Producer: Experience & Programming

Node Foundation; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid vacation

Access to NODE events

Creative collaboration opportunities

Job summary

NODE is seeking a world-class Producer to lead the conception, design, and execution of its full programming slate—exhibits, events, and initiatives that define its future. You will work with artists, engineers, and fabricators to turn ambitious ideas into reality, ensuring top-tier production across activations and performances.

You will manage multi-discipline projects, timelines, and budgets, while maintaining aesthetic and technical standards.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional experience producing large-scale events, exhibitions, or installations.
• Ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects and timelines.
• Strong communication and vendor management skills.
• Experience in art, design, architecture, or live events preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of NODE's activations from concept to execution.
• Manage timelines, budgets, and logistics for installations and events.
• Coordinate across design, engineering, fabrication, marketing and vendors.
• Maintain high aesthetic and technical standards across experiences.
• Support visiting artists with production needs and documentation.
• Ensure flawless on-site delivery during openings, previews, and private events.
• Develop programming slate including residencies and public programming.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Vendor management

Production workflows

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Artistic sensitivity

Attention to detail

Job description

We're looking for a world-class Producer to lead the conception, design, and execution of NODE's full programming slate: exhibits, events, and the program initiatives that define what NODE is becoming. You'll work at the intersection of art, design, and technology while partnering with artists, engineers, and fabricators to turn ambitious ideas into reality.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of NODE's physical activations, exhibitions, and performances—from concept through execution
• Manage timelines, budgets, and logistics for installations and live events
• Coordinate across internal teams (design, engineering, fabrication, marketing) and external vendors
• Maintain high aesthetic and technical standards across all experiences
• Support visiting artists and partners with production needs, documentation, and installation
• Ensure flawless on-site delivery during openings, previews, and private events
• Develop and steward NODE's programming slate beyond exhibitions, including residencies, public programming, and experimental formats defining the future of how digital art is experienced

Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional experience producing large-scale events, exhibitions, or installations
• Proven ability to manage complex projects involving multiple creative and technical disciplines
• Deep familiarity with production workflows, budgets, and fabrication logistics
• Excellent communication and vendor management skills
• Strong visual literacy and sensitivity to artistic intent
• Calm under pressure, detail-oriented, and execution-focused
• Experience in art, design, architecture, or live events preferred

Competitive salary range depending on experience. Annual performance-based bonus.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Access to NODE's cultural events, artist programs, and private previews
• Opportunities for creative collaboration and professional growth within a world-class art and technology environment

About NODE

NODE is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to transforming how digital art is experienced. NODE is both an idea and a place – built with artists, by artists, and for artists.

NODE is the antidote to sterile galleries and stagnant institutions. NODE is part exhibition space, part learning lab, part cultural engine—designed to give digital art a home that matches its energy and potential. It challenges how we think about art, who gets to create it, and how we engage with it. It celebrates code as culture, and believes the future of art is collaborative, alive, and always evolving.

From Palo Alto to every connected device worldwide, NODE brings together a network of creators who understand that art has the power to bring us closer. We host experiences that evolve and deepen as more people engage. We create spaces – both physical and digital – that invite interaction, experimentation, and dialogue. We partner directly with artists to protect and preserve their code and creative legacy. We collaborate with universities and forward-looking institutions to nurture and inspire the next generation of digital creators. Because it takes a network to make art work.

Our Ten Commandments

• Have serious fun
• No one leaves empty-handed
• Bring a beginner's mindset
• Make people feel at home
• Everyone has something to offer
• Rules are meant to be broken
• Experience comes from doing
• There's always a place for Punks

Interview Process

• Project deep-dive with team (60 min)
• On-site walkthrough & case study (90 min)