Lead Product Manager, SeatGeek
Cloud and Data Products
$130-220k
+ Equity
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-220k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power a new, open entertainment industry where fans have effortless access to experiences, and team, venues, and shows have seamless access to their audiences.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver best-in-class platform solutions for efficient development and operations
- Thoroughly experienced with Cloud platforms - AWS preferred, GCP, Azure, or private clouds like OpenStack also work
- Data-driven with a proven track record of identifying product experience success measures while working with analytics teams/tools to track KPIs
- Background in application runtimes such as Kubernetes, Nomad etc. and developer-facing platforms such as Heroku, GCP etc
- Understand large data systems and the opportunities at the intersection of data and cloud
- Understand how to deliver platform capabilities and experiences that will be shared across multiple personas and customer archetypes
- Experience establishing roadmaps and optimizing the ROI by making smart trade-off decisions
- Experience influencing stakeholders in Product Management, Design, Engineering, and Marketing
- Has a 'can do' attitude with an entrepreneurial mindset and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, with a strong bias for action
- A demonstrated passion for delivering world-class customer experiences
What the job involves
- As a leader of products for SeatGeek’s Data and Cloud products team, you will be responsible for building the cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, API capabilities, and data systems required to scale SeatGeek to 100s of millions of fans!
- Develop the strategy for the cloud and data platforms and create and shepherd an impactful roadmap, prioritizing based on market needs and internal feedback
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive alignment across the organization around platform strategy and roadmap. You will make high-quality, high-value decisions in the face of ambiguity
- Partner closely with engineers and engineering leadership to help build internal, developer-facing platform systems that power velocity for SeatGeek’s engineering teams
- Imagine innovative self-service capabilities for the various stages of a software development life cycle - build, test, deploy, observe, and work with our customers (internal developers) to pressure test and refine these experiences
- Drive product innovation by staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technology advancements
Our take
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$75.3m
SERIES D
Total funding: $416.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
- Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
- Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
- Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
- Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
- Flexible work environment: Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely. A WFH stipend to support your home office setup.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jack is also a Founding Partner at Founder Creative. Previously, he founded Scribnia and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Previously, Russell co-founded Scribnia and worked as an Analyst at Monitor Group.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Eric previously co-founded Niqos where he worked as a Web Developer for 3 years. He also served as a Web Developer at Tickerhound and as a User Experience Engineer at Amie Street.
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