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The Festicket Group family is a truly international team with 100+ people from over 20 different countries, all passionate about changing the face of live event experiences. Our head office is in Camden, London with a remote workforce distributed across Leeds, Berlin, Amsterdam, Porto, Nantes, Australia and North America.
Since 2012, we have provided a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travellers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,500+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 5,000 suppliers for accommodation & travel packages. In eight short years, we have become Europe's largest music festival platform.
Since our acquisition in 2019 of the multi-award winning cashless POS platform Event Genius and the associated Ticket Arena consumer website and brand, we are on track to become the most complete end-to-end live events platform for fans and organisers built to serve any event, any size.
We're now post Series-D funded, and backed by some of Europe's largest VC funds.
Join us on our mission in transforming the way music fans discover, book tickets and travel packages for festivals around the world.
YOUR ROLE
Festicket is looking for a business developer to join our commercial / business development team. You will be responsible for growing and maintaining our new event/music festival client base in the North American region as well as other local emerging territories. The North American market is new for us and there is an exciting challenge to spearhead Festicket's growth within this region. The U.S presents itself as an exciting region with lots of opportunity and huge potential!
Reporting to the VP of Sales based in