Production Designer, Vivid Seats
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Be an early applicant
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Vivid Seats' mission is to empower every fan to get to the live events that shape their most vivid moments and memories.
Role
Who you are
- A passion for live events (music & sports) is desired
- BA/BS degree in related field or equivalent experience
- At least 2 years of experience in an agency or brand side design role, with a focus on high quality and multi-form graphic design experience
- Portfolio of work showcasing your graphic design capabilities, and be able to answer specific questions on what aspects of projects you've worked on: Candidates must provide their portfolio URL to be considered
- Expertise in branding, style guides, typography, and digital marketing (email, social and display channels)
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects), Figma, and Microsoft Office
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment with quick turnaround times, and changing priorities – you never know when T-Swift is going to be dropping a tour
- Drive to keep up with new trends in design, email marketing, advertising, social media, digital and pop culture
- Actively participate in brainstorm sessions and support creative teams as needed by taking an active role in interpreting the creative brief from a design perspective
- Eager to learn and grow with our team, must take feedback well and operate as a collaborative team-player
- Partner with the creative director, producers/designers, and external vendors to facilitate file deliverables
- Interpret feedback and design critique to make timely updates to work in progress
- Able to organize a sequence of tasks on a project to meet commitment dates - manage time effectively by multi-tasking and move quickly to turn around real time social projects or email campaigns
- Help implement and maintain our file structure system, asset library, and review process
What the job involves
- Our team is looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative designer to make an immediate impact across Vivid Seats and Vivid Picks (Daily Fantasy Sports)
- As our Production Designer, you'll work on TONS of different projects across the Marketing team
- You’ll work with a Creative Director, digital and UX designers, an amazing animator/editor and copywriter to see your creative ideas come to reality
- Ever design a billboard in the middle of Times Square? What about an experiential event at Lollapalooza? We’re doing tons of cool stuff over here on the Creative & Brand team and we would love to have you join us
- One minute you could be shooting for TikTok and IG in our in-house production studio, giving away free tickets to a Post
- Malone concert through our Game Center, the next day you could be helping plan a campaign for the Super Bowl. Every week is different in the live event industry – we promise you’ll never get bored!
- You’ll cross-collaborate with different teams at the company: Social, UX/Product, CRM/Email Marketing, PR/Comms and our partners: ESPN, and NY Post
- The ideal candidate is tapped into social media and design trends, can multitask on multiple projects, while also keeping up with the newest tech and design trends to help craft breakthrough content for our brand
- 30 days in:
- Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful
- Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers
- Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values
- Learn how the marketing & creative teams collaborate to bring campaigns to market
- Gain an understanding of the brand’s look and feel, social channels and media outlets
- 90 days in:
- Work with marketing, and creative team members to design Vivid Seats and Vivid Picks (Daily Fantasy Sports) creative campaigns including short-form social posts (Twitter, YouTube, Google, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.), long-form emails and newsletters, banner ads, and internal ad hoc requests
- Work with cross-functional teams to help build out the VisID and graphics for our brand’s look and feel
- Establish, maintain, and facilitate internal partnerships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- 180 days in:
- Design and implement process improvements that positively impact the creative team
- Play an active role in continued learning to advance creative skill sets necessary for team goals
- Bring observations and opportunities to drive initiatives to level up the creative team effectiveness internally and in the company
- Identify and implement deeper personalization within existing social and digital campaigns that align with broader team goals and KPI’s
Our take
Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats is one of the leading online ticket marketplaces. The event tickets market is one of the biggest out there, expected to reach almost $85 billion by 2027, and the company has secured its place within it with partnerships with big players like ESPN, RollingStone, and the NBA.
The company's strategy has so far been based on massive public exposure through heavy spending on digital advertising, which has brought it great success to date. Its connects millions of buyers with thousands of ticket sellers each year, covering hundreds of thousands of different events.
Vivid Seats boasts high revenues and sustained growth, and went public in 2021. Following its listing on the NASDAQ, the company has been focusing on expanding operations and broadening its tech capabilities. A recent development is the company's Vivid Picks app, which combines live event and gaming experiences to target changing trends in the events ticket space.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2014
$5.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2012
$3.9m
ANGEL
Total funding: $9.7m
Company benefits
- Health, dental and vision packages: BCBS PPO, HSA and HMO plans, mental heath and telehealth programs.
- Retirement and savings programs, continuing education opportunities, and rewarding performance incentives.
- PTO, mental health days, and maternity/paternity policies.
- Company-wide town-halls, hackathons, product demos, in-office happy hours, holiday and summer events, company-sponsored sports leagues and competitions.
- Gym membership fees, wellness weeks, access to on-site treadmill desks, bike storage, fitness classes, and inspiring office spaces.
- Hybrid working arrangements at accessible office locations. Company-provided laptops, monitors, & software in-office. Room for ideas (open floorplan with plenty of meeting rooms, quiet areas, and whiteboards), and coffee. We’re talking good coffee.
Company values
- We Raise the Bar: We shape our industry – we are the competition. We’re ambitious and disciplined teammates who make smart plays and get better every day.
- We Create Exceptional Experiences: Whether we’re engaging a fan, seller, partner, or teammate, we don’t compromise when it comes to their experience. We hold ourselves accountable and lean into every connection to make the moment count.
- We Embrace Change: In our world, the only constant is change and we’re ready for it. As a team, we’re energized by working with speed and agility to anticipate; we’re unafraid to be self-critical and we drive relentlessly to get the best results.
- We Enhance Communities: We invest in our communities inside and out. We’re united in raising awareness around causes close to our hearts and are passionate about giving back.
- We Commit as a Team: Above all else , we’re one team that trusts and supports each other –our unity gives us the strength to tackle even the most difficult challenges facing our business. Driven in our pursuit of the optimal, we constructively voice our perspectives, and when the best play is called, we move forward together.
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
Eric Vassilatos
(Co-founder)Also Principal at Magnolia Capital and Managing Partner at SkyBox capital.
Stan Chia
(CEO)Board Director at 1871, and Board Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Former COO of GrubHub.
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