Northern Trust
AV Operations Lead
Chicago, IL
No sponsorship$96k-$162kDetected 67 days ago
Stakeholder ManagementCustomer SupportCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingPublic SpeakingOrganizational SkillsMicrosoft Teams
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About the role
- The AV Operations Lead is responsible for the day-to-day operation, support, and readiness of audiovisual, conferencing, and event technology services across Northern Trust's conference rooms, event spaces, and production environments.
- This role serves as the primary operational lead for AV services, ensuring meeting spaces are properly maintained, staffed, and supported while delivering a high-quality experience for partners and stakeholders.
- The successful candidate will provide hands-on support for conference room technology, coordinate AV resources, oversee incident management, and serve as a trusted advisor for meeting and event technology needs.
Responsibilities
- Event Technology & Production Support
- Support executive meetings, conferences, town halls, webcasts, and special events.
- Develop and review technical event plans, run-of-show documents, and contingency plans.
- Serve as the technical lead for larger or high-profile events, coordinating resources and troubleshooting issues in real time.
- AV Operations & Support
- Lead daily operations for conference room, AV, and event technology services.
- Provide hands-on support for Microsoft Teams Rooms, meeting connectivity, content sharing, presentations, and collaboration technologies.
- Monitor and manage AV-related incidents, service requests, and support tickets to ensure timely resolution.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience supporting audiovisual systems, conference room technology, event technology, or related environments.
- Strong knowledge of audiovisual systems, presentation technologies, microphones, cameras, displays, audio systems, streaming, and conferencing technologies.
- Experience coordinating activities across technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Ability to translate business needs into practical technology solutions.
- Support control-room style production environments when required.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting live events, event production, or control room environments.
- Experience with Microsoft Teams Webinar, Teams Town Hall, ON24, Webex Events, or similar event platforms.
- Familiarity with production switchers, video routing, streaming platforms, and control-room operations.
- Experience supporting executive communications, large-scale meetings, or corporate conferences.
Compensation
- $95,600 - 162,400 USD
- Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay.
Benefits
- Coordinate staffing and support coverage for meetings, events, and conference room activities.
- Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
- As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability.
- Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities.
Company info
- Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust's history and is an essential element of our culture.
Equal opportunity
- Reasonable Accommodation
- If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
- Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).
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