Director, Event Production
New York, NY
Content & Programming – Original Content /
Full-time /
Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in 2009, Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.
Vevo has consistently evolved over the past decade to lead within today's ever-changing media landscape, embracing partnerships with a number of leading distribution platforms to deliver extraordinary content within ad-supported environments. With more than 25B views across television, desktop and mobile devices each month, Vevo brings music videos to the world – when, where, and how fans want them.
Reporting into the VP of Original Content & Production, the Director of Event Production will oversee a team of event producers and be responsible for the production and logistics associated with events, brand activations, conferences and live concerts.
The ideal candidate will have experience in a wide variety of sectors, be detail obsessed, unshakably optimistic and calm under pressure. Leadership is a key piece of this role and we are looking for someone who can motivate, inspire and coach a team through the ever changing landscape of projects we produce.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee production and logistics including: budgets, schedules, timelines etc.
- Lead production team on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Create, document and maintain production processes.
- Own studio infrastructure & systems management for our two NYC studios.
- Responsibility for production staff and actively manage crews on and off location
- Manage and source suppliers & vendors and negotiate/execute associated contracts
- Partner with other executive level producers and/or creative groups.
- Project manage large scale projects across various company functions.
Requirements:
- 7-10 years of production experience and a minimum of 2 years managing people on a team.
- Strong leadership skills and proven experience developing direct reports.
- Finance, budget and cost track projects with budgets up to $500,000.
- Exhaustive knowledge of technical production associated with live music.
- Strong experience in overseeing events involving the general public.
- Experience executing local and remote brand activations and marketing events.
- Ability to ingest details in briefs and creatively translating it in a physical space.
- Strong knowledge of all current health & safety practices and protocols within a live environment.
- Experience in event ticketing required; announcements & sales logistics / guest list management / on site ticketing infrastructure
Interested? Great! You might like to know:
- We're a fun, energetic, and tight knit team
- We really enjoy music and technology
- We have excellent compensation and benefits packages
- We have premier access to music content and new releases of original media content
- We love to give away concert tickets to live music - not to mention live Vevo-produced musical performances
- We offer a 401k match