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About the Role

The Production Technician will be responsible for technical production in venue/stage events across EMEA, and solo production of on-campus video shoots, webinars, virtual interviews, and podcasts, taking place in our London office. This role requires expert-level experience in stage event technology, live video production, videography, lighting, and live demos. The role reports to the Senior Technical Producer.

Responsibilities

Support production-technology and demos at OpenAI stage events across EMEA.
Act as the OpenAI Event team’s technical advocate, liaising with agencies, venue staff, and vendors to ensure content needs and quality expectations are met.
Direct hands-on management of audio levels, presentations, and video switching; manage videoconferencing sources, and livestreaming.
Manage pre-show equipment testing and checklists.
Help maintain and improve production processes for live events.
Staff and/or manage various production roles during live events (Technical Director, PTZ Operator, Audio Engineer, Stream Engineer, Graphics/Playback Tech, DIT, Editing, etc.).
Produce live webinars and live-to-tape content from dedicated office spaces.
Solve production issues in high-pressure environments with grace.
Manage production intake, coordination, and scheduling with internal and external partners.

Requirements

8+ years of professional experience in operating live productions.
An understanding of videography and livestreaming.
Experience working directly in small livestream studios.
Experience and fluency with pro-tier production equipment (Ross, Sony, Barco, Yamaha, Shure, Q-SYS, Panasonic, ClearCom).
Knowledge of video switchers, keyed graphics, audio mixing and EQ, signal flow routing and distribution, live streaming encoders and streaming protocols, PTZ camera systems.
Experience and fluency with user-tier production equipment (Streamdeck, Blackmagic, USB mics, 4K ptz webcams).
Familiarity with professional cameras and lenses.
Videography skills including lighting, composition, color-balance, advanced camera settings.

Skills

Stage event technology
Live video production
Videography
Lighting
Live demos with laptops and mobile devices
Audio levels management
Presentation management
Video switching
Videoconferencing source management
Livestreaming
Equipment testing
Production process improvement
Webinar production
Live-to-tape content production
Problem-solving in high-pressure environments
Production intake, coordination, and scheduling

Location

London

Work Type

Onsite
Full-time

Experience Level

8+ years of professional experience

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.
AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared.
Join us in shaping the future of technology.