Lead UX Designer, SeatGeek
$150-210k
+ Equity
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$150-210k
+ 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
- This person is highly skilled in behavioral design, systems design, and storytelling
- 8+ years of experience
- Excellent craftsmanship
- An understanding of the technical and logistical obstacles that create friction during live experiences
- The mindset of a challenge, changemaker, and innovator
- 4+ hours of overlap with a 9:30am-5:30pm East Coast workday
- A passion for live experiences
What the job involves
- SeatGeek's user experience team is seeking a lead designer to change live experiences
- They will define strategies, provide end-to-end craft and thought leadership, and partner seamlessly with cross-functional partners across product, engineering, product marketing, customer success, and more
- This person will connect the dots into a cohesive vision across the various verticals of SeatGeek's business, and evolve our platform to become the best-in-class ticketing platform on the market
- Deeply understand the needs, motivations, and behaviors of fans, sellers, teams, and artists
- Set direction by creating clear and impactful strategies while also sweating the details through execution and launch
- Balance speed and quality with a focus on driving impact through both optimizations and 0-1 product development
- Demonstrate outstanding design skills and a passion for experimentation, data, and systems thinking
- Collaboratively improve our component systems to ensure consistent, high quality experiences
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
$77.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $418.6m
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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