Senior Trader, SeatGeek IQ

About the role

The Senior Trader acts as the senior owner for a subset of SeatGeek's largest sports and entertainment partnerships, managing pricing strategy, inventory positioning, and partner relationships. This role involves making high-stakes pricing decisions, mentoring junior traders, and driving the development of internal pricing and market intelligence tools. The position requires a balance of analytical rigor and commercial judgment to ensure the health and growth of partner accounts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior owner on a set of our largest sports and entertainment partnerships, setting pricing strategy with each partner, defending it, and revising it as the market moves
• Own the commercial health of those relationships, including renewal posture, escalations, and regular engagement with partner leadership
• Set and move prices across the event lifecycle, from presale through day-of, against sell-through targets, price realization, and spoilage risk
• Decide what inventory to hold, what to release, how to distribute it across channels, and when a position needs to be worked down rather than defended
• Manage the ongoing partner relationship through weekly and event-level reporting, regular strategy check-ins, and candid conversations when the market disagrees with the plan
• Mentor traders earlier in their careers and review their pricing work on high-stakes events
• Answer partner research questions on marketplace behavior, demand drivers, and season or event projections, then turn one-off requests into repeatable outputs the whole team can run
• Spot gaps in what we offer, such as services partners keep asking for, manual workflows that should be automated, or places AI tooling could sharpen a call, and lead pilots and builds of the solutions

Required skills

• Ticket pricing
• Revenue management
• Trading
• Data analysis
• Spreadsheets
• BI tooling
• Partner management

Nice to have

• Commercial deal structuring
• Data analytics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, statistics, sports management, or a related field
• Equivalent professional experience

Benefits

• Equity stake
• Discretionary annual bonus
• WFH stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave
• 401(k) matching
• Student loan matching program
• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Family building and reproductive health support
• Wellness expenses

About the Company

SeatGeek is a company that simplifies and modernizes the ticketing industry through technological innovation and a fan-first attitude. SeatGeekIQ works alongside major sports and entertainment rightsholders to build and run collaborative pricing and inventory strategies.