EventsOperationsCoordinator

Events Operations Coordinator Think of your favorite book from childhood. Got it? Great. Now, that warm, joyful feeling you have right now—that’s what we do. Literati is a modern children’s book company focused on helping kids fall in love with reading at every age and stage. We make it easy to find great books through our school book fairs, school store fundraising platform, and book clubs using a unique mix of expert curation and data science. We’re on a mission to help parents ignite a love of learning and a love of life. As an Events Operations Coordinator for Literati, your role is to help scale our national conference and event operations while ensuring a consistent, professional, and engaging brand experience across every touchpoint. In this role, you will primarily support conference planning, logistics, and operational infrastructure while partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, Creative, and Operations teams to coordinate event assets, inventory, and post-event follow-up. You’ll help build scalable systems and repeatable processes that support both brand growth and revenue generation. This role is based in the greater Chicagoland area (Chicago or surrounding suburbs) and requires occasional travel to our Elgin office (approximately 3–4 times per year) and national conferences (approximately 3–4 trips per year), which may include evenings and weekends. The salary band for this role is $50,000–$60,000 annually. This position is classified as exempt and is not eligible for overtime pay. RESPONSIBILITIES Conference Operations & Execution - Own conference calendar management, registrations, exhibitor deadlines, logistics, and booth execution - Coordinate conference materials, sponsorship deliverables, staffing logistics, shipping, and travel communication - Partner with Operations to ensure conference assets and materials are prepared, shipped, and event-ready - Support post-event reporting, lead handoff, and conference debrief processes Operational Infrastru