Senior Manager, Local Area Transport & Traffic Coordination

Responsibilities

• Local Area Governance & Coordination
• Lead LA28's venue transport and local area workstream and cadence, including quarterly coordination meetings with relevant stakeholders ( V enue cities, Metro, Caltrans, Metrolink, law enforcement, fire/EMS, etc.).
• Organize and facilitate regular venue-zone and sports -park meetings to align assumptions, operational concepts, and delivery milestones.
• Establish clear decision pathways, meeting outputs, action logs, and follow-up to drive closure across agencies and venues.
• External Partner Management (SME Liaison)
• Serve as the subject-matter expert and primary interface between external partners and LA28 Venue Transport Managers, translating partner requirements, constraints, and operating practices into actionable venue transport inputs.
• Coordinate with city and agency counterparts on event traffic operations concepts (e.g., street closures, detours, signal timing, curb and parking restrictions, tow plans, emergency access) and confirm roles and responsibilities.
• Support relationship management, issue escalation, and cross-agency alignment to protect schedule, safety, and operational integrity.
• Local Area Traffic Management Plans (LATMP) - Development, Review & Consolidation
• Develop and maintain LATMP guidance, templates, and minimum content requirements to drive consistency across venue cities.
• Review, quality-check, and consolidate LATMPs to ensure completeness, alignment to LA28 venue transport concepts, and compatibility with adjacent venues and zones and regional mobility initiatives.
• Identify gaps, risks, and interdependencies (e.g., overlapping closure footprints, shared detours, competing curb demand) and drive mitigation planning with partners.
• Program and Project Management, Reporting & Schedule Control
• Create and manage integrated timelines, milestones, and deliverable trackers to ensure each venue city progresses at an appropriate and consistent pace.
• Produce clear written updates, dashboards, and briefing materials for venue transport leadership; highlight decisions required , risks, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate document control, version management, and meeting outputs to maintain a single source of truth for local area planning artifacts.
• Procurement & Implementation Support
• Support venue cities through procurement and implementation phases by helping define scopes of work, technical requirements, and sequencing for traffic management resources (e.g., TCM, signage, devices, communications).
• Coordinate with LA28 functional teams to align contracting approaches, implementation timelines, and access/installation windows near venues.
• Monitor readiness of implementation activities and surface constraints that could impact Games-time delivery.
• Readiness, Testing & Operations Transition
• Coordinate local area tabletop exercises, field walk-throughs, and integrated testing with cities and agencies to val

Additional Information

LA28 does not provide relocation assistance. LA28 is the independent, non-profit, privately funded organizing committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are on a singular mission to create an Olympic and Paralympic Games that celebrate all that this city and country have to offer, delivering an unparalleled experience for athletes, fans, partners and our community. The 2028 Games mark the return of the Summer Games to the U.S. for the first time in 32 years and Los Angeles' third time hosting an Olympic Games and first time welcoming the Paralympic Games. This presents the unique and exciting opportunity to celebrate our legacy with the Games and push the Olympic and Paralympic Movements forward, writing a new chapter of Games history in Los Angeles. Putting on an Olympic and Paralympic Games is a team sport. To build a Games unlike any the world has seen before, we need the best team in place-a team full of diverse perspectives, experiences and expertise. We are guided by the following set of values and behaviors-optimism, integrity, excellence, inclusion, co-creation and boldness-and look forward to hearing about how your past experiences align with them. Sr Manager, Local Area Transport & Traffic Coordination: Leads LA28's venue-transport interface with external partners to develop, align, and deliver Local Area Traffic Management Plans (LATMPs) across venue cities and venue zones/sports parks. Reporting to the Director, Venue Transportation, this role serves as the primary subject-matter bridge between venue cities/agencies (e.g., Metro, Caltrans, Metrolink, law enforcement, fire/EMS, and other local stakeholders) and LA28 Venue Transport Managers, ensuring consistent progress, clear governance, and readiness for procurement, implementation, and Games-time operations. The role requires a blend of technical transportation and / traffic management expertise as well as strong program/project management skills, grounded in an understanding of the Los Angeles regional operating environment.

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