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Business Associate / Programmer.

Category: Jobs : Computer & Software
Posted: Over 4 weeks ago in San Francisco, CA
Description: Overview of Role

viagogo – the international ticket exchange– is growing quickly and is looking to hire ambitious, intelligent, and talented people to help expand our growing North American business.

The Business Associate / Programmer will lead operational initiatives critical to the growth and success of the company. The Associate’s role will be to build, oversee, and improve the operations of the business, including creating and supporting in-house software tools, product listing, order processing, and fulfillment, as well as aspects of product development and customer service.

This role offers a unique opportunity for candidates to take on big responsibilities and directly affect our success. You will report directly to the Managing Director, North America, and be his right-hand man/woman for all aspects of our operations. There are excellent prospects for career growth – we’ve made a habit of promoting from within for employees that prove their merit.

You will build on your strengths, develop new skills, and be part of the core team that expands viagogo’s growing presence in North America. Throughout it all, you’ll work with fun people who are committed to helping fans gain access to tickets to the best live events in the world!

The Person:

• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work in a fast-paced environment
• A sense of humour and positive, “make-it-work” attitude – we want someone that enjoys working with us and that we enjoy working with
• Outstanding relationship and communications skills, both written and oral
• Organized with strong attention to detail
• Reliable – if you say you’ll do something, it gets done and done well
o A desire to drive for results
• Ability to analyze complex business/financial data and develop innovative solutions
• Must be self-motivated and self-starting with detail orientation and ability to multi-task
• Located in or around the San Francisco Bay Area
• Must be eligible to work in the US

Responsibilities:

• Potential responsibilities to include (but not limited to):
o Working closely with all parts of the business, including partners and suppliers, to ensure the business runs smoothly
o Designing, writing, implementing, and supporting in-house software tools to automate and streamline our operations
o Managing business relationships with partners and suppliers, e.g., negotiating favorable terms, monitoring the quality of their deliverables
o Serving as a liaison between business and technology, e.g., organizing and prioritizing product development requests according to business need

Essential Experience / Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering strongly preferred, other Engineering / hard sciences backgrounds ok
• 1-2 years of professional programming experience
• Working knowledge of relational databases such as Oracle and/or SQL Server
• Working knowledge of programming languages such as Java, ASP.net, Visual Basic and/or C#
• Comfort with software analysis, e.g., using pivot tables and Excel

Desirable Experience / Skills:

• Experience and/or interest in the travel, music, sports, or hospitality industries
• Experience in e-commerce and/or ticketing
• 1-2 years of experience at a technology company or at a technology/process consultancy (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte) preferred

About viagogo

viagogo is a multi-faceted ticketing company. We run Europe’s largest ticket exchange, where fans can buy and sell tickets to a wide range of live events in the UK, Europe and US. In addition, we work with professional sports teams, theatre groups, and recording artists to help them maximize ticketing and ticket-related revenues. Through exclusive deals with artists like Madonna, we also sell premium tickets and VIP Packages on the primary market.

Our partners include the New York Jets, Manchester United, Chelsea FC, Live Nation and many other top teams and artists. As a business, we have over $70 million in funding and are backed by some of the world’s leading investors and advisors.

Our founder, Eric Baker, started a similar company called StubHub in 2001 (eBay acquired StubHub for $307 million in 2007). Our team has deep industry knowledge and a track record of building successful companies. We’re on the leading edge of the ticketing and live entertainment business.

If you’re interested in joining our team and helping viagogo grow, contact us at US_jobs@viagogo.com today!
Comments and Shouts

A Facebook user commentedat 12:39 AM on October 28, 2009

if "interest" is all it takes I'll gladly hop on a plane... :-)
Gary Yang

Gary Yang commentedat 05:40 PM on October 28, 2009

:) Thanks Monique! Hope everything is going well at RoadCross? I tried checking out the website but unfortunately still have a rather poor mastery of German.

A Facebook user commentedat 01:23 PM on November 1, 2009

Might have someone who fits your description and lives in Mountain View - double-checking with him first. Hope everything's great with you!
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