AV Production Specialist

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

As an AV Production Specialist, you'll own the day-to-day operation of the event technology behind how Anthropic communicates — the all-hands, the executive presentations, the live broadcasts. You are the owner of these productions: accountable for their technical outcome from the moment a request arrives through to the follow-up after the room clears, and the technical partner our executives, events team, and communications partners rely on to make them land.

This is an operations role with engineering depth behind it. You'll work across the same technology stack as our broadcast engineering practice with your center of gravity in execution and service. You'll keep our event spaces in a state of readiness through preventative maintenance, and be the calm, capable presence that executives, comms partners, and event producers learn to trust. Your work directly enables the collaboration and transparency that advance our AI safety mission.

Responsibilities

Live Event Production & Run-of-Show

Own the technical execution of live and hybrid events, from small executive presentations to company-wide all-hands broadcasts reaching thousands of participants

Serve as technical director for live productions across the full range, up to and including executive presentations and company-wide broadcasts Operate production systems during live events including video switchers, audio consoles, camera systems, playback, and streaming encoders

Build and run the technical run-of-show: cue sheets, source lists, rehearsal schedules, and backup plans

Direct contractors and onsite technicians during productions, delegating clearly under time pressure

Troubleshoot and escalate complex production issues with clear diagnostic context

Communicate status, risk, and resolution to non-technical stakeholders in clear, calm, jargon-free language

Handle confidentiality and access requirements for sensitive sessions, including recording and streaming controls

Event Intake, Scoping & Scheduling

Own the event technology intake process end-to-end: request triage, technical scoping conversations, and staffing

Right-size production approach to event type, translating stakeholder goals into an equipment and staffing plan that fits the constraints and scope of our team’s SLA

Take on genuinely novel events and leave a repeatable standard behind — a template, runbook, or gear list that makes the next one easier than the first and repeatable by the team

Maintain the event technology calendar and coordinate coverage across the AV Operations team

Partner with Events, Internal Communications, and Workplace teams on lead times, expectations, and readiness

Support Operations & Room Health

Execute preventative maintenance programs and recurring room sweeps across event spaces and conference rooms

Maintain and test inventory of equipment including wireless microphones, cameras, and portable production gear pre event, following event production framework

Contribute to runbooks, standard operating procedures, and knowledge base documentation

Surface recurring operational pain points to AV Engineering as candidates for systemic fixes

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

Have 8+ years of hands-on experience in AV operations, live event production, or technical event support

Have owned the technical side of live productions end-to-end — not just operated a single position

Bring working fluency across event audio, video, camera, and streaming systems, with enough depth to diagnose problems rather than only report them

Are energized rather than drained by being the front-facing technical partner to executives and event producers

Bring structure to ambiguity by building systems for repeatable events

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

Technical direction for corporate broadcasts, conferences, or multi-camera productions

Q-SYS DSP platform, including reading and reasoning about existing audio/video routing and control designs

PTZ and professional camera systems, camera control units, and multi-camera workflows

Video conferencing platforms and hardware including Google Meet, Zoom Rooms, and hybrid meeting technologies

Live streaming workflows including encoders and encoding settings, contribution and delivery protocols (RTMP, SRT, HLS)

Network fundamentals for AV-over-IP including multicast, VLANs, QoS, and bandwidth management

Ticketing and workflow systems such as Jira, and building intake or request workflows within them

Coordinating AV contractors, integrators, and labor for event coverage

Role Specific Location Policy:

This role will be based in our San Francisco HQ

This role is expected to be in office 5 days per week

Occasional evening and early-morning coverage is expected around major events

4-6 weeks of travel annually will be expected for this role for distributed event support as needed

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$285,000 — $325,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:  A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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