ITAV Event Technical ProducerNew$240K–$266K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s IT organization supports the mission of deploying artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of all. Our team is committed to providing seamless technological support and solutions to ensure that all OpenAI employees are well-equipped and connected.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical production for complex internal, hybrid, and distributed: events from early planning and scoping through rehearsal, live delivery, and debrief.

  • Align Internal Comms, Marketing, Brand Experience, and Workplace on audience: goals, requirements, scope, dependencies, and decision owners. Turn ambiguous or competing needs into an agreed production plan and readiness criteria.

  • Configure and operate live audio, video switching, cameras, playback,: conferencing, streaming, and recording systems for the agreed production.

  • Integrate the run of show across sites and lead multiple crews globally for: all-company events. Align technical cues, rehearsals, content handoffs, schedules, and contingencies with partner teams to deliver one cohesive event.

  • Lead rehearsals and validate the complete audience experience, including: remote contribution, playback, recording, and tested backup paths.

  • Independently prioritize technical production tradeoffs and lead risk reviews: and incident response. Resolve ambiguity within your scope, and seek guidance for complex situations or decisions owned by event, staffing, budget, or engineering partners.

What they're looking for

  • Build reusable production plans, show files, runbooks, and change-control: practices. Coach peers and junior crew members to use them independently and verify improvements in readiness, troubleshooting, and execution.
  • Set a prioritized roadmap for production improvements using audience: feedback, debriefs, and recurring failures. Lead workflow changes across teams and define permanent-system improvements with AV Engineering.
  • Identify repeatable production work and build AI and agentic workflows with: partner teams. Validate results, establish operating and maintenance ownership, support adoption, and measure preparation effort or reliability improvements.
  • Experience leading complex live or hybrid productions across multiple teams,: from ambiguous requirements through rehearsal, delivery, and debrief.