Eventbrite

Engineering Manager - Relevance

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Event Management, Live Experiences, BiotechnologyIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote in US
  • Job Type: Engineering Manager - Relevance
  • Salary: [Not Specified]

As the Engineering Manager for Relevance, you will lead Eventbrite's mission to make live events more discoverable and engaging for users globally. Your leadership and technical expertise will guide the development of innovative recommendation algorithms and user-focused features, transforming event discovery into a highly personalized, fresh, and context-aware experience across our website and mobile app. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to significantly impact the way people connect through live experiences in today's digital age, influencing millions of users and reinforcing Eventbrite’s position as the leading platform for live experiences.

The Team

The Relevance team at Eventbrite consists of talented engineers focused on building advanced systems that deliver personalized event recommendations to users around the globe. We leverage sophisticated machine learning techniques, including deep learning and Large Language Models (LLMs), to understand user interests, context, and event content, ensuring each interaction with our platform feels uniquely tailored and relevant. Our team thrives in a highly collaborative environment, working closely with product, data science, design, and analytics partners. We prioritize agility, continuous improvement, and innovation, engaging frequently in knowledge-sharing sessions, technical demos, and hackathons to push the boundaries of personalized event discovery.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic technical and people leadership to a full-stack team focused on event discovery, recommendations, and frontend integration across web and mobile platforms.
  • Develop and drive a technology roadmap emphasizing continuous improvement in event relevance via ML, personalization strategies, and emerging technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) for event categorization, query understanding, and personalized content generation.
  • Foster an agile, delivery-focused, and high-performance engineering culture.
  • Collaborate closely with product, data science, design, and analytics teams to implement and measure impactful improvements in recommendation quality.
  • Mentor engineers actively, fostering accountability, collaboration, professional growth, and excellence.
  • Maintain clear, transparent communication with stakeholders about progress, challenges, and achievements.
  • Champion software engineering best practices, including rigorous testing, deployment automation, scalability, maintainability, and technical excellence.

Requirements

  • Experienced engineering manager (3+ years managing engineering teams) with a proven ability to build and guide highly effective teams in dynamic, high-growth environments.
  • Technical leader experienced in overseeing ML-driven and personalization-focused feature development, ideally within consumer-facing web or mobile applications.
  • Practical understanding of recommendation systems (e.g., Two-Tower architectures, ranking systems, contextual personalization) and proven experience with metrics-driven experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, analytics-driven decision-making, click-through rates, conversion rates, dwell time, and user retention).
  • Familiarity with applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance recommendation systems, improve content understanding, or facilitate personalization.
  • Proven track record in systematically managing and modernizing legacy systems, improving architectures, and ensuring scalability.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, including effective stakeholder management, conflict resolution, empathetic leadership, and the ability to maintain team alignment through growth and change.
  • Experienced in nurturing engineering talent, fostering a culture of curiosity, continuous learning, and high-quality delivery.
  • Skilled in partnering closely with product and design teams to deliver compelling data-driven user experiences.

Application Instructions

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Company Information

  • Company: Eventbrite
  • Focus: Making live events more discoverable and engaging for users globally.

Skills

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Recommendation Algorithms
Personalization Strategies
Frontend Development
Full-Stack Development
Team Leadership
Technical Roadmap Planning
Event Categorization
Query Understanding
Content Generation

Eventbrite

Self-service ticketing platform for live events

About Eventbrite

Eventbrite is a self-service ticketing platform that allows individuals and organizations to create, share, find, and attend various live events. Users can set up events ranging from music festivals to conferences and gaming competitions. The platform works by enabling event organizers to sell tickets online, while also providing tools for payment processing and event marketing. Eventbrite stands out from competitors by offering personalized recommendations and automated notifications to enhance the ticket-buying experience. The goal of Eventbrite is to simplify the event management process for organizers and make it easier for attendees to discover and participate in live events.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2006Year Founded
$382.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Fintech, EntertainmentIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

We care about your mental health and wellbeing. Our employees enjoy free coaching sessions with Modern Health. We also offer free therapy sessions with a psychologist. You’ll also have access to private medical insurance for you and your family, that includes dental care. And if you like sports, we have our wellness program to pay for your gym expenses.
Ongoing training and career development is an important part of our culture. We offer unlimited access to courses in Udemy, language exchange programs, internal training, wildtalks, workshops and weekly sessions with our CEO
Work-life balance is extremely important to us. Our employees can choose what works best for them: work in one of our offices, be fully remote or the best of both worlds! We believe in a flexible working environment to allow Britelings to perform at their best ensuring a healthy work-life balance. We have recently implemented Britebreak Fridays: all Britelings turn off their computers and take the first Friday of every month off to focus on their wellbeing.

Risks

Increased competition from Zoom Events threatens Eventbrite's virtual events market share.
Eventbrite for Causes may reduce revenue due to discounted nonprofit programs.
Leadership changes could lead to temporary operational disruptions.

Differentiation

Eventbrite offers a comprehensive platform for diverse event types and sizes.
The platform provides real-time insights and 24/7 monitoring for event organizers.
Eventbrite's personalized recommendations enhance user engagement and ticket sales.

Upsides

Growing demand for hybrid events expands Eventbrite's market reach and offerings.
AI-driven personalization tools enhance attendee experiences and satisfaction.
Sustainability focus allows Eventbrite to offer eco-friendly event management solutions.

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