Director, Touring

AEG Worldwide; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

401k Plan with employer match

Job summary

AEG is seeking a Director Touring to oversee multi-tour operations from a promoter's perspective in Los Angeles. You will lead the touring department, drive strategic planning, and coordinate across marketing, operations, and legal to ensure flawless shows and settlements.

The role requires 6–8 years in touring, strong accounting knowledge, and the ability to negotiate high-profile venue deals while expanding AEG’s global footprint. Heavy travel is required.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree (4-year program).
• 6–8 years of related work experience.
• Understanding of accounting and accurate show settlements.
• Experience in touring music business domestically and internationally.
• Strong relationship-building with clients, venues, and teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication.
• Strong organizational skills and self-motivation.
• Ability to travel extensively and stay on the road.

Responsibilities

• Lead and review ticketing items for assigned tours.
• Coordinate with marketing, operations, ticketing, production, and legal.
• Develop and evaluate financial models and tour offers.
• Negotiate venue deals at theater, arena, stadium levels.
• Manage tour scope to expand AEG's global footprint with artists.
• Oversee tour logistics and ensure timely information flow.
• Draft artist and venue contracts and manage show settlements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Office software

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Travel readiness

Relationship building

Education

BA/BS Degree

Job description

For more than 20 years, AEG has played a pivotal role in transforming sports and live entertainment. Annually, we host more than 160 million guests, promote more than 10,000 shows and present more than 22,000 events around the world. We are committed to innovation, artistry, and community, and leverage the power of our 300+ venues, leading sports franchises, marquee music brands, integrated entertainment districts, premier ticketing platform and global sponsorship activations, to create memorable moments that give the world reason to cheer.

Our business is interwoven with the human mind and heart, and we strive to build a diverse and inclusive company that reflects the artists, athletes, and fans that we host; reach beyond traditional boundaries to support the communities in which we operate; and minimize our impact on the environment by adopting sustainable practices throughout our business operations.

If you want to be challenged to up your game and make a difference, then join us in giving the world reason to cheer!

Position Summary:

As a Director Touring, you will undertake the pivotal role of overseeing the management of multiple tours, with a focus on operations from the promoter's standpoint. This entails strategic planning, logistical coordination, and ensuring seamless execution to meet touring team and clients objectives. Lead and closely collaborate with the touring department, overseeing various projects such as developing and evaluating financial models, as well as preparing tour offers for theaters, arenas, and stadiums at a directorial level.

Essential Functions:

• Lead and review ticket sales, holds, and other appropriate ticketing items for assigned tours, working with tour ticketing director to manage these items.
• Oversee and work directly with various departments (i.e. marketing, operations, ticketing, production, legal) on overall aspects for assigned tours.
• Guide and closely collaborate with the touring department, overseeing various projects such as developing and evaluating financial models, as well as preparing tour offers for theaters, arenas, and stadiums at a directorial level.
• Negotiate venue deals for each tour at the theater, arena and stadium level. Maintain regular communication with client representatives for each assigned tour.
• May focus on developing strategies to expand AEG’s global footprint with each artist and oversee all aspects of tour cycle – Offer Creation, Contracting, On Sale, Inventory Management, final settlement
• May be responsible for completing nightly settlements at each show as well as in addition to overall tour settlement, work to open additional ticket inventory for sales and/or day-of- show ticketing needs on site at the venue.
• May entail overseeing all tour logistics, ensuring timely dissemination of information to relevant departments to all parties, and drafting artist and venue contracts, overseeing various departments to ensure advancement of production requirements have been met.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree (4-year)
• 6-8 years Of related work experience
• Understanding of accounting and ability to complete accurate show settlements (inclusive of working knowledge of global exchange rates)
• Understanding of and experience in touring music business both domestic and international (i.e. has worked on at least one touring project that has extended beyond North America).
• Ability to build effective working relationships with clients, venues, and co-workers
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Self-motivated and takes initiative
• May require heavy travel for long period of time of the road.

Pay scale: $108,244 - $165,685

Bonus: This position is eligible for a bonus under the current bonus plan requirements.

Benefits:

Full-time:

• medical
• dental and vision insurance
• paid holidays
• vacation and sick time
• company paid basic life insurance
• voluntary life insurance
• parental leave
• 401k Plan (with a current employer match of 3%)
• flexible spending and health savings account options
• wellness offerings

AEG reserves the right to change or modify the employee’s job description whether orally or in writing, at any time during the employment relationship. AEG may require an employee to perform duties outside his/her normal description.

AEG's policy is to hire the most qualified applicants. We are an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any individual, employee, or application for employment on the basis of race, color, marital status, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other legally protected status recognized by federal, state or local law.

Employer does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement AEG believes in equal employment opportunities for all, regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally-protected classification. It is the Company’s policy to hire and promote the most qualified applicants, make employment decisions based upon merit, and to comply with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. AEG is also committed to maintaining a work environment free of all forms of unlawful employment discrimination and harassment. This policy governs employment and all the Company’s terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, policies and practices affecting recruitment, recruitment advertising, hiring, promotion, demotion, termination, transfers, reclassification, and selection for training, compensation, benefits, Company-sponsored educational programs, and all other aspects of employment. Our policy against harassment and discrimination extends to every aspect of the work environment, including abuse of electronic mail and all other forms of communications. ADA and Disability Accommodations As part of its commitment to equal opportunity employment, and in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state law, AEG does not discriminate in any way or action on the basis of disability or qualifying medical condition, nor do we condone such discrimination.

It is AEG's policy to prohibit unlawful discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, such as race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, genetic information or condition, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. AEG is committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified persons to all job positions and to administering all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs or terminations, training, education, and social and recreational programs, in a non-discriminatory manner consistent with this policy. Applicants and employees will be evaluated based on legitimate, nondiscriminatory factors, such as their ability, competence and performance of the essential functions of their positions.