Lead Event Producer

About Our Client

The organization hosts one of the largest and longest-running fighting game tournament conventions globally, providing a central gathering for players, fans, publishers, developers, creators, and brands to celebrate the fighting game community. It addresses the challenge of connecting diverse stakeholders in the fighting game ecosystem through flagship live events and expanding efforts to grow the fandom worldwide.

About the Opportunity

The Lead Event Producer is responsible for leading and operating the organization's flagship live events. This role drives cross-functional alignment across multiple departments from concept through onsite delivery, ensuring event milestones, features, programming, and experiential elements meet schedules, budgets, and quality standards. The position is central to coordinating internal and external teams to deliver seamless event experiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage the master event schedule aligning marketing, event features, stage build-outs, and broadcast milestones.
• Coordinate across departments to resolve dependencies and operational challenges.
• Evaluate project changes and assess their impacts on broadcast, operations, and budget.
• Identify and mitigate delivery bottlenecks and risks ahead of events.
• Develop standardized project documentation and intake processes.
• Translate partner agreements into operational plans and coordinate partner deliverables.
• Monitor on-site and on-stream delivery of partner commitments.
• Manage and track event budgets, ensuring financial discipline.
• Review vendor contracts and production scopes to maximize value.
• Oversee milestone approvals and financial reconciliation.
• Support on-site event delivery and manage real-time coordination.
• Lead post-event reviews to refine event delivery processes.

Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience leading large-scale live event productions or complex programs.
• Expertise in managing multi-workstream schedules with budget and milestone control.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills with ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing complex budgets, contracts, licensing, and event fulfillment.
• Knowledge of live broadcast, digital content workflows, creative design, tournament operations, and venue contracting.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced live production environments.
• Passion for gaming, esports, entertainment, or related industries.

Pay

The salary for this role is $135,000 to $155,000, based on experience and qualifications.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• 401k plan available for employee contributions
• Flexible work schedule
• Generous PTO and company-observed holidays
• Remote-first culture