Senior Trader, SeatGeek IQ

The role

The Senior Trader serves as the senior owner for large sports and entertainment partnerships. They manage pricing strategy, inventory, and partner relationships while mentoring junior traders.

What you will do

• Serve as senior owner on a set of largest sports and entertainment partnerships
• Set, defend, and revise pricing strategy with partners
• Own commercial health of relationships including renewal posture and escalations
• Set and move prices across the event lifecycle
• Decide inventory hold, release, and distribution
• Manage partner relationships through reporting and strategy check-ins
• Mentor traders earlier in their careers and review their pricing work
• Answer partner research questions on marketplace behavior and demand
• Lead pilots and builds of internal pricing and market intelligence products
• Analyze pricing decisions after events to carry into the next cycle

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, statistics, sports management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in ticket pricing, revenue management, trading, or a comparable analytical commercial role
• At least 2 years as the owner of client or partner relationships
• Real sports knowledge regarding standings, schedules, rivalries, star players, and playoff races
• Genuine awareness of live entertainment including touring, on-sales, and routing
• Significant experience in ticket pricing, revenue management, trading, or a comparable analytical commercial role, including ownership of pricing decisions with real money attached
• A track record as the senior owner of a significant commercial relationship
• Experience being accountable when a partnership is under strain
• Experience bringing others along through mentoring, reviewing work, or setting the standard others followed
• Fluency with sell-through, price realization, ATP, GTV, and inventory aging
• Comfort in spreadsheets and BI tooling
• A concrete example of turning a one-off analysis into something reusable

Nice to have

• experience on the rightsholder side (club, league, venue, or promoter) or with a secondary marketplace
• exposure to commercial deal structuring
• familiarity with data analytics concepts and workflows

Benefits

• Equity stake
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Flexible work environment
• WFH stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave
• 401(k) matching
• Student loan matching program
• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care
• $500 per year for wellness expenses
• Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical

About the company

SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. They are simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry with technological savvy and a fan-first attitude.