Join the Team
You will join an international team that thinks far outside the box in creating memorable large-scale gatherings, finding new ways to connect with our audiences, and rocking the internet infrastructure industry. We don’t create boring conferences—we create festivals, and that’s the mindset we’re looking for!
Open Positions
WHD is looking for a Marketing Manager to join us at our Cologne headquarters to develop and deliver innovative marketing campaigns for our flagship events, CloudFest and MSP GLOBAL.
Core Responsibilities
- Work with the Head of Marketing to develop the event marketing plans and budgets for CloudFest and MSP GLOBAL to achieve each event’s attendance goals
- Execute multichannel event marketing campaigns across all channels and seek innovative ways to attract our audiences
- Position our events as the global market leaders for both attendees and sponsors
- Cultivate a deep understanding of our target audience and develop actionable segmentation, targeting, and personas
- Create customer journeys, develop lead nurture campaigns, and maximise use of automation where appropriate
- Track campaign performance KPIs, focused on continuous improvement and measurement
- Partner with our sponsorship sales team to develop innovative lead generation campaigns that drive new business and strengthen existing relationships
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver events that blow people’s minds
Skills and Experience We Are Looking For
- Proven track record in a similar role: 2-3 years’ experience required
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing, communications, or related field
- Data driven, understanding of segmentation and personas
- Social media and paid marketing experience
- Use of WordPress, Google Analytics, Linked In; HubSpot is a plus
- Strong measurement skills and strive for continuous improvement
- Great communication and exceptional copywriting skills
- Extremely organised and accountable
- Awesome team player with excellent stakeholder management skills
- Diversity is power: we strongly encourage applicants of all gender identities, ethnicities, and backgrounds
Employee Benefits
- Choice between cost coverage and selection of your dream-job bike, public transportation (Deutschlandticket), or a parking space in our underground parking garage
- Regular team events
- Free drinks in the office
- Flexible working model with home office options
- Subsidized membership at the Urban Sports Club
Job Type: Full-time
Ability to commute/relocate: 50667 Köln – Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience: Marketing Management – 2 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in 50667 Köln
To strengthen our Finance team, we are looking for a motivated individual who enjoys helping to shape structures and taking on responsibility.
Core Responsibilities
- Independent processing of accounts receivable, accounts payable and general ledger accounting
- Assisting with the preparation of monthly and annual financial statements
- Responsibility for asset accounting and the associated payment transactions
- Preparation of advance VAT returns and support with annual returns in cooperation with the tax consultant
- Checking, account assignment and posting of incoming and outgoing invoices
- Monitoring payment transactions including dunning procedures
- Support with all other bookkeeping tasks in the area of accounting
- Communication with tax advisors, social insurance providers and other external partners
Skills and Experience We Are Looking For
- Education: Completed commercial training – ideally with further training as an accountant, tax clerk or comparable qualification
- Professional experience: At least 3 years of experience in financial accounting, preferably in an international environment
- IT skills: Confident handling of common ERP systems as well as MS Office (especially Excel)
- Competencies: Analytical thinking, high affinity for numbers, careful and structured way of working
- Soft skills: Initiative, strong communication skills, sense of responsibility and ability to work in a team
Employee Benefits
- Choice between cost coverage and selection of your dream-job bike, public transportation (Deutschlandticket), or a parking space in our underground parking garage
- Regular team events
- Free drinks in the office
- Flexible working model with home office options
- Subsidized membership at the Urban Sports Club
Job Type: Full-time
Working hours: Monday – Friday
Ability to commute/relocate: 50667 Köln – Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Experience: Financial accounting – 3 years (Desirable)
Language: German and English
Work Location: Hybrid remote in 50667 Köln
Core Responsibilities
- Organization and management of hotel allotments and participant bookings
- Checking registrations in the internal registration tool
- On-site support as the first point of contact for participants
- Coordination of travel bookings for speakers, artists and employees
- Independent support and supervision of individual event formats before and during the events
Skills and Experience We Are Looking For
- Quick comprehension and practice-oriented, independent action
- Good to very good written and spoken English skills
- Reliability & ability to work independently
- Careful and structured handling of data
- Hands-on mentality at the events
Information about iba
iba | Internationale Berufsakademie is Germany’s largest state-recognized university of cooperative education. The range of courses includes the dual Bachelor’s degree programs: Business Administration and Business Administration Intercultural Competencies in 20 specializations each, Social Work & Management and Social Work, Management & Coaching, Applied Therapy Sciences – Physiotherapy and Applied Therapy Sciences – Focus on Occupational Therapy. At 13 study locations (Baden-Baden, Berlin, Bochum, Darmstadt, Erfurt, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Kassel, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Münster, Nuremberg), iba trains students in the split-week model together with its network of 7,000 partners.
Start of studies: WS 25/26
Stability While You Rock
We are an established event company with a proven track record in the industry spanning over 15 years. While we love to have fun, resilience is at our core.
Diversity is Power
We are fully committed to building a team with a broad spectrum of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Your experience is unique, and it may just be exactly what we need.
We Build Experiences
Our business is designing unforgettable experiences for our customers and attendees, and you will have a direct hand in shaping these—from conception to execution. We’re all about that wow-factor!
Work From Wherever
We offer flexible remote working options and are committed to keeping you safe in the current environment. Pets are always welcome in video calls.
Grow With Us
Our experienced leadership team and advisory board has a clear vision to develop our company into a leading live event platform across multiple industries. Right now we’re running events for the industries that power the internet and connect the world.
CloudFest Transformed the Event Industry—and We’re Just Getting Started.
Come Rock with the Coolest Team on the Planet.
WHD Event is in the human interaction business—we bring people together to make 1+1=100. Our events connect professionals in areas of technology that tie the world together, shaping top-level decisions around how the world uses the internet. Humanity is at the heart of our mission, making sure that the soul of creativity and empathy lives in what we do… and this is what we do:
CloudFest is the #1 cloud computing conference in the world, bringing together the top executives and innovators in the cloud, hosting, and internet service provider industries. Each year we take over a theme park in Germany’s Black Forest for round-the-clock learning, sharing, and celebrating with the C-suites of the biggest computing companies in the world—this includes roller coasters, open bars, morning runs, and concerts. We even have our own music festival, with music legends as special guests!
MSP GLOBAL brings together the top leaders in the MSP space to gain the insights and make the connections you’ll need to thrive in this constantly-changing industry. We facilitate the connections that will supercharge the businesses of digital enablement professionals through knowledge sharing, partnerships, and world-class networking events.
NamesCon is the premier event series for the domain name industry, exploring the future of digital assets from domains to NFTs and beyond. With events online and around the world, NamesCon brings together the decision-makers and investors who build and grow this person-to-person business. Sometimes our rock-star speakers are actual rock stars.
