Live Event Location Scout - West Coast
About The Position
Fever is seeking an experienced, passionate, and critical-thinking Live Event Location Scout to join the Fever Originals team. This role will support Project Managers and Producers in creating unique, high-quality live entertainment experiences. The scout will be responsible for venue due diligence, sourcing, and securing locations that enhance audience experience through authenticity and visual flair. This position requires flexibility, creativity, attention to detail, and the ability to manage deadlines and budgets. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in assessing spaces, building relationships, working with vendors, leading teams, tracking performance, and synthesizing information. Strong communication, negotiation, interpersonal, and project management skills are essential. The role involves identifying venue challenges and opportunities to ensure events are within budget and operationally sound.
Requirements
- Track record in property or venue negotiations, facilities management, or live event production management.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Experience with negotiating venue contracts, and/or live events production management.
- Basic knowledge of reading floor plans, RCP, and technical drawings.
- Real Estate Experience with strong connections with brokers and/or agencies.
- Great networking skills and the ability to make smart partnerships happen.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a proven track record of building positive working relationships.
- Highly organized and efficient.
- Time management skills are key.
- Able to think strategically and efficiently when faced with issues on-site.
- Collaborative approach and willing to get hands dirty and work on all required events tasks.
- Candidates need to be passionate about the entertainment/events industry.
- Must be comfortable delivering results in an ambiguous environment, being exceptionally detail-oriented while looking around corners, and thinking bigger about how to create a compelling experience.
- Entrepreneurial individual, willing to be hands-on, and eager to demonstrate ownership.
- Mix of business development and operational experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience leading a team.
- Experience tracking performance.
- Experience synthesizing a wide array of information.
- Experience in architecture, real estate, or set design is a plus.
- Domestic and international travel and work across time zones may be required.
Responsibilities
- Liaise with Originals, Ops, Production teams, and Project Managers to provide a holistic view of venue options.
- Be responsible for the due diligence of base buildings.
- Strategize and prioritize high-volume venue sourcing requests within demanding time frames cross-regionally.
- Source venues that coincide with Producer’s concepts & designs, conduct site visits, and collate necessary documentation to assess feasibility.
- Ensure chosen venues are suitable from experiential and financial perspectives.
- Make sure design intent is correct and judge how design decisions will affect budget and schedule.
- Contact venues and communicate with Project Managers about initial fees, lease agreements, and terms with venue owners.
- Assist Project Managers in obtaining all fire and safety, ADA, and other governmental permits, and coordinate logistics for production.
- Oversee venue-related issues across multiple large projects simultaneously, while also overseeing standards for smaller events.
- Be evaluated on how you save CAPEX and OPEX by flagging issues early on.
- Develop and maintain venue databases.
- Oversee the return of a venue to its original condition at the end of a project, working with production companies or suppliers.
- Represent Fever at site visits, meetings, and local events.
Benefits
- Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader
- Total compensation (base + bonus included) range of between 80.000 to 85.000$
- 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences
- Health, Vision and Dental insurance
- 401k pension plan enrolment
- Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth
- Great work environment with a young, international team of talented people to work with!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
