I want to be honest about where I was when I started building the event portfolio: exhausted from job searching, deeply discouraged, and skeptical that doing more job-search tasks would produce anything different than the last several years had. When my job coach and I sketched out a rough framework together, I could see the …
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 …
There’s a specific kind of team I’ve been looking for. You probably already know who you are. You put together events that are bigger than what any one person could build alone. You’ve got systems, infrastructure, colleagues with deep specialization, and the kind of logistical complexity that requires real coordination to pull off. You’ve been …
For about six years, I was looking for a job in tech. Content marketing, specifically — content writer, content marketing coordinator, content marketing manager. I had lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost a decade, and I got swept up in it. Everyone around me was a content creator, an influencer, a cult …
1. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years. Not dabbling — producing. Hundreds of events, real stakes, real budgets. Since the early 2000s, I’ve been designing and executing events that bring people together with intention. I’ve produced hundreds of events across formats, scales, and communities — consistently growing attendance, revenue, and engagement along the …