VP, Resource Director

NVE Experience Agency is a world-class experiential marketing agency and event production company, guided by the principle that the right moment will transform someone forever. NVE creates experiences that connect brands to the people, ideas, and trends that drive culture. Committed to delivering calculated impact, NVE builds multi-dimensional business solutions that convert consumer attention into action, sales, and brand loyalty. 

We believe that an immersive experience is the most potent form of marketing in the world. And, properly executed, experiential marketing can convert more consumers into passionate fans than any other marketing vehicle.

Summary of Position: 

The VP, Resource Director will establish and lead NVE’s centralized resourcing function, ensuring the agency consistently builds the right teams to deliver world-class experiences. This role is both strategic and operational, blending the rigor of forecasting and financial alignment with the human-first responsibility of building balanced, high-performing teams.

As a member of the Operations team, the VP, Resource Director partners closely with Executive Leadership, Department Heads, and Finance to create visibility, consistency, and foresight in how talent is deployed across the agency.

Success in This Role Looks Like:

• NVE has a single, consistent, and transparent resourcing process across the agency.
• Leadership has clear visibility into utilization, capacity, and pipeline staffing risks.
• Teams feel supported, balanced, and intentionally cast on projects, improving both culture and retention.
• Utilization and margin targets are met through better alignment of staffing to budgets.
• Resourcing becomes a competitive advantage, enabling NVE to scale with confidence and win new opportunities.

Role Priorities: 

Leadership & Strategy

• Build and lead the centralized resourcing function, managing a team of Resource Managers, Sourcers, and Coordinators.
• Define and champion the agency-wide resourcing vision, ensuring consistency and transparency across all departments.
• Act as the senior advisor to Executive Leadership on staffing strategy, workforce planning, and capacity investment.
• Drive the transition from reactive staffing to proactive, strategic resourcing tied to pipeline and growth.

Forecasting & Workforce Planning

• Develop and oversee long-range resourcing forecasts in partnership with Finance, Production, Accounts New Business, and Strategy Account leadership.
• Lead scenario planning for large-scale opportunities, retainers, and future growth areas (e.g., new verticals, geographic expansion).
• Identify talent gaps and partner with People & CommunityCulture to inform recruitment strategies.
• Monitor and manage agency-wide utilization, ensuring balance between financial targets and employee wellbeing.

Operational Excellence

• Implement and maintain a centralized resourcing system that provides real-time visibility into staffing, availability, and workloads.
• Establish agency-wide processes, standards, and cadences for resourcing (intake, casting, forecasting).
• Partner with Finance to ensure staffing decisions align with budgets, project margins, and profitability targets.
• Drive reporting and insights on utilization, capacity, and resourcing health to inform executive decision-making.

Freelance & External Talent Management

• Oversee freelance sourcing strategy and ensure a reliable, cost-effective, and diverse external talent pool.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to bBalance FTE vs. freelance models strategically, scaling flexibly with client demand.
• Ensure efficient onboarding and compliance processes for freelancers, leveraging automation where possible.

Culture & Talent Development

• Champion a human-first approach to resourcing, balancing business needs with sustainable workloads and career development.
• Partner with Department Heads to align resourcing with talent development pathways.
• Promote inclusion, equity, and diverse representation in casting decisions.

Qualifications: 

• 8–10 years of dedicated resourcing/workforce management experience.
• 10–15 years of overall professional experience in operations, project management, agency/consulting environments, or related fields. Ideally within the experiential industry.
• Experience supporting multi-disciplinary teams (creative, production, accounts, strategy, etc.) preferred.
• Prior experience in resource management systems and cross-departmental planning.
• Strong proficiency in resource management tools.
• Expertise in capacity planning, utilization reporting, forecasting, and scenario modeling.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments with shifting priorities.
• Understanding of project timelines, scopes, and cross-functional workflows, ideally within experiential production organizations.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills; able to quickly gain trust across leaders and teams.
• Strategic, operational thinker with the ability to set up structure, define new ways of working, and influence both process and people.
• Collaborative partner to senior leadership, with the ability to navigate conflict, overcome obstacles, and guide teams through operational or workflow challenges.
• High level of diplomacy, clarity, and consistency when explaining resourcing decisions or operational changes.

Location: We are a hybrid company with hub locations in Los Angeles, New York City and London. The ideal candidate is located in New York, however, we will consider remote candidates for this role. 

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging: 

At NVE, we are led by curiosity and fueled by humanity. Authentic connection is at the heart of our work and we embrace the opportunity and responsibility we have as an organization to provide the tools and resources needed to deliver the best and most equitable experiences possible for our employees and the clients we serve.

Perks & Benefits: 

• Health & Wellness Benefits 
• 401k Match 
• Communication Stipend 
• Paid Company holidays & PTO Package 
• Company get togethers & retreats 
• Paid Parental Leave 

Salary Estimation: [$150,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year]

This is an Exempt full-time role. NVE intends to provide a competitive total compensation package which includes a variety of incentives, benefits, growth and developmental opportunities. There are many factors to the presented salary range, including but not limited to - location, departmental budgets, certifications, and overall job-related qualifications.