Production Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production management experience across varied venue types and event scales.
• Proven project management and planning expertise, including the ability to manage multiple events simultaneously.
• Strong leadership and decision-making skills, including under pressure and with limited information.
• Proficiency with Windows and Mac OS applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and SharePoint.
• Exceptional organizational and written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and remain composed in fast-paced environments.
• Experience procuring vendors, such as staging, audio, lighting, and video vendors, and managing staff, services, and budgets.
• Flexible schedule with availability for nights, weekends, holidays, and regional travel as needed.
• Ability to communicate diplomatically with clients, vendors, and artist representatives.
• Adaptability to new technologies, workflows, and evolving event environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting live events, entertainment, music, production, hospitality, or another project-based industry.
• Familiarity with QuickBooks, PEX, DocuSign, Dropbox, and spreadsheet-based tracking tools.
• Experience with accounts payable, vendor onboarding, payroll coordination, contractor agreements, or expense reconciliation.
• Experience coordinating meetings, calendars, staffing details, and cross-functional project follow-up.
• Familiarity with event budgets, project codes, cost allocations, or post-event closeout processes.
• Comfort working in a collaborative environment where priorities can change quickly.

Responsibilities

• Oversee on-stage, backstage, technical, and site planning for events.
• Advance events and obtain technical information, including venue specifications, production needs, rider requirements, staging, and capacity changes.
• Develop and maintain production documents, including site drawings, on-sale layouts, timelines, schedules, and artist riders.
• Prioritize show settlement.
• Produce events in venues ranging from clubs and theaters to amphitheaters, arenas, and stadiums.
• Manage technical production elements, including stage, sound, video, lighting, backline, broadcast, and labor crews.
• Support site operations, including power, heavy equipment, traffic flow, crowd control, sanitation, permitting, and engineering.
• Track and assist with budget management for assigned responsibilities.
• Lead multiple projects from planning through execution, including on-site presence from load-in to load-out.
• Communicate consistently with stakeholders and senior leadership through meetings, calls, and emails.
• Coordinate across departments and follow up on action items from internal and external meetings.
• Foster a positive, collaborative environment for planning teams.
• Contribute to event debriefs, including financial settlement notes and recommendations for future improvements.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and mental health benefits for employees and their families.
• Access to a health care concierge.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) or Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
• Free concert tickets.
• Paid time off, including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days.
• 401(k) program with company match.
• Stock reimbursement program.
• New parent programs, including caregiver leave.
• Fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support.
• Career and skill development programs through School of Live.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Student loan repayment.
• Volunteer time off.
• Crowdfunding match.