Resourcing Manager

About the Company

Good Sense & Co. is a Brooklyn-rooted experiential production and design agency that creates large-format live events, branded activations, and entertainment productions for major brands, media businesses, and cultural institutions. The team is focused on turning ambitious concepts into reality through precise craftsmanship, strong creative thinking, and dependable execution.

Role Overview

Good Sense & Co. is looking for a detail-oriented, people-savvy Resourcing Manager to own the planning and allocation of talent across its production work. This role plays a key operational part in placing the right internal team members, freelancers, and crew onto the right projects at the right time. The ideal candidate is comfortable in a fast-paced creative setting and understands the world of experiential production deeply.

Core Duties

The Resourcing Manager will collaborate with leadership and production teams on staffing strategy, talent planning, project coverage, and scheduling. The role also includes maintaining talent systems, coordinating offers and onboarding, tracking budgets and crew utilization, and helping improve internal processes.

Strategic Staffing and Leadership Support

• Partner with senior leadership on hiring and staffing planning for both seasonal needs and permanent roles.
• Help shape staffing approaches that support business growth and the upcoming project pipeline.

Talent and Crew Management

• Develop and grow a strong network of pre-vetted freelance production professionals, including producers, production managers, creative directors, designers, technicians, and related talent.
• Identify and build relationships with new freelancers where the roster needs added depth.
• Act as the main contact for freelance talent, covering onboarding, scheduling, rate discussions, and future rebooking.
• Maintain a centralized talent database so availability, rates, and skill details remain accurate and current.

Project Resourcing and Scheduling

• Work with executive producers, project managers, and department heads to understand project needs from pitch stage through final wrap.
• Help create staffing plans across several active productions while balancing workload and budget limits.
• Maintain rate-and-resource tracking for each project alongside budget owners.
• Spot resourcing gaps or conflicts early and resolve them before they affect delivery timelines.
• Monitor crew utilization and highlight overstaffing or understaffing risks as they arise.

Offers and Onboarding Coordination

• Coordinate with budget owners to prepare and send staff offers, including rate negotiation where needed.
• After offers are accepted, work with the Staffing Coordinator and Financial Controller to send contracts and onboarding documents quickly.
• Track freelancer replies to make sure NDAs and contracts are completed before site arrival.
• Notify producers right away if any paperwork is still outstanding so physical copies can be prepared on site if necessary.

Operations and Systems

• Review existing SOPs for crew booking, confirmations, callsheets, and post-project feedback, then work with the team to improve them.
• Prepare regular resource reports for leadership.
• Maintain the Freelance Tracker and Rate & Resource tracking systems.

Culture and Team Contribution

• Support inclusive, equitable talent sourcing and actively broaden the diversity of the agency’s crew network.
• Represent Good Sense & Co. with professionalism, integrity, and enthusiasm when engaging with talent.

Working Arrangement

This is a full-time remote position for U.S.-based candidates. The expected working window is 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time as standard office hours.

Compensation

The employer has provided a good-faith annual salary estimate of $115,000 to $140,000.

Qualifications

Candidates should have several years of experience in resourcing, staffing, or production coordination, ideally in experiential, live events, branded entertainment, or agency environments. Strong organization, communication, negotiation, and calm decision-making under pressure are important, along with comfort working remotely with a distributed team. A strong interest in live events, experiential design, and creative production is also valued.

Preferred Background

Experience in an agency, production company, or entertainment studio is preferred. Familiarity with union labor rules and non-union crew markets, budgeting and cost tracking tools, and talent-management or project-resourcing systems will be helpful.

Additional Information

The role calls for active collaboration with multiple departments and ongoing oversight of staffing systems and project resource planning. Candidates should be prepared to manage concurrent productions, negotiate rates, and keep key paperwork and database records accurate and current.