Executive Lead, Technical Event Operations

Fox Entertainment; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Fox Entertainment is seeking a Vice President of Technical Event Operations to oversee production services for FOX Experience & Design. This role ensures staffing, budgets, documentation, and technical workflows across live events, studio productions, and offsite locations.

The position demands 12+ years in technical operations, strong client-facing skills, and a track record of leading teams, budgets, and vendors. On-site presence is essential, with long hours and travel as required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in technical operations, event services, studio management, or broadcast environments.
• Proven success managing teams, budgets, comms, and vendors across multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Strong client-facing skills with the ability to engage effectively with executives and senior stakeholders
• Broad understanding of production technologies, audiovisual systems, streaming platforms, and event operations
• Exceptional leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
• Proficient in Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive)
• Ability to travel
• Ability to work long hours (evenings/weekends), lift 50lbs, & work on feet for extended periods

Responsibilities

• Oversight of day-to-day technical operations across multiple spaces, projects, and workstreams
• Serve as the primary operational liaison between the core event production teams, creative directors, and internal stakeholders
• Ensure appropriate staffing, technical planning, and operational support are in place for all events and productions
• Identify gaps and hiring needs to support flawless execution
• Establish standards, workflows, and best practices that support consistency and quality across events and productions
• Develop cost saving and process improvement initiatives that increase operational efficiencies.
• Ensure a consistent, high-quality client experience across all productions and events
• Ensure the technical team maintains absolute source-of-truth documentation (event/production budgets, production schedules, planning calendars, crew call sheets, etc.), ensuring real-time updates across all platforms
• Oversee the full lifecycle of technical production budgets, ensuring accurate forecasting, reconciliation, and variance reporting
• Manage annual departmental budget spend, tracking, and usage
• Oversee freelance payroll needs via Wrapbook, supporting both tech and events
• Evolve FED Tech into a proactive, strategic partner to the FED team and internal stakeholders
• Provide clear and consistent communication and documentation between technical teams, stakeholders, and events teams, including budgets, production timelines, and run of show documents
• Streamline cross-departmental communication, ensuring all teams are aligned throughout the planning and execution of events and productions
• Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, FED team members, and outside production teams to accomplish goals efficiently and effectively, always striving to exceed expectations
• Manage project scope changes and support with additional resources, budget allocations, and impact on stakeholders
• Lead production administration and operations across FOX Experience & Design’s event and production venues, technical facilities, and offsite locations
• Serve as senior escalation point and provide guidance on complex ops
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and operational effectiveness
• Demonstrate exceptional situational leadership; possess the tactical skills to execute administrative workflows directly, and the managerial skills to delegate to junior staff when appropriate
• Lead tech ops meetings, ensuring all production needs, business needs, and personnel needs are aligned for flawless events and productions
• Set appropriate goals for technical and business operational excellence.

Skills

Team leadership

Budget management

Client communication

Operational planning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Wrapbook payroll

Google Workspace

Job description

Fox Entertainment is seeking a Vice President of Technical Event Operations to oversee production services for FOX Experience & Design. This role ensures staffing, budgets, documentation, and technical workflows across live events, studio productions, and offsite locations.

The position demands 12+ years in technical operations, strong client-facing skills, and a track record of leading teams, budgets, and vendors. On-site presence is essential, with long hours and travel as required.