Data Team Manager
The Opportunity
Vivid Seats is the largest independent online ticket marketplace, sending tens of millions of fans to live events. Experiences Matter- which is why we continue to grow year over year. Working at Vivid Seats provides an opportunity to scale our best in class platform, allowing our fans to sit closer and see more.
At Vivid Seats, you will have the opportunity to work with the flexibility and speed of a startup; while operating at massive, profitable scale. We keep our teams lean, allowing each and every employee direct accountability to creating a positive ticket buying experience. We are relentless and move quickly to release new features and content to our applications. Good ideas are heard and implemented, and hard work rewarded. Being a part of our team means having the ability to drive impact and own the innovation that connects our tens of millions of unique monthly users to the memorable experiences that only live events create.
As the Data Team Manager, you will drive data strategy and build the data engineering team underlying the Vivid Seats ticket marketplace. Your team will be responsible for designing and building pipelines and streams, infrastructure and tooling for advanced analytics, and working with development teams to build data products, modeling, and overall architecture. Leading a team at Vivid Seats you'll stay up to date on new and emerging technologies to enhance our data strategy and continually improve data capabilities.
At Vivid Seats we are passionate about unlocking the value of data to provide the best possible experience for our fans. Managing the Data Team, you'll have a significant impact on our current and future data driven marketplace initiatives.
To be successful, you'll need
- Proven experience managing products within large mission critical e-commerce data warehouses
- Experience establishing and managing both onshore and offshore teams
- Formal training with data-warehousing and modeling
- Prior experience building modern data platforms, data lakes, lambda architectures utilizing open source tools like Spark, Kafka, Hadoop or similar
- Experience implementing or working in AWS (Redshift, Aurora, MySQL RDS) environment
- Familiarity with agile development cycles & rapid prototyping
- A creative and organized data professional who thrives in both an independent and small team environment
- A strong passion for enhancing the business value of data
- Creativity, fearlessness and an unwavering commitment to putting the customer first
What We Offer
We are passionate about creating memorable experiences for our fans… and the best in class experience for our employees. Vivid Seats offers competitive compensation levels, individual and team-based bonus opportunities, generous benefits package and Flex PTO policy plus a variety of workplace perks. The most exciting one: We offer our employees $100 worth of credits each month to spend on Vivid Seats tickets along with promotional discounts. At the heart of it, we are all fans of great live events. We want to help you get there more often.