Lead Designer, Vivid Seats
$95-125k
+ Bonus + Equity
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Posted today
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$95-125k
+ Bonus + Equity
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
- The ideal candidate is tapped into social media and design trends, has video production skills, while also keeping up with the newest tech and design trends to help craft breakthrough content for our brand
- BA/BS degree in related field or equivalent experience
- At least 6+ years of relevant experience
- Proven experience in an agency or brand side design role, with a focus on high quality and multi-form graphic design and art direction experience
- Portfolio of work showcasing your graphic design capabilities, and be able to answer specific questions on what aspects of campaigns you've worked on: Candidates must provide their portfolio URL to be considered
- Expertise in branding, style guides, typography, video production and digital marketing (email, social and display channels)
- 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, advertising, social media, digital and pop culture
- Eager to learn and grow with our team, must take feedback well and operate as a collaborative team-player
- Must manage time effectively and move quickly to turn around real time social projects or email campaigns
- Video production, editing and animation skills are a plus
- A passion for live events (music & sports) is desired
What the job involves
- As our Lead 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 inhouse 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 football season
- 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, Bleacher Report, and NYPost
- Come up with new ideas for campaigns, initiatives and cool brand partners!
- Leading campaign work from start to finish
- Work with Product, CRM, Social and PR Leadership to help craft the brand’s strategy and creative vision
- Actively participate in brainstorm sessions and lead creative teams as needed by taking an active role in interpreting the creative brief from a design perspective
- Mentor and lead other designers on team
- Work across teams to oversee the sourcing, ideation, and co-creation of original content purpose-built for social, utilizing our brand new, state of the art content creation studio
- 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 Vivid Seats’ values and organizational goals to understand how your department drives initiatives forward
- 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
- Develop and lead initiatives for your stakeholders that enhance process, drive innovation, and build on Vivid Seats values
- Build, maintain, and leverage internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- Work with marketing, and creative team members to lead the design for 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
- Consistently seeks out new opportunities to improve the design team and the business
- 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
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
Articles
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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