Key Responsibilities
- Develop and own the annual events and programming strategy across the park network.
- Create a continuous calendar of large-scale events, mid-level events, weekend programming, festivals and community activities.
- Develop original, ownable event IPs that can be created, scaled and replicated across multiple parks.
- Personally produce the first flagship events and IPs: concept, sponsor pitch, budgeting, production, on-ground execution and post-event review.
- Conceptualise experiences for different audiences including families, children, youth, corporates and local communities.
- Build and manage partnerships with brands, sponsors, artists, creators, agencies, schools, corporates and community groups.
- Drive brand activations, sponsorships, ticketed events and commercial partnerships within the parks.
- Identify opportunities around festivals, cultural moments, holidays, local events and emerging consumer trends.
- Own the complete event lifecycle: ideation, programming, budgeting, partnerships, production, execution and post-event analysis.
- Secure all event permissions and licences (including police, fire, local authority and music or performance rights) and ensure crowd-safety and emergency plans for every event.
- Design events and IPs that reflect the parks' sustainability and art-led identity, including low-waste production.
- Work closely with Marketing, F&B;, Activities, Revenue and Park Operations teams to create integrated experiences.
- Build a strong agency, production house, artist and vendor ecosystem across cities.
- Track footfall, revenue, participation, sponsorship income and ROI for events and continuously optimise the calendar.
- Recruit the founding hires yourself, then build a high-performing events team capable of managing multiple events and activations simultaneously across parks.
What Success Looks Like in the First 12 to 18 Months
- Launch a continuous event calendar across all parks, with programming every weekend.
- Create and launch original Zyng event IPs that can be replicated across parks.
- Grow event-led footfall, ticketed revenue and sponsorship income.
- Build a base of repeat sponsors and brand partners.
- Hire and embed the core events team and vendor ecosystem.
Ideal Candidate
- 10+ years of experience in events, experiential marketing, entertainment, hospitality, consumer or destination-led businesses.
- Proven experience managing large and mid-scale events on a continuous basis, not just one-off projects.
- Solid track record of creating and building event/IP formats.
- Strong network across brands, sponsors, artists, creators, agencies and production partners.
- Commercially strong with experience in event P&L;, sponsorships, partnerships and revenue generation.
- Highly creative, entrepreneurial and execution-oriented.
- Ability to convert consumer insights into repeatable, scalable and commercially viable experiences.
- Hands-on producer who has personally run events on the ground and is comfortable on site through event days, weekends and holidays.
- Zero-to-one experience: has created at least one event IP or format from scratch and scaled it into a recurring, profitable property.
- Motivated by long-term value creation and comfortable with a meaningful equity-linked component in total compensation.
Compensation & Benefits
We want the person who builds this business to share in the value it creates. The package combines market-competitive fixed pay, an annual bonus tied to events and overall park performance, and a meaningful long-term, equity-linked incentive.
- Fixed compensation: competitive and commensurate with experience, benchmarked to senior events and experiential leadership roles.
- Annual performance bonus: linked to events revenue, sponsorship income and profitability (EBITDA) targets for the business you own, with a portion linked to overall Zyng Parks performance, agreed at the start of each year.
- Long-term incentive plan (LTIP): eligibility for equity-linked awards in Z-Tech (India) Limited, a listed company, through Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) and/or Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The mix and quantum will be agreed at offer stage.
- Aligned upside: the value of these awards is linked to Z-Tech's share price, so your reward grows as the events business and the company grow.
- Benefits: Other benefits as per company policy.
All equity-linked awards are subject to the terms of the company's employee share-based benefit scheme, applicable SEBI regulations and required shareholder approvals.
📌 Events, IPs, Activations Head (Noida)
🏢 Z Tech
📍 Noida