The AWS Global Events team is seeking an experienced Senior Event Producer with a natural aptitude for relationship building and leadership skills to join our Event Production team. This role will lead and drive Audio Visual production within our live events, as well as managing a team of external producers. This position will work directly with relative technical positions, and labor required to execute the audio, lighting and visual production at our live events. This role will be responsible for leading and managing the overall production and business decisions within assigned events owning the planning process, budgets, hiring, staffing, and timelines. This role will also oversee a variety of vendor and venue partners to ensure team members are working together to deliver a high-quality experience for our internal and external attendees/customers. The ideal candidate will have exceptional communication skills to work back with department leadership and bring projects to a close through project debriefs.
Key job responsibilities
• To manage the event production within assigned AWS Global Events partnered with the Event operations lead and stakholders.
• Work with our internal/external resources and vendor partners to build appropriate teams to execute the needs of assigned projects
• Ideate and share ideas to improve and produce experiences that inspire audiences to connect, learn and collaborate.
• Manage and track project metrics and report out on project status throughout the completion of assigned projects.
• Ensure best practices are in place and drive execution in the pre and post production of assigned projects.
• Work side by side with a technical team to deliver results.
• Manage, control and reconcile assigned budgets.
About the team
You will become an intracule part of the AWS Global Events Production Team supporting our external and internal live events. We are a fun energetic team of strategic creative thinkers always looking for new ways to deliver exceptional productions that engage, entertain, and inspire. Come help us create incredible experiences for our customers and attendees.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA | Sumner, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 8+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience
– Bachelor’s degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
– Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
– Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
– Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
– 5+ years of experience leading and executing multi-functional audio and visual production of live events.
– • Experience building a pre-production an onsite team to execute large events with multiple work-streams and activations.
– • Experience managing more than one project at the time, and navigating competing priorities and goals.
– • Ability to travel and work across time zones
– • Moves easily between generating big, creative ideas, driving process improvement, to executing event details.
– • Thrives in an ambiguous environment; can independently remove blockers and make decisions autonomously.
– • Ability to perform well in a highly dynamic, diverse, and rapidly changing environment.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $113,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.