Lead Product Designer, SeatGeek
$120-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
Ticketing platform for live events
Open for applications
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$120-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Jul 2020
$121m
SERIES D
Total funding: $462.2m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Ample Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching Program
- Parental Leave - 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period
- Health and wellness subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace
- Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours + Company-Wide Hackathons 3-4 times per Year
- SeatGeek Monthly Ticket-Purchase Stipend
- Flexible work environment - Work as many days a week in the office as you'd like, or 100% remotely
- WFH Office Setup Stipend
Company values
- Start With Fans - When fans win, everyone wins
- Be Humbold - We're bold, but humble
- Pull Back The Curtains - We put outsized focus on building the most talented team possible
- Don't Do Bullsh*t Work - If unchecked, every job results in too many hours spent on bullsh*t work. We design how we work to spend the most time doing rather than preparing to do
- Stack The Lineup - Our team is our biggest unfair advantage, and the best teams bring together different backgrounds and experiences
- Play Long Ball - We take big bets on the future
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Worked as an analyst for Monitor. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Web Developer at Tickerhound. Co-founded and was a Web Developer at Niqos.
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