Comedy Venue Programmer

Job Summary

Company: the company

Department:
Comedy

Location:

Farringdon, London

Working Hours:

40 hours (with flexibility to work evenings and weekends)

Contract type:
Permanent

The Comedy department is seeking a highly motivated and hard‑working individual to programme and run administrative operations across its growing portfolio. This includes the programming the the company owned Comedy Clubs, with the first new comedy club scheduled to open in early 2027, as well as other booking projects across the department not limited to but including the ‘on the road’ network, Festivals and its Comedy Podcast.

This is a dynamic role within an exceptionally busy and fast‑paced environment. The successful candidate will play a key part in ensuring the smooth running of bookings and related logistics, while adapting to the ongoing growth and development of this expanding area of the business.

The ideal candidate will be proactive, organised, and able to manage multiple priorities, with a keen interest in live comedy and entertainment.

the company offers impressive employee benefits including tickets to shows and festivals and unlimited annual leave. The office is housed in the Farmiloe Building in Farringdon, London. Staff can enjoy use of arcade games in the basement games room, onsite gym equipment plus fitness and meditation classes. In addition to this, the office has a fully stocked complimentary coffee bar with barista to serve you your favourite coffee as you walk into the office and offers heavily subsidised lunch options.

We hold regular staff events in our atrium stage space including hosting speakers and open mic nights to showcase the company employee talent.

• Proven experience in a similar role e.g. working as a promoter, with an agency, management etc.
• Candidates with links to the comedy industry would be particularly relevant to this vacancy.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Organised, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), inter‑personal skills.
• Competency with numerical data.
• Exceptional problem solving ability.
• Excellent team building skills to include immediate team members, internal departments and clients alike.

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success

• High level of initiative, self‑motivated and conscientious.
• Ability to adapt and re‑prioritise in a highly pressured working environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Self‑motivated team player.
• Ability to lead from the front showing best practice across all disciplines.

• Secure the booking of artists on behalf of the company.
• Develop relations with artists, their managers and their agents.
• Working with the agreed framework and controls when budgeting and producing artists’ offers, ensuring transparency.
• Taking calls after office hours and responding to cancellations immediately.
• Negotiate deals/offers with a thorough understanding of deal structures and financials.
• Overseeing venue social media output.
• Carrying out continuous research of developing artists.
• Develop artist database and keep track of all necessary diaries, contracts and invoicing.
• Regular monitoring of the potential of artists.
• Ensure all relevant parties (artist / agent / venue staff) have all relevant information to ensure smooth running of all bookings.
• Ensure accurate, regular and prompt reporting, to be presented to key personnel as and when required.
• Provide information to enable the reviewing of systems for suitability and potential upgrading.
• Lead this new area of the department with a high level of attention to detail.
• Attend and contribute to internal collaborations with the wider team.
• Manage workload effectively and support team growth within the department.
• Ensure deadlines and targets are met in a timely manner.
• Create and maintain internal documents, templates and spreadsheets and implement systems to ensure fluidity.
• Providing general support to the Comedy team where required.
• Travel will be required to our Comedy Store on the Road venues, attending Edinburgh Festival Fringe,…