Speaker Producer

About us:

How did Web Summit become, in the words of Forbes, “the best tech conference on the planet”? Meaningful connections. Our tech events are unmissable because we make it easier for the right people to meet and connect. Everyone at Web Summit works towards this goal.

And we’re just getting started. 

We’re always looking to build on the impact we have already made at Web Summit. In the coming years we’ll take Web Summit to new markets, promoting global connectivity, highlighting important issues and connecting global leaders – all while making a positive impact on the environment and communities we encounter.

To build a better company, we have to better ourselves. We do that by finding the most ambitious people to work with us. 

The team and role:

Behind every speaker confirmed for Web Summit is a mountain of research, flawless logistics, and relentless follow-up. As a Speaker Producer, you will be the foundation of how we acquire our global speakers. Acquisition is the focus!

You will learn how to identify the next big thing, how to bypass gatekeepers, and how to manage the egos and expectations of the world’s elite. Your goal is to a subject expert in a tech field and acquire the biggest names in that area to speak on our stages. 

• Target Intelligence: Conduct deep-dive research on potential speakers, their recent announcements, and their pain points to craft the perfect pitch.

• Outreach: Draft compelling, high-level correspondence. You’ll be responsible for the first wave of outreach and keeping the momentum alive in long-lead threads.

• Administrative Excellence: Manage speaker data and acquisition workflows, ensuring the business has total visibility on your work and your progress

• Briefing & Preparation: Create ‘Speaker Dossiers’ for our leadership team, ensuring that when we get a meeting with a VIP, we know everything about them.

• Meet and exceed clear targets for acquiring Speakers, as well as for taking all the steps required to get the best voices on our stages

• The Ultimate Researcher: You can find the email address or the right Chief of Staff for a reclusive billionaire in twenty minutes. You are a digital detective.

• A natural networker: You love to grow your network, engage with new audiences, and move in the right circles, that will help you attract top speaker talent to our events. 

• Eager & Scrappy: You don't wait to be told what to do. You see a gap, and you fill it. You have hustle genes, but are currently looking for the mentorship to refine them.

• Unflappable: You can handle a fast-paced environment where priorities shift every hour. You take feedback well and view "not yet" as a challenge, not a defeat.

• Experience: Fast-paced environment (PR, talent agency, journalism, events, TV, Radio, or high-end hospitality).

• Communication: Exceptional writing skills. You must be able to sound professional, persuasive, and succinct.

• Tech Savvy: Can use tools like LinkedIn, CRMs, and finding info in the dark corners of the web. You also love toying with the latest AI and LLM to automate your research and work. 

• Curiosity: Willingness to learn, ask questions, and scale skills quickly.

• Personality: High Social IQ. You need to be someone people enjoy working with, even under intense pressure.

Benefits and perks:

- Subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme (EAP) and more.

- Pension contribution up to 6%(Irish based only)

- A dedicated in-house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.

- Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.

- Our very own Tramway Team, which drives community and morale-boosting events for employees to participate in.

- Annual company get-togethers, charity days, and monthly wellbeing talks.

- Wellness subsidy issued to all employees of €1000 per year

At Web Summit, we embrace diversity and inclusion. We want talent from all walks of life to help us on our journey to digitise the conference sector. Hiring decisions are made purely on experience, skills and the needs of the business.