Vice President, Studio Solutions

ENSEMBLE PERFORMING ARTS INTERMEDIATE LLC
Denver, CO, United States
20 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
$160,000 - $180,000
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Cloud Computing Configuration Management Cyber Security Open Source Technology Model Validation SC Clearance Falcon Platform Information Technology Cybercrime Cyber Warfare

Job description

  • Business Performance & Execution
  • Establish and lead a consistent management rhythm, with portfolio-wide standards for project management, reporting, and dashboards (including Asana), that connects priorities to measurable results
  • Hold leaders accountable for commitments, identify gaps and risks early, and continuously simplify how work gets done by cutting unnecessary reporting and meetings
  • Business Planning & Financial Performance
  • Own the consolidated budget, forecast, and P&L view across the portfolio in partnership with business-unit leaders and Finance
  • Lead business planning and performance reviews that turn financial and operational results into insights and forward-looking actions
  • Leader Partnership & Development
  • Advise, coach, and partner with business-unit leaders to strengthen their execution and financial management
  • Challenge assumptions and address performance issues while preserving leaders’ ownership of their businesses
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Serve as a trusted extension of the President, Studio Solutions and Events, creating visibility across the portfolio and representing the President when appropriate
  • Partner with Finance, Marketing, Technology, Legal, HR, and other shared services to advance portfolio priorities and share best practices across businesses

Who You Are

  • An operator: you see across the portfolio, understand how the pieces connect, and turn strategy into execution
  • A business leader: you engage credibly on revenue, margin, investment, people, customers, and growth
  • An accountability leader and coach: you set expectations and address missed commitments while leaders keep ownership of their businesses
  • A simplifier: you create clarity, structure, and discipline without adding bureaucracy
  • A trusted partner: you exercise sound judgment, operate with transparency, and know when to act independently and when to bring something forward, Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing security and compliance controls, developing dbt data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, automating with Python, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience, cloud expertise, container orchestration, and eligibility for CJIS clearance. Top Skills: Ai TechnologiesApache AirflowApache SupersetAWSAzureCi/CdDbtDockerGCPIamKubernetesMachine Learning PipelinesOciOpenmetadataPythonSQLTerraform, CrowdStrike, Architect and build production AI security systems spanning endpoint sensors and cloud-scale infrastructure. Lead autonomous cyber defense capabilities, including detection, threat hunting, response, adversary simulation, secure agent execution, and model evaluation. Establish technical direction, benchmarks, and safety practices while mentoring senior engineers and researchers. Carry frontier AI research into the Falcon platform and represent the company through publications, open source, standards, and industry collaboration. Top Skills: Adversarial Machine LearningAgentic ArchitecturesCC++Cloud SecurityCyber RangesDistributed SystemsEndpoint SecurityGoGpu InferenceKernel-Mode TelemetryLarge Language Models (Llms)PythonReinforcement LearningReward ModelingRustSandboxed ExecutionSglangSIEMStreaming Data InfrastructureSynthetic DataTensorrt-LlmTritonUser-Mode TelemetryVllm Boeing

Configuration Management Specialist (Associate, Experienced and Lead)

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Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
  • 10+ years of progressive business leadership experience, ideally across multiple businesses, brands, or locations
  • Strong financial acumen, including experience with budgets, forecasts, and P&Ls
  • Experience building management rhythms, business reviews, and execution disciplines in a decentralized, multi-brand, or high-growth environment
  • Demonstrated connection to music, dance, and the performing arts

Benefits & conditions

Be an Early Applicant In-Office Denver, CO, USA 160K-180K Annually Expert/Leader In-Office Denver, CO, USA 160K-180K Annually Expert/Leader Leads portfolio-wide execution, management rhythms, budgeting, forecasting, P&L visibility, business reviews, and accountability across performing arts businesses. Advises and coaches business-unit leaders, partners with shared services, identifies risks, simplifies processes, and represents the President when appropriate. The summary above was generated by AI

VP, Studio Solutions (Full-Time, Remote)

Remote - United States & Canada Full-Time $160,000 - $180,000 / year + bonus, The compensation range for this position is $160,000-180,000 per year plus bonus, commensurate with experience. A competitive benefits package is provided, including a 401(k) with employer match; health, vision, and dental benefits; and Paid Time-Off.

About the company

Ensemble Performing Arts is seeking a Vice President, Studio Solutions to help lead the next stage of growth across our portfolio of dance and performing arts businesses. Reporting to the President, Studio Solutions and Events, this experienced operator will strengthen performance, accountability, and execution across the portfolio without adding bureaucracy. Business-unit leaders will continue to own their businesses, including culture, products, teams, and P&Ls; the VP provides the structure and visibility that help them perform at their best.

Studio Solutions serves dance studio owners, teachers, and dancers in more than 60 countries. The portfolio includes dance curriculum and teacher certification programs (Acrobatic Arts, Ready Set Dance, Tap Roots), studio business coaching and membership (More Than Just Great Dancing, Dance Studio Standard), dance training and education through Broadway Dance Center in New York City, and career and studio technology platforms (Artswrk, ClassKid)., About Ensemble Performing Arts

Founded in 2019, Ensemble Performing Arts owns and operates 120+ local music and dance schools, along with complementary performing arts businesses, and is one of the fastest-growing platforms of independently-run performing arts schools and businesses in the United States. We are powered by passionate educators and supported by a team that believes in preserving what makes each school and business unit special. With a multi-state, multi-entity footprint and active M&A pipeline, we are committed to operational excellence and a people-first culture grounded in respect, flexibility, and shared purpose. Ensemble has been recognized by the Denver Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work and named to the Inc. 5000 list four consecutive times.

Who We Are

Our mission is to empower artists by safeguarding the businesses that love them . Our values include:

  • Stewardship: We are caretakers of our performing arts businesses and communities, helping them thrive by making it easy for our teams and educators to cultivate an enriching experience for the students we serve.
  • Growth: Our performing arts businesses are integral to our success, and we are committed to their professional growth. As an ever-growing partnership across the performing arts education space, we seek to increase the high-quality resources provided to our businesses and the people who run them.
  • Stagehands: Our Shared Services team runs in the background to support our businesses. By doing this, we champion students to be the real stars of the show!

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