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About the Role

MATTE is seeking an experienced Experiential Producer to join its Experiential department, supporting a dedicated client account. This role involves leading the production and execution of experiential projects and activations from kickoff through delivery, requiring a deep understanding of the client's brand and strong creative and technical production capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead experiential production across the dedicated client account, managing projects from initial kickoff and creative development through execution, on-site delivery, and final wrap.
• Develop a strong understanding of the client’s brand guidelines, expectations, processes, and production standards, ensuring consistency across all programs and activations.
• Build and manage comprehensive production plans, schedules, scopes, budgets, staffing plans, and deliverables across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Partner closely with Creative and Client Services to translate creative concepts into executable production plans while maintaining the integrity of the original idea.
• Manage creative and technical production across experiential projects, including scenic, fabrication, AV, lighting, staging, specialty technology, and other production disciplines.
• Source, bid, negotiate with, and manage production vendors, fabricators, contractors, and technical partners throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with technical vendors, fabrication partners, and AV teams to evaluate feasibility, identify potential challenges, and develop solutions early in the production process.
• Review renderings, gear lists, shop drawings, production specifications, and other technical documentation in partnership with appropriate technical specialists.
• Oversee on-site production, including load-in, installation, testing, rehearsals, live execution, and load-out, with the ability to troubleshoot alongside vendors and partners.
• Build and manage project budgets across varying levels of scale and complexity, maintaining accurate forecasting and maximizing project profitability.
• Track project scope closely, identify out-of-scope requests, and proactively develop additional estimates and secure necessary approvals before work proceeds.
• Ensure projects comply with applicable venue requirements, permits, licenses, safety standards, and other relevant regulations.
• Manage and oversee junior producers, freelance production staff, and other project-based resources as needed.
• Proactively identify production risks, dependencies, and potential challenges and develop solutions before they impact timelines, budgets, or deliverables.
• Maintain clear and consistent communication across the client, internal teams, vendors, and external partners throughout each phase of production.
• Collaborate closely with Client Services, Creative, Strategy, Operations, and other internal teams to ensure seamless integration across the account.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities while maintaining organization, responsiveness, and attention to detail.
• Serve as a trusted production partner to the client and internal account team, bringing solutions-oriented thinking and strong production expertise to every project.
• Represent MATTE’s experiential production standards internally and externally, ensuring all work is delivered with a high level of creative quality, technical accuracy, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in experiential marketing production, including event management and production.
• Track record of managing a team, with experience managing employees with different working styles.
• Ability to think fast, problem solve, present solutions and react positively to unexpected issues.
• Approachable, collaborative, results-oriented, problem-solving attitude and an ability to both provide and take direction well.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience managing vendor relationships.
• Excellent organizational skills, with attention to detail and the ability to manage budgets and timelines.
• Familiarity with relevant regulations and permits for events and activations.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• A great network of vendors and industry connections.
• Adeptness in managing client relationships.
• A strong work ethic and sense of project ownership.
• Experience managing project budgets that range and scale up to $3MM.
• Ability to work on-site at our office in New York 4x days per week.

Skills

• Experiential production
• Event management
• Creative production
• Technical production (AV, lighting, scenic, staging, fabrication)
• Vendor management
• Budget management
• Project management
• Client relationship management
• Team management
• Negotiation
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Organization
• Problem-solving

Location

• New York

Work Type

• On-site (4 days per week)

Experience Level

• 7+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $140,000-$150,000/year

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401k with a 4% company contribution max match
• Fully covered yearly Citibike membership
• Talkspace membership
• Competitive PTO package
• End of Year Recharge paid time off
• Sabbatical Program option after three years of employment
• Parental Leave for all new parents

About the Company

• MATTE is a 360° full-service creative studio at the convergence of hype, storytelling and design.
• We bring people together to inspire new ways of engaging, to provoke long term progress, and to entertain audiences around the world, while helping forward-thinking brands and institutions nimbly and truly do the same.
• Our studio capabilities range from strategic ideation and insights, creative development, branding and identity, experiential, web design and development, campaigns and content creation, all the way through full-scale production and execution.

Equal Opportunity

• Everyone is welcome at MATTE - we’re passionate about building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and creating an environment where our differences are celebrated.
• MATTE provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
• In addition, MATTE will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.