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Penske Media

Owns and operates diversified media brands

Vice President - Events Production

Production ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLos Angeles, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in live event production, including significant experience producing events across a range of scales, from intimate curated experiences to large-scale productions.
  • Demonstrated expertise overseeing full production operations, including budgeting, vendor negotiation, on-site logistics, and technical production.
  • Proven ability to lead multiple concurrent productions of varying scale and format in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • Strong network of industry contacts, including vendors, crews, staging, lighting, catering, and audiovisual production partners.
  • Experience managing large production budgets and profit-and-loss statements.
  • Ability to maintain detailed organization and a high quality standard across events with different footprints.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present confidently to senior leadership, partners, and external stakeholders.
  • Willingness and ability to travel and work extended hours, including evenings and weekends, during awards season and peak production windows.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the Golden Globes brand and appreciation for the entertainment and awards-season landscape.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end events production strategy for all Golden Globes events outside the core awards telecast, including Golden Week, ancillary awards-season events, bespoke curated experiences, and large-scale partner productions.
  • Build and manage the annual events calendar and roadmap across the full portfolio, sequencing overlapping workstreams throughout awards season and beyond.
  • Partner with the awards show production team and the President of the Golden Globes to ensure brand, creative, and experiential consistency across Golden Globes touchpoints.
  • Identify and pitch new curated, bespoke, and large-scale event formats that extend the Golden Globes brand, deepen partner relationships, and create revenue opportunities.
  • Own the full production lifecycle for each event, including concepting, pre-production planning, vendor management, on-site execution, and post-event wrap and reconciliation.
  • Lead production for multiple simultaneous events of varying scale and format, from intimate bespoke dinners to large branded activations, each with its own creative brief, budget, and stakeholder set.
  • Oversee production elements including venue logistics, staging, lighting, video, scenic design, catering, credentialing, and technical operations, calibrated to each event’s scale and tone.
  • Establish and enforce production timelines, run-of-show documents, call sheets, contact sheets, and credentialing systems appropriate to each event type.
  • Develop and manage production budgets, profit-and-loss statements, and cost reporting across the portfolio, and partner with Finance on budget submission and reconciliation.
  • Manage and grow a network of external vendors, production partners, talent teams, and technical crews; identify, evaluate, and onboard new partners.
  • Negotiate vendor and production contracts while balancing cost discipline with the experience required by the Golden Globes and DCP brands.
  • Partner with the sponsorship team to design and execute sponsor activations and branded event experiences for Golden Week and the broader ancillary calendar.
  • Collaborate with sponsorship, public relations, legal, business affairs, and talent relations to align production elements with brand and business objectives.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience producing intimate, high-touch, or bespoke brand experiences in addition to large-scale events.
  • Existing relationships within the Hollywood awards community, studios, and network or streaming partners.
  • Experience working in a media company or entertainment production environment.
  • Prior people-management experience and a track record of building and developing production talent.

About the Company

Penske Media

Owns and operates diversified media brands

Penske Media functions as a media company that owns and operates a group of influential entertainment- and culture-focused brands. Its approach is to acquire established, legacy publications—often in niches like film, fashion, music, and events—and digitalize and grow them while preserving their identities. The company’s portfolio includes Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Women’s Wear Daily, Rolling Stone, and a stake in SXSW, among others, which it uses to shape conversations across entertainment, music, and fashion. Unlike some peers, PMC tends to build a portfolio by curating and modernizing existing brands rather than creating new ones from scratch, keeping each brand’s audience while expanding its digital reach and cross-brand opportunities. The goal is to become a leading curator and amplifier of cultural content across multiple media formats, leveraging scale and brand trust to guide audiences and influence trends.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$235M
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA
Founded
2003

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