Senior Manager Production & Technical Integration

About the Role

Expo 2030 Riyadh is seeking a Senior Manager Production & Technical Integration to lead Expo-wide Events & Entertainment (E&E) production operations. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, involves ensuring effective planning, coordination, operational readiness, and execution of productions across all venues and event sites. The Senior Manager will oversee venue operations, back-of-house (BOH) activities, rehearsals, logistics, and show operations, while integrating production delivery requirements with site-wide operational services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Expo-wide E&E production operations, ensuring activities are executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved plans.
• Oversee production operational schedules, workflows, and resource deployment, monitoring performance and resolving operational issues.
• Manage venue operations and back-of-house (BOH) activities, ensuring venues, facilities, and production areas are operationally ready.
• Direct venue setup, changeovers, occupancy transitions, and production support activities, ensuring compliance with operational standards and safety requirements.
• Lead the planning and execution of rehearsals to ensure operational, production, and stakeholder readiness.
• Oversee show operations across venues and event locations, ensuring smooth execution and effective coordination among production teams.
• Manage operational responses to production-related issues during rehearsals and live events.
• Oversee production logistics, including the movement, deployment, and recovery of equipment, materials, personnel, and operational resources.
• Coordinate the allocation and utilization of production resources to support multiple concurrent events and productions, ensuring timely availability of assets and services.
• Lead operational readiness activities for productions and events, conducting assessments and coordinating mitigation plans for identified gaps and risks.
• Integrate production delivery requirements with site-wide operational services, ensuring alignment across all operational interfaces.
• Coordinate with relevant operational functions to support seamless event execution and venue operations, incorporating production requirements into broader Expo operational planning.
• Act as the primary operational liaison between production teams and internal operational stakeholders.
• Support the Senior Director - Production & Technical Integration by providing operational updates, readiness assessments, and performance reports.
• Foster effective collaboration across functions to ensure successful delivery of E&E experiences.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in production and technical integration within large-scale events or entertainment operations.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contributing to the successful delivery of E&E experiences for Expo 2030 Riyadh.