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Future Brand Manager Opportunity

This is your ticket to join the Live Nation Network for future Regional Brand Manager opportunities!

At Live Nation, we're committed to building a dynamic team of talented professionals who are passionate about delivering exceptional client service and creating impactful marketing strategies. We're always on the lookout for exceptional individuals who share our vision and values. We invite you to join our Brand Management Network and be among the first to be considered for exciting new positions that match your background and aspirations.

The Regional Brand Manager leads the execution of regional and national sponsorship activation and venue deliverable across an assigned Live Nation region. This role is responsible for delivering best in class client service, managing sponsor programs from planning through recap, and serving as a key market expert across venues, internal teams, and client relationships. You will be focus on:

• Regional Sponsorship Activation & Execution
• Venue Deliverables & Market Ownership
• Client Service & Relationship Management
• Financial Performance, Budget Planning & Reporting
• Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
• Program Recaps, Optimization & Renewal Support

The Brand Management team is the get stuff done, turn-problems-into-solutions, make our clients look like the rock stars, driving force within the Live Nation Media & Sponsorship division. We are a collection of resourceful, ambitious, and strategic minded individuals that thrive in an environment full of variables and unknowns. If you like to sit at a desk, write white papers, and theorize on how things should work this is not the team for you. If you're ready to do the best work of your life, we should talk.

Client Strategy & Deal Execution

• Understand the role Live Nation Media & Sponsorship plays within the broader Live Nation business, including sponsor KPIs, inventory management, business solutions, and package-building processes.
• Support regional and national sponsor programs from planning through execution, recap, and renewal support
• Oversee the legal contract process, approvals, financial documents, and budget management for sponsors within the assigned region.
• Provide guidance and recommendations that help optimize programs, improve client satisfaction, and support renewal opportunities.
• Ensure delivery of contractual assets, including planning, execution, measurement, and reporting.

Market Leadership

• Develop deep expertise within the assigned region, including venue operations, sponsorship inventory, existing partner programs, sales opportunities, market dynamics, and operational efficiencies.
• Serve as a key regional point of contact for sponsorship activation needs across venues and internal teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve regional processes, strengthen program delivery, and create more consistent sponsor experiences across markets.

Team & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Build and maintain strong relationships with venue teams, sales, legal, finance, clients, seasonal staff, and senior leadership.
• Partner with internal Live Nation teams to ensure sponsorship programs are executed accurately, on time, and in alignment with client objectives.
• Collaborate with Brand Management counterparts across regions to share best practices, solve challenges, and strengthen national consistency.
• Support on-site activations, hospitality programs, venue deliverables, custom events, and other sponsor-related needs as required.
• Develop client-facing materials, recaps, reports, and presentations that communicate program performance and key insights.
• Take on additional responsibilities as requested by management.

What This Person Will Bring

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 2+ years of direct experience in brand management, client service, media, entertainment, marketing consulting, sales, advertising, or activation agencies.
• Strong client service instincts, including diligent follow-up and the ability to build and maintain internal and external relationships.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong attention to detail.
• Proactive, collaborative, and organized working style, with a willingness to take initiative and meet deadlines.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt quickly, pivot based on business needs, and work well under pressure.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Salesforce, Asana, Airtable, social media tools, or graphic design programs preferred.
• Passion for music, live events, and current entertainment trends.
• Ability to travel and work nights, weekends, and shows as needed.
• Reliable transportation to and from venue(s) and office.
• Ability to lift items up to 50 pounds as needed.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations.

Hiring Practices

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

Compensation for Regional Brand Manager opportunities generally begins at $60,000 per year and may vary based on qualifications and market factors.

Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.