Head of Production

WHO WE ARE

On Board Experiential (OBE) is an award winning, full service, experience-led agency that creates meaningful brand experiences worldwide, with office locations in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and NYC.

We help brands to cut through the noise, capture consumer attention and leave lasting impressions that live beyond the shareable, streamable, screamable moment.

We are specialists in creating extraordinary brand events – immersive, engaging and unrivalled.

The London office is the most recent to open its doors in the OBE family, making us the new kids on the block, but backed by years of experiential experience. Boasting a heavy hitting portfolio of incredibly active brands and a range of well-established partners, we’re well set for an exciting future.

We are looking to add to our Leadership team to work across our most high-profile accounts, as we continue to define experiential marketing and help achieve targeted growth.

We work with brands that care. Brands that value meaningful relationships. Brands that are prepared to challenge what’s gone before. Brands that aren’t prepared to settle for OK. Brands that want the competitive advantage. Brands that act.

We are OBE and we’re a team of experiential play makers.

The Head of Production is the leader of OBE London’s event production capabilities, ensuring the quality of our event delivery output is to an industry high standard and exceeding our client expectations. They understand the operational elements of experiential work at the very highest level within both a B2C and B2B environment, with vast experience across projects of scale and for high profile brands.

Their stamp will be seen across our full portfolio of work through shaping and leading the OBE London production team.

The Head of Production will have strong industry connections throughout the industry and will own the agency production methodology of how we deliver events. They will be meticulous in their planning, an outstanding manager of people and will thrive under the pressure of large scale big budget events. Their impact on the business will result in market leading experiential campaigns that fuels agency growth.

Reporting into the Managing Partners, the Head of Production will also play a key role in the agency’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT), helping to define and realise the long term internal and external business strategy with a specific focus on building a high performing collaborative team and culture.

The Head of Production role is varied and will evolve with the growth of the business.

• Ultimate owner of our operational delivery output across the agency’s portfolio of work
• Ultimate oversight and the central point of escalation for all agency production needs
• Effectively communicating operational delivery requirements internally and externally
• Either being the senior production lead on a project or oversight of the senior production lead
• Proven presentation skills both internally and client facing
• Extensive and expanding knowledge of industry suppliers and freelancers
• Infectious passion about the experiential industry and the technical expertise in how to deliver at scale
• High Level technical production knowledge, including but not limited to operational AV and fabrication expertise
• Strong working knowledge with CAD and design software
• High level Health and Safety knowledge and expertise
• Relevant industry accreditations

• Internal leadership of the OBE London production team and wider external freelance talent
• Ensuring continued knowledge growth and development of all members of the production team
• Growing and scaling this team as required
• Oversight and management of all production resourcing requirements across the agency’s portfolio of work
• Help the production function share best practices to learn, grown and develop together and add value back into the business
• A problem solver with an innate ability to present solutions rather than issues

• Leading the operational delivery of major agency projects, being the most senior production representative through the planning phase…