Event and Venue General Manager (Director)

About LA28 (Web) The Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028.

LA28 (Web)

The Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028.

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la28.org

201-500 employees

Spectator Sports

Los Angeles, California

2017

Nonprofit

162k LinkedIn followers

• As Event and Venue Management (Director), you will lead the planning and
• delivery of venue operations across multiple competition venues for the Los
• Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In the lead up to the Games, you will
• expand venue operations planning and readiness, building the plans, teams, and
• partnerships that turn the venue into a world-class field of play. You will
• oversee functions and stakeholders, manage budget and risk, and take each venue
• from planning through Games-time delivery.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, lead the development, optimization, and
• delivery of venue-based Event Operations plans for the venue.
• Lead the venue team to achieve objectives, venue readiness, and deliverables
• to stakeholders, and venue owner / operator.
• Build strong, productive, and respectful relationships with the venue partner
• and related stakeholders and serve as the day-to-day venue leadership
• contact.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure an efficient and effective engagement
• process with venue partners including managing meeting cadence, stakeholder
• site visits, venue planning, and operational readiness.
• Work closely with venue infrastructure, technology, and other technical teams
• to track deliverables.
• Manage venue service levels, identify risks, develop risk mitigation
• strategies, and leverage opportunities to create efficiencies and savings.
• Hire, train, motivate, and lead a diverse, high-performing venue team capable
• of developing and executing venue operations plans efficiently and
• effectively.
• Coordinate with venue owners and local authorities to manage the Venue Use
• Agreement (VUA), ensuring compliance with contractual terms and operational
• requirements.
• leaders and other stakeholders as required including tracking, reporting and
• solving issues at all phases of the project (planning, readiness and
• operations).
• Manage venue operations supporting the needs of all stakeholders including
• athletes, workforce, spectators, marketing partners, and media focusing on a
• comprehensive, inclusive, fully accessible venue.
• Establish working relationships and coordinate activities with local
• authorities and security representatives specific to the venue and the venue
• approach.
• Lead Functional Areas to create the Event Operations Plan and other tools for
• planning and delivery.
• Champion and embed the LA28 values and behaviors into all facets of
• engagement, planning and delivery.

• 8+ years of experience leading venue, event, or operations delivery for
• major, complex, live sporting or entertainment events at scale.
• A strong track record of building and leading senior, cross-functional
• operational teams to fixed, immovable event deadlines, holding a high
• delivery bar.
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills, coordinating many
• partners and functional areas simultaneously across multiple venues at once.
• Proven experience directing budgets, master schedules, and comprehensive risk
• registers across multiple concurrent operational programs.
• Decisive, calm leadership and sound judgment when information is incomplete
• and the delivery timeline is genuinely fixed.
• Direct experience delivering venues at an Olympic, Paralympic, or other major
• international Games.
• Familiarity with temporary overlay, infrastructure, and field-of-play
• operations at competition venues.
• A background coordinating sport, broadcast, security, accreditation, and
• commercial venue partners.
• A collaborative, co-creative approach to solving complex operational problems
• under demanding timelines.
• Available to work onside in our Downtown Los Angeles-based office.
• The majority of work will be conducted in an office setting, requiring
• extended periods of time using computers, phones, and other office
• equipment.
• The LA28 office is an open floorplan working environment; employees must be
• able to work efficiently in an open cubicle environment.
• Hours of work may vary, including evenings, weekends, and holidays,
• especially during peak event periods.
• Perform other duties as required; the role will evolve over time and may
• include operational responsibilities during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• This role supports multiple venue sites, with travel across venues and to our
• Los Angeles-based office as required.

• once-in-a-generation Games.
• A collaborative, co-creative culture grounded in inclusion, integrity, and
• accountability.
• High-impact, highly visible delivery work with a lasting community legacy.
• Genuine professional growth alongside a diverse, world-class Games-delivery
• team.
• The Games happen at venues — where athletes compete and the world watches. In
• this role, you lead the teams and plans that turn sites into fully operational
• fields of play, holding the standard that keeps every competition day safe,
• accessible, and seamless.
• The annual base salary range for this position is $126,000.00 - $160,000.00. The
• pay scale provided is the range that LA28 reasonably expects to pay as starting
• base compensation for this role. All LA28 compensation remains subject to final
• determination based on individual candidate qualifications, experience, or other
• reasonable criteria consistent with LA28's operational business needs and
• applicable law.