The Vice President, Events & Experiences oversees Complex's flagship events, ensuring operational excellence, audience engagement, and revenue growth while managing a team of over 13 staff.
Company And Culture
Complex is the definitive platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge content, commerce and live experiences with unparalleled scale. Through innovative content, Complex tells stories of music, streetwear and style, sports, art and beyond. Its content engages in a dynamic conversation with the audience, reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of convergence culture. A powerful media juggernaut paired with a curated marketplace, Complex is redefining the way fans interact with their favorite brands and artists and reshaping the future of digital culture and commerce.
Why We're Hiring
The Vice President, Events & Experiences overseeing the management, execution, and growth of Complex’s flagship events, experiential retail, and cultural activations. This role is responsible for delivering best-in-class live experiences that drive audience engagement, brand impact, and revenue while ensuring operational excellence across all experiential platforms.
What You'll Do
- Oversee the strategy, development, and execution of flagship experiential properties, including: ComplexCon, Family Style, Complex Market, Verzuz, Complex pop-ups at flagship stores, and tentpole events.
- Lead the company’s division for live events, activations, and experiential initiatives from end-to-end management for all events, retail activations, and pop-up experiences, including overseeing event planning and execution, production, vendor management, and operational logistics.
- Manage the core internal Events & Experiences team of 13+ across production, partnerships, and operations and work cross-functionally across sales, marketing, partnerships, editorial, comms, commerce, legal, and finance.
- Translate cultural trends across music, fashion, food, and entertainment into impactful experiences that drive brand visibility.
- Own the P&L across the events and experiences portfolio. Manage budgets, forecasting, and financial performance across all experiential initiatives.
- Represent the company with talent, brands, partners, sponsors, and collaborators.
- Ensure each property continues to grow in scale, cultural relevance, and profitability, and are delivered on time, on budget, and at the highest quality standard.
- Oversee experiential programming across Complex Flagship Stores in LA and NY. Develop pop-up activations tied to cultural tentpoles and key brand moments.
- Partner with executive leadership to align experiential initiatives with company growth and brand strategy.
- Integrate retail, commerce, and community engagement into physical experiences to align with the company’s KPIs.
- Drive experiential revenue and profitability through ticketing, sponsorships/branded integrations, and merchandise.
- Partner with brand partnerships strategy and sales teams to develop sponsorship opportunities across events and activations.
- Support client pitches and integrated experiential programs.
- Grow event attendance and audience engagement.
- Expand the brand’s presence through new markets, events, and activations.
- Identify opportunities to expand existing events into new markets and formats and lead the development of new experiential concepts and IP.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of experience in large-scale live event management and production, specifically in consumer facing festivals, conventions, experiential marketing activations and corporate events.
- Proven experience managing teams and 8 figure+ budgets and event P&Ls.
- Strong leadership, operational, and management skills.
- Deep understanding of culture across music, fashion, food, entertainment and the brands and consumers that Complex serves.
- Strong rolodex of vendors across event production ecosystem .
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.
Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.
Complex NTWRK Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, CA , United States, 90028
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