Manager, Production Experience & Marquee Content

Gartner is searching for a Show Producer to work on Gartner’s global corporate conferences.  As the Show Producer, you will lead in delivering the planning, pre-production, and on-the-ground execution of multiple complex conferences and projects within Gartner’s Production Experience & Marquee Content Team.  

A successful candidate will thrive in a quick moving environment with strong attention-to-detail.  In this role, the Show Producer will provide customer-centric production services and overall support at the highest level possible for our clients and presenters.  Strong understanding of live event content production (such as speaker content creation, overall look and feel, talent management, graphics creation, show flow management) and live conference producing is essential.  The ideal candidate must have strong organizational skills, ability to work across multiple teams and cultures, impeccable communication skills, and be energetically driven to meet the needs of our clients and team.  This exciting career opportunity will provide you with challenging assignments and travel.   

Primary Responsibilities:

• Produce Sales Meetings, Town Halls, All Company Meetings, and other conferences, leading the overall event from concept to completion, for both in-person and virtual experiences.

• Lead and manage video assets, presentation graphics, backgrounds, etc.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders, from multiple departments, to support internal/corporate events and keynotes from inception through to delivery

• Leverage best practices to lead live conference content production planning processes

• Attend/lead pre-production and onsite global meetings, which may be out of normal business hours at times

• Effectively engage at every level of the organization and across multiple departments

• Guide key stakeholders through the process and become their trusted partner

• Communicate with stakeholders globally and confirm all requirements for onsite delivery assets including staging, scenic, graphics, audio, animation and all creative media components

• Prepare internal and external written briefing documents for clients, vendors, and team implementation

• Understand and uphold Gartner’s brand with all assets created, which includes managing creative partners and vendors accordingly

• Create and manage all show documents (i.e., production schedules, shoot schedules, show flows, etc.) while knowing how and when to flag at-risk milestones

• Prepare and manage rehearsals and rehearsal schedules while thoroughly understanding the requirements of each venue and team

• Ability to lead offsite and onsite rehearsals with key stakeholders, which requires the ability to seamlessly partner and lead highly valuable relationships, such as C-Level management

• Oversee crew schedule and running order documents through pre-production and onsite

• Thoroughly debrief and document completed conferences and projects while focusing on best practices for continuous growth and improvement

• Participate in meetings with team and key stakeholders and track action items

• Collaborate with internal/external partners and vendors on the production of visual assets

• Highly skilled in handling multiple complex and concurrent projects

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to external and internal audiences

Expected results:

• Flawless client experience – continual understanding of attendees’ key priorities and map back to those metrics

• Build and maintain excellent working relationships

• Engagement and effective management of suppliers/global partners

• Exceptional operational efficiency

• To be successful in this role, extensive domestic and international travel will be required.

Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• 5+ years of experience in related field and industry

• C-Level/senior leader experience required – communication, live event producing, content management, project management, etc.

• Video production and/or virtual event production preferred

• Virtual event platform backend experience preferred

• Agency experience desirable

• Project management experience required

• Highly skilled in collaborating with global stakeholders

• Beginning to end understanding of live conference speaker production and creative content creation

• Global experience preferred – US & Canada, LATAM, EMEA, APAC, Japan, and China

• Excellent interpersonal skills - team player