Technical Producer (Freelancer)

Charcoalblue

About The Position

Charcoalblue is a global leader in delivering complex, creative, and high-profile projects across theatre, cultural institutions, immersive environments, and experiential venues. Our Project Delivery team provides the organizational backbone to guide projects from vision to completion, integrating creative ambition with rigorous project management, controls, and stakeholder coordination. We are seeking to engage an experienced Freelance Technical Producer to support the growing Charcoalblue Project Delivery team across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. As our project portfolio continues to expand, we are looking to work with talented Technical Producers who can bring the experience, technical expertise, and leadership required to support the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex technical projects. The role will involve working closely with clients, consultants, designers, contractors, and project teams to help deliver high-quality technical outcomes across a range of projects. We are particularly interested in Technical Producers with experience across the performing arts, cultural, entertainment, or adjacent sectors, who are comfortable working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and managing complex technical requirements from planning through to delivery. Our projects span a wide spectrum of cultural, entertainment, and experiential environments. As part of the Project Delivery team, you may find yourself: Supporting the delivery of immersive cultural projects in Abu Dhabi, Providing project controls, scheduling, and stakeholder alignment on innovative entertainment venues, such as MSG Sphere, Providing managed service support for global technology clients, including delivery of Google event spaces, Guiding design and construction teams through delivery of historic renovations and new builds, from Pier 57 in NYC to 1 Drive at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the UK. You’ll be working at the intersection of creativity and technical delivery, helping world-class teams bring ambitious ideas to life while ensuring clarity, accountability, and successful handover.

Requirements

Experience as a Technical Producer, Technical Project Manager, Producer, or similar delivery role.
Strong understanding of software development, lifecycles, and technical delivery practices.
Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving abilities.
Experience with Agile delivery frameworks and project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, and similar.
The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall project management techniques.
Working knowledge of product life cycles, software and content development life cycles, design and construction project life cycles.
Familiar with typical project management tools for scheduling, risk tracking, budgeting, etc.
Experience in managing both design and delivery processes for physical installations and digital content.
Direct experience with iterative design processes, rapid prototyping, and playtesting.
Fundamental understanding of show control system design and approach.
Ability to read and comprehend project technical documents, including but not limited to AV system drawings, engineering and architectural drawings, software architecture diagrams, wiring schematics, schedules, test reports, or commissioning documents.

Nice To Haves

Software engineering experience is not required, but familiarity with some key principles will be advantageous: API use, open source/shared protocols, web-based applications, object-oriented development, software frameworks and platforms, User Interface Design, User Experience Optimization, general network architecture, cloud-based data management systems, and specific programming languages such as HTML, C++, and Java.

Responsibilities

Coordinate project meetings, prepare meeting agendas and minutes, monitor completion of agreed action items and project plan tasks, and maintain and monitor project costs and risks as required.
Schedule all vendors to meet overall project deadlines as they relate to the commissioning process and first day of business, adapting schedules as required.
Track platform product releases and coordinate deployment activities.
Coordinate dependencies among multiple teams designing, delivering, and supporting products and projects.
Provide end-to-end project leadership for the successful design and delivery of experiential installations within client event and experience spaces.
Support your project team as technical subject matter expert on a range of experiential activations including, but not limited to, custom and off-the-shelf software tooling; cloud solutions; networking; security, privacy and compliance requirements; hardware and software components of creative technology; and the sequencing and dependencies of system commissioning.
Manage, coordinate, and provide oversight for on-site installation and management of external vendor-provided components.
Ensure the technical design intent for experiential activations is properly developed, refined, understood, documented, and fulfilled from concept through handover by leading design and production meetings, site visits, and reviewing deliverables, assuring the best design process is maintained throughout.
Serve as a translator on behalf of the client to identify, plug, and/or escalate gaps, conflicts, and misalignments.
Work with key stakeholders to manage budgets for equipment, content, and development, and own this budget through design and development phases, installation periods, handover and close out.
Review deliverables (written, visual, and technical) and provide feedback, flagging technical, financial, schedule, and experiential risks.
Develop the approval and acceptance criteria and document key stakeholder approvals throughout the project timeline.
Manage vendors in the development of design and production schedules, feeding key integration milestones into the master project schedule.
Work with content creators and software developers to manage the development of all media, interactive content, and control interfaces.
Oversee specialty fabrication vendors development of shop drawings and production of installations for placement in the field.
Work with AV integrators, client infrastructure, and project management teams to ensure technical requirements are understood and successfully delivered.
Participate in prototype reviews and playtesting to track and manage the expression of design intent, monitor, and pursue preliminary acceptances or rejections.
Oversee commissioning and handover of space, software, content and activations.
Work with the client’s AV and operations teams, and external design agencies to develop the lifecycle and maintenance strategy, including the establishment of service level agreements.