Sr. Production Manager, Field Marketing

Responsibilities

• Own vendor and fabrication relationships end to end — sourcing, scoping, quoting, scheduling, quality, and accountability for what gets delivered.
• Manage warehouse, inventory, storage, and asset logistics across programs and markets.
• Build and own production timelines, activation guides, staffing plans, and run of show documents as the single source of truth.
• Confirm go/no-go readiness before anything goes live — approvals, assets, staffing, permits, and compliance in place.
• Keep dozens of concurrent programs moving without letting any of them slip, with a clear view of what’s live, what’s next, and what needs attention.
• Oversee execution quality across tailgates, festivals, on-premise, and field programs.
• Identify delivery risk early, resolve what you can, and escalate what you can’t with a recommendation attached.
• Serve as the on-site production lead on key programs — setup, staffing, strike, and real-time calls.
• Build program and production budgets from your own working knowledge of costs, in partnership with the Account team.
• Track actuals, monitor burn, and flag expected overages to Operations early — before they become the client’s problem.

Requirements

• 6–8 years in experiential production, field marketing, or live events, including experience leading or managing junior team members.
• Deep production and fabrication fluency — you have scoped builds, directed vendors, managed a warehouse, and made real-time calls on-site.
• Proven ability to run a high volume of concurrent programs without dropping detail.
• Real budget command — you can build an estimate from scratch, defend the numbers, track actuals, and flag a variance before it becomes a problem.
• Experience with festivals, tailgates, stadium or venue environments, and the operators who run them.
• Clear, confident communicator — concise internally, credible with vendors, composed with clients.
• Highly organized and self-directed in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
• Genuine interest in the cultural spaces this work lives in — sports, music, and lifestyle — not just as logistics problems.
• Experience with alcohol, CPG, or large-scale field programs strongly preferred, plus an understanding of responsible marketing considerations in the alcohol category.
• Appreciation for multicultural audience dynamics and what they mean for how a brand shows up on-site.