our Culture of Impact

At TIAA, we’re on a mission to build on our 100+ year legacy of delivering for our clients while evolving to meet tomorrow’s challenges. We equip our associates with future-focused skills and AI tools that enable us to advance our mission. Together, we are fighting to ensure a more secure financial future for all and for generations to come. We are guided by our values: Champion Our People, Be Client Obsessed, Lead with Integrity, Own It, and Win As One. They influence every decision we make and how we work together to serve our clients every day. We thrive in a collaborative in-office environment where teams work across organizational boundaries with shared purpose, accelerating innovation and delivering meaningful results. Our workplace brings together TIAA and Nuveen’s entrepreneurial spirit, where we work hard and work together to create lasting impact. Here, every associate can grow through meaningful learning experiences and development pathways—because when our people succeed, our impact on clients’ lives grows stronger.

Benefits And Total Rewards

The organization is committed to making financial well-being possible for its clients, and is equally committed to the well-being of our associates. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to make a positive difference in the lives of our associates and their loved ones. Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being. To learn more about your benefits, please review our Benefits Summary.

Equal Opportunity

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. TIAA does not discriminate against any candidate or employee on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.

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