Production Associate

POLITICO’s events team in Europe is seeking to expand its team dedicated to creating impactful live journalism in dynamic and engaging settings. We are seeking a creative and collaborative colleague to help build out our world class production team. The production associate contributes to the day-to-day production planning and execution of a range of events with a focus on policy events, but with the exciting opportunity to deliver on all event formats including summits, capstone moments, global initiatives and Pro events. The Production Associate reports to the Executive Director for production and operations.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and eager to build a career in event production. They thrive in fast-paced environments, are proactive, responsive and enjoy keeping complex projects on track. Working closely with the Events Manager, Executive Director and wider events team, this role supports the planning and delivery of POLITICO's portfolio of high-profile events across Europe.

What You’ll Do

• Support the production and execution of high-caliber POLITICO Live events that amplify POLITICO's brand and editorial content, engage key audiences, VIPs, and stakeholders, and help bring client stories to life.
• Coordinate event logistics across POLITICO Live's portfolio, ensuring production plans, timelines, budgets and operational details are organized, accurate and executed efficiently.
• Assist with event logistics, including venue coordination, audio-visual requirements, creative assets, budgeting support, marketing deliverables, event load-in and load-out, attendee experience and onsite operations.
• Partner with internal teams—including editorial, sales, marketing, design, and operations—as well as external vendors, speakers and clients to support the successful delivery of live and occasionally virtual events.
• Maintain project timelines, production schedules, agendas, budgets and planning documents, while providing regular updates to ensure stakeholders remain informed and aligned throughout the planning process.
• Support strong project management practices by maintaining templates, tracking deliverables, documenting processes and helping identify opportunities to improve team workflows and event operations.
• Stay informed on event industry trends and production best practices, contributing ideas that enhance the attendee experience and support the continued evolution of POLITICO Live events.

What You’ll Need

• 2+ years of experience in event management and/or production or other related field
• English a must and French, Dutch, German, Spanish a strong plus
• Interest in political and policy developments, particularly within the EU context, is desirable.
• Excellent organizational skills, project management, and consistent attention to detail
• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment while adapting to shifting priorities and marketing multiple events
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to work well under pressure
• Experience using Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel if required

• Submission deadline 2nd of August
• We value our people

Our benefits package is built for you, and includes

• Our teams benefit from country-specific, competitive compensation and benefits packages—including pension, healthcare, training opportunities and more.
• With a multinational team, strong ties to EU institutions, and flexible work options including working from abroad, we offer our employees an environment that supports both professional and personal development.

Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here . We hope to see your application soon!

About Us

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer .

Posting date

2026-07-15 Title

Production Associate