£35k – £50k per annum

Job Details:

Company Selling Points

✓ Rapidly growing ‘hybrid events’ industry after Covid, livestreams, AR/VR

✓ Had first mover advantage in online and hybrid events

✓ The company is doubling revenue year or year, due to strong performance

✓ Clients include large corporates in London, expanded to Europe, sometimes US

✓ Progression, pay rises and bonuses available for strong performers

✓ Excellent retention, the leadership team will listen to your

✓ They are very thorough, limited mistakes at events so clients keep coming back; very good at adapting to client needs

✓ Building their own technology offering, plan for a US office

Company Overview:

Live streaming events company based in London, delivering virtual, hybrid and in-person events for large companies. Their services include bespoke events, content creation, design, live streaming, experiential, filming events, photography and virtual/augmented reality. Clients including Uber, PA Consulting, Autodesk, Dow Jones – currently a team of 11 plus freelancers.

Job Description

Lead the planning, equipment, technical solutions and delivery of live streaming events for the company.

Strategy

• Work with co-founders and event production team to provide best in-class live production solutions for clients
• Work on virtual, hybrid, and in-person events to deliver a high quality product

Leadership

• Facilitate and attend team and client meetings
• Owns the technical support lifecycle, manage technical risks
• Understand resource requirements and manage the team; internals and freelancers
• Coordinating personal and team workloads from PM system Monday.com

Clients

• Support sales at client meetings, to understand requirements and provide quotes
• Build strong relationships with our clients, understand their needs and future event schedule, resulting in quality delivery and recurring business
• Client facing, responsive to clients when required

Delivery

• Providing solutions for any complex technical or personnel challenge on events
• Work with internal team of event producers, project managers, designers and video producers, and coordinate freelance production crew
• Coordinate crew and equipment as needed
• Work on AV, Live Streaming, Broadcast and Filming solutions
• Operate and maintain professional video, lighting and audio equipment
• Transport and setup of video, lighting, and audio equipment as required
• Monitors assigned video conferencing calls on end user’s event sites
• Swap equipment as needed to maintain service levels
• Assists staff with pulling, staging and striking audio/visual equipment for events
• Manages physical inventory
• Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion
• Ability to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
• Location and on-site management
• Assess technical and on-site health and safety risks and be alert for live issues on event days and be primed to react accordingly

Best Practices

• Develop internal process and best practice guidelines
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry and share internally

Experience Requirements:

• 3-5+ Years of AV Production or Broadcast Industry Experience
• Strong VMIX experience
• Proficient in Audio, Video and Streaming
• Live Streaming and transmission protocol experience; RTMP, SRT, NDI
• Professional Video Cameras and Film Lighting knowledge
• Experience with AV Equipment from Canon, Sony, Blackmagic & Sennheiser
• Successful professional event organisation (virtual and in-person), with autonomous and collaborative work
• Able to travel to studios, offices (mostly London), or venues for site visits or produce studio days for hybrid/in-person events

Personality Fit

• Active communicator, to coordinate others and update all stakeholders
• Extremely thorough to make sure no ball is dropped
• Builds very strong relationships with internals and clients
• Work in high-pressure situations with a cool head
• Creative and curious to solve challenges and learn about new industry trends
• Happy doing work from strategic discussions to hands on setup as required

Location: London (almost all events are in the London area)

Office in Shoreditch, flexible work from home on non-shoot days.

Salary: £35,000 – £50,000 depending on experience. For the right person, a salary above the advertised band may be considered.

Hours

Majority of events in core business hours, but the role will require 2-4 evenings work per month and 3-4 weekends of work per year.

Benefits

• Bonus scheme: up to 10% of salary
• Salary reviewed twice a year
• Regular professional development opportunities
• Regular team socials (virtually and, in-person as guidelines allow)
• Hybrid in-person/remote set-up
• Travel / Season Loans
• Home office spending allowance
• Friday lunch allowance

Start Date: December 2022

Please note that only candidates currently in the UK and eligible to work without visa sponsorship can be considered for this position.