Ticketmaster is the world's leading live event ticketing company selling over 400 million tickets each year, supporting 180,000 events and 12,000 clients in 19 countries worldwide.  At Ticketmaster, we power the people who create culture through live events, connecting more passionate fans to those experiences than anyone else.  We are innovators that embrace change and work hard to help others succeed.  We believe in open communication and stress accountability, because fans and clients count on us every day.  We strive for ease of use for our clients and fans while seeking out those who have a bias for action versus a desire for directives.    

Why Ticketmaster? 

A career at Ticketmaster will challenge and engage you. The pace here is fast, the atmosphere is fun and a passion for live events is a common thread that ties us together. As a global and growing business, we can truly offer a world of opportunities to expand your skills and develop your career.  Visit any of our offices and you'll find a diverse mix of passionate employees, helping fans around the globe connect with the artists, teams and events they love.  It truly is a unique and rewarding environment. 

The Job:

At Ticketmaster, we are building "The Operating System for Live Entertainment." And our Operating System must be mobile and an industry leader. We need a rockstar mobile technology leader to take our mobile products to the next level. Over the past 4 years our Mobile channels have reached close to 50% market share and are generating close to $1BN / year in revenue. As the Director / Snr. Director of mobile engineering at Ticketmaster, you’ll be responsible for setting direction for mobile engineering and product development. You’ll work with a team of highly skilled, impassioned engineers who are eager to grow and eager to ship product.

Our Practices:

•   DevOps:You build it, you ship it, you run it, including apps.

•   Continuous Delivery:Shipping our apps every 2-3 weeks across five markets is our baseline. We’ve created an environment where we ship product incrementally and put value in the hands of the fan sooner.

•   Test Driven Development: Guide your implementation by testing to get high test coverage, high quality and design simplicity.

•   Behavior Driven Development: Use BDD to make sure your Product meets requirements and so that we can regress quickly.

•   Continuous Improvement: Train yourself and the team.

•   Tech that Rocks: Latest iOS and Android technologies.

•   Real Fans get Real Tickets:We fight Robots to make sure our tickets go to humans!

Attitude

•   Leadership:You are an exceptional leader

•   Passion:You genuinely care about mobile, software, your team, and the business

•   Business Focus: You build software teams who drive the business forward - you love KPIs

•   Production Quality: You don’t write code for QA, you write code for Production

•   Craftsmanship:Software is a craft which you are continually honing

•   Communication: You are an excellent communicator

Skills

•   Leadership: Experience managing multiple teams and leaders (3 years)

•   Product: Experience building apps and designing world class products (5 years)

•   Engineering: Experience actually writing mobile apps and can build credibility with talented engineers (3 years)

•   Quality: Expert in maintaining the highest quality product while moving quickly

Practices and traits we’re looking for:

•   Continuous integration culture

•   Agile development culture

•   Automated testing culture

•   Continual improvement culture

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa. 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 

Ticketmaster strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. 

HIRING PRACTICES 

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. 

Ticketmaster recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Ticketmaster may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, Internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.