IT Change Management Lead

About this role

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 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide.  Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit  www.livenationentertainment.com .

WHO ARE YOU? Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE ROLE

The Change Management Lead is responsible for the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of enterprise Change Management processes. This role ensures that all technology and business changes are planned, assessed, approved, implemented, and reviewed in alignment with enterprise standards, risk tolerance, and operational objectives.

The role also serves as the central point of coordination during major incidents, acting as the operational lead to stabilize services, coordinate communication, and ensure structured post-incident review processes are completed.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO • Own and manage the end-to-end change lifecycle across the organization, ensuring consistency and compliance. • Facilitate, lead, and document Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, ensuring effective risk evaluation and decision-making. • Maintain and govern the enterprise change calendar to prevent conflicts and ensure visibility across stakeholders. • Validate risk, impact, and rollback assessments for all changes. • Enforce adherence to change management policies, procedures, and documentation standards. • Monitor execution of changes and ensure successful outcomes with minimal disruption. • Produce and analyze operational metrics, KPIs, and reporting dashboards. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across change management processes. • Ensure effective utilization of ITSM tools such as Zendesk or ServiceNow. • Lead major incident response efforts, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing communications, and driving service restoration. • Act as the primary decision-maker during high-impact incidents in alignment with organizational protocols.

Post-Incident Review & Major Incident Leadership • Lead all post-incident review (PIR) activities following major incidents. • Conduct structured root cause analysis (RCA) to identify underlying issues and systemic failures. • Ensure comprehensive documentation of incident timelines, actions taken, and lessons learned. • Drive accountability for corrective and preventive actions across teams. • Present findings and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders. • Implement process improvements to reduce recurrence of incidents. • Establish and maintain a culture of continuous learning and operational resilience. • Serve as Incident Commander or Lead during major incidents, ensuring rapid triage, escalation, and resolution. • Coordinate communication to stakeholders, including status updates and executive briefings.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING • 5+ years of experience in IT Service Management (ITSM), Change Management, or Service Operations

• Proven experience leading major incident management and post-incident reviews

• Hands-on experience with ITSM tools such as Zendesk, ServiceNow, or equivalent

• Strong understanding of ITIL frameworks and best practices

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams in high-pressure environments

• Strong process execution and governance capabilities

• Risk assessment and decision-making under pressure

• Advanced communication and facilitation skills

• Analytical thinking and reporting expertise

• Operational leadership and incident command capabilities

• Continuous improvement mindset

Schedule Requirements • Onsite 4 days a week

BENEFITS & PERKS Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits: • HEALTH : Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)

• YOURSELF : Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days

• WEALTH : 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program

• FAMILY : New parent programs including caregiver leave, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support

• CAREER : Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment

• OTHERS : Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. 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. 

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

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