Paid Programs & Marketing Manager Union House Brooklyn, NY US 11/12/2026

Playbill, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development opportunities

Discounts on childcare

Job summary

Union House in Brooklyn seeks a dedicated events producer to shape, manage, and promote Jewish cultural programming. You will coordinate leadership, staff, and committees to turn ideas into calendars with budgets, promotions, and timelines.

The role requires hands-on on-site logistics on program nights and close collaboration with partnerships to grow audience engagement. You will craft descriptions and communications, manage ticketing, and ensure timely updates to the website and social

Qualifications

• You have produced events and written emails or posts promoting them.
• You come from arts administration, cultural programming, hospitality, stage management, event production, or community work.
• You are comfortable with email marketing, website updates, registrations, and project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Shape programs with leadership to turn ideas into calendared plans with dates, budgets, and promotion timelines.
• Own the logistics from first confirmation to final cleanup, including artists' hospitality, AV, security, room setup, catering, signage, and run-of-show documents.
• Build audience reach by drafting program descriptions, emails, social posts, and website updates; manage ticketing and mailing lists.
• Track attendance, gather feedback, and debrief to improve future programming; keep budgets and records organized.

Skills

Event production

Email marketing

Website management

Registration management

Social media

Project management

Spreadsheets

Tools

Email marketing tools

Website CMS

Registration systems

Social media management tools

Spreadsheet software

Job description

What you'll do

The daily workflow follows from the life of each program: from concept ideation to a buzzing space and then back to the planning table with new programming insights. For each new event, you will:

Shape it. Work with leadership, programming staff, and committees to turn ideas into calendared plans with a date, a budget, and a promotion timeline. Keep track of the master calendar so every program's deadlines, space, staffing, and marketing live in one place and team members know what’s expected of them to deliver.

Produce it. Own the logistics from first confirmation to final cleanup. This includes agreements and hospitality for artists, speakers, and teachers; AV, security, room setup, catering, signage, and printing; run-of-show documents and checklists; volunteers who know exactly what they're doing. On program nights, you will need to be on site, solving problems as they come up.

Fill the room. Build out a strategy to get people through the door. Write the program descriptions, emails, social posts, and website updates that get people to show up. Work with leadership on ticketing tiers, watch sales and push when numbers lag. Manage our mailing list and registrations. Reach out to community partners who can bring new audiences, and pitch local press or coordinate with PR contractors when a program calls for it.

Close the loop. Send the thank-yous and photos, post the recaps, track who came and how they heard about us, and run the debrief for our team that will make the next program even better. Keep budgets, invoices, and records in order along the way.

Grow our community. Treat every program as a chance to learn who came and what they cared most about. Schmooze with regulars, partners, and first-time visitors. Bring what you hear back into planning the calendar, and invite people deeper in, as members, patrons, volunteers, or co-hosts.

Between programs, the audience-building continues: growing our list, telling the story of what just happened, getting ahead on the next season’s calendar, and turning what worked into templates and checklists we can reuse.

How you work

You make people feel at home. Artists, volunteers, neighbors, and first-time visitors get a genuinely warm welcome, and you remember their names next time they show up. (Even if that means keeping lots of notes to jog your memory!)

You follow through. You keep several programs moving at once, each at its own stage, and none of them slips through the cracks. Practically, if you said “Tuesday,” it happens Tuesday. Increasingly fewer messages sit in our team’s "waiting to hear back" queue.

You build relationships one conversation at a time. With partners, contractors, and community members, you invest in getting to know folks, including the ones who take longer to win over and the ones who aren’t the type to chat with an event organizer.

You stay steady when plans change. A late performer, a broken projector, a hard conversation with a vendor or a pesky fire alarm that needs to be reset? They don’t throw you off your game.

You care whether people showed up. A program isn't a success until the room is filled with a wide range of community members, and you have found ways of learning more about what got them out of their homes.

You draw people in. You notice the regular who'd make a great greeter, the volunteer who’s ready for more responsibility, and the guest with an idea for a program. You invite each of them to take the next step with us.

Being a great host and producer doesn't mean being the center of attention. Warmth comes in many styles. Quiet and steadiness are also essential at times. What matters most, as a representative of our team, is that people leave a conversation with you feeling witnessed in who they are.

Who you might be

You've produced events, as well as written the emails or posts that promoted them. Or, you've done one of those roles well and are eager to grow into the other.

You might come from arts administration, cultural programming, hospitality, stage management, event production, community organizing, marketing, or teaching. You're comfortable with email marketing, website, registration, and project-management tools, social media, and spreadsheets, and you're drawn to Union House's mission at the meeting point of Jewish life, arts, learning, ritual, and community. You do not need to be Jewish to do this job well. You do need to be committed to producing Jewish cultural and community programming with care and dedication.

We'll teach you the tools and systems specific to Union House, and we're eager to learn which ones have served you best elsewhere. If this sounds like you but you don't check every box, we'd still like to hear from you.

The details

This role is full-time and primarily on-site at Union House in Brooklyn, reporting to the Executive Director and working closely with the many humans who make Union House what it is. Evenings and some weekends will be part of the job.

Salary: $75-90k, commensurate with experience

Benefits: Health insurance, paid time off, professional development opportunities. Discounts on childcare within the building.

Union House is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or creed, national origin, immigration or citizenship status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, marital or partnership status, caregiver status, military or veteran status, height or weight, arrest or conviction record, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. People of color, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, and others from historically underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply.

SALARY

$75,000.00 – $90,000.00 per year

• NON-UNION