VP of Production - Experiential Activations

We’re a fully integrated, award-winning marketing, event, and promotion agency with expertise in event executions, exhibit environments, mobile marketing tours, influencer crossovers, and filmed and streamed productions. We’re looking for a VP of Production to lead our Production department and set the standard for how we plan, manage, and deliver complex experiential programs. This role owns the health and performance of the Production function, including production excellence, team development, resource planning, financial stewardship, vendor strategy, and quality control across our portfolio. You’ll bring deep, hands-on production expertise and strong people leadership: you’ll guide and challenge experienced production leaders, and build a scalable department rather than becoming the primary producer on individual programs.

Permanent / Full Time

$190-$215k+ range

Hybrid schedule - Culver City

Travel and non-traditional hours, including evenings and weekends, as major events require (recovery days provided)

Applications must include examples of experiential projects or programs you personally produced, with a brief description of your role, responsibilities, budget scale, and production scope

What you’ll do

Lead the Production department

Own the strategy, structure, performance, and evolution of the department

Set agency-wide production standards, workflows, tools, and best practices

Create clarity around roles, decision-making, and accountability

Establish consistent standards for how programs are scoped, budgeted, staffed, produced, documented, and closed out

Maintain visibility across the production portfolio and identify operational, financial, staffing, and executional risks early

Partner with the VP of Growth and executive leadership to set priorities that support broader business objectives

Build an organization that scales without depending on individual team members or institutional knowledge

Drive production excellence and quality control

Set the standard for excellence across experiential programs, activations, tours, conferences, livestreams, and other complex executions

Provide senior oversight on the largest, most complex, or highest-risk programs

Pressure-test strategies, schedules, budgets, scopes, vendor plans, technical approaches, and contingency plans

Ensure teams evaluate feasibility, safety, complexity, timing, and cost before committing to an approach

Serve as the senior escalation point for major risks, vendor challenges, and critical decisions

Empower Production Directors and producers to own day-to-day execution, stepping in deeper only when circumstances require

Document lessons learned and apply best practices across teams and clients

Lead and develop your team

Lead, manage, and develop Production Directors and senior production talent

Coach leaders on team management, production judgment, financial management, client partnership, and decision-making

Build clear career paths, identify and retain high-potential talent, and create succession plans

Ensure managers coach their teams continuously, not just at annual reviews

Partner with HR and leadership on hiring, performance management, promotions, compensation, and organizational planning

Foster a culture that balances support with ownership, accountability, and high performance

Plan resources and capacity

Own production resource planning in partnership with Production Directors, Operations, and Account leadership

Track current and upcoming demand, utilization, travel, and capacity constraints

Identify staffing gaps early, and decide when to use full-time staff, freelancers, contractors, or specialized partners

Balance efficient utilization with sustainable workloads, and partner on long-term workforce planning

Provide financial and commercial leadership

Own financial discipline across the department with Finance, Operations, and Account leadership

Set expectations for budgeting, estimating, forecasting, procurement, reconciliation, and project closeout

Monitor project health, margins, utilization, vendor commitments, and financial risks across the portfolio

Hold Production Directors accountable for the financial health of their programs and teams

Ensure risks, scope changes, overages, and margin concerns surface early with clear recommendations

Find opportunities to improve efficiency and profitability without compromising quality

Shape vendor and procurement strategy

Oversee vendor strategy across fabrication, scenic, technical production, AV, labor, logistics, staffing, transportation, show services, and venues

Maintain strong partner relationships and evaluate vendor capability, performance, pricing, and capacity

Ensure teams bid, negotiate, contract, and manage vendors effectively

Identify opportunities to consolidate spend and improve purchasing leverage, while keeping a diverse, competitive vendor network

Partner with Finance, Operations, and Legal on procurement, contracting, insurance, and approval compliance

Lead across the agency and with clients

Serve as the senior Production voice within agency leadership

Partner closely with Account, Creative, Influencer/Talent, Innovation, Finance, Operations, and executive leadership

Get Production involved early in creative development, scoping, and planning so feasibility and risk are evaluated up front

Join senior client conversations when expertise, escalation, or executive presence is needed

Communicate challenges, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to executives and clients

Support new business and major RFPs when senior production expertise is required

What you bring

12–15+ years of progressive experiential/event production experience, including senior roles such as Executive Producer, Production Director, Head of Production, or VP of Production

Extensive hands-on experience personally producing complex, large-scale, multimillion-dollar experiential programs from scoping and pre-production through onsite execution, reconciliation, and closeout

Expert knowledge of experiential production: fabrication, scenic, technical production, AV, show services, venue operations, permitting, labor, logistics, transportation, staffing, safety, and onsite execution

Proven ability to independently evaluate and pressure-test plans, budgets, schedules, technical approaches, vendor scopes, and contingencies

Deep vendor knowledge and industry relationships, with experience sourcing partners, negotiating pricing and scope, and managing complex vendor ecosystems

A record of leading senior production talent, including Production Directors, Executive Producers, and Senior Producers

Success building, restructuring, or scaling production teams, including organizational design, staffing strategy, performance management, and succession planning

Experience overseeing multiple client portfolios and concurrent programs while maintaining visibility into quality, staffing, financial performance, and risk

Strong financial and commercial acumen managing multimillion-dollar portfolios, forecasting, procurement, utilization, scope, and profitability

Executive presence and the ability to advise senior client and agency stakeholders on complex production decisions

The judgment to balance strategic leadership with deep production involvement when needed

Strong cross-functional leadership and the credibility to earn the trust of experienced producers through both expertise and leadership

How we’ll measure success

Production operates as a cohesive, scalable department with clear standards, ownership, and accountability

Production Directors own their client portfolios and teams without routine executive intervention

Risks, resource constraints, and financial concerns are identified and addressed early

Teams consistently deliver high-quality work within budget, on schedule, and to client expectations

Margins, forecasting, reconciliation, and closeout reflect consistent financial discipline

Resources are planned proactively, reducing reactive staffing and unsustainable workloads

Production leaders show measurable growth, with career paths and succession plans in place

Vendor relationships and procurement practices support competitive pricing, strong execution, and healthy project economics

Production partners effectively across the agency

Senior production talent sees department leadership as both a credible production resource and an effective people leader

The department scales with agency growth while maintaining quality, profitability, and team engagement

What we offer

Competitive salary and benefits

Paid holidays, PTO, and recovery days

Opportunities for career growth and creative collaboration

A culture that values inclusivity, hustle, fun, and innovation

If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in this role, please apply today.

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About Solomon Page

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