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Salary: USD 236,000 - 341,000 / annual
SeatGeek is modernizing the ticketing industry with a platform trusted by hundreds of major live event venues globally, including those home to the Dallas Cowboys, Cleveland Cavaliers, Florida Panthers, and Manchester United F.C.
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the core systems that enable teams, venues, and promoters to manage tickets and operate their businesses. You will set technical direction for this complex, mature platform while guiding its evolution toward next-generation products and architecture. This is a deeply technical leadership role that requires comfort moving between technology, product, and the ticketing domain.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting technical direction across US Ticketing, working with Engineering Managers and Staff+ engineers on architecture, system ownership, modernization, and platform boundaries
- Leading the evolution of a mature, business-critical platform while balancing client commitments with long-term reliability, scalability, and modernization
- Contributing directly to technical work through code, prototypes, debugging, architecture reviews, technical designs, and documentation
- Pioneering AI-native engineering by evolving how teams design, build, test, operate, and understand software
- Partnering as a peer with Product and Design leadership to shape strategy
- Developing deep understanding of clients and business, distinguishing client-specific needs from durable platform opportunities
- Leading and developing Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders
- Building a strong engineering organization by developing leaders, growing Staff+ talent, and evolving team structure
- Creating an engineering culture combining high ownership, healthy technical debate, strong execution, and sustainable performance
The role offers a flexible work environment allowing you to work as many days per week in the office as you'd like or 100% remotely. You will have equity stake, discretionary annual bonus, WFH stipend, unlimited PTO, 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave, 401(k) matching, student loan matching, comprehensive health benefits, and $360 per quarter for live event tickets.
Requirements:
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers in a complex software organization
- Strong technical judgment and architectural depth to work credibly with senior engineers on difficult system and platform decisions
- Willingness and ability to contribute technically when highest-leverage, including architecture, technical writing, prototyping, debugging, and code
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development and strong point of view on how AI changes engineering practices and the software development lifecycle
- Experience evolving mature, business-critical systems while continuing to deliver customer value
- Track record of creating technical strategy from ambiguous product and business problems
- Experience partnering closely with senior Product and Design leaders and learning complex customer domains quickly
- Experience developing Engineering Managers and Staff+ engineers and creating leverage through other leaders
- Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, ownership, and comfort making consequential decisions with incomplete information
- Experience with ticketing, live events, commerce, payments, reservations, inventory, or similarly complex transactional systems is a plus
