Hire production assistants
in San Jose.
Reliable PAs with on-set experience for productions, photo shoots, festival operations, and brand content days.
The Bay Area is a three-anchor engine — Silicon Valley corporate campuses (Apple Park, Googleplex, Meta MPK, Nvidia Endeavor, Adobe HQ, Cisco, Salesforce) that drive quarterly all-hands and partner days, the SF Moscone / Chase Center conference axis (Dreamforce, RSA, GDC, JP Morgan Healthcare week), and the East Bay event corridor (Oakland Arena, Jack London Square, Lake Merritt). Our Bay Area roster runs roughly 50% bilingual or trilingual — strongest in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Hindi — matching actual South Bay and SF demographics. Tech HQ event teams, conference exhibitor programs, and SF agency producers are our anchor buyer. Single-captain dispatch across all nine Bay Area counties. 100% W-2, AB-5 and AB-2257 compliant.
Showcraft serves San Jose and the surrounding CA area with 100% W-2 talent, full insurance, and senior captains on every event. San Jose is the operational center of Silicon Valley's corporate event calendar — Apple, Google, Adobe, Cisco, Western Digital, and Nvidia all run quarterly all-hands and partner days here, plus heavy keynote/launch activity at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. We staff product-launch booth teams for Adobe Summit, Cisco Live, and Nvidia GTC, family days at Levi's Stadium and PayPal Park, premium offsites at the Tech Interactive and the Computer History Museum, and on-camera hosts for keynote support and demo stations. Our Bay Area roster runs deep on bilingual EN/ES, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog talent — important in the South Bay's actual demographics, not just on a brief.
- Production Assistants dispatched anywhere in San Jose
- 100% W-2 staff (CA AB-5 / AB-2257 compliant)
- Comprehensive GL + workers' comp on every event
- COI naming your venue and additional insureds
- Captain on-site for events with 6+ staff
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What kind of production assistants does Showcraft provide in San Jose?+
Set PAs, key PAs, office PAs, runners, locations PAs, and on-set logistical support for photo shoots, video productions, brand content days, and festival operations across San Jose & the Bay Area. Every PA is briefed on call-time, parking, lockup protocols, and chain of command before day-of.
Do your San Jose PAs have on-set experience?+
Yes — our San Jose PA roster is drawn from people who have worked productions in San Jose & the Bay Area before, not first-timers. They know set etiquette, basic walkie protocol, lockups, and craft service flow. For specialty needs (camera PA, art PA, locations) flag the department in your initial request.
Are your San Jose PAs W-2 employees?+
Yes. Every Showcraft PA working in San Jose is a W-2 employee with payroll, workers' comp, and general liability coverage — important for productions that need to keep talent off 1099 status. In California, that's fully AB-5 / AB-2257 compliant.
How fast can you staff PAs for a San Jose shoot?+
Quote turnaround is under 24 hours. Standard fill for a San Jose crew (3-10 PAs) is 3-5 days. Rush calls under 48 hours are accommodated with a surcharge — we maintain enough roster depth in San Jose & the Bay Area to fill most last-minute shoots, though selectivity drops as lead time shrinks.
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