Live Events Director

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎪 Events

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Chess.com

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🎮 Gaming

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 Private Equity Round on 2022-01

Gaming • Education • Media

Chess. com is the leading online platform for playing and learning chess, offering a wide range of features such as live gameplay with other players, customizable training bots, chess puzzles, and comprehensive lessons. The platform is highly regarded for enhancing players' pattern recognition and overall chess skills. Chess. com also provides coverage of major chess events like the FIDE World Championship. With a focus on creating a supportive and engaging community for chess players of all levels, Chess. com is a go-to resource for anyone interested in improving their chess game or enjoying competitive play.

📋 Description

• Set Chess.com's live events strategy and build a long-term vision for the live event portfolio • Define how events can drive audience growth, community, brand, content, partnerships, and revenue • Create an annual roadmap across competitions, fan experiences, company gatherings, premieres, partner activations, and new concepts • Serve as accountable event lead for major experiences such as the Speed Chess Championship Finals • Integrate creative, competition, broadcast, content, hospitality, and operations into unified plans • Shape event concepts with creative and content leaders and develop budgets, schedules, teams, and production plans • Own the master event plan, physical run of show, space utilization, programming, activations, and content capture • Coordinate internal teams and external partners around a shared plan • Source, evaluate, negotiate, and manage venues, hotels, agencies, fabricators, and production vendors • Build a trusted global network of venues and production partners • Build and manage event budgets, track spending, oversee reconciliation, and manage financial and contractual lifecycles with Finance and Legal • Define success metrics across attendance, fan experience, content performance, community growth, partner value, revenue, and brand impact • Support live experiences across Chess.com, including premieres, creator tournaments, fan zones, partner events, and courtside chess sets • Set standards for hospitality, staffing, communications, and overall attendee and crew experience • Establish tools, roles, approval processes, budget models, production standards, and post-event reviews • Evaluate new formats, markets, and partnerships such as conventions, festivals, and touring concepts • Report to the VP, Media & Content and work closely with the sports Commissioner

🎯 Requirements

• More than 10 years of experience delivering major live events • Strong foundation in live, experiential, and/or broadcast production • Experience serving as the accountable lead for complex events with broadcast, content, or competition at their center • Ability to move comfortably between long-term strategy, executive communication, and detailed delivery • Track record of owning large event budgets, including forecasting, vendor negotiation, contracting, and reconciliation • Experience sourcing and operating venues, hotels, and production partners across multiple markets or countries • Strong creative judgment and operational experience • Experience leading teams and external partners without relying on direct reporting authority • Clear communication skills and ability to create alignment in a fully distributed company • Calm and decisive leadership when conditions change and information is incomplete • Strong sense of ownership and genuine care for the people doing the work • Willingness to travel internationally several times each year and work occasional weekends or nontraditional hours when events require it • Especially helpful: experience in esports, sports, music, entertainment, gaming, or large-scale brand experiences • Especially helpful: experience with fan conventions, festivals, expos, or other audience-focused event formats • Especially helpful: experience managing production agencies, fabricators, technical vendors, and local crews • Especially helpful: experience building an events function or developing new event concepts from the ground up • Understanding of how live events, broadcast, social content, creators, partnerships, and community growth work together • Curiosity about chess and enthusiasm for creating new ways for people to experience the game together • No requirement to be a strong chess player • Applicants must be based in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • International travel opportunities/required travel • Opportunity to build and lead an internal team as the live event portfolio grows • Mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture