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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in delivering major live events, with a strong foundation in live, experiential, and broadcast production. Capable of managing large event budgets, leading teams, and creating strategic partnerships to drive audience growth and community engagement.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Live Event ProductionBudget ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic PlanningVendor Negotiation
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Hard Skills
Event Strategy DevelopmentBudget ForecastingContent ProductionVenue SourcingEvent Concept DevelopmentOperational PlanningSuccess Metrics DefinitionEvent CoordinationContract ManagementAudience Engagement
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationDecisive LeadershipCreative JudgmentCollaborationOwnership
Industry Keywords
EsportsExperiential MarketingBroadcast ProductionFan ConventionsAudience-Focused EventsCommunity GrowthPartnership DevelopmentEvent ActivationsContent PerformanceInternational Travel
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set Chess.com's live events strategy and build a long-term vision for the live event portfolio
- Define how events can drive audience growth, community, brand, content, partnerships, and revenue
- Create an annual roadmap across competitions, fan experiences, company gatherings, premieres, partner activations, and new concepts
- Serve as accountable event lead for major experiences such as the Speed Chess Championship Finals
- Integrate creative, competition, broadcast, content, hospitality, and operations into unified plans
- Shape event concepts with creative and content leaders and develop budgets, schedules, teams, and production plans
- Own the master event plan, physical run of show, space utilization, programming, activations, and content capture
- Coordinate internal teams and external partners around a shared plan
- Source, evaluate, negotiate, and manage venues, hotels, agencies, fabricators, and production vendors
- Build a trusted global network of venues and production partners
- Build and manage event budgets, track spending, oversee reconciliation, and manage financial and contractual lifecycles with Finance and Legal
- Define success metrics across attendance, fan experience, content performance, community growth, partner value, revenue, and brand impact
- Support live experiences across Chess.com, including premieres, creator tournaments, fan zones, partner events, and courtside chess sets
- Set standards for hospitality, staffing, communications, and overall attendee and crew experience
- Establish tools, roles, approval processes, budget models, production standards, and post-event reviews
- Evaluate new formats, markets, and partnerships such as conventions, festivals, and touring concepts
- Report to the VP, Media & Content and work closely with the sports Commissioner
Requirements
What you’ll need- More than 10 years of experience delivering major live events
- Strong foundation in live, experiential, and/or broadcast production
- Experience serving as the accountable lead for complex events with broadcast, content, or competition at their center
- Ability to move comfortably between long-term strategy, executive communication, and detailed delivery
- Track record of owning large event budgets, including forecasting, vendor negotiation, contracting, and reconciliation
- Experience sourcing and operating venues, hotels, and production partners across multiple markets or countries
- Strong creative judgment and operational experience
- Experience leading teams and external partners without relying on direct reporting authority
- Clear communication skills and ability to create alignment in a fully distributed company
- Calm and decisive leadership when conditions change and information is incomplete
- Strong sense of ownership and genuine care for the people doing the work
- Willingness to travel internationally several times each year and work occasional weekends or nontraditional hours when events require it
- Especially helpful: experience in esports, sports, music, entertainment, gaming, or large-scale brand experiences
- Especially helpful: experience with fan conventions, festivals, expos, or other audience-focused event formats
- Especially helpful: experience managing production agencies, fabricators, technical vendors, and local crews
- Especially helpful: experience building an events function or developing new event concepts from the ground up
- Understanding of how live events, broadcast, social content, creators, partnerships, and community growth work together
- Curiosity about chess and enthusiasm for creating new ways for people to experience the game together
- No requirement to be a strong chess player
- Applicants must be based in the United States
Benefits
Comp & perks- Fully remote work
- International travel opportunities/required travel
- Opportunity to build and lead an internal team as the live event portfolio grows
- Mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture