Audience Booker (Contract)

Semafor is seeking an experienced Audience Booker to support curated roundtables and private convenings on the sidelines of Semafor World Economy in April. This contract role requires discretion, speed, strong executive communication skills, and sharp editorial judgment. The Audience Booker will lead guest strategy, targeting, and outreach for invitation-only roundtables designed for senior decision-makers. The role sits within the Audience team and works cross-functionally with editorial, revenue, and operations to ensure each convening is strategically composed, fully subscribed, senior in caliber, balanced in perspective, and operationally tight.

Key responsibilities include owning guest targeting and outreach strategy for private roundtables and executive convenings, shaping attendee composition aligned with editorial framing and partner objectives, curating rooms primarily composed of C-suite and senior executive leaders, ensuring thoughtful balance across sector, function, geography, and perspective, maintaining sensitivity to competitive dynamics and stakeholder considerations, and exercising independent editorial judgment to protect the integrity and quality of the room. Additionally, the Audience Booker will drive event fill while preserving appropriate seniority and room quality, monitor RSVP flow, declines, booking risk, and pipeline health, proactively manage capacity, fill ratios, and composition health, flag risk early and escalate where appropriate, draft and deploy polished, senior-level invitations, manage confirmations, attendance visibility, and executive communications, engage directly with CEOs, senior leaders, and their offices, conduct targeted research on prospective and confirmed attendees, identify and outreach to communications leads and chiefs of staff where appropriate, maintain real-time accuracy in Airtable and related tracking systems, prepare briefing notes and attendee materials for internal teams, send executive briefings to confirmed guests where required, present booking progress and audience updates in internal and client calls, collaborate closely with editorial, revenue, and operations teams, and support on-site execution during summit week as needed.

The ideal candidate will have experience in audience curation and event management, strong executive communication skills, the ability to exercise independent editorial judgment, experience engaging with C-suite and senior executive leaders, proficiency in managing RSVP flow and event fill management, the ability to maintain real-time accuracy in tracking systems, experience in drafting polished, senior-level invitations, the ability to conduct targeted research on prospective attendees, experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, and the ability to present booking progress and audience updates in internal and client calls.

This position is ideally based out of New York, NY. The salary range is $1,700 per week flat project rate. Semafor offers a Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy to full-time, salaried employees who may take paid time off as-needed without a prescribed limit or defined balance.