Event Marketing Assistant

Job Role: Marketing Assistant - Rough Agenda

Date:

October 2026

Location:

Remote

Reports to:

Head of Marketing

Hours

Full-time. 

The Role:

Help us bring the brightonSEO and Hero Conf experience to more people! We’re looking for a creative, organised Marketing Assistant who enjoys turning ideas into campaigns and getting people excited about great events.

You’ll join our small, fully remote UK team, working within our marketing team and closely with colleagues across the business to promote our portfolio of digital marketing events. From emails and social posts to website updates, you’ll help create clear, engaging communications that connect with our community and give more digital marketers a reason to join us.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and send HTML emails to attendees and sponsors to promote events (with focus on ticket sales and attendee comms)
• Develop and deliver a regular, engaging newsletter that grows our community and following, sourcing and curating relevant content, bringing in community voices, and building and sending each edition.
• Assist in the creation and implementation of social media campaigns across all our products/events.
• Keep our social media buzzing by engaging with followers and building a welcoming online community.
• Update and maintain event website content.
• Execute attendee comms to ensure registrants are fully informed and eager to attend
• Help drive relevant sign-ups and attendance for activities within our conferences, including roundtables and sponsored lunches, through targeted promotion and attendee outreach.
• Update and maintain mailing list data within our email platform.
• Write copy that reflects our unique brand voice.
• Working with the marketing team and Graphic Designer to ensure  all marketing output (from social posts to emails) looks polished, professional, and on-brand.
• Assist with sponsor and partner communications to encourage event promotion.
• Participate in the onsite delivery and smooth running of live events.
• Provide marketing support to the wider team as required.

Your Profile:

• 1–2 years’ experience in a marketing role is desirable (event experience is a bonus).
• Strong communication and copywriting skills.
• Ability to effectively adapt to the brand tone of voice.
• Knowledge of email platforms and website CMS (preferable).
• Excellent attention to detail with fantastic organisational skills.
• Strong IT skills and confidence using/learning marketing tools/software.
• Capable of multi-tasking, prioritising effectively, and ensuring deadlines are met.

About Us:

Rough Agenda is the organiser of brightonSEO and a series of digital marketing events.

• brightonSEO UK

  is the largest search marketing event in the world. It takes place twice a year, in Spring and Autumn, and the event week programme is centred on three days of training, conference and exhibition events in the Brighton Centre.

• brightonSEO San Diego

  takes place annually in San Diego California.

• Hero Conf

  is co-located with the brightonSEO events in the spring in the UK, and the Autumn in the US.

• Alongside our events we run a busy programme of training courses, parties, events and activities which expand out to multiple hotels, bars, and event spaces across central Brighton. For each event week we welcome over 150 speakers, 40 sponsor partners, and more than 3000 delegates who travel from all over the UK and abroad.

More information about our events can be found at roughagenda.com .