Get Your Ticket: A Networking Event with SeatGeek's Tech & Product Leaders
Live events are coming back. Tickets are selling. We’re excited. What does all of this mean? You got it—the leading mobile-focused ticket platform, SeatGeek, is hiring. You’re invited to watch our virtual networking event with SeatGeek’s CTO, tech leaders, product gurus, and recruiters. Tune in for a behind-the-scenes…
About this event
Live events are coming back. Tickets are selling. We’re excited.
What does all of this mean? You got it—the leading mobile-focused ticket platform, SeatGeek, is hiring.
You’re invited to watch our virtual networking event with SeatGeek’s CTO, tech leaders, product gurus, and recruiters.
Tune in for a behind-the-scenes look at SeatGeek’s ticket search engine, upcoming projects, company culture, employee perks, and more. You’ll hear the honest, unfiltered version from current team members and decide if SeatGeek is the right fit for you.
You'll…
- Gain insight into SeatGeek’s tech and product sectors.
- Hear career advice from industry leaders.
P.S. Did you know that SeatGeek team members get a monthly credit towards event tickets? Yeah - we’d be excited, too.
Agenda:
- 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff
- 12:05 PM ET / 9:05 AM PT - Welcome & Keynote Address from Brian Murphy, CTO
- 12:15 PM ET / 9:15 AM PT - Lightning Talk: “Swaps” featuring:
- Allie French, Software Engineer
- 12:25 PM ET / 9:25 AM PT - Lighting Talk: “Vroom” featuring:
- Ander Parra, Senior Software Engineer
- 12:35 PM ET / 9:35 AM PT - Lightning Talk: “Event Page” featuring:
- Kellie Fleitman, Software Engineer
- Katya Hott, Lead UX Researcher
- Jenny Jin, iOS Engineer
- 12:45 PM ET / 9:45 AM PT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A featuring:
- Rakhee Gupta, Technical Recruiting Manager
- Allie French, Software Engineer
- Kellie Fleitman, Software Engineer
- Jenny Jin, iOS Engineer
- Ander Parra, Senior Software Engineer
- Katya Hott, Lead UX Researcher
- 1:25 PM ET / 10:25 AM PT - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
- 1:30 PM ET / 10:30 AM PT - Event Concludes
*We will share all registrants’ profiles with SeatGeek’s talent acquisition team. If you’re unable to make the event, register to get your foot in the door with the team and receive the event recording.*
About SeatGeek: SeatGeek was built in 2009 as the only mobile ticketing marketplace created with fan experience top of mind. They’re transforming the way fans buy and sell their tickets to their favorite live events across sports, music, and theater. Now, through SeatGeek Enterprise, their mission goes even further – by bringing a technology-first approach to an entire industry sorely in need of a better solution, they aim to be a force for good in live entertainment.
About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is fast-tracking economic equality by upskilling and connecting underrepresented talent to roles in highly visible sectors. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Microsoft, American Express, Facebook, and Slack, resulting in countless hires.
About PowerToFly’s Events: All RSVP’d attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.
Agenda
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Where you could fit in
The team is actively hiring. Here are a few open roles this event is built around.
Meet the speakers
Allie French
Software Engineer
Allie joined SeatGeek in September of 2019 as a Software Engineer and was recently promoted to a Software Engineer II. Her professional career started in media, working for companies like MediaCom and Zenith, before she enrolled in The Grace Hopper Program at FullStack Academy and pivoted into tech.
Kellie Fleitman
Software Engineer
Kellie joined SeatGeek in July of 2019. Prior, she was working for a fashion photography company building SaaS solutions for the eCommerce world. Her strengths include Python, PHP and Javascript.
Jenny Jin
iOS Engineer
Jenny joined SeatGeek in July of 2020 after graduating from the University of Waterloo. She has interned in various tech positions such as a Mobile Engineer with PagerDuty, iOS Developer with Accedo.tv, and Software Engineer with TribalScale.
Ander Parra
Senior Software Engineer
Ander joined SeatGeek in December of 2020. He has over 10 years of industry experience in software engineering and has worked in many different types of systems with diverse sets of constraints and challenges, mainly based on JVM (Java and Scala). He is also experienced in high-scale distributed systems and functional programming.
Katya Hott
Lead UX Researcher
Katya joined SeatGeek in September of 2020 and leads the research practice for the product organization. Prior, her user research career was focused on education where she worked on classroom technology. She was previously UX Research Manager at BrainPOP.
Brian Murphy
CTO
Brian joined SeatGeek as the CTO two years ago. Prior, he held a number of leadership roles centered around growing and leading multidisciplinary teams to transform high technology products from original concept to large-scale production deployments. Brian served as the CTO at Tumblr, the Vice President of Engineering at The New York Times, and the Senior Director of Engineering at Condé Nast - just to name a few.
Rakhee Gupta
Technical Recruiting Manager
Rakhee oversees all technical recruiting across the engineering and product sectors in NYC and Israel at SeatGeek. She joined the company in August of 2020. Prior, Rakhee worked as a recruiter for Flatiron Health, Addepar, Bloomberg LP, Google, and more.
SeatGeek
Help the world experience more live!
We love live events because they bring people of all walks together. You see the same things. You feel the same feels. You walk out changed for the better. We strive to bring the same feeling of connectedness into our workplace. Help us help the world experience more live.
SeatGeek is the #1 rated ticket marketplace for live events. We are also a global primary ticketing system and our customers include major sports teams and venues such as the Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City Football, and Jujamcyn Theatres (Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Springsteen on Broadway).
Our mission is to be a truly innovative and disruptive force in the $160 billion dollar ticketing market, all the while being fan-first and technology forward. We are also on the road to going public and are absolutely electrified by the growth potential that will be unlocked by this next stage in our company.
If you're feeling intrigued to learn more after reading the above, please do not hesitate to apply to one of our open roles!
Check us out on social media!
- SeatGeek's Glassdoor
- Life at SeatGeek (Employer Branding Video)
- ChairNerd (Tech Blog)
- SeatGeek Engineering Twitter
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SeatGeek is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, military or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. As an equal opportunities employer, we recognize that diversity is a positive attribute and we welcome the differences and benefits that a diverse culture brings.
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