VP Production

On Board Experiential • Los Angeles, CA

11d • $192,500 - $225,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

On board Experiential (OBE) is a global marketing agency that brings brands to life through culture-shaping experiences. For over 30 years, OBE has partnered with iconic brands to build community, create cultural relevance, and drive measurable business impact. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and London, OBE activates globally and is a founding member of The ADD Collective. OBE has been recognized as one of the best places to work in events. The company emphasizes the importance of its people, fostering a supportive environment with investments in recovery days, company offsites, happy hours, and fitness challenges. OBE values open conversations, lived experiences, unconventional ideas, and encourages employees to be unapologetically themselves.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field.
• Minimum 10 plus years managing and executing complex live events, with heavy emphasis on experiential.
• Proven and comprehensive experience managing internal teams with multiple direct reports.
• Significant experience working with outside vendors, including a large personal network of vendors, partners, and service providers.
• Significant experience in all phases of event production, including catering, scenic and event sets, lighting, audio/visual, transportation, permitting, insurance, trucking, shipping, fulfillment, fabricating, etc.
• Superior leadership, management, and presentation skills.
• Excellent client/customer service experience focus.
• Excellent ability to manage, motivate, mentor, and develop internal production staff.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Proven ability to multi-task, manage and/or oversee multiple projects simultaneously, while being able to set and manage priorities and commitments.
• Proven ability to proactively identify issues/obstacles/problems and effectively create solutions.
• Proven ability to meet internal and external deadlines and deliver projects within approved budgets.
• High proficiency in Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, ClickUp, and Budgeting platforms.
• Exceptional work ethic.
• Very high personal standards and expectations.
• Proven ability to thrive in and enjoy a fast-paced dynamic work environment.
• Natural curiosity—the drive to always be learning and growing, professionally and personally.
• High energy and flexibility in working non-traditional hours as needed (some nights and weekends as deadlines dictate).
• Willingness to work on a schedule of at least 2 days in office (up to 4 days as needed) and travel up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Establish and drive a performance-based culture with clear expectations, highest standards, accountabilities, and measurements for continuous improvement and development across the department and company.
• Model excellence in the execution and management of all OBE work.
• In partnership with the Chief Production Officer and Sr. VP Production, manage and administer the Production Department, ensuring the highest levels of execution across all OBE work.
• Establish and implement a strategic plan for the department, including standards of excellence, execution, producer performance, staffing and resource planning, and training and development.
• Manage and develop in-house production employees.
• Oversee the highest levels of execution and operation of each project.
• Manage day-to-day operations of producers reporting directly to the VP.
• Continuously develop and implement best practices and standard operating procedures to ensure the highest level of performance for all producers.
• Work with the business development team to determine project feasibility and make Go/No-Go decisions.
• Join RFP ("pitch") teams and engage in the development and delivery of responses.
• Serve as the primary Production Lead on assigned projects throughout all phases of the project process with internal and external cross-functional teams, including building, implementing, managing, and executing detailed project plans.
• Work closely with internal and external cross-functional teams to ensure the highest standards and smooth operation of all production-related deliverables.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and enhance OBE standard operating procedures and best practices that meet project-specific and company-wide goals and objectives, including regularly reviewing current procedures.
• Identify potential risks and challenges that may impact current production processes and develop solutions to mitigate risks and ensure project success.
• Develop, implement, and oversee required plans for staffing procedures, budget tracking, project processes, critical workflows, meetings, redundancies, and contingencies.
• Coordinate with all departments and personnel to ensure smooth workflow and effective communication.
• Identify, build, and maintain relationships with outside vendors, establishing criteria for developing and maintaining such relationships, creating bidding processes, reviewing bids, and negotiating contracts.
• Monitor vendor performance.
• Keep Chief Production Officer, Sr. VP of Production, OBE Leadership, and specific project teams informed on a regular basis regarding personnel, project, and department financial priorities.
• Manage, oversee, and direct production team members on project, departmental, OBE-wide, and individual career path related matters.
• Lead and manage a designated team of OBE producers.
• Take a leading role in the allocation of internal and external production resources to optimize department efficiency while identifying and addressing resource constraints or challenges.
• Exhibit and model consistent and superior leadership, coaching/teaching, and management skills, as well as interpersonal communication skills.
• Lead, manage, coach, teach, mentor, and motivate production staff and other full-time OBE employees consistently.
• Actively contribute to OBE’s ongoing retention and recruiting efforts.
• Consistently track industry-based talent and build appropriate relationships to support OBE’s ongoing goals and objectives.
• Perform staff reviews and evaluations after each project, as well as for the annual review of staff performance, and discuss evaluations with each staff member.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision insurance
• employer paid basic life and personal accident insurance
• Annual Profit Sharing/Bonus Plan based on the company’s performance and your individual performance
• 401(k)
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• PTO
• STD/LTD insurance benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive