Director of Experiential Production

Game Seven; New York (NY); On-site; USD 133,920 - 150,660; Part time

Job summary

A leading experiential agency in New York seeks a Director to oversee experiential production across clients. Your role is to establish standards, mentor teams, and ensure quality execution in campaigns. Required are 10+ years in experiential production, demonstrated leadership, and knowledge in logistics. This is a temporary position with potential full-time conversion, offering a monthly salary between $12,000 and $13,500. The ideal candidate will have strong strategic thinking and financial oversight skills.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in experiential or integrated production.
• Demonstrated leadership for teams and large-scale activations.
• Strong knowledge of fabrication, logistics, and show production.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all experiential production projects across the client portfolio.
• Establish and implement production standards and best practices.
• Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing production team.

Skills

Leadership

Financial oversight

Team building

Strategic thinking

Job description

Game Seven Agency, an Excel Sports Management Company, is a full service creative and experiential agency that lives for sport, music and culture. From the biggest moments to the smallest details, we pride ourselves on being in the know and building relationships that matter, for brands that matter.

Our team is comprised of creatives, strategists, producers, designers, project managers, influencer managers, filmmakers, volunteers, activists, ballplayers, hypebeasts, social media moguls, runners, mixologists, party promoters, hip-hop elitists, show-bingers, hot-take havers, vintage t-shirt collectors, fitness fanatics, pet parents, plant parents, human parents, and general good time havers.

Clients include Hennessey, Nike, Jordan, Spotify, Meta, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, Timberland, Oakley, Footlocker, Chime, Fanatics, Bleacher Report, Uninterrupted, and more.

What You’ll Do

As a Director, you lead the experiential production function, setting standards, building teams, and ensuring best-in-class delivery across all projects. You are business minded and balance strategic leadership with hands‑on involvement in major campaigns, ensuring production is fully integrated into the creative process and agency output.

Employment Structure

This role will begin as a temporary assignment with the strong potential to convert to a full‑time position.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all experiential production projects across the client portfolio in partnership with the department’s leads
• Establish and implement production standards, processes, and best practices.
• Ensure consistent quality and execution across all work.
• Build, manage, and mentor a high‑performing production team.
• Oversee staffing, resource allocation, and team structure.
• Approve high‑level budgets, schedules, and resourcing plans.
• Ensure financial discipline and operational efficiency.
• Serve as senior production advisor on complex activations.
• Partner with account, strategy, and creative on integrated campaigns.
• Support business development and pitch opportunities.
• Champion innovation, sustainability, and new production approaches.
• Continuously evolve tools, workflows, and capabilities.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Senior leadership across experiential production and operations.
• Strong financial and organizational oversight.
• Proven ability to build and lead high‑performing teams.
• Strategic thinker with strong executional expertise.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in experiential or integrated production.
• Demonstrated leadership of teams and large‑scale activations.
• Strong knowledge of fabrication, logistics, and show production.
• Willingness to travel and work flexible hours, including holidays, evenings, and weekends as needed.

Compensation

Monthly pay range for this position is $12,000 - 13,500. The full time salary range is $140,000 - 160,000 per year.

Please note that compensation information is a good‑faith assessment associated with this position only and is provided pursuant to local salary transparency laws.

Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Game Seven provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.