Audio, Visual, and Collaboration Services Manager

Summary Of Job Responsibilities

The Audio, Visual, and Collaboration Services Manager is an enterprise service manager that serves as Colorado PERA's enterprise owner for workplace collaboration technology services and provides strategic leadership for future workplace technology investments. This position leads the strategy, design, operation, and continuous improvement of Colorado PERA's workplace collaboration technologies and audio-visual services. This position is accountable for enterprise conference room technologies, live event production, executive and board meeting support, collaboration service standards, vendor partnerships, and workplace technology planning.

The role partners closely with IT and business leaders to deliver reliable, high-quality collaboration experiences while developing roadmaps, standards, and investment plans that support the organization's future workplace and technology goals.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in enterprise AV and collaboration technologies with strategic leadership capabilities. They are passionate about creating exceptional workplace and collaboration experiences, excel in high-visibility executive environments, and proactively identify opportunities to improve technology, services, and user experience. They are comfortable leading cross-functional initiatives, managing vendor relationships, and influencing technology decisions across the organization. They are self-driven, proactive, and committed to continually planning and executing improvements that enhance the AV services and collaboration experiences provided across the organization.

Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Individuals must be able to perform these duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Lead Enterprise AV and Collaboration Operations - 30%
  • Support high-visibility meetings and events involving senior leadership and executive stakeholders, including:
    • 5 annual Board of Directors meetings (1 fully remote session)
    • Company-wide hybrid meetings
    • Employee engagement events and town halls
  • Configure, operate, and support multi-camera systems, audio mixers, displays, microphones, lighting, streaming platforms, and other AV technologies to ensure high-quality audio and video for both in-room participants and remote attendees
  • Coordinate live switching, encoding, and broadcasting of events
  • Travel to off-site venues to support critical events
  • Manage and administer more than 25 Microsoft Teams and Zoom rooms
  • Provide responsive technical support for conference rooms, executive offices, and collaboration spaces.
  • Deploy, monitor, update, and troubleshoot conference room technology to ensure peak performance and reliability
  • Maintain operational documentation
  • Provide mentoring and training to IT colleagues on AV technologies, configurations, and support issues
  • Develop operational procedures, knowledge transfer practices, and staff onboarding materials to support future growth of collaboration technology services.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and work direction for assigned staff, contractors, interns, or future collaboration services team members.
  • Serve as the primary technology advisor for executive meetings, Board meetings, employee town halls, and other high-profile collaboration events.
  • Establish and maintain enterprise standards, governance practices, service offerings, and support models for AV and collaboration technologies.
  • Establish service level expectations and operational performance metrics for AV and collaboration services.
  • Develop user training, adoption materials, and best practices for enterprise collaboration technologies.
  • Act as the escalation point for complex enterprise AV and collaboration issues.
• Lead Enterprise AV and Workplace Technology Projects - 25%
  • Lead AV initiatives from planning through deployment
  • Coordinate internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, and technology partners to ensure successful project delivery
  • Review contracts, recommend improvements, and interpret AV systems design documentation
  • Lead workplace technology initiatives from planning through…