Seattle, WA (Puget Sound Area) | Hybrid | Full-Time
Zaedryn (Zed) Rook is a Seattle-based event producer with 20+ years of experience and hundreds of events across formats, scales, and industries. They are currently seeking a full-time position on an established event production team — as an individual contributor ready to bring deep expertise to work that is larger, more complex, and further-reaching than what any one person builds alone.
What Zed brings
Zed’s experience spans the full lifecycle of event production: concept development, logistics, vendor negotiation, contract management, budget oversight, marketing and audience development, participant experience design, and day-of execution. They have produced destination weddings, multi-day residential retreats, national conferences, multi-city book tours, virtual summits, and large-scale university programming. They are as comfortable building from scratch as they are joining an existing team and infrastructure.
Their skills extend beyond operations. Zed brings a full marketing toolkit — digital strategy, email campaigns, audience development, branding, and content — and has consistently grown attendance, revenue, and community engagement across the events they’ve produced. They are fluent in the tools of the trade: Cvent, Asana, Eventbrite, Social Tables, HubSpot, Salesforce, Adobe Creative Suite, and more.
Zed leads with emotional intelligence, communicates clearly, and operates as a collaborative team member — picking up tasks outside their lane when needed, deferring to others’ expertise in their domains, and consistently working to understand the full picture rather than just their individual piece of it.
What Zed is looking for
A mid-sized or large organization with established infrastructure and a dedicated events team. A role that combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution. A hybrid work environment with a home base in the Seattle/Puget Sound area. Events that are complex, large-scale, and nationally or internationally reaching.
Zed is interested in a wide range of industries — universities, airlines, worker-owned cooperatives, corporate, nonprofit, and beyond — and is actively researching the Seattle-area events landscape. They are not targeting any specific sector, but are drawn to organizations with clear values and a collaborative internal culture.
Zed is not seeking sales roles, commission-based compensation, or positions where relationship-building is tied to quota pressure.
What Zed needs from a team
Clear communication. Feedback that is direct and constructive. Leadership that explains the reasoning behind decisions, measures growth explicitly, and treats the team as collaborators rather than subordinates. A culture where expertise is respected and learning is ongoing.
Next steps
Zed’s resume, portfolio highlights, and contact information are available at zaedryn.com/hi. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zrook. Email: zaedryn@gmail.com.
If your team is building something big and you’re looking for someone who knows how to help build it — let’s talk.