Career Opportunities & Festival Jobs

New York, NY | Seasonal: December 1, 2026 – June 18, 2027 | Hybrid: 3 days in office, 2 remote | $1,275 per week

ABOUT THE ROLE

Tribeca is seeking a passionate, motivated, and experienced Programmer to join the core feature film programming team in preparation for the 2027 Tribeca Festival (June 3–12, 2027). The role involves weekly programming meetings, screening submissions for official selection, developing programming ideas, and festival-wide planning with senior teams.

ABOUT YOU

The ideal candidate has wide-ranging curiosity about storytelling, from international arthouse films to mainstream movies, and follows trends in TV, podcasts, music, and social media. Tribeca is particularly seeking strong experience with narrative feature films, a collaborative approach, and experience in programming or evaluating creative submissions.

You are excited to share your passion for film through screenings and live events, and bring creative thinking, problem-solving skills, and enthusiasm for communal storytelling.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Screen 200–250 feature films, assessing quality, playability, critical response, audience response, and availability. Write coverage and participate in weekly programming meetings.
• Leverage relationships and conduct extensive research to track projects in the U.S. and around the world for potential inclusion across all verticals at the annual festival.
• Monitor incoming submissions and flag priorities.
• Build and maintain relationships with filmmakers; correspond with submitting filmmakers, producers, distributors, and agents, including personal outreach and pass letters where necessary.
• Participate in ideation, programming, and execution of events beyond film, including panels, retrospectives, reunions, live performances, and digital creators.
• Provide departmental support, including submission reports, research projects, and scheduling.
• Participate in press briefings on program themes and discovery talent, and meet with press for interviews and backgrounders.
• Liaise with Tribeca’s production, partnership, marketing, communications, jury, box office, and operations teams as needed.
• Execute programming for sponsored initiatives as needed.
• Write catalog capsules, press release copy, and editorial content for the program.
• Assist with festival scheduling.
• Support grassroots marketing, co-host outreach and partnerships, and ticket activation.
• Introduce screenings, moderate post-screening Q&As, and attend festival events for networking and hospitality.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience working in the film industry, ideally in a curatorial role.
• Established industry relationships with distributors, sales agents, producers, and directors, or demonstrated ability to build them.
• Programming experience preferred; experience evaluating creative submissions is acceptable.
• Familiarity with the festival landscape and how film festivals operate.
• Ability to communicate clearly and consistently in a fast-paced team environment.
• Knowledge of and interest in film, entertainment, live events, and the New York cultural events landscape.
• Strong writing skills and comfort with public speaking.
• Experience producing live events is a plus.

COMPENSATION: $1,275 per week

WORK ARRANGEMENT: New York City hybrid schedule, three days in office and two days remote, for the seasonal term.

Tribeca is seeking a strategic, entrepreneurial, and deeply networked Director of Industry to take ownership of the industry program at one of the world's preeminent festivals for the business of film and storytelling. This is a newly created, full-time leadership position — reporting directly to the Festival Director — with a clear mandate for growth: to expand Tribeca's role as a destination for discovery, sales, and deal-making, and to build an industry program that matches the ambition, scale, and influence of the Festival itself. Reflecting Tribeca's interdisciplinary identity, this mandate also extends to adjacent creative industries beyond film.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy & Vision

• Own and continually evolve Tribeca's long-term industry strategy, in partnership with the Festival Director, strengthening the Festival's position within the global marketplace ecosystem alongside other major festivals and markets (e.g., Sundance, Berlinale/EFM, Cannes Marché du Film, TIFF, SXSW, and AFM).
• Set annual goals and KPIs for industry attendance, accreditation/badge revenue, sales activity, and deal-making outcomes, and report progress to senior leadership.
• Identify, pilot, and scale new industry programs and revenue-generating programs beyond the Festival's existing offerings (e.g., unscripted/nonfiction sales initiatives, emerging media and technology partners, international co-production forums).
• Develop a strategy to grow Tribeca's relevance and industry presence beyond film, reflecting the Festival's interdisciplinary identity — identifying and cultivating new creative industries such as gaming, podcasts/audio, digital and online creators, and television/episodic.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the Festival Director and senior leadership on industry trends, market shifts, and competitive positioning.

