Sr. Manager, Technical Production

Worldwide Events and Experiences brings the best of Apple to life, showcasing our products, services, and the values that drive our company. From global product launches and tailored creator experiences to impactful partner engagements and inspiring internal events, this team is responsible for managing end-to-end planning, production, in-person experiences, and all the unique details that make these events exceptional. The team includes professionals with backgrounds in event design, management, operations, broadcast, and production.

We’re looking for inventive and collaborative people from a variety of creative and technical fields.

We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Production to lead a critical pillar within the WW Events organization focused on production. This role operates at the intersection of live event production and film production, requiring a unique hybrid skillset across both disciplines. You will bring new ideas, technologies, and production approaches that evolve how we connect with global audiences.

The Senior Manager, Technical Production will lead the strategy and execution of all non-theater productions, spanning live remote presentations, concerts, corporate events, media briefings, film-based productions including iPhone capture workflows, and much more. This role is responsible for delivering best-in-class production across a wide range of environments, from large-scale, high-visibility live events to agile, lightweight remote productions.

You will oversee the development of production workflows that seamlessly integrate live broadcast, cinematic capture, and post-production pipelines. This includes ownership of technical production standards across video, audio, lighting, LED systems, and recording workflows. You will partner closely with Technical Operations and Stage Production teams to ensure alignment across infrastructure, signal flow, and execution strategy.

This role requires deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to operate in no-fail scenarios with executive stakeholders, while building and scaling a high-performing production team.

• Lead end-to-end production for global events outside of theater environments, including live presentations, concerts, corporate events, media briefings, and remote productions.
• Define and implement scalable production workflows that integrate live event production and film production, ensuring fidelity to creative intent from capture, through delivery and playback.
• Oversee camera and recording pipelines across a wide range of capture systems, including iPhone, non-iPhone, and immersive. Ensure selection of format, frame rate, codecs etc are optimized per project.
• Establish and maintain best practices for post-production pipelines, including ingest, proxy workflows, editorial handoff, color grading, and final delivery across SDR and HDR formats.
• Define and maintain end-to-end HDR production workflows, ensuring fidelity from capture through post-production and final delivery.
• Operate effectively within film production environments, partnering closely with directors, DPs, ADs, and department heads to align on creative intent and technical execution.
• Lead lighting design and execution across productions, including both cinematic lighting techniques and large-scale live event lighting systems using DMX-controlled environments and advanced fixtures.
• Oversee display systems and workflows, including LED pixel pitch selection, aspect ratio planning, content mapping, and processor configuration (Megapixel, ROE, etc), ensuring color accuracy and visual fidelity.
• Direct audio strategy across productions, including live sound, broadcast audio, and film audio capture. This includes large-format console environments (SSL, Yamaha, Di Gi Co , etc), RF coordination, microphone selection and placement, and support for immersive formats such as Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio.
• Partner with Technical Operations teams to align on signal flow, routing, and transport systems, including SDI, ST 2110, and IP-based workflows, ensuring redundancy and reliability across all production systems.
• Design and implement…