Event and Venue General Manager (Director)

LA28 (Web); Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LA28 seeks a Director, Event and Venue Management to lead planning and delivery of venue operations across competition venues for the Olympic Games. You will build plans, teams, and partnerships that turn temporary sites into world-class fields of play, coordinating diverse functions through fixed delivery timelines.

You will manage budgets, schedules, and risk while directing senior cross-functional teams to success, with on-site work in downtown Los Angeles and a focus on safety,

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading venue, event, or operations for major live events.
• Proven track record of meeting fixed deadlines with senior teams.

Responsibilities

• Set operational direction for venue planning and Games-time delivery.
• Lead senior venue teams, workforce plans, and procedures.
• Coordinate stakeholders across sport, broadcast, security, and venues.
• Manage budgets, master schedules, and risk across venues.
• Oversee temporary overlay and infrastructure for safe venues.
• Ensure on-site readiness for multiple venues with fixed deadlines.
• Direct experience delivering venues for Olympic/Paralympic or major games.
• Collaborate across partners to solve complex operational challenges.

Skills

Venue operations leadership

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Job description

Event and Venue General Manager (Director)

LA28 does not provide relocation assistance for any positions. If you are based outside the Los Angeles area, we still welcome your application — we value talent from all geographic backgrounds and want to hear from you if you are able to work on-site in LA.

Role Purpose

As Director, Event and Venue Management, you will lead the planning and delivery of venue operations across multiple competition venues for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the years leading up to the Games, you will shape venue operations from the ground up, building the plans, teams, and partnerships that turn a temporary site into a world-class field of play. You will coordinate functions and stakeholders, manage budget and risk, and take each venue from concept through Games-time delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Set operational direction and standards for venue planning, readiness, and Games-time delivery across your portfolio.
• Build and lead senior venue teams, workforce plans, and operating procedures across multiple venue sites.
• Coordinate functional areas and external stakeholders, including sport, broadcast, security, and commercial venue partners.
• Steer venue budgets, master schedules, and risk registers across a portfolio of venues through to closure.
• Oversee temporary overlay and infrastructure to deliver safe, accessible, athlete- and fan-first fields of play.
• 8+ years of experience leading venue, event, or operations delivery for major, complex, live sporting or entertainment events at scale.
• A strong track record of building and leading senior, cross-functional operational teams to fixed, immovable event deadlines, holding a high delivery bar.
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills, coordinating many partners and functional areas simultaneously across multiple venues at once.
• Proven experience directing budgets, master schedules, and comprehensive risk registers across multiple concurrent operational programs.
• Decisive, calm leadership and sound judgment when information is incomplete and the delivery timeline is genuinely fixed.
• Direct experience delivering venues at an Olympic, Paralympic, or other major international Games.
• Familiarity with temporary overlay, infrastructure, and field-of-play operations at competition venues.
• A background coordinating sport, broadcast, security, accreditation, and commercial venue partners.
• A collaborative, co-creative approach to solving complex operational problems under demanding timelines.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to build and operate a competition venue for a once-in-a-generation Games.
• A collaborative, co-creative culture grounded in inclusion, integrity, and accountability.
• High-impact, highly visible delivery work with a lasting community legacy.
• Genuine professional growth alongside a diverse, world-class Games-delivery team.

What This Role Means for the Games

The Games happen at venues — where athletes compete and the world watches. In this role, you lead the teams and plans that turn sites into fully operational fields of play, holding the standard that keeps every competition day safe, accessible, and seamless.

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions

• Available to work onsite in our Downtown Los Angeles-based office.
• The majority of work will be conducted in an office setting, requiring extended periods of time using computers, phones, and other office equipment.
• The LA28 office is an open floorplan working environment; employees must be able to work efficiently in an open cubicle environment.
• Hours of work may vary, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, especially during peak event periods.
• Perform other duties as required; the role will evolve over time and may include operational responsibilities during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• This role supports multiple venue sites, with travel across venues and to our Los Angeles-based office as required.

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position is $126,000.00 - $160,000.00. The pay scale provided is the range that LA28 reasonably expects to pay as starting base compensation for this role. All LA28 compensation remains subject to final determination based on individual candidate qualifications, experience, or other reasonable criteria consistent with LA28's operational business needs and applicable law.

Accommodation

LA28 is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require an accommodation at any stage, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

LA28 is committed to fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin, or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. LA28 will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and all applicable laws. We strive to build a team that is inclusive and encourage qualified candidates of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities to apply. We assess applications based on relevant skills, education, and experience a candidate can add to our team.

LA2028 Inclusion: Voluntary Demographics

At LA2028, Inclusion is a core pillar of our values and behaviors. We seek out and embrace diversity of all forms, respect and value different perspectives, and strive to build a team that reflects our community. This section of the application process helps us strengthen our hiring practices by mitigating unconscious bias through anonymous data collection.

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