Event Production Specialist
Uber
New York, NY
Business Management / Project / Planning, Manufacturing / Production
The Event Production Specialist is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing high-quality live and hybrid events across our offices. This role is hands-on and operational, ensuring all event logistics, technical elements, and run-of-show components are delivered smoothly and professionally.
The Specialist supports executive meetings, internal productions, all-hands, offsites, and partner events, acting as the primary onsite operator. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in event production and live event operations, is comfortable working in fast-paced environments, and can execute events independently from setup through teardown.
What You'll Do
- Plan and execute live, hybrid, and virtual events from setup through teardown.
- Coordinate event logistics, including room readiness, content playback, timing, transitions, and backstage operations.
- Support run-of-show execution by managing cues, signals, timing, and presenter flow.
- Partner with AV Engineering, Workplace, Communications, and external vendors to ensure event readiness.
- Provide onsite support for executive meetings, all-hands, offsites, and partner events.
- Troubleshoot in-event issues and escalate when needed to ensure continuity.
- Manage event materials, checklists, scheduling, and pre-production workflows.
- Communicate event requirements and readiness updates to stakeholders.
- Contribute to the improvement of SOPs, operational standards, and scalable workflows.
- 5+ years of experience in event production, live event operations, or corporate events
- Experience running in-person and hybrid events using platforms such as Zoom, Teams, or similar.
- Demonstrated ability to manage event logistics, backstage coordination, cueing, timing, and on-floor support.
- Strong hands-on operational skills: onsite setup, event prep, vendor coordination, scheduling, and run-of-show support.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot issues during live events and react calmly under pressure.
- Strong communication skills and comfort supporting stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to manage multiple events simultaneously with attention to detail and timelines.
- Experience supporting executive-level events or high-visibility internal productions.
- Familiarity with hybrid event workflows (multi-camera setups, basic audio/video routing, content playback).
- Experience collaborating with AV teams, workplace teams, or external production vendors.
- Strong understanding of event process management, checklists, and operational standards.
- Experience contributing to event documentation, SOPs, and readiness workflows.
- Background with staging, lighting, or show-calling concepts (at a non-engineering level).
About the company
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We are Uber. The go-getters. The kind of people who are relentless about our mission to help people go anywhere and get anything and earn their way. Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now.
The idea for Uber was born on a snowy night in Paris in 2008, and ever since then our DNA of reimagination and reinvention carries on. We’ve grown into a global platform powering flexible earnings and the movement of people and things in ever expanding ways. We’ve gone from connecting rides on 4 wheels to 2 wheels to 18-wheel freight deliveries. From takeout meals to daily essentials to prescription drugs to just about anything you need at any time and earning your way. From drivers with background checks to real-time verification, safety is a top priority every single day. At Uber, the pursuit of reimagination is never finished, never stops, and is always just beginning.