Director, Global Experiences – Authentic Live

What You’ll Do

The Director, Global Experiences will serve as a strategic and operational partner to the EVP of Authentic Live, helping translate business priorities into coordinated action across operations, global partnerships, hospitality, experiential, and business development.

This highly visible, cross-functional role will create alignment across the organization, lead complex initiatives, remove roadblocks, and ensure critical priorities continue moving forward. The Director will operate across the full Authentic Live portfolio, moving fluidly between executive-level strategy, commercial opportunities, business operations, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on execution.

The ideal candidate is a trusted operator, natural connector, and resourceful problem solver who brings structure to ambiguity and takes personal ownership of outcomes. They are equally comfortable advising senior leaders, coordinating cross-functional teams, participating in partner conversations, supporting live events, and working through the details required to deliver exceptional results.

No two days will look the same. Success requires sound judgment, executive presence, strong business acumen, and the ability to anticipate needs, connect the right people, and mobilize resources across a fast-paced global business.

What You'll Be Working On

• Strategic Priorities & Leadership Support: Work in close partnership with the EVP, Authentic Live, to help advance key business priorities, initiatives, and organizational objectives. Translate leadership direction into clear action plans, establish accountability, and ensure consistent follow-through across the business.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a central point of connectivity across operations, partnerships, hospitality, experiential, and business development, ensuring teams remain aligned, informed, and focused on shared goals.
• Business Operations & Execution: Help drive the operational rhythm of Authentic Live, including organizational priorities, internal processes, project tracking, resource coordination, and ongoing business initiatives. Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, communication, and execution.
• Partnerships & Business Development: Support the development and advancement of strategic partnerships and commercial opportunities, working across internal teams and external stakeholders to help move opportunities from initial discussions through execution.
• Global Experiences & Hospitality: Provide strategic and operational support across Authentic Live's global portfolio of events, experiences, and hospitality initiatives. Help ensure teams are prepared, connected, and equipped to deliver exceptional results.
• Project & Initiative Management: Oversee and coordinate high-priority projects and special initiatives, managing multiple workstreams, navigating competing priorities, and ensuring deadlines, deliverables, and objectives are met.
• Executive & Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with internal leadership, cross-functional teams, brand partners, clients, and external stakeholders. Represent the EVP and Authentic Live with professionalism, sound judgment, and a strong understanding of the business.
• Communication & Accountability: Help establish clear communication channels, maintain visibility into key initiatives, identify potential roadblocks, and ensure ownership and follow-through across teams.
• Problem Solving & Special Projects: Take on a broad range of strategic, operational, and commercial assignments as business needs evolve. Bring a solutions-oriented mindset and the ability to quickly assess situations, mobilize resources, and deliver results.

Must Haves

• 8+ years of experience in sports, entertainment, hospitality, lifestyle, experiential, business operations, partnerships, or related industries.
• Experience serving as a strategic partner to senior executives and translating leadership priorities into executable plans.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand commercial opportunities, operational requirements, resource considerations, and organizational objectives.
• Exceptional project management, organizational, communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Proven ability to create structure, establish accountability, identify risks, and independently drive work forward.
• Executive presence and sound judgment, with the ability to navigate senior-level conversations and handle confidential or sensitive information with discretion.
• An entrepreneurial and solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to think strategically while remaining highly hands-on.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and shifting deadlines without losing sight of the details or broader business objectives.
• A proactive, adaptable, and collaborative working style with a strong sense of ownership and urgency.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently, both domestically and internationally, including evenings and weekends as required by the global events calendar.

Primary Location Salary Range:

$110,000 - $140,000