Full Job Description
The Vice President of Technical Event Operations is responsible for the operational oversight of production services supporting FOX Experience & Design's on and off Lot live events, studio productions, executive presentations, and special projects. This role serves as a key business partner, ensuring that production resources, facilities, personnel, and technology are aligned to deliver exceptional event experiences.
The Vice President will lead our technical production team, liaising with our events teams and stakeholders to support live event technical operations. The ideal candidate combines operational expertise and customer service excellence with a solid understanding of production technologies and workflows.
Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace for a minimum of four (4) days per week is an essential function of the position. The selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Tech Ops
- Oversight of day-to-day technical operations across multiple spaces, projects, and workstreams
- Serve as the primary operational liaison between the core event production teams, creative directors, and internal stakeholders
- Ensure appropriate staffing, technical planning, and operational support are in place for all events and productions
- Identify gaps and hiring needs to support flawless execution
- Establish standards, workflows, and best practices that support consistency and quality across events and productions
- Develop cost saving and process improvement initiatives that increase operational efficiencies.
- Ensure a consistent, high-quality client experience across all productions and events
Business Ops
- Ensure the technical team maintains absolute source-of-truth documentation (event/production budgets, production schedules, planning calendars, crew call sheets, etc.), ensuring real-time updates across all platforms
- Oversee the full lifecycle of technical production budgets, ensuring accurate forecasting, reconciliation, and variance reporting
- Manage annual departmental budget spend, tracking, and usage
- Oversee freelance payroll needs via Wrapbook, supporting both tech and events
- Evolve FED Tech into a proactive, strategic partner to the FED team and internal stakeholders
Communication
- Provide clear and consistent communication and documentation between technical teams, stakeholders, and events teams, including budgets, production timelines, and run of show documents
- Streamline cross-departmental communication,,ensuring all teams are aligned throughout the planning and execution of events and productions
- Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, FED team members, and outside production teams to accomplish goals efficiently and effectively, always striving to exceed expectations
- Manage project scope changes and support with additional resources, budget allocations, and impact on stakeholders
Leadership
- Lead production administration and operations across FOX Experience & Design's event and production venues, technical facilities, and offsite locations
- Serve as senior escalation point and provide guidance on complex ops
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and operational effectiveness
- Demonstrate exceptional situational leadership; possess the tactical skills to execute administrative workflows directly, and the managerial skills to delegate to junior staff when appropriate
- Lead tech ops meetings, ensuring all production needs, business needs, and personnel needs are aligned for flawless events and productions
- Set appropriate goals for technical and business operational excellence.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
- 12+ years of experience in technical operations, event services, studio management, or broadcast environments
- Proven success managing teams, budgets, comms, and vendors across multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Strong client-facing skills with the ability to engage effectively with executives and senior stakeholders
- Broad understanding of production technologies, audiovisual systems, streaming platforms, and event operations
- Exceptional leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
- Proficient in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive)
- Ability to travel
- Ability to work long hours (evenings/weekends), lift 50lbs, & work on feet for extended periods
NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER
- Bachelor's degree
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $179,000.00-275,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
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