£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.
