Manager, Venue Planning and Operations

The role

You will plan how competition venues support world-class broadcast by partnering with Olympic Broadcasting Services production teams. You will establish plans, standards, and working relationships to translate technical requirements into venue plans.

What you will do

• Serve as primary contact for Olympic Broadcasting Services production teams.
• Lead World Broadcaster Meetings and briefings.
• Manage deliverable submissions and the flow of technical information.
• Support infrastructure and technical planning for competition venues.
• Lead site visits to competition venues to assess broadcast infrastructure needs.
• Partner across Venue Infrastructure, Technology, Hospitality, Ticketing and Games Operations.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant broadcast industry experience.
• Experience working alongside international broadcast organizations responsible for global coverage of major sporting events.
• Proven success building working relationships across a diverse and demanding range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience working across multiple functional areas to move complex technical venue plans forward.
• Comfortable securing buy-in from senior external rights holders, including the International Olympic and International Paralympic Committees.
• Ability to work in an open floorplan working environment.
• Ability to work onsite in Downtown Los Angeles.

Nice to have

• 7+ years working within broadcast production and live operations.
• Familiarity with temporary or overlay broadcast infrastructure at major multi-venue events.
• Experience delivering broadcast plans across a multi-venue portfolio simultaneously.
• Direct exposure to host broadcaster planning processes and approval cycles.
• Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Historic opportunity to shape how the Games reach a global audience.
• Rare cross-functional breadth across venues, technology and international broadcast partners.
• Accelerated learning and transferable skills.
• Collaborative, inclusive team.

Before you apply

• LA28 does not provide relocation assistance.
• If based outside the Los Angeles area, you must be able to work on-site in LA.

About the company

LA28 is an organization working to carry the Olympic and Paralympic Games to the world.