Director, Event Production

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🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $115k - $135k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🎪 Events

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GMR Marketing is an innovative experience agency that specializes in crafting unforgettable brand experiences that blend the physical, digital, and social realms. With a focus on immersive storytelling, GMR creates engaging environments where people can interact with brands meaningfully. The agency collaborates with leading brands to transform events and spaces into memorable experiences that resonate with humanity, making them not just consumers but participants in memorable narratives.

📋 Description

• Lead production teams and deliver live events, high-end hospitality experiences, and experiential programs across diverse client portfolios • Work with internal teams and agency partners to bring ambitious creative ideas to life • Provide senior oversight across multiple programs • Develop and mentor producers • Lead complex and high-profile projects • Oversee fabrication, scenic production, audio, video, lighting, venue management, décor, furnishings, logistics, and live show execution • Manage scopes, staffing, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, and financial performance • Develop production approaches, estimates, detailed budgets, workback schedules, staffing plans, and run-of-show documents • Coordinate site checks, installations, rehearsals, live execution, strike, load-in, and load-out • Source, negotiate with, and manage vendors, venues, fabrication partners, technical teams, and freelance production resources • Advise clients and stakeholders on budgets, feasibility, technical decisions, and production strategy • Lead live event operations, backstage operations, and show execution • Establish and improve production standards, tools, workflows, and resource management practices • Conduct post-event debriefs and identify improvement opportunities • Navigate production documents, budgets, schedules, and presentations • Make real-time decisions and proactively resolve challenges to maintain show flow and guest experience

🎯 Requirements

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop producers across multiple accounts and programs • Strong business and financial acumen, including scopes of work, estimates, detailed budgets, forecasting, cost control, procurement, change management, and financial reconciliation • Extensive experience translating creative concepts into executable production plans • Experience with workback schedules, production timelines, staffing plans, run-of-show documents, site checks, installation, rehearsals, live execution, and strike • Deep understanding of fabrication materials, construction methods, scenic production, shop capabilities, audio, video, lighting, staging, and technical integration • Experience producing high-end hospitality experiences, VIP lounges, reception spaces, and premium guest environments • Experience sourcing and managing rentals, purchases, and custom builds • Proven ability to source, evaluate, negotiate with, and manage vendors, venues, fabrication partners, technical teams, and freelance production resources • Understanding of procurement processes, competitive bidding, vendor onboarding, contracts, purchase orders, and payment coordination • Confident communication and client relationship management skills • Experience leading complex live event operations, including production routing, freight, asset tracking, crew movement, venue logistics, labor, permitting, and safety requirements • Experience directing installations, load-in/load-out, rehearsals, backstage operations, and live show execution • Proficiency in Microsoft Office • Working knowledge of production drawings and tools such as CAD or Vectorworks • Adaptability and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced agency environment • Willingness to travel and work flexible hours as client needs and production schedules require

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • 401k • Employee stock purchase plan • Vacation • Personal days • Paid holiday time • Disability benefits • Life insurance • FSA/HSA plans

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