Entertainment Consultant (Live / Multi-Format)

Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment creates bold, authentic, and unforgettable experiences that redefine sports, entertainment, and hospitality, The Brooklyn Way. As the parent company of marquee properties including the Brooklyn Nets, NY Liberty and Barclays Center, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment operates at the intersection of live entertainment, premium hospitality, and community engagement.   

As it expands its existing portfolio, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment now includes a media portfolio including BK Mag, as well as Brooklyn Wine Club, and a hospitality business developing several location-based entertainment properties.   

Whether on the court, on stage, or in the workplace, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment is driven by a pursuit of excellence—constantly evolving, innovating, and pushing boundaries to elevate its business and expand its fan base. The company is deeply committed to fostering a culture of belonging and inclusion, both internally and across its communities, ensuring that every interaction reflects its values of growth mindset, integrity, accountability and care.  

We are guided by our core values: 

• Integrity: Be intellectually honest at all times. Demonstrate the highest professional and ethical standards.
• Care: Care for everything and everyone around us. Practice empathy, respect, and inclusion to promote an environment of excellence and success.
• Growth Mindset: Develop ourselves and those around us. Experiment, learn, and improve from everything we do.
• Accountability: Deliver on our word, take responsibility for our actions, and work in the interest of our team.

SUMMARY

This consultant will help define, develop, and operationalize the live entertainment experience for a new hospitality-integrated venue concept. This role will shape the entertainment programming and talent strategy, while ensuring creative decisions are executable within the realities of venue operations. This is a 6-month contract.
Working in close partnership with leadership, the GM, venue operations, technical production, hospitality, and ticketing, the consultant will contribute from pre-opening through launch and provide ongoing advisory support to ensure long-term quality, continuity, and evolution of the live experience. This role blends hands-on creative execution with strategic advisory input, with scope and ownership defined collaboratively.  Please note, this role focuses on live entertainment or multi-format entertainment venues experience vs film/tv production or events.  

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Creative Support & Execution

• Partner with internal team to identify photo opportunities in the venue; concept and design props and work with builder(s) to execute
• Shape and finalize entertainment programming across all entertainment spaces throughout venue including main bar stage (s)theaters
• Identify, recruit, audition and hire talent needed; lead all outreach, casting and hiring processes
• Coordinate with the GM / other teams on guest flow, theater queuing and timing considerations
• Inform the Show team structure, including key hires, freelance support, and role responsibilities
• Participate in hiring the Show team (Company Manager, Tech Director, Stage Manager, etc.)

Advisory (Strategic Input, Review and Guidance)

• Help define the overall entertainment concept, show format, and guest experience with leadership
• Consult with the theater builder for any theater, stage and show specifications
• Consult with the interior designer and architect for any roving program needs and guest wayfinding
• Coordinate with hospitality / F&B to create offerings and establish venue hospitality standards and best practices

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• Experience in immersive theater, cabaret, magic, spectacle, or other nontraditional talent-dependent live entertainment formats
• Experience in hospitality-integrated entertainment concepts where guest flow, timing, atmosphere, and service are tightly linked to the show experience
• Experience with casting, talent sourcing, audition processes, and roster planning
• Experience supporting or leading rehearsal processes, show development, and performance quality control
• Experience maintaining a live show post-opening, including cast changes, schedule management, and operational continuity
• Familiarity with balancing creative priorities against budget, labor, and operational constraints

WHO YOU ARE

• A highly organized and flexible creative operator who can translate artistic vision into a repeatable, high-quality live guest experience
• Comfortable working across both creative and operational teams, with the ability to align stakeholders around a shared execution plan.
• Strong networker and communicator with the ability to manage talent, creative collaborators, and cross-functional partners with professionalism and clarity.
• Detail-oriented, solutions-oriented, and capable of maintaining quality control in a fast-paced, live operating environment.
• Able to think strategically about guest experience while also managing the practical realities of financials, staffing, scheduling, and execution.

COMPENSATION

$65.00 - $105.00 per hour

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion/creed, gender, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy and lactation accommodations, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage, immigration, or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, genetic information, height and weight, arrest or conviction record, caregiver status, credit history, unemployment status, sexual and reproductive health decisions, salary history, status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking, and sex offenses, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local laws. 

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