Jobs at Sundance Institute

Coordinates transportation logistics for the Sundance Film Festival, including rental and sponsor vehicles, reservations, vehicle allocation, parking passes, inventory, insurance documentation, accident procedures, supplies, databases, keys, gas cards, and related tracking systems. Communicates with internal and external stakeholders, supports transportation management, handles onsite and remote operational needs, and completes a post-festival wrap report. The temporary role requires full-time onsite hybrid work, extended hours, and some evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Leads enterprise software development, platform integrations, custom scripts, and cloud architecture. Manages the software development lifecycle from requirements through deployment, collaborates with stakeholders, mentors engineers, and directly contributes to frontend, backend, and cloud solutions. Oversees third-party enterprise tools, databases, APIs, serverless systems, QA coordination, technical processes, and cross-departmental engineering initiatives.

Leads Sundance Institute’s partnership activations, sponsor fulfillment, experiential initiatives, and festival logistics. Oversees project plans, budgets, workflows, operational systems, cross-functional collaboration, partner relationships, and activation quality. Manages and develops the activations team while supporting inclusive culture and strong sponsor experiences across festival and year-round programs. The role is hybrid near Boulder, Colorado, with extended hours during peak periods and travel as needed.

Coordinates logistical planning and onsite execution for Sundance Film Festival events. Responsibilities include managing invitations, guest lists, vendors, permits, budgets, schedules, volunteers, event collateral, equipment, data, and wrap reports. The role collaborates with Marketing and Festival Operations, supports event hosts, handles customer relations, and works extended hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Coordinates publicity and artist relationships for assigned Sundance Film Festival projects. Responsibilities include managing publicity information and assets, drafting and proofreading media materials, coordinating press announcements, serving as the main contact for film teams, organizing press lines and photo calls, supporting media and volunteers onsite, conducting outreach, handling media inquiries, tracking coverage, and preparing a wrap report.

Coordinates Sundance Film Festival press information, including media list management, press monitoring, coverage aggregation, data verification, statistical reporting, artist and project research, and daily communications reports. Supports press office logistics, screenings, events, interview spaces, and administrative projects while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, and deadlines during the temporary festival period.

Leads partnership marketing operations supporting corporate partnership sales and renewals. Develops sponsorship proposals, pitch presentations, storytelling materials, case studies, and performance reports; manages workflows, timelines, cross-functional collaboration, and project priorities. Supervises, coaches, and develops the Partnership Marketing team while ensuring quality, brand consistency, stakeholder alignment, and mission-driven execution across partnership initiatives and events.

Coordinates venue planning and event operations for the Sundance Film Festival, including vendor and contractor communication, layouts, equipment tracking, budgets, setup and teardown, volunteer coordination, crowd flow, guest support, inventory, and post-event reporting. The role requires onsite work, extended and irregular hours, physical setup duties, and collaboration across Events, Partnerships, Technical, Corporate, and sponsor teams.

Produces and coordinates festival marketing video content, including artist features, daily recaps, and instructional videos. Tracks footage and edits, coordinates schedules, routes feedback, prepares accessible deliverables, liaises with vendors and contractors, and supports production teams. The role requires strong organization, communication, leadership, problem-solving, and the ability to work extended hours during the festival period.

Supports festival video content production logistics by coordinating schedules, travel, lodging, equipment rentals, shipments, paperwork, vendors, volunteers, and office needs. Provides transportation support using a festival vehicle, assists field teams, maintains organized workflows, and completes wrap documentation. This temporary full-time role requires onsite hybrid work in Boulder, extended hours, and occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Edits marketing video content for the Sundance Film Festival across social and longform formats. Uses Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Frame.io, and Camera to Cloud; integrates motion graphics, manages editing workflows and archives, incorporates feedback, and prepares accessible final assets. Serves as lead editor for an editing team, collaborating with creative, social, and festival stakeholders while meeting demanding deadlines and supporting extended hours during the temporary festival period.

Coordinates logistics for a festival Video Content team, including schedules, transportation, lodging, equipment rentals, vendors, paperwork, shipments, office supplies, volunteers, and field-team support. Drives a Festival-provided vehicle and transports team members and equipment between venues. Works extended hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and on-call shifts during the temporary festival period.

Manage assigned Sundance Film Festival partners and partnership activations, ensuring contractual benefits and recognition are delivered. Lead partner communications, coordinate with internal departments on marketing, signage, ticketing, venues and online platforms, maintain tracking documents and databases, support department operations, compile post-Festival wrap materials, and produce account summaries and recommendations.