Junior Production Technology Manager

Role Overview: 

As a Junior Production Technology Manager, your chief role is to assist the Production Technology Manager. Your primary duties include aiding in the technical aspects of live events and exhibitions, ensuring the proper maintenance of equipment, and maintaining a meticulous database.

Our Team - Production:

In the Production Department, our mission is simple: Be agile. Be respected. Be the best. We adapt swiftly, uphold integrity, and deliver excellence, setting the gold standard for production across the Americas.

Our primary responsibility is delivering connected experiences across channels to help our clients engage with diverse audiences, external and internal. Our clients look to Imagination for breakthrough experiences, whether auto show exhibitions, global product launches, brand destinations, media presentations, investor events, or training programs. In addition to producing and managing such experiences, we generate the associated experience strategy, messaging, content, and collateral.

Responsibilities include but are not restricted to:

• Assist in coordinating and planning technical and electrical elements for live events.
• Help with logistics arrangements for production-related staffing and equipment.
• Support Creative teams in developing solutions for live events.
• Assist in scheduling the production process.
• Help in acquiring quotes from suppliers, partners, and merchants.
• Research products, components, and services under guidance.
• Assist in deploying and maintaining complex temporary networks onsite.
• Help manage and organize AV and technical equipment.
• Support in analyzing creative direction and recommending solutions.
• Assist in preparing equipment and elements for the production department.
• Follow Health and Safety guidelines on all projects.

Experience and skills required:

• Some relevant experience in similar industries is beneficial.
• Basic understanding of network architecture and systems.
• Familiarity with technical staging, AV, and lighting.
• Willingness to learn how to prep AV equipment and load trucks.
• Interest in learning to create and execute schematics, wire diagrams, etc.
• Comfortable working under short timelines with guidance.
• Basic understanding of budgeting.
• Ability to multitask.
• Basic computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Willingness to learn new technologies quickly.
• Basic understanding of Health and Safety regulations.
• Some experience with ubiquity network configuration

Desirable Experience and Skill:

• Some experience with Vectorworks / AutoCAD.
• Familiarity with PowerPoint / Keynote.
• Interest in learning Fritzing or another schematic software.
• Interest in video formats and technical requirements.
• Willingness to learn basic programming languages like C++ or Python.

Personal Attributes: 

• Hardworking, reliable, and attentive to detail.
• Team-oriented and an excellent communicator.
• Calm and approachable persona.
• Proactive and work with your own initiative.
• Willingness to travel for short to medium periods (up to 25 days).
• Flexible and adaptable to new challenges.
• Willingness to work unsociable hours (including weekends).
• Desire to contribute to the team.

What we can offer you:

Extrinsic Value:

• Competitive entry-level salary with performance-based incentives.
• Opportunity for on-the-job training and certifications in relevant technologies.
• Low-cost health and wellness benefits
• Comprehensive Paid Time Off
• Hybrid Work Model
• Parental Leave
• 4% Safe Harbor 401k match

Intrinsic Value:

• Work closely with experienced Production Technology Managers, gaining invaluable industry knowledge.
• Be part of a mission-driven team that values agility, integrity, and excellence.
• Opportunity to contribute to large-scale, high-impact projects from day one.

Imagination: 

Imagination is an Experience Design Company headquartered in London, with 14 offices worldwide. Founded over 50 years ago on a principle of Independent Creativity - we bring together diverse groups of strategic, creative and practical people to find creative and inspired answers to client challenges. We remain independent to this day.

We have earned a reputation for consistently challenging and changing the status quo, through our core offers of Consulting, Destinations, Content, and Live. Imagination’s clients include LG, Ford, IKEA, LVMH, Samsung, Jaguar Land Rover, HSBC, Major League Baseball, Turkish Airlines, Shell, and Visa.

Imagination was awarded silver at Campaign’s Global Brand Experience Agency of the Year Awards 2022, ranked 38 in Newsweek’s UK Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2022 and won the Grand Prix award at Campaign Tech Awards for their recent work with Visa Masters of Movement.

Our Work:

2022 Mustang Global Reveal, “The Stampede”: https://youtu.be/d8YGKZPz4eE

Accelerating Transformation https://youtu.be/sUljrHwgDBo

F-150 Lightning Global Reveal:  https://youtu.be/Yjisj5T0VqE

Aptiv Investor Conference: https://vimeo.com/798734567

Our Core Offer:

Independent of mind, spirit, and action, we remain free to find the right answers to our client’s strategic and creative challenges.  We build strategies, develop ideas, and deliver at scale, creating experiences that change the status quo for some of the world’s most exciting brands - across our core offers of Consulting, Destinations, Content, and Live.

To get to ground-breaking ideas, we start with unexpected combinations. Research shows that the greatest accelerator of creativity is the diversity of talent in the team, and we actively recruit unique individuals who embody our core beliefs and demonstrate the behaviors that underpin Independent Creativity.

Our Beliefs and Behaviors:

We have identified four foundational beliefs that underpin Independent Creativity. More powerful than generic corporate values, they motivate us to act, to foster the behaviors that lead to success:

• We believe curiosity is the root of original insights and ideas... so we look at the world with fresh eyes, experiment, invent, and up-end conventions.
• We believe rigor results in better choices... so we ask precise, provocative questions.
• We believe bravery tames the unknown... so we demand ambition, confident that together we can meet ‘never been done before challenges’.
• We believe respect builds stronger teams and continued success... so we recognise the uniqueness and unique potential in each individual, we are accountable to each other, we play as a team.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

Imagination believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are more than just words and more than a legal framework or a moral obligation - they are guiding principles that, when acted upon, make us stronger, more innovative, and more creative as an organization.

We commit to significantly increasing our efforts to effect change today and ensuring that our efforts will be sustained long-term. To support us on this journey, we have appointed a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board to help shape our plans to bring about positive change, to help us learn, and to keep us all moving forward together.

The responsibility for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace ultimately rests with all of us.

We believe all employees should feel a sense of belonging at Imagination - regardless of race, ancestry, marital status, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe racism has no place within our workplace or our work culture, and we reject all forms of hatred, prejudice, intolerance, and discrimination.

Our Imagination community must share and live these beliefs, as diversity strengthens us.

Our priority is humanity, and our efforts toward a more diverse, more equitable, and more inclusive workplace are never done.

Legislation requirements:

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States in order to be considered for the role.