Associate Livestream Producer: Live Content & Studio Ops

Blackhornvc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking an Associate Livestream Producer to own smaller audience-facing productions from intake to delivery, while supporting high-impact livestreams. This onsite role collaborates across partners and coordinates studio bookings and schedules.

You will lead run‑of‑show structures, prep presenters, and ensure assets and scripts align with program goals, with occasional travel for productions.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of recent experience producing livestreams, webinars, video, events.
• Experience delivering smaller productions, building run‑of‑show plans, and managing schedules across overlapping projects.
• Familiarity with live control room roles and responsibilities; understanding of livestream platforms.

Responsibilities

• Independently own smaller webinars, podcasts, interviews, studio recordings, and recurring content programs from intake through delivery.
• Assist the Livestream Producer on high-impact livestreams, owning assigned workstreams and production follow-through.
• Own the studio booking process, including intake, availability, confirmations, changes, cancellations, and requester communication.
• Maintain team schedules with accurate holds, staffing plans, rehearsals, preparation time, changeovers, and production status.
• Lead kickoffs clarifying audience, purpose, format, participants, deliverables, success criteria, and decision-makers.
• Translate program objectives into briefs, timelines, milestones, responsibilities, and production plans.
• Develop run‑of‑show structures, including segment timing, transitions, audience engagement, and calls to action.
• Ensure scripts and assets function coherently within the live program.
• Coordinate with Communications, Marketing, Events, Design, Editorial, and other partners.
• Prepare presenters with briefing materials, table reads, rehearsals, call times, and day‑of support.
• Source, schedule, brief, and support production crews and specialist partners.
• Right‑size crew, venue, resources, timeline, and production approach to audience and risk.
• Maintain a dependable source of truth for schedules, assets, and decisions.
• Coordinate reviews/approvals for scripts, decks, graphics, and branding.
• Lead routine rehearsals and show‑day operations with aligned timing.
• Manage multiple overlapping productions without losing dependencies or confidence.
• Identify risks early and propose options to escape issues.
• Review performance metrics and partner feedback to improve formats and engagement.
• Close productions with handoffs, follow‑ups, and retrospectives.

Skills

Livestream production

Webinar production

Schedule management

Run-of-show planning

Stakeholder coordination

On-site production

Tools

Livestream platforms

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco is seeking an Associate Livestream Producer to own smaller audience-facing productions from intake to delivery, while supporting high-impact livestreams. This onsite role collaborates across partners and coordinates studio bookings and schedules.

You will lead run‑of‑show structures, prep presenters, and ensure assets and scripts align with program goals, with occasional travel for productions.