Director, Experiential Strategy

KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Experiential Strategyto 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 universityis preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required
• Advanced program and portfolio‑level management expertisewithin complex, high‑visibility events and meetings environments withexceptional project management capabilities navigating multiple departments anddeliverables, 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)