Freelance Tour Manager Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
WHO ARE WE?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
WHO ARE YOU?
Passionate and driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward-thinking, and collaborative. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you, please read on!
THE JOB
LNEx (Live Nation Experiential) is looking for experienced freelance professionals to join our Freelance Roster. Our team concepts, designs, builds, and executes bespoke experiences that integrate brands seamlessly into festivals, venues, and tours across the Live Nation ecosystem.
Freelancers in this roster may be considered for roles across Festival Activations, Custom Events, Tour and Festival Hospitality, Festival Sponsor Operations and Venue Activations/Programs, working on large-scale brand experiences, custom builds, hospitality spaces, and interactive fan moments.
If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love problem-solving on the ground, and want to be part of building unforgettable experiences, this is the roster for you.
WHAT THIS ROLE MAY INCLUDE
Depending on your expertise, responsibilities could include:

• Production Management - Overseeing budgets, timelines, fabrication, venue searches, and on-site builds from load-in through load-out.
• Stage Production - Managing stage builds and technical production, including talent advancing, contracting, and coordinating with stage managers, backline crews, and touring teams.
• Experiential Producing - Leading or assisting activations and events from ideation to execution, managing stakeholders, and ensuring flawless delivery.
• Event Logistics - Handling scheduling, asset tracking, travel, shipping, and crew communications.
• Staff Management - Hiring, training, and managing event staff and brand ambassadors.
• Runner / Site Ops - Supporting on-site teams with vendor runs, crew coordination, and day-of show needs.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Prior experience in live events, brand activations, or experiential marketing (festival, touring, hospitality or venue experience preferred).
• Proven expertise in one or more areas such as vendor management, logistics, fabrication, production, budgeting, site ops, or artist management.
• Ability to adapt quickly and thrive in high-pressure, ever-changing environments.
• Proficiency with tools like Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable, or project management platforms (bonus if you're skilled in rendering, CAD, or social media).
• Strong communication skills and a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Willingness to travel, work nights/weekends, and handle the realities of on-the-ground event execution.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It's talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.
We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.
HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees or contractors within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of those assigned to this job.
Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.