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Copy Editor
TriStar Event Media, LLC – Overland Park, KS
TriStar Event Media, LLC, an industry-leading event publishing company, has an immediate opportunity for a Copyeditor to join the award-winning editorial team in our Overland Park office. Experience editing medical content is a plus, but applicants with experience in a straight news environment will also be considered. The ideal candidate must be comfortable proofing for grammar and consistency as well as massaging text to improve flow and clarity. Full-time and part-time applicants will be considered.
Essential Functions
The Copyeditor’s primary responsibility is to edit and maintain quality control over all editorial content on TriStar’s association projects, producing the best possible publications and news sites for the company’s association clients and their members. The Copyeditor will also review TriStar’s internal copy as assigned, including but not limited to marketing and promotional copy, legal copy, and contract language. The Copyeditor is also responsible for creating editorial and digital content for TriStar’s association clients as assigned. This includes writing for products such as news sites and meeting newspapers, meeting programs and exhibit guides, meeting apps, and other digital products. The Copyeditor will also serve as the lead editor of select projects, providing editorial project management for TriStar’s association clients, and as a backup for other editors, as needed. The Copyeditor is responsible for collaborating with TriStar’s internal project teams to execute all assigned projects on deadline.
Responsibilities
- Copyedit and maintain quality control over all TriStar editorial content
- Manage time to accommodate overlapping projects
- Review all content updates to meeting news sites and emails, ensuring necessary elements are properly displayed, arranged, and formatted
- Proofread major TriStar communications to associations and advertisers, including project ratecards, post-meeting reports, and advertising email campaigns
- Create meeting preview, session preview, city guide, and other editorial content from provided information, online research, and source interviews, as needed
- Assist with planning and creation of social media posts and graphics, browser alerts, and other traffic-driving tactics for meeting news articles, as needed
- Provide support for the collection, editing, and formatting of user-submitted content, as needed
- Assist with scriptwriting and internal review of TriStar-produced videos and podcasts, as needed
- Maintain TriStar’s in-house editorial style guide
- Conduct an annual review of TriStar’s in-house editorial style guide and update the guide with input from the editorial team
- Review and approve editorial proofs
- Utilize writing and editing skills to produce high-quality editorial content for association clients
- Oversee the planning, editorial production, and creation of news products, meeting programs, and exhibit guides, as needed
- Communicate with TriStar’s association clients to achieve editorial objectives, as needed
- Work with internal project teams to plan and execute projects on deadline
- Travel onsite for daily production of meeting newspapers and news sites when necessary
- Maintain collaborative, positive working relationships with TriStar’s clients and employees
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, or related field
- Experience as a print editor, digital editor, or medical writer
- Exceptional writing skills with sound editorial judgment and working knowledge of AP style
- A detailed eye for editing
- Computing skills, including Mac, MS Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, Google Workspace
- Strong organization and time management skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Advanced written communication skills
- Ability to work on a team and independently
- Ability to work evenings and weekends during association events
- A genuine interest in healthcare topics, both clinical and research-based
TriStar offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package for full-time employees that includes health, dental and vision insurance, compensation time for weekend work and more. We offer a hybrid work environment. The editorial team currently works in-office one day per week.
Interested applicants should apply via the external link below. The application process includes a 15-minute survey and a portal to upload a resumé and work samples.
Freelance Medical Writer
TriStar Event Media, LLC – Overland Park, KS
A nationally recognized content leader in the healthcare association industry, TriStar Event Media is looking for experienced freelance medical/science writers to produce session news coverage for medical meetings.
Pre-meeting assignments involve interviewing speakers (researchers, trial investigators, clinicians, etc.) and writing session preview articles. Meeting assignments involve attending sessions, as assigned, and writing summary/recap news articles on tight deadline in TriStar’s onsite pressroom. Recap articles are typically published within hours, so the ability to distill research news quickly is essential and exceptional writing skills are a must. Working knowledge of AP style is required.
TriStar covers some hybrid meetings where remote reporting may be possible, but the ability to travel to large convention cities (San Diego, Chicago, Washington DC, Orlando, etc.) is preferred. Experience covering medical meetings is a huge plus, but applicants with experience in a straight news environment will also be considered. Experience reporting on medical research, particularly cancer research, is a plus.
Interested applicants should apply via the external link below. The application process includes a 15-minute survey and a portal to upload your resumé and writing samples.
Senior Account Manager
TriStar Event Media, LLC – Overland Park, KS
Location: Headquarters in Overland Park, KS | Employment Type: Full-Time
About Us
TriStar is a full-service marketing agency partnering with some of the most recognized and influential healthcare associations and pharmaceutical companies. Our team of experts develop strategic content and creative advertising opportunities that expand reach, enhance engagement, and drive sustainable revenue across digital, print, and live events. We are committed to exceptional customer service, ensuring seamless execution at every stage of the process.
That commitment starts with our team. We foster a collaborative, fast-paced environment where creativity and strategic thinking thrive. Our team is passionate about helping clients succeed, and we empower each other to push boundaries, take initiative, and grow professionally. If you’re looking for a dynamic workplace where your ideas make an impact, we’d love to have you on board!
