About the Role
The Production Department in New York City oversees production operations for Live Nation-operated and third-party venues. This role collaborates with various teams to manage event success, liaising with clients, talent, venues, vendors, and unions. The ideal candidate will manage 75+ shows annually and adapt to fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
- Oversee all on-stage, backstage, technical, and site planning aspects of events.
- Advance and obtain key technical information, including venue specs, production needs, rider requirements, staging, and capacity changes.
- Develop and maintain production documents such as site drawings, on-sale layouts, timelines, schedules, and artist riders.
- Produce events across a range of venue sizes—from clubs and theaters to amphitheaters arenas and stadiums.
- Manage technical production elements (e.g., stage, sound, video, lighting, backline, broadcast, labor crews).
- Support site operations (e.g., 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.
- Maintain consistent communication with stakeholders and senior leadership through meetings, calls, and emails.
- Facilitate interdepartmental coordination 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.
- Responsible for night of show settlements for shows produced.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production management experience across varied venue types and event scales.
- Proven project management and planning expertise, with the ability to manage multiple events simultaneously.
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills, especially under pressure and with limited information.
- Proficiency in both Windows and Mac OS applications (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint).
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills—written, verbal, and interpersonal.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain composure in fast-paced environments.
- Experience procuring vendors (e.g., staging, audio, lighting, video) and managing staff, services, and budgets.
- Flexible schedule with availability for nights, weekends, holidays, and regional travel as needed.
- Skilled in diplomatic communication with clients, vendors, and artist representatives.
- Adaptability to new technologies, workflows, and evolving event environments.
Skills
- Production Management
- Project Management
- Planning
- Leadership
- Decision-making
- Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint)
- Organizational Skills
- Communication Skills (Written, Verbal, Interpersonal)
- Prioritization
- Time Management
- Vendor Procurement
- Budget Management
- Diplomatic Communication
- Adaptability
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Onsite
- Regional Travel
Experience Level
- 5+ years of production management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $68,000.00 USD - $85,000.00 USD
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits
- Health care concierge
- Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
- Free concert tickets
- Generous paid time off (holidays, sick time, personal days)
- 401(k) program with company match
- Stock reimbursement program
- New parent programs (caregiver leave, fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support)
- Career and skill development programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan repayment
- Volunteer time off
- Crowdfunding match
About the Company
- Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship.
- Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide.
- Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries.
- Live Nation Media & Sponsorship creates strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.
Equal Opportunity
- Live Nation Entertainment aspires to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve, promoting environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive.
- Encourages professional and personal aspirations, new experiences, and learning from talented colleagues.
- Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
- Provides equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability.
- Makes reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability.
- Participates in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations.
- Invites applicants to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position.
- Provides reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.
