Events Producer

About Smooth

Smooth is the talent management company for knowledge creators: the people teaching, explaining, and breaking down the world through smart, insightful content across categories like tech, AI, entrepreneurship, business, personal finance, and more. We manage and represent 50+ of these creators, acting as a true strategic partner and extension of their team to help them run, grow, and professionalize their business.

A huge part of that is helping creators bring their ideas and communities into the real world, and events are one of the most powerful ways to do it. Creators and events go together like peanut butter and jelly: knowledge creators bring smart, curious people together online every day, and great IRL events take that connection even deeper.

About the Role

Reports to: COO

As an Events Producer at Smooth, you'll own our events from concept through breakdown, reporting to our COO. Our creators, their creator managers, and our marketing team bring the concepts, and you'll be the one who takes those ideas and elevates them, adding the creative vision and taste that turns a good concept into a great one, then running the budget, the vendors, and the room to make it real. You'll also work closely with our Events Associate, directing the day to day work on the ground for each event.

• Creative & Production Ownership
• • Take event concepts from our creators, creator managers, and marketing team and elevate them, bringing the creative vision and taste that turns a good idea into a great one
  • Build and own the budget, the production schedule, and the run of show for your events, and get them done on time, on quality, and on budget
  • Source, negotiate, and contract vendors, from production partners to venues to caterers, and serve as the client facing point of contact throughout
  • Be onsite for load in, the show, and load out, leading the team in the room and solving problems in real time
• Cross Functional Leadership
• • Partner with our Brand Partnerships team to shape sponsor activations that actually deliver on brand goals, not just check a logistics box
  • Work closely with creators, creator managers, and marketing throughout production, so your creative elevation still reflects their voice and their audience
  • Direct our Events Associate's day to day work on your events, coaching them up along the way
• Operational Reporting & Wrap Up
• • Own budget reconciliation, invoices, and vendor payments after every event
  • Deliver a real recap: what worked, what the numbers say, and what to change next time, and make sure it actually shapes the next event

• 5 or more years in events, experiential, production, or a related field, with real ownership of budgets and vendor relationships
• A demonstrated eye for turning a plain brief into something creatively distinct, not just a track record of clean execution
• Experience working with corporate or brand clients specifically, translating their goals into an audience facing experience
• Comfortable being the senior voice in the room, with vendors, with creators, and with brand stakeholders
• You can take someone else's concept and make it better without needing to have invented it yourself, and you know the difference between elevating an idea and overriding it
• You lead, not just execute: you can direct an associate, push back on a brief that needs work, and make the call when something needs to change on the fly
• Must be NYC-based (in office Mon-Thurs) and available for evenings and occasional weekends around event dates

• Salary: $120,000 to $140,000
• Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO, with a minimum of 10 days off per year
• Strong opportunity for growth at a profitable, bootstrapped startup

Smooth Media is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.