AV Production Specialist at Anthropic

On-site - San Francisco, CA

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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, and live broadcasts. You will be accountable for the technical outcome from the moment a request arrives until the room clears, and you will serve as the trusted technical partner for executives, events teams, and communications partners. This operations role is built on engineering depth, working across the same stack as our broadcast engineering practice. You will maintain event spaces in a state of readiness through preventative maintenance and provide a calm, capable presence that executives and event producers trust.

Salary

USD 230,000 - 325,000

Requirements

Skills

  • 5+ years of hands‑on experience in AV operations, live event production, or technical event support
  • Owned the technical side of live productions end‑to‑end
  • Working fluency across event audio, video, camera, and streaming systems with depth to diagnose problems
  • Energized by being front‑facing technical partner to executives and event producers
  • Brings structure to ambiguity by building systems for repeatable events
  • Technical direction for corporate broadcasts, conferences, or multi‑camera productions
  • Experience with Q‑SYS DSP platform
  • Experience with PTZ and professional camera systems, camera control units, and multi‑camera workflows
  • Experience with video conferencing platforms and hardware including Google Meet, Zoom Rooms, and hybrid meeting technologies
  • Experience with 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
  • Experience with ticketing and workflow systems such as Jira
  • Experience coordinating AV contractors, integrators, and labor for event coverage

Responsibilities

  • 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

Technologies

Video switchersAudio consolesCamera systemsPlaybackStreaming encodersQ‑SYS DSP platformPTZ and professional camera systemsCamera control unitsMulti‑camera workflowsVideo conferencing platforms (Google Meet, Zoom Rooms)Hybrid meeting technologiesLive streaming workflowsEncoders and encoding settingsRTMPSRTHLSMulticastVLANsQoSBandwidth managementJira

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