Production Manager

Aquent is partnering with a leading global enterprise known for its dynamic environment and high-profile communications. This organization is at the forefront of connecting with its vast employee and stakeholder base through impactful virtual, hybrid, and live events, fostering a culture of engagement and collaboration.

Are you a master of event production, ready to orchestrate high-impact virtual, hybrid, and live experiences for thousands? We are seeking an exceptional Event Producer to step into a critical contract role, covering a parental leave, where you will immediately own and deliver a portfolio of high-profile enterprise events. This is your chance to be the connective tissue between content strategy and technical execution, directly shaping the most significant internal and external moments - from earnings weeks and town halls to leadership summits. Your expertise will ensure seamless, engaging broadcasts, making a tangible impact on how this global enterprise communicates and connects.

What You'll Own

• Lead content and production execution across virtual, hybrid, and live enterprise events, from early planning through live show and post-event wrap.
• Partner with program stakeholders to design the full event experience, including technical agenda, show flow, audience engagement strategy, and production quality standards aligned to each event's goals.
• Serve as the primary keynote and general session production liaison between the core events team, internal technical teams, external technology partners, third-party agencies, and internal stakeholders.
• Direct live broadcasts in real time, making confident production calls in partnership with the events team and technical crew.
• Manage simultaneous workstreams across multiple events at varying stages of production without losing precision on any of them.
• Own end-to-end speaker management, including communications, scheduling, tech checks, rehearsals, recordings, and live appearances for internal and external presenters.
• Provide on-camera coaching and presentation guidance to executives and senior leaders, ensuring every speaker is confident, prepared, and on-message before going live.
• Coordinate all presenter resources and support systems, ensuring nothing is left to chance on show day.
• Lead pre-event table reads, stakeholder reviews, and full rehearsals, facilitating alignment between content leads and the production team.
• Work closely with content leads to integrate all presentation elements-slides, video, live demos, remote speakers-into a cohesive, polished show.
• Build and maintain repeatable production processes for enterprise event delivery, scalable enough to serve a complex, matrixed organization and precise enough to hold up under pressure.
• Own all production documentation: timelines, session logistics, rehearsal and tech check schedules, cue sheets, and run-of-show documents.
• Develop and manage content collection and delivery processes: track presentation versions, follow up on missing assets, and ensure all final materials are consolidated and accounted for in advance of each show.
• Lead structured post-event production debriefs covering technical performance, content quality, and process gaps, translating findings into actionable improvements.
• Maintain and continuously optimize production templates and tools for the broader events team.
• Collaborate closely with the Events team and cross-functional partners in internal technical teams, Communications, Workplace Experience, and other business units to ensure cohesive, on-brand execution.
• Facilitate alignment between content strategy and event production for high-profile meetings, conferences, and leadership events.
• Participate in regular core team and production meetings, and represent the production function confidently in ad hoc stakeholder discussions.
• Partner with external technical production vendors and third-party agencies, managing scope, timelines, and accountability on deliverables.

Who You Are

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in event production, content management, or live broadcast production in a corporate or agency environment.
• Deep, hands-on expertise producing large-scale events on Zoom-webinars, town halls, all-hands broadcasts, and multi-session conferences-including advanced host and production controls.
• Demonstrated experience producing keynotes and general sessions for large audiences, with full ownership of show flow and on-site or remote direction.
• Experience working in large, matrixed organizations with multiple concurrent stakeholder groups and competing priorities.
• Familiarity with enterprise collaboration tools, digital asset management systems, and broadcast production or live streaming environments.
• Bachelor's degree in communications, media production, marketing, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• Technically fluent across virtual event platforms, broadcast production tools, and enterprise AV environments-you know the stack and can troubleshoot it under pressure.
• Exceptionally organized with strong process design instincts; you build systems that others can rely on.
• Calm and decisive in high-pressure live environments-the person the room looks to when something unexpected happens.
• Executive presence and communication skills strong enough to coach senior leaders and hold a room of stakeholders.
• A strategic thinker who sees audience engagement not as a feature but as the point-and designs for it from the start.

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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