AV Production Specialist

Join Anthropic as an AV Production Specialist to manage live event technology, ensuring seamless execution of broadcasts and presentations. Collaborate with executives and teams to enhance AI safety communication.

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.

• •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.
• •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.
• •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.

• •Annual Salary: $230,000 — $325,000 USD.
• •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.
• •Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• •Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.

• •5+ 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.