Year-Round Cultivation & Relationship Management (Business-Side Industry)

• Build, maintain, and expand relationships with sales agents, distributors, buyers, streamers, financiers, and producers' reps on a year-round basis — not solely in the lead-up to the Festival.
• Lead personalized outreach and cultivation of past, current, and prospective industry delegates, with a focus on expanding and diversifying the industry base year over year.
• Represent Tribeca at other major festivals, markets, and industry events throughout the year to cultivate relationships, gather market intelligence, and promote Tribeca's line-up and programs.
• Serve as the primary, senior point of contact for industry partners, including major sales agencies, studios, and distributors representing films in the Festival.

Business Development & Revenue Growth

• Own the industry growth targets and budget, including accreditation/credential revenue and related industry revenue streams.
• Design and execute strategies to grow paid industry attendance and market participation, including new packages, tiers, or offerings for buyers and sellers.
• Track, analyze, and report on industry program performance and revenue to the Festival Director and organizational leadership.

Industry Programs: Creators' Market & Storytelling Summit

• Own strategic and operational oversight of Tribeca's existing industry-facing programs, including the Creators' Market and Storytelling Summit, in addition to accreditation and credentialing.
• Lead multi-year growth plans for both programs, including targets for participation, attendance, and revenue, and present progress against those plans to the Festival Director and senior leadership.
• Work closely with Programming on the curatorial direction, session/track design, speaker and participant selection, and overall programming of the Creators' Market and Storytelling Summit.
• Identify opportunities to expand or evolve these programs — new tracks, formats, or partner categories — in response to industry trends and Festival growth goals.

Programming & Slate Support

• Partner closely with Programming on slate strategy, buyer/distributor previews, premiere status, and rights considerations for films in the Festival.
• Oversee the creation of market-facing materials, including slate documents, buyer decks, and premiere/availability information.
• Coordinate slate overview calls and screening schedules between the Programming team and buyers/distributors.

Team Leadership & Department Management

• Build, hire, train, and manage a year-round and seasonal Industry team, including managers and coordinators.
• Establish department structure, workflows, onboarding, and training to support a growing industry program.
• Set performance goals for direct reports and manage staff performance, development, and accountability.
• Own the Industry department's operating budget and staffing plan.

Festival Execution

• Own the end-to-end industry delegate experience at the Festival — registration, credentialing, the Industry Concierge desk, hospitality, and off-boarding.
• Design and host dedicated networking and social programming for industry delegates (e.g., mixers, receptions, breakfasts, and lounges) to drive cultivation and repeat attendance.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for issues affecting industry delegates during the Festival.
• Oversee P&I (press and industry) screening reporting, attendance tracking, and delegate communications during the Festival.
• Attend Festival events, screenings, and market functions as Tribeca's senior industry representative.

Cross-Departmental & Organizational Leadership

• Serve as a member of Festival leadership, representing Industry in cross-departmental planning and organization-wide strategy.
• Partner closely with Marketing, Partnerships/Sponsorship, Communications, Box Office, and Operations to align industry initiatives — including sponsorship and brand-partner opportunities tied to the industry program — with broader Festival goals.
• Act as the primary liaison between the Industry department and internal stakeholders, ensuring timely, accurate information flow in both directions.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 15 years of progressive experience with sales agents, distributors, or buyers in a film festival, market, or industry organization setting, including experience in a senior or leadership capacity.
• A deep, active rolodex of industry contacts spanning domestic and international distributors, sales agents, producers, and financiers.
• Demonstrated success building, scaling, or growing an industry, market, or business development program, including revenue accountability.
• Experience building, managing, and developing a team, and owning a departmental budget.
• Excellent executive communication and external representation skills; comfort serving as the public face of a program to senior industry stakeholders.
• In-depth, current knowledge of the global film industry, sales and distribution landscape, and international festival/market ecosystem.
• Strategic sensibility, with the ability to balance long-term vision with hands-on, detail-oriented execution.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Curiosity about and familiarity with adjacent creative industries beyond film, and an interest in identifying where Tribeca can build new relevance and relationships, is a strong plus.