This role is based in our Boulder, Irving or New York City office. What You’ll Get to Do as an Operations Manager Show your love of the game as the ultimate team player and captain. Participate in industrious and innovative teams to create premiere in-person events. Lead a team of dotted line reports to produce tradeshows, conferences, and extraordinary events Be a globetrotter! You will travel around the US and perhaps, the world, executing site selection and inspection trips and producing in-person trade events. Let your creative flare sparkle. Help develop overall look and feel of events and coordinate signage and graphic plans. Order graphics, manage and track the creative process and ensure accurate placement of graphics onsite. Create the story. Communicate the big picture and the smallest details to your contracted vendors (venues, general services contractors, A/V and IT providers, caterers, decorators) to build every component of the client experience. Crunch the numbers. Through research, cost analysis and negotiations determine the cost to support building the dream. The Operations Manager develops and manages the show production costs, tracks spending, identifies areas of cost savings, provides monthly forecasts, and pays applicable vendors. Sign on the dotted line. Request and review vendor contracts. Collaborate with legal and the Director of Operations and Procurement to ensure no detail of fine print is missed.