Event Operations Project Director

Venue based with some flexibility to work from home on an ad hoc basis

Full strategic ownership of one of London’s most ambitious new creative venues, from ground-up infrastructure build through to a large-scale team leading live music, immersive experience and performance art across six spaces at once. 

– Build venue operations from the ground up, with full strategic ownership

– Lead a large-scale multi-disciplinary team across a genuinely unique creative destination

– Work inside an experimental, non-corporate culture where creative ambition drives every decision

– Flexible engagement: permanent, contract or freelance to suit your situation

– Offices on-site at the venue, Central London

The Company

This is a creative venue brand built around experimental live programming: simultaneous performances across multiple spaces, secret lineups, immersive cinema, performance art and live music running together under one roof. With a Central London base and a programme running Friday and Saturday nights, the operation is deliberately unconventional. The team is small and permanent at its core, with a wider creative and programming network ready to mobilise around it.

The Role

This Event Operations Project Director role carries full operational leadership for the venue launch and its ongoing Fri/Sat programme, managing a large back-of-house and front-of-house team across six distinct performance spaces, with responsibility for everything from recruitment and compliance to day-to-day delivery, licencing and council liaison. .

– Own end-to-end operational planning and delivery for the venue

– Recruit, structure and lead a large multi-disciplinary team across all front and back-of-house functions

– Oversee licensing, health and safety, and compliance across all venue spaces

– Coordinate with creative and programming leads to align operational resource with live schedules

– Manage contractor relationships, supplier agreements and on-site logistics

– Develop and implement operational processes and standards from a standing start

– Support private hire and dry-hire activity between primary programming periods

The Candidate

The right person for this Event Operations Project Director position has run complex, multi-space operations at scale, with direct experience managing large teams across live event or venue environments. You will have handled recruitment, built operational structures and held accountability for compliance and licensing in a live-event or venue setting.

A background in immersive or experimental events, nightlife operations or the wider creative industries is beneficial but not essential. What matters most is the operational rigour to bring order to a deliberately chaotic creative concept, and the confidence to build from day one.

In return, you will get full strategic ownership of one of London’s most ambitious new creative venues, a flexible engagement structure and a Central London base at the heart of the project. If the scope of the Event Operations Project Director role appeals, get your application in now and we would welcome a conversation with a strong Event Operations Project Director.

Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions. If this position isn’t quite what you’re looking for please visit live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.

As a specialist events recruitment agency we help our clients build the most talented and diverse teams in the UK. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, embracing diversity across all intersecting dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, well-being, abilities, and neurodiversity. We are dedicated to ensuring a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations for any reason, please do not hesitate to let us know.

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