Production Director

TITLE: Production Director

REPORTS TO: Creative Arts Pastor

OVERSEES: Broadcast Director, Service Producer(s), Production Staff, Production Interns, Production Serve Team Leaders (through staff)

HOURS: Full-Time, Exempt

TIME REQUIREMENTS: Sunday to Thursday, some events

EFFECTIVE DATE: September–October 2026

Role Summary

At the heart of the Production Director's role is creating Sunday gatherings where people can encounter God without distraction. This leader develops the people, culture, and processes behind the Production Ministry across all campuses at Resonate Church—equipping staff and volunteers, establishing church-wide standards, ensuring exceptional weekend execution, and personally leading production at the Fremont Broadcast Campus. In close partnership with the Creative Arts Pastor and Systems Technical Director, the Production Director ensures every production environment at all campuses advances the mission of Resonate Church.Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development:

• Lead, shepherd, coach, and develop the Broadcast Director, Service Producer(s), and Production staff.

• Conduct regular one-on-one coaching and leadership development meetings.

• Lead weekly Production Team meetings.

• Recruit, onboard, train, and schedule production volunteers.

• Build development pathways for production team's growth, producing leaders.

• Cultivate a culture of humility, ownership, teamwork, excellence, and servant leadership.

Weekend Execution

• Lead production execution for the Fremont Broadcast Campus.

• Oversee planning of AVL systems for weekend services from prep through live execution.

• Own the production standards of every weekend service environment across all Resonate Church campuses.

• Coach campus production teams to ensure consistent execution of established AVL standards.

• Develop scalable systems and operational rhythms that drive consistency and excellence across all campuses.

• Implement continuous improvements to strengthen weekend execution.

Audio Leadership

• Serve as the primary audio leader for Resonate Church.

• Set the church-wide philosophy and standard for live audio.

• Train staff and volunteers in audio engineering and mixing.

• Evaluate mixes and provide coaching.

• Develop audio training resources and best practices.

Collaboration:

The Production Director reports directly to the Creative Arts Pastor and maintains a dotted-line relationship with the Systems Technical Director for alignment on AVL systems, technical infrastructure, equipment implementation, church-wide standards, and long-term technical planning. The Systems Technical Director provides technical expertise while the Production Director owns the leadership, development, culture, and execution of the Production Ministry.What Success Looks Like

• Production staff and volunteers are consistently coached and developed.

• Production during weekend services executes with excellence across all campuses.

• Fremont serves as the production benchmark.

• Audio excellence is evident across Resonate Church.

• Production culture is healthy, unified, and continually improving.Qualities & Qualifications:

• Growing relationship with Jesus Christ and alignment with Resonate Church's mission and values.

• Proven experience leading church production or live-event production teams.

• Expert-level front-of-house audio engineering.

• Strong knowledge of AVL systems, Dante networking, RF coordination, ProPresenter, video, lighting, and broadcast workflows.

• Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and troubleshooting skills.

• Ability to work under-pressure and in a fast paced environment.