Owning live-event connectivity—from planning to flawless execution.
General Manager, Convention Services
Irvine, CA
About the role
We’re on the lookout for a well-rounded General Manager who can lead our service delivery and commercial operations in our Convention Center services business in the Southern California market. You’ll be responsible for collaboratively coordinating with cross-functional teams ensuring successful delivery of connectivity solutions to convention exhibitors and attendees.
What you’ll be doing
The GM Convention Services owns end-to-end delivery of convention center connectivity services – order management and delivery, customer experience, offer management, and profitable growth. Owns service delivery and P&L performance for wired and wireless connectivity services across assigned convention centers.
It’s a role with a lot of variety and day-to-day, you’ll mainly be involved with:
1. Acting as the executive-in-charge for the delivery of our services and being the senior contact to our Convention partners and their customers.
2. Providing onsite coverage during move‑in and show open for major shows and events to ensure successful execution along with attendance in convention planning/ operations/ review meetings, and participation in weekly building meetings.
3. Leading multi-site teams including Boldyn convention center technicians and other resources to ensure operational readiness for each show: pre-event planning, network capacity planning, staffing schedules, onsite runbooks, and post-event review.
4. Ensuring accuracy and timeliness of order management and delivery. Managing network changes for show-specific configurations.
5. Coordinating with the Boldyn Network Operations team to ensure network availability and performance will meet customer expectations.
6. Partnering with Sales (both internal and building staff) by developing and delivering training on wired and wireless offerings, supporting quotes and proposals for show management and exhibitors, and optimizing offers to drive adoption and revenue.
7. Serving as executive escalation point for show organizers.
8. Setting team performance expectations, training paths, and quality standards.
9. Maintaining and improving convention services, escalation paths, and incident management.
10. Collaborate with other Boldyn convention GM’s to ensure service delivery consistency, standards, and improvement of SOP’s
Creating and fostering relationships in the Convention Center sector, including convention center authorities, operators, exhibitors, and vendors.
What you’ll bring
Think you could make a difference here? We’re looking for someone who genuinely cares about the welfare of our team. You’ll want to make an impact from day one. With big ideas about how to improve our culture and the knowledge to get people on board. You will also have some of the following:
11. Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited university with a minimum of 12 years of experience working in the wireless technology space or direct involvement with convention/exhibitor network services.
12. Strong familiarity with Wi-Fi and wired IP connectivity solutions
13. Ability to lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, time-critical network services in live convention and event environments, ensuring reliability, performance, and customer satisfaction under tight timelines.
14. Self-motivated strong team builder with account relationship skills
15. Skilled at translating market opportunities and client demand into scalable service offerings, operating models, and delivery strategies that support long-term growth rather than one-off execution.
16. Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, control costs, and make trade-off decisions that balance service quality, risk, and profitability for convention and event services.
17. Proven leadership presence in fast‑paced, high‑stakes situations, with the ability to make sound decisions, lead teams through ambiguity, and maintain accountability during live event operations.
About us
At Boldyn Networks, we’re reimagining the future of interconnectivity. Our network solutions are solving some of tomorrow’s greatest challenges. We are one team across the globe. Always listening. Learning. We value different perspectives and challenge each other to be our best. Here, you can change lives today and create a better tomorrow.
Why work with us?
We’re large enough to deliver and maintain large-scale operations, giving you the opportunity to work on exciting projects and expand your skills. You’ll be surrounded by talented colleagues who thrive on solving problems, just like you. Together, you’ll make your mark on projects that matter and find new strengths along the way.
We also offer:
18. Salary: $145,000 - $175,000 per year
19. Annual Bonus
20. Learning Development Opportunities
21. Flexible working opportunities
22. Competitive benefit packages
23. Paid Parental Leave
24. Vacation starting at 15 days increasing with length of service
25. 10 days paid sick leave
26. 4 days off each year to volunteer
Ready to apply?
Are you ready to create an impact that will last for generations? Join us at Boldyn Networks today. Hit apply and follow the instructions to get started.
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