Senior Live Event Technician & Broadcast Specialist

AVI-SPL; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits (vision & dental)

Paid holidays & personal days

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

AVI-SPL is seeking an experienced technical producer for live, hybrid, and virtual events in St. Louis. You will operate control rooms, coordinate speakers, and ensure broadcast quality across physical and virtual environments.

You’ll collaborate with production teams and clients, apply technical expertise, and help maintain production facilities to deliver seamless event experiences with white-glove service.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of live event production, broadcast, video production, or related technical event environments.
• 3+ years of experience supporting onsite, virtual, and hybrid live events.
• Strong studio and control room production experience with hands-on operation of live event systems.
• Experience with control room equipment including video switchers, audio consoles, robotic cameras, and video playback systems.
• Knowledge of virtual production environments and enterprise meeting platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom).
• Ability to support virtual event production and execution in a producer or technical producer capacity, including managing event flow, speaker coordination, and live show operations.
• Strong understanding of broadcast production workflows, signal flow, and live event execution.
• Ability to make real-time technical decisions under pressure to maintain broadcast quality and event continuity.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and consistent operational discipline.
• Ability to work independently while remaining highly collaborative within production teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact confidently with clients, presenters, and production stakeholders.
• Proven ability to maintain composure and deliver high-quality results in fast-paced, high-pressure live event environments.
• Strong work ethic, adaptability, and commitment to white-glove service standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical consultation on design and execution of live, hybrid, and virtual event experiences using professional video, audio, and presentation systems.
• Support coordination and execution of virtual meetings and events across platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, including live production support as needed.
• Act as producer or technical producer, managing show flow, coordinating speakers, controlling timing, ensuring smooth execution of virtual and hybrid events.
• Coordinate technical production requirements for all events and ensure compliance with standards and procedures.
• Support presenter preparation, including rehearsals, run-throughs, technical checks, and live-day readiness.
• Ensure thorough quality checks of all event assets, systems, and configurations prior to live production.
• Participate in post-event reviews, incident documentation, and technical postmortems to identify issues and improvements.
• Assist in postproduction tasks including basic editing, clipping, and delivery of recorded content and assets.
• Collaborate on evaluation of production workflows and recommend improvements for studio, control room, and event spaces.
• Participate in regular production meetings to align schedules, technical requirements, and upcoming briefs.

Skills

Live event production

Hybrid events

Onsite events

Control room operation

Broadcast quality

Virtual production

Team collaboration

Speaker coordination

Real-time decision making

Communication skills

High-pressure environment

Tools

TriCaster

Yamaha consoles

Dante

Shure

Intercom systems

Encoding/decoding systems

Adder KVM systems

Adobe Premiere Pro / Final Cut Pro

Job description

AVI-SPL is seeking an experienced technical producer for live, hybrid, and virtual events in St. Louis. You will operate control rooms, coordinate speakers, and ensure broadcast quality across physical and virtual environments.

You’ll collaborate with production teams and clients, apply technical expertise, and help maintain production facilities to deliver seamless event experiences with white-glove service.