We are seeking a proactive, results-driven and highly detailed Senior Account Manager to join our team in a fast-paced, customer focused environment. In this role, you will liaison between the healthcare association and internal teams to plan and manage execution of advertising and sponsorship products. This important role is ideal for the experienced professional who thrives at the intersection of project coordination, team contribution, and client relationship management.
Key Responsibilities
Client & Account Management
- Lead Client Relationships: Act as a primary point of contact for healthcare association clients, ensuring seamless project, rate card, and program execution while fostering strong, long-term partnerships.
- Manage Workflow & Communications: Traffic critical information and scope details across internal departments and stakeholders to maintain alignment and efficiency.
- Drive Client Satisfaction: Anticipate and address client needs, collaborating across internal departments to deliver exceptional service and results.
- Solve Problems with Agility: Multi-task and troubleshoot daily challenges with a solution-oriented mindset, prioritizing client success as a key measure of performance.
- Facilitate Client Onboarding: Lead new client setup as a Director of Client Onboarding, ensuring a smooth transition while clearly defining company roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.
- Fuel Business Growth: Partner with the business development team to identify new revenue opportunities, strengthen client relationships, and expand account potential.
Team Leadership
- Optimize Operations: Contribute to company innovation and efficiency by identifying ways to streamline account management processes. Identify and communicate department needs and workflow efficiencies.
- Support Team Growth: Mentor junior team members by providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and achieve their goals.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in advertising, marketing, communications, business, or related field.
- 4+ years of account management experience, preferably in a multichannel media environment.
- Capacity and willingness to rapidly adapt, thrive, and multi-task in a highly dynamic workplace.
- Proficiency in project planning, strategy development, and documentation.
- Self-motivated and disciplined with expertise in managing multiple projects and key accounts simultaneously.
- Detail-oriented with a strong work ethic and the ability to create high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Preferred understanding of print and digital media channels and technologies.
- Proficiency in industry-standard business software, including Google Workspace, Trello, HubSpot, and PowerPoint.
- Occasional travel. Estimated 2-4 times annually, as needed.
Why Join Us?
- Work with a collaborative, forward-thinking team.
- Lead high-impact projects that drive company success and client relationships.
- Access opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- Enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Thrive in a hybrid work environment.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you’re organized, detail-oriented, and passionate about account management and client success, we want to hear from you! Apply today and join our growing team at TriStar Event Media.
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Interested applicants should apply using the external link above. The process includes a brief 15-minute survey and a portal to upload your resumé.
Senior Marketing Strategist
Location: Headquarters in Overland Park, KS | Employment Type: Full-Time
About TriStar
TriStar is a full-service marketing agency serving leading healthcare associations and pharmaceutical companies. We develop strategic content and creative advertising that expands reach, drives engagement, and grows revenue across digital, print, and live events.
We’re a collaborative, fast-paced team that values creativity, initiative, and professional growth — and we’re looking for people who want their work to make a real impact.
We are seeking a Senior Marketing Strategist to lead integrated marketing initiatives, shape campaign strategy, and drive measurable outcomes — owning strategy, aligning cross-functional teams, and advancing our AI-powered marketing capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Responsibilities
- Lead development of multi-channel marketing strategies aligned with revenue goals, including management of all social media channels
- Own campaign planning from concept through performance analysis
- Translate business objectives into scalable marketing initiatives
- Partner with leadership on new product, client, and go-to-market strategies
Leadership & Collaboration
- Provide direction and feedback to team members
- Elevate creative quality and consistency across all deliverables preserving brand integrity
- Improve internal workflows, briefing processes, and collaboration models
- Act as a key partner to sales and client services teams
AI & Innovation Ownership
- Lead adoption of AI-driven marketing strategies, including:
- Content generation at scale
- Personalization and segmentation
- Workflow automation
- Identify and implement new tools to improve efficiency and performance
- Establish best practices for AI-assisted marketing across the organization
Performance & Analytics
- Track and optimize campaign performance across channels
- Use data to refine messaging, targeting, and channel mix
- Report on ROI and provide actionable insights to leadership
Qualifications & Skills
- 5–8+ years of marketing experience
- Proven ability to build, lead campaigns, and drive results, including but not limited to social media
- Exceptional copywriting skills with a proven ability to craft compelling, audience-targeted content across multiple channels, including email campaigns, social media, landing pages, and advertising materials, driving engagement and conversions
- Strong strategic thinking and communication skills
- Experience with AI tools and marketing technology
- Ability to operate both creatively and analytically
Why Join Us?
- Work with a collaborative, forward-thinking team.
- Lead high-impact projects that drive company success and client relationships.
- Access opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- Enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Thrive in a hybrid work environment.
Apply Now
Interested applicants should apply using the external link below. The process includes a brief 15-minute survey and a portal to upload your resumé.
