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About the Role
As a Production Director, you will provide senior Production leadership across a fast-moving portfolio of live events and experiential programs. You will balance client, work, team, and business needs, ensuring consistency while maintaining agility to respond to changing priorities and new opportunities. You will oversee Production teams, operational and financial performance, staffing, resources, and the overall health of the work, while also serving as lead producer on select programs.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior Production leadership across a high-volume portfolio of live events and experiential programs, often with multiple programs moving simultaneously.
- Create consistency across recurring programs and client relationships while adapting the Production approach to the needs of each experience.
- Lead, mentor, and support Producers and Production teams, ensuring the right talent and resources are aligned to the work.
- Oversee the operational and financial health of programs, including budgets, forecasting, profitability, staffing, scope management, and risk.
- Maintain visibility across the portfolio to anticipate capacity needs, competing priorities, risks, and opportunities before they impact delivery.
- Partner closely with senior clients and cross-functional agency teams to solve problems, evaluate new opportunities, and develop scopes, budgets, timelines, and delivery strategies.
- Build strong relationships with Production partners and vendors and identify opportunities to create greater consistency and efficiency across programs.
- Remain actively involved in delivery by serving as lead producer on select projects or leading key Production workstreams.
Requirements
- Significant experience (12+ years) producing live events and experiential programs for technology brands, with an understanding of the pace, expectations, and complexity of working within the technology sector.
- Experience leading high-volume event portfolios, including managing multiple concurrent programs, teams, timelines, and priorities.
- Deep knowledge of live event Production, including technical production, fabrication, venues, logistics, labor, vendors, contracts, and onsite execution.
- Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, scope/change management, and financial risk.
- Experience leading and developing Production teams and making thoughtful staffing and resource decisions across multiple programs.
- Confidence working with senior clients and navigating complex stakeholder organizations.
- The ability to balance consistency with agility—building standards and repeatable ways of working without introducing unnecessary process.
- Strong judgment and the ability to move between strategic portfolio leadership and hands-on Production problem-solving.
Skills
- Live event production
- Experiential marketing
- Technology client support
- High-volume event portfolio management
- Production leadership
- Financial acumen
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Profitability management
- Scope management
- Risk management
- Team leadership
- Resource allocation
- Client relationship management
- Vendor management
- Contract negotiation
- Onsite execution
- Strategic thinking
- Problem-solving
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 12+ years
About the Company
- At Jack Morton, we design and build head-turning, smile-inducing, impact-driving brand experiences that redefine what experiential marketing can achieve.
- We help our clients unlock the full value of experiences by turning bold ideas into meaningful connections.
- We are a team that's bold, curious, and acts as one.
- We build on each other's ideas, challenge conventions, and show up for one another every day.
- This is a place where curiosity drives what’s next, boldness raises the bar, and every win is shared.
- Where ownership is expected, egos are left at the door, and the work reflects the passion and talent of the people behind it.
- Experience without limits—in your work, your growth, and your impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Jack Morton is an equal opportunity employer; we strongly value diversity at our companies.
- We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
- We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at jobaccomodations@jackmorton.com.