Overview

In-person events are a regular and important part of how Party Shirt International engages with the world. They are key to showcasing our brand, sharing our identity, and building energy and relationships with our customers and other brands. 

About The Position  

Party Shirt International is seeking a part-time, energetic, and experienced events person to join our team!

As the Events and Community Engagement coordinator, you will be responsible for the planning and execution of all PSI events. You will meet our customers and brand partners face to face and curate experiences, while growing our direct sales channel. You will assist the Sales and Marketing teams on the ground. This will include but is not limited to, the identification, organization, preparation, and execution of all events and community engagement opportunities. We want to see you drive new sales through successful events and build stronger and tighter communities through partnerships and public engagement.

Success in Events and Community Engagement will come from strong relationship building skills, being extremely outgoing, having a good understanding of the apparel and outdoor industries, being able to work long days and for long periods of time, and having careful attention to detail. Ideally, you are someone who loves to travel, loves seeing new places, meeting new people, and trying new things. Someone who loves to engage with the public, is able to represent and support a brand everywhere you go, is self motivated, and takes proactive initiative.

Our teams are currently based in Portland, OR, and Salt Lake City, UT. We are seeking someone in one of these two cities, but can definitely make an exception for the right candidate.

Hours: This position is part time. It is also event schedule dependent. While it is a mix of time on and time off, there will be consistent days of time on. Similarly, you will be able to plan for your time off. Ideally, you will plan and prepare for an event, run the event, then take time off before preparing for the next event. There will be a “busy season” where you will be on more than you are off, but that will be balanced with our slower season where you can rest, relax, and reset. This is a dynamic position perfect for someone who can plan, prepare, adapt to changes, and execute on the move.

Location: This is a hybrid position as it will require preparation and work from home as well as work from the road.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Event Planning - Develop and execute regional event plans to match the company’s annual sales objectives. Maintain a current account of past, planned, and target events/community engagement opportunities to support the company’s continued and quality growth. Bike events, ski events, music events, marathons, volleyball competitions, trade shows, and all kinds of other outdoor and outdoor adjacent (but not limited to) events. For this, you can expect to drive, to fly, to lift heavy objects, to work long days while on, and to be a brand ambassador everywhere you go. 10/10! Events are always an excellent time!
• Event Preparation - Plan and prepare for each event. Forecast required inventory with the Ops team. Place orders for all event inventory to arrive in a timely manner. Organize all lodging, event details, payments, and travel. Maintain tight organization within the company event vans and with all event materials. Working with our team to find a staff for events. 
• Forecasting and Ordering - You will assist with the analysis of historical sales data, current trends, and annual events plan to support monthly and quarterly inventory forecasting.
• Event Sales and Partnerships - Work with Sales and Ops to set, track, and hit monthly and annual direct to consumer sales goals.
• Build brand awareness in local markets by increasing visibility at events, at wholesale accounts, or through community outreach.
• Communication - Support sales and ops by effectively and professionally communicating via email, phone, and in person. Communicate about all current events, clearly recap and report about past events, and share plans for upcoming events with the internal team This includes providing feedback about sales trends, in-person product reviews, customer satisfaction, and recommendations to internal teams. Participate in monthly performance, forecast, and growth reviews.
• Remain in regular contact with internal team, customers and brand partners. Follow through is paramount.
• Capabilities - You must be able to effectively learn to use Shopify and Shopify POS to receive payments, track and evaluate DTC sales data, and to forecast for inventory needs. You must be computer literate and able to track, maintain, and build on existing and new spreadsheets.
• Budget – Create and stick to budgets that allow Party Shirt International to succeed in its mission to spread the shirt word.
• Growing the stand, and the brand – Continue to innovate and update the Party Shirt booth, our way to engage with the world. Find new events, new types of events, new opportunities to engage with the public, and help people get to know Party Shirt and what we stand for.
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

The Candidate

We’re looking for someone who loves to get outside, who can stand, talk, and sell all day long. You should be extremely outgoing, an engine for long events, and someone who wants to really push to add color to this great and wild world.

You should come with at least a comprehension of consumer sales. Marketing experience is a plus. But more than anything you should be outgoing, well spoken, well written, and incredibly personable in and out of the office. You need to know how to use the Google and Apple suites. Clear communication and organization is essential to this role. You should have some experience with Shopify, Mailchimp, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok. You will need a valid driver's license and an overnight bag.

You must not shy away from adversity! Grab that bull by the horns and hang on! You live anywhere, but you get a leg up in this hiring process if you live in Salt Lake City, UT or Portland, OR.

Pay: You will take on a base pay of $45,000/year. Other perks include a company expense card, a very flexible schedule, amazing trips, PTO, and working with some real psychopaths.

To apply please email jobs@partyshirtinternational.com with a cover letter, and your resume or fill out the form below.

About PSI

The brand launched in 2018 with the goal of making quality and fun active shirts that make people happy. We hope to inspire people to get excited, to get outside, to participate in the activities they love, and to have fun while doing it. Party Shirt International doesn't just make shirts and we certainly don't make aloha shirts. We make the original Stretch Tech Party Shirt. These shirts are good for whatever you love to do! Bike, ski, climb, barbecue, hit the kitchen, or the dentist chair. Since our founding we have made sure to give a shirt or two about the places we live and the people in each of our communities. We are proud to be members of 1% For The Planet and make sure to support social justice initiatives in our communities and abroad. These shirts are the only shirt to wear when you’re wearing a shirt. And guess what, It’s Shirt Season!