Lead Producer

Posted 25 Days Ago
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Dallas, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Marketing Tech • News + Entertainment • Software
The Role
The Lead Producer will oversee the production of strategic initiatives, managing a team and all aspects of event logistics, budget management, and stakeholder communication to deliver high-quality live experiences.
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Hey there!
We’re Fever, the world’s leading tech platform for culture and live entertainment.

Our mission? To democratize access to culture and entertainment. With our proprietary cutting-edge technology and data-driven approach, we’re revolutionizing the way people engage with live entertainment.
Every month, our platform inspires over 300 million people in +55 countries (and counting) to discover unforgettable experiences while also empowering event creators with our data and technology, helping them scale, innovate, and enhance their events to reach new audiences. 

Our results? We’ve teamed up with major industry leaders like Netflix, F.C. Barcelona, and Primavera Sound, presented international award-winning experiences, and are backed by several leading global investors! Impressive, right? 

To achieve our mission, we are looking for bar-raisers with a hands-on mindset who are eager to help shape the future of entertainment!
Ready to be part of the experience? 

Now, let’s discuss this role and what you will do to help achieve Fever’s mission.

As part of the Fever Originals team, you will use data and insights to create one-of-a-kind events and experiences that allow people to have unforgettable moments.

We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and critical-thinking Producer who will not only lead the production of our largest and most exciting SSI (Strategic Scalable Initiatives) experiences, but also manage a team of Associate and Junior producers, to ensure that high-quality experiences are delivered.

This role requires flexibility, creativity, attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines while staying within budget. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in the production of live events, shows, touring production, culinary experience and/or immersive experiences. 

The Lead Producer will be accountable for the implementation and perfect execution of scalable events across their region. They’ll be responsible for challenging and adapting the event to the local specificities, proposing new production formats, technologies, and solutions that could enhance Fever’s experiences, as well as play a pivotal role in shaping our event strategy.

Candidates should be passionate about delivering results and producing fun and entertaining experiences for all walks of the public. Strong communication skills are critical to success in this role as well as showing clear leadership approaches to team management. The right candidate will be a self-starter and have strong interpersonal and project management skills.

About the Role:
  • Manage all aspects of event productions, including pre-production logistics planning, hiring, onsite execution, as well as post-event wrap-up and reporting
  • Manage several productions and help scale various Fever Original SSI events against team targets. Efficiently manage your portfolio of events, SSI being characterized by a high volume of events happening simultaneously.
  • Develop and manage event production budgets, optimizing resources to achieve strategic goals, identifying revenue generating opportunities and cost-saving measures
  • Manage a team of local producers, providing training, guidance and support. As well as structured day to day management and performance reviews
  • Source and manage freelancers, vendors and service providers and ensure delivery of quality services as per company standards.
  • Add an experienced voice to  venue scouting  and booking, work with the business team to negotiate contracts with venues, third party vendors and talent
  • Create productions timelines and ensure that teams are keeping to schedule
  • Secure proper event permits and meet insurance requirements, complete risk assessments when necessary, be knowledgeable of regulations and best practices.
  • Understand the processes of all  administrative duties that your Producers will be undertaking, including expense reports, invoicing, and working with the legal department on contracts 
  • Communicate and collaborate with internal cross-functional teams, departments, and senior stakeholders to drive alignment and execution of event deliverables & SSI targets
  • Work with the Project Management team to ensure SSI Global team’s expectations, financial targets and standards are met.
  • Domestic and international travel and work across time zones may be required 
About You:

You have a successful track record of Producing live events / shows with strong oral and written communication skills. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and pride yourself on your flexible, detailed, analytical mindset.

Candidates need to be passionate about the entertainment/events industry. You will have to be comfortable delivering results in an ambiguous environment, being exceptionally detail-oriented while looking around corners, and thinking bigger about how we create a compelling experience. 

  • 8+ years experience in Live events / experience production industry / between 3-10 direct reports in a previous role
  • Experience as Producer or Senior Project Manager for theatre/dance entertainment or similar project with key involvement in  the management of third party vendors, freelancers and contractors. Ability to manage multiple projects in different cities at any given time and pull together multiple aspects of an event in an organized and efficient way
  • Proven experience in vendor negotiations, managing production budgets and production issues such as permitting, Health & Safety and other rules and regulations in your region
  • Understanding of fabrication & design processes of a range of show elements: costume, scenography, Lighting, Sound etc.
  • Curious, with an appetite for learning, keen to push boundaries and try new concepts, and the ability to pick up new skills quickly.
  • Able to communicate with various stakeholders, working collaboratively and willing to be hands-on.
  • Solution-focused, identifying problem areas, and ways to optimise, creating plans to find resolutions to roll out amongst all your Regional Producers

You can expect to join a group of diverse, hardworking team players, where a cultural fit is the ability to stay humble, work nimbly, and learn as well as share expertise. We welcome applications with unusual backgrounds with the expectation that the applicant will have acquired hard or soft skills and maturity throughout their experiences.

Benefits:
  • Attractive compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance.
  • Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader
  • 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences
  • Possible travel across our markets
  • Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth
  • Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Great work environment with a fun, international team of talented people to work with
Our Hiring Process:
  • A 30 min video call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers, to better understand your career plan, assess cultural fit, and answer any questions you may have
  • A 60 min online test with three topics: logic, analytics, and written understanding
  • A 30 min interview with the hiring manager
  • A 45 min video call with your future manager, including questions about your profile and a business case presentation (to be prepared in advance)

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within a week.

Thank you for considering joining Fever. We cannot wait to learn more about you!

If you want to learn more about us: Fever's Blog | Tech.Eu |TechCrunch

Fever is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workspace where everyone's background and ideas count. Our main goal is to find the best possible talent regardless of place of birth, racial or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, religion, opinion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, marital status, age or caring responsibilities. We encourage everyone to apply!

If you require any kind of accommodation during the selection process please contact our Talent team so we can help you by providing a welcoming and seamless journey.

If you want to know more about how Fever processes your personal data, click here Fever - Candidate Privacy Notice

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The Company
HQ: Culver City, CA
1,433 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Fever is the leading global tech-enabled entertainment discovery platform with a clear mission: to inspire through live entertainment. Our mobile-first marketplace allows both discovery/inspiration and seamless 2-click booking. Fever has also created a media network where our online communities can look for inspiration and local information (Secret Media Network owner of media outlets like Secret NYC, Secret London or Madrid Secreto among others). Fever and its Secret Media Network inspires over 60 million people every month to discover the best experiences in their cities. The preferences expressed by these communities allow us to create new experiences, which we call “Fever Originals”. These are proprietary experiences in which we follow a data-driven content creation strategy, using analytics to understand audiences, develop and optimize new formats. Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests, the Los Angeles based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Mad Hatter G&T Party”, all launched in multiple cities across the world. Fever is a US company with a team of over 800 people, currently present in more than 80 cities, with offices in many exciting cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, or Sydney, and is backed by leading institutional investors, including Rakuten Capital, Accel, and Atresmedia among others. In order to pursue this objective we are looking for bar-raisers, people that want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us. Available for iOS and Android.

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