Event and Venue General Manager (Director)

The role

You will lead the planning and delivery of venue operations across multiple competition venues for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. You will build plans, teams, and partnerships to turn venues into world-class fields of play.

What you will do

• Lead the development, optimization, and delivery of venue-based Event Operations plans.
• Lead the venue team to achieve objectives, venue readiness, and deliverables.
• Build relationships with the venue partner and related stakeholders.
• Manage meeting cadence, stakeholder site visits, venue planning, and operational readiness.
• Work with venue infrastructure, technology, and other technical teams to track deliverables.
• Manage venue service levels, identify risks, and develop mitigation strategies.
• Hire, train, motivate, and lead a diverse venue team.
• Coordinate with venue owners and local authorities to manage the Venue Use Agreement.
• Prepare and deliver written and oral reports on venue status to senior leaders.
• Manage venue operations supporting athletes, workforce, spectators, marketing partners, and media.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in sport management or complementary field
• 8+ years of experience leading venue, event, or operations delivery for major, complex, live sporting or entertainment events at scale
• Track record of leading senior, cross-functional operational teams to fixed, immovable event deadlines
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills
• Experience directing budgets, master schedules, and comprehensive risk registers across multiple concurrent operational programs
• Decisive, calm leadership and sound judgment when information is incomplete

Nice to have

• Direct experience delivering venues at an Olympic, Paralympic, or other major international Games
• Familiarity with temporary overlay, infrastructure, and field-of-play operations at competition venues
• A background coordinating sport, broadcast, security, accreditation, and commercial venue partners
• A collaborative, co-creative approach to solving complex operational problems under demanding timelines

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and operate a competition venue for a once-in-a-generation Games
• Collaborative, co-creative culture grounded in inclusion, integrity, and accountability
• High-impact, highly visible delivery work with a lasting community legacy
• Genuine professional growth alongside a diverse, world-class Games-delivery team

Before you apply

• LA28 does not provide relocation assistance
• Must be able to work on-site in LA

About the company

LA28 is the organization responsible for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.