Production Director, Experiential

Director, Event Production

We are seeking a Director, Event Production to lead event production for one of 160over90's key accounts and all of their exciting experiential efforts around the FIFA World Cup 26TM. The Director will be responsible for the planning and production of live experiential marketing activations at FIFA Fan FestivalTM 2026 across multiple FIFA World Cup 26TM Host Cities. This position plays a leading role from development to implementation, driving the overall planning, execution and budgetary responsibility for the project. The perfect candidate must have excellent communications and organizational skills and be solutions oriented. They should pride themselves on being expert project, budget, people, and time managers. Proactivity, multitasking, and problem-solving skills are a must. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring a team, monitoring, and maintaining the project scope, task timeline, operating budget, required staff / resources, and overall quality of the resulting deliverables. Multi-lingual proficiency and previous experience working with FIFA or across the landscape of global football is a plus.

The ideal candidate must have extensive experiential marketing experience, internal team management experience, client service communication, be well organized, a self-starter, able to work with a variety of people with varying work styles, have the ability to prioritize workload, and have a drive to continue working until the job is done. This position reports to Vice President, Production.

The 160over90 office environment is informal, but highly professional, requiring high-quality work and individual initiative. Each staff member is part of the team and must be willing to perform a wide breadth of activities.

• Lead a team of event production individuals to deliver the best product for the client and the work group
• Strategic ability to conceive, develop and implement programs that build client brand and provide a foundation to drive client business growth
• Develop and maintain an effective organization through selection, training, compensation, motivation, and performance management
• Monitor and manage the project including creation of project plans and budgets as well as scope and changes to budgets
• Manage internal and external staff on execution and delivery of all aspect of programs. Including creative ideation, budgeting, fabrication, logistics, installations, on-site execution, permitting, timelines, etc.
• Assist with recruiting, training and overall people management coordinator(s), manager(s), contractor(s), tour and temporary staff as needed for the execution of each program
• Play a key role in a project team environment by managing deliverables to account team members as well as client contacts
• Is highly proficient in budgeting and tracking of multi-million dollar accounts and ensure financial management of each meets agency standards
• Possess and can develop key vendor / partners related to our business so we are delivering the best product and pricing for our clients
• Ability to lead large scale live events with multiple agency, vendor, and client involvement
• Able to position yourself as a leader within the team and company to help lead growth and development of organization
• Can apply best practices and learnings from previous projects to elevate performance level
• Meet deadlines, prioritize tasks, report on key accounts and deliver prompt and sound decisions
• Will create accountability practices within company

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WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

Don't meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

160 / 90 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that encourages applications from qualified, eligible candidates from all backgrounds and life experiences regardless of race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.