Sr. Manager, Technical Production

Worldwide Events and Experiences brings the best of Apple to life showcasing our products services and the values that drive our company. From global product launches and tailored creator experiences to impactful partner engagements and inspiring internal events this team is responsible for managing end-to-end planning production in-person experiences and all the unique details that make these events exceptional. The team includes professionals with backgrounds in event design management operations broadcast and production. Were looking for inventive and collaborative people from a variety of creative and technical seeking a Senior Manager Technical Production to lead a critical pillar within the WW Events organization focused on production. This role operates at the intersection of live event production and film production requiring a unique hybrid skillset across both disciplines. You will bring new ideas technologies and production approaches that evolve how we connect with global audiences.

The Senior Manager Technical Production will lead the strategy and execution of all non-theater productions spanning live remote presentations concerts corporate events media briefings film-based productions including iPhone capture workflows and much more. This role is responsible for delivering best-in-class production across a wide range of environments from large-scale high-visibility live events to agile lightweight remote will oversee the development of production workflows that seamlessly integrate live broadcast cinematic capture and post-production pipelines. This includes ownership of technical production standards across video audio lighting LED systems and recording workflows. You will partner closely with Technical Operations and Stage Production teams to ensure alignment across infrastructure signal flow and execution role requires deep technical expertise strong leadership and the ability to operate in no-fail scenarios with executive stakeholders while building and scaling a high-performing production team.

Lead end-to-end production for global events outside of theater environments including live presentations concerts corporate events media briefings and remote and implement scalable production workflows that integrate live event production and film production ensuring fidelity to creative intent from capture through delivery and camera and recording pipelines across a wide range of capture systems including iPhone non-iPhone and immersive. Ensure selection of format frame rate codecs etc are optimized per and maintain best practices for post-production pipelines including ingest proxy workflows editorial handoff color grading and final delivery across SDR and HDR and maintain end-to-end HDR production workflows ensuring fidelity from capture through post-production and final effectively within film production environments partnering closely with directors DPs ADs and department heads to align on creative intent and technical lighting design and execution across productions including both cinematic lighting techniques and large-scale live event lighting systems using DMX-controlled environments and advanced display systems and workflows including LED pixel pitch selection aspect ratio planning content mapping and processor configuration (Megapixel ROE etc) ensuring color accuracy and visual audio strategy across productions including live sound broadcast audio and film audio capture. This includes large-format console environments (SSL Yamaha DiGiCo etc) RF coordination microphone selection and placement and support for immersive formats such as Dolby Atmos and Spatial with Technical Operations teams to align on signal flow routing and transport systems including SDI ST 2110 and IP-based workflows ensuring redundancy and reliability across all production and implement power and redundancy strategies including UPS systems generator backup load balancing and failover planning for mission-critical production environments. nnLead location scouting efforts evaluating technical feasibility including power acoustics lighting conditions logistics and infrastructure readiness across a wide range of venues and mobile and agile production workflows including advanced iPhone capture techniques using Final Cut Camera and Blackmagic Camera App enabling high-quality production in lightweight production storage and media workflows including SAN/NAS systems high-speed ingest data integrity and backup strategies across on-site and remote lead and mentor a high-performing production team establishing clear roles responsibilities and development cross-functionally with creative engineering and executive stakeholders translating complex technical concepts into clear and actionable and manage large-scale production budgets including forecasting vendor management and cost continuous innovation in production technologies workflows and tools to improve quality efficiency and scalability across global and ability to travel globally as required.

10 years of experience in live event production film production or hybrid production environments with demonstrated leadership across large-scale high-visibility expertise in both live production and cinematic production workflows including camera systems recording pipelines and post-production understanding of film production set operations including roles and responsibilities across departments such as directing camera grip electric sound and video knowledge of widely used and leading-edge video codecs formats and recording understanding of color pipelines LUT workflows HDR formats (PQ HLG) and color grading processes using tools such as Final Cut Pro and DaVinci in lighting design for both film and live environments including hands-on experience with modern LED lighting systems and lighting control protocols.n5 years of experience with LED display systems with deep knowledge of scaling pixel pitch image processing production switchers and content mapping.n5 years of experience in live and recorded audio production including large-format console operation RF coordination microphone techniques and multi-channel audio knowledge of live streaming and broadcast infrastructure including encoding workflows signal transport (SDI ST 2110) and delivery designing and executing power distribution and redundancy strategies for live production experience leading productions in high-pressure executive-facing environments with no-fail with location scouting and production planning across diverse environments including corporate venues outdoor locations and remote understanding of production storage systems media management workflows and data integrity ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Experience leading production for global keynote events concerts or large-scale corporate with advanced mobile production workflows including iPhone-based capture and emerging tools such as Final Cut with immersive and spatial audio formats including Dolby understanding of emerging production technologies including advancements in LED virtual production and next-generation capture working in highly confidential environments with strict security and quality written and verbal communication skills with a strong ability to influence and align stakeholders across operating in fast-paced ambiguous environments while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and production quality.