Technical Director
Location: Remote (United States) or hybrid from Headquarters in Overland Park, KS | Employment Type: Full-Time
About TriStar
TriStar is a full-service marketing agency partnering with some of the most recognized and influential healthcare associations and pharmaceutical companies. Our team of experts develop strategic content and creative advertising opportunities that expand reach, enhance engagement, and drive sustainable revenue across digital, print, and live events. We are committed to exceptional customer service and seamless execution at every stage of the process.
That commitment starts with our team. We foster a collaborative, fast-paced environment where creativity and strategic thinking thrive. Our team is passionate about helping clients succeed and we empower each other to push boundaries, take initiative, and grow professionally. If you’re looking for a dynamic workplace where your ideas make an impact, we’d love to have you on board!
About the Position
We are seeking a hands-on Technical Director to run the day-to-day technical operation of our Digital department. You will lead DevOps for our WordPress platform and own how our websites, emails, ad units, and data pipelines get built, shipped, and kept healthy across nine news websites and roughly 20 association meetings a year.
You will manage our Digital Producers and Full-Stack Developer, lead our Senior Data Analyst day to day, and serve as the first escalation point for every team that depends on Digital, including Editorial, Design, Sales, Business Development, Account Management, and Project Management. You will also be the technical voice our association partners and their IT teams hear from. The ideal candidate combines strong WordPress and DevOps skills with the leadership to grow a team and the discipline to deliver against fixed event deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and unblock our Digital Producers and Full-Stack Developer, and lead the Senior Data Analyst day to day. Set priorities, protect capacity during live meeting weeks, and build bench strength through cross-training.
- Project Delivery: Own digital projects end to end, from intake and scoping through launch, including requirements, estimates, owners, and timelines.
- DevOps & WordPress Workflows: Lead environments, deployments, releases, monitoring, backups, and recovery across development, staging, and production on WP Engine. Automate manual work and standardize the shared theme, plugins, and configuration across sites.
- Code Quality: Review code from the Full-Stack Developer and Digital Producers, write the more complex code yourself when needed, and ensure QA before anything ships.
- Web & Email Delivery: Oversee website builds and maintenance, the proprietary email build system, email deployment, and deliverability, including domain authentication with association IT teams.
- Data & Reporting: Keep the data pipeline healthy (FileMaker exports, Adverity, BigQuery, GA4, Looker Studio), help prioritize reporting requests, and automate recurring data pulls.
- Systems & Integrations: Implement and maintain integrations between WordPress, our Customer Data Platform, Google Ad Manager, HubSpot, and the data warehouse, and maintain privacy and consent tooling.
- Product Partnership: Provide technical feasibility and estimates for new products and deliver their digital components.
- Vendor & Partner Support: Serve as the day-to-day technical contact for platform vendors and association partners, respond to IT security questionnaires, and support Business Development on RFPs.
- Strategic Initiatives: Lead the technical execution of company initiatives, including the CDP rollout, content taxonomy, ad optimization on web and email, and AI-assisted workflows.
Qualifications & Skills
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent professional experience considered.
Relevant Experience: 7+ years in web development, digital production, or technical operations, including 3+ years leading a technical team or running digital projects end to end.
WordPress & DevOps: Strong working knowledge of WordPress at scale, including themes, plugins, managed hosting, multi-environment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based deployment, monitoring, and release automation.
Development: Hands-on proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS/SASS, strong enough to review others’ code, debug production issues, and write complex code when needed.
Email Production: Experience with email production and deliverability, including email service providers, build frameworks, render testing, and domain authentication.
Data & Analytics: Working knowledge of GA4, tagging, SQL, and a data warehouse or ETL tool.
Integrations & Automation: Experience integrating platforms through APIs and automating manual workflows.
Project Leadership: Proven ability to scope, estimate, prioritize, and deliver multiple projects at once against fixed deadlines.
Communication: Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical colleagues, clients, and executives, in writing and in person.
People Leadership: A mentoring mindset and a track record of growing the people you lead.
Technology: Experience with Google Ad Manager, customer data platforms, consent management, content taxonomies, BigQuery, Data Studio, HubSpot, and Campaign Monitor preferred. Experience building AI-assisted workflows is a plus.
Industry: Experience in publishing, healthcare, associations, or event-driven media is a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Work with a collaborative, forward-thinking team.
- Lead high-impact projects that drive company success and client relationships.
- Access opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- Enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), and more.
- Work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or hybrid from our Overland Park, KS, office if you’re local.
To Apply
Interested applicants should apply using the external link below. The process includes a brief 15-minute survey and a portal to upload your resumé.
Who We Work With
ABOUT TRISTAR
TriStar is a full-service association marketing agency. Our custom media solutions bring association and industry supporters together in mutually beneficial ways, delivering amazing experiences for members and meeting attendees. This includes engaging journalistic content that reaches audiences via diverse channels. We build non-dues revenue with our proprietary royalty-share model by leveraging our experienced sales team and extensive industry knowledge for end-to-end services across media channels. Our partners benefit from risk-free collaboration on marketing and planning for events and beyond, supported by our industry resources and tailor-made strategies.
