Responsibilities

• Production Operations Leadership
• Maintain production processes, workflows, tools, and best practices.
• Drive operational improvements that increase efficiency, accountability, and profitability.
• Partner with leadership to identify and resolve operational challenges before they impact execution alongside The Core.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for production-related risks, decisions, and resource planning.
• Procurement & Financial Management
• Ensure compliance with agency purchasing, contracting, budgeting, and financial approval processes.
• Partner with Finance and Operations teams to maintain financial visibility and accountability.
• Monitor project health, profitability, staffing utilization, and production-related expenditures.
• Support budget reviews and financial forecasting for key programs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experiential/event production experience, with significant hands-on experience personally producing complex, large-scale, high-budget programs from pre-production through onsite execution and reconciliation.
• Deep working knowledge of experiential production, including fabrication, technical production, AV, scenic, show services, venue operations, permitting, logistics, labor, transportation, staffing, safety, and onsite execution. Livestream knowledge is a plus.
• Strong vendor knowledge and industry relationships, with the ability to evaluate vendor capabilities, scopes, bids, pricing, timelines, and production approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to build and pressure-test production plans, scopes, schedules, budgets, and contingency plans, not simply oversee teams responsible for developing them.
• Experience serving as an Executive Producer or equivalent senior production lead on complex experiential programs, with accountability for the overall production approach and successful delivery.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent programs and leading production teams while maintaining visibility into the details necessary to identify risk and guide decision-making.
• Proven experience managing and developing experienced production talent, including providing meaningful direction and mentorship to senior-level producers.
• Strong financial acumen, including budget development and management, forecasting, procurement, reconciliation, scope management, and project profitability.
• Strong client-facing communication and executive presence, with the ability to confidently communicate production recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, and solutions.
• Ability to balance strategic oversight with hands-on production leadership, knowing when to empower the team and when deeper involvement is required.