Regional Venue Technology Manager (Central/Midwest Region)

Legends Global; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid vacation

401k plan

Job summary

Legends Global is seeking a Regional Venue Technology Manager to lead IT operations for central-region venues, overseeing POS, payments, and venue tech. You will manage a team of salaried and hourly staff, coordinate with 3rd-party vendors, and ensure uptime, security, and scalable IT services across sites in the Central Region.

The role requires 8+ years in POS tech, strong vendor management, and IT leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of POS experience, ideally in Hospitality or Tourism.
• Technical knowledge of IT systems including POS, networks, and enterprise apps.
• Experience with Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 365 suite.
• PCI risk and compliance experience.
• IT security and incident response capabilities.
• Ability to lead and mentor teams in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with IT ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow).
• Contract management and vendor relationship skills.
• Project management and leadership across lifecycle stages.

Responsibilities

• Lead venue technology team to deliver POS, payment, and critical systems support.
• Schedule, mentor, and deploy venue tech staff across the region.
• Manage third-party vendor relationships and contracts for venue tech.
• Collaborate with Corporate Infrastructure to design and maintain IT infrastructure and apps.
• Estimate, design, implement, and manage venue tech solutions to enable business goals.
• Evaluate and implement third-party tech products to improve service and profitability.
• Define standards and promote reuse of enterprise technologies to improve ops.
• Establish IT Service Management processes scalable across venues.
• Oversee IT finance processes like budgeting and invoicing for tech ops.
• Understand IT architecture areas and contribute to their development.
• Manage project scope, timelines, and realization of benefits.
• Communicate end-user architecture strategies and policies.
• Analyze current applications and infra for deficiencies and solutions.
• Serve as business relationship manager between West Region venues and IT.
• Act as escalation point for venue tech teams across West Region.
• Build and maintain client relationships for venue tech solutions.
• Provide guidance on strategic and technical direction for IT in venues.

Skills

POS experience

Vendor management

IT leadership

Team mentoring

IT security

Windows 10

Office 365

ServiceNow

Active Directory

Tools

ServiceNow

Active Directory

Windows Server

Microsoft 365

Job description

LEGENDS GLOBAL

Legends Global is the premier partner to the world's greatest live events, venues, and brands. We deliver a fully integrated solution of premium services that keeps our partners front and center through our white-label approach. Our network of 450 venues worldwide, hosting 20,000 events and entertaining 165 million guests each year, is powered by our depth of expertise and level of execution across every component feasibility & consulting, owner’s representation, sales, partnerships, hospitality, merchandise, venue management, and content & booking of world-class live events and venues.

The Legends Global culture is one of respect, ambitious thinking, collaboration, and bold action. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can be authentic, make an impact, and grow their career. Winning is an everyday thing at Legends Global. We have the best team members who understand every win is earned when we come together as one unified team. Sounds like a winning formula for you.

Join us!

THE ROLE

Reporting to the VP Venue Technology, the Regional Venue Technology Manager is primarily responsible for managing technology needs of event-based venues in the Central Region, including but not limited to the management of third-party vendors, venue technology projects, Point-of-Sale technology (terminals, kiosks, peripherals, etc.), Desktop support and day-to-day management support. The successful candidate will lead a team providing operational support to users and ensure availability, stability and security of business systems and IT infrastructure platforms.

Essential Functions

• Work with venue-based support resources to deliver and actively support point-of-sale, payment, and various other systems that are critical to business operations
• Schedule, manage, mentor, and optimize deployment of salaried and hourly venue technology staff
• Manage and optimize 3rd party vendor relationships and associated contracts that are key to venue technology, including point-of-sale vendors, digital menu board providers, mobile app providers, loyalty providers, etc.
• Work with Corporate Infrastructure team to design, deploy and maintain IT infrastructure and enterprise systems such as corporate email, security, Accounting/Finance systems, collaboration tools, etc.
• Work with broader technology team to estimate, design, implement and manage venue technology solutions in support of the business
• Manage the evaluation, recommendation, and implementation of third-party technology products and services to accomplish the goals of the organization, which includes providing quality service for guests and maximizing profitability
• Increase the productivity and effectiveness of venue technology operations through the definition of standards, best practices and promoting reuse of recommended enterprise technologies
• Establish and maintain IT Service Management processes and procedures that can be effectively scaled
• Ongoing management of IT Finance processes such as budgeting, reporting and invoice approval
• Understanding of all areas of the Information Technology Architecture and participate in their development
• Responsible for the Project Management and oversight of all venue technology projects. Lead project teams to manage delivery schedules and realization of project benefits
• Define and communicate end user architecture strategies, principles, standards, policies and procedures
• Analyze current application portfolio, installed technology and infrastructure to detect deficiencies and recommend solutions
• Act as the business relationship manager between West Region properties and the Legends IT department
• Act as escalation point for venue technology teams and operators across West Region properties
• Manage client relationships and expectations for venue technology solutions across West Region properties
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the organizational needs to provide guidance on strategic and technical direction
• Perform additional related duties, tasks and responsibilities as required

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills; effectively influence others, the ability to make decisions quickly, and exhibit a high-level of maturity. Other critical qualifications include:

• 8+ years of relevant point-of-sale experience, ideally in the Hospitality or Tourism industry
• Technical knowledge of IT systems
• Experience with Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 365 suite of products
• PCI risk and compliance
• IT Security and incident response
• Ability to motivate and lead teams
• Ability to effectively manage and produce in a matrixed environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong contract management skills
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2016
• IT Management tools (e.g. Active Directory)
• Experience with an IT ticketing solution to track and manage issues and requests (e.g. ServiceNow)
• Managing external vendors delivering managed IT services
• Relevant technical and project management certifications preferred
• Function as a leader throughout the project lifecycle
• Manage scope and estimate delivery schedules on the project
• Provide mentoring and support to venue technology team members
• A wide base of experience in one or more technologies, including systems, client technologies, network, business intelligence and analytics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with all levels of staff
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload and multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Strong problem solving and creative skills, and the ability to exercise sound judgment
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and result‑orientation
• Must be able to work varying schedules to reflect the business needs of the organization
• 20% Travel Required

Compensation

Competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid vacation, and 401k plan.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Location: Hybrid (Based near central region venues (Dallas, TX / New Orleans, LA))

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

NOTE

The essential responsibilities of this position are described below the above headings. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Also, this document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.

Legends Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and encourages Women, Minorities, Individuals with Disabilities, and protected Veterans to apply. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.