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WHO ARE WE?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprising global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world, promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
WHO ARE YOU?
Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward-thinking, and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you, then please read on!
THE JOB
Live Nation Entertainment is seeking an experienced and driven Senior Project Director to lead the delivery of major venue projects across our West Coast portfolio. This role carries direct, end-to-end responsibility for the planning and execution of select large-scale venue development, construction, and renovation projects — from concept through completion — while also providing regional oversight to ensure consistency, accountability, and disciplined execution across the western United States. The Senior Project Director serves as the senior point of leadership for West Coast projects, strengthening executive visibility, risk management, and decision-making.
WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
Major Project Delivery:
- Take direct ownership of assigned major venue projects, with hands-on responsibility for delivery from concept through completion.
- Lead planning, design coordination, and construction execution, driving day-to-day decisions on scope, phasing, budget, and schedule.
- Guide scope definition, phasing strategies, and delivery approaches across multiple concurrent projects.
- Deliver projects on time and on budget while balancing operational, seasonal, and financial constraints.
West Coast Portfolio Leadership:
- Provide centralized leadership and accountability for West Coast venue development, construction, and renovation projects.
- Establish consistent delivery standards, governance, processes, and reporting across the region.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for complex, high-risk, or high-visibility initiatives.
Executive Oversight & Reporting:
- Deliver concise, project- and portfolio-level updates on schedule, cost, risk, and delivery status to senior leadership.
- Elevate critical issues early and support executive decision-making with clear, actionable analysis.
- Establish KPIs, reporting cadence, and decision rights, ensuring regional priorities align with broader corporate objectives.
Financial & Commercial Leadership:
- Maintain executive ownership of project budgets and forecasts for assigned major projects and the broader West Coast portfolio.
- Review and present consolidated cost reporting, financial performance, and risk exposure to upper management.
- Drive cost discipline while protecting quality, safety, and schedule outcomes.
Schedule & Resource Management:
- Own project schedules for assigned major projects and provide oversight of regional schedules and resourcing strategies.
- Ensure project timelines are realistic, coordinated, and aligned with venue operations.
- Lead recovery planning and resolution of schedule conflicts.
Team Leadership & Development:
- Lead and mentor Project Managers and senior project staff across the West Coast.
- Establish accountability, role clarity, and consistent application of best practices.
- Foster collaboration across design, construction, operations, and executive teams.
Contractor, Vendor & Pre-Development Support:
- Provide senior oversight of key consultants, contractors, and vendor relationships, including procurement of major project packages.
- Support contract strategy, negotiations, and performance management.
- Assist in pre-development lease negotiations, providing constructability, cost, schedule, and risk input to support informed deal-making.
Risk, Quality, Safety & Compliance:
- Implement risk management processes to identify, mitigate, and monitor risks at the project and portfolio level.
- Uphold high quality and safety standards throughout all stages of project execution.
- Ensure compliance with building codes, permitting and entitlement requirements, safety protocols, and company policies across multiple jurisdictions.
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience delivering construction and development projects, including 5+ years leading large-scale projects; entertainment, live-venue, or hospitality experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated track record personally delivering major construction or venue projects on time and on budget.
- Proven success leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams of Project Managers and cross-functional project staff.
- Executive-level experience owning budgets and forecasts and presenting consolidated cost, performance, and risk reporting to senior leadership.
- Expertise in scheduling and project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, and Procore.
- Strong background in contract strategy, negotiations, procurement, and vendor performance management.
- Working knowledge of building codes, permitting, entitlements, and safety regulations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead multiple concurrent projects.
- Willingness to travel regularly to venues and project sites across the West Coast.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification is a plus.
BENEFITS & PERKS
Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:
HEALTH: Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
YOURSELF: Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program
FAMILY: New parent programs including caregiver leave, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
CAREER: Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment
OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with.
Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.
We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.
HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms. Live Nation may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support application screening and assessment. All hiring decisions are made with human review.
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The expected compensation for this position is:
$185,000.00 USD - $232,000.00 USD
** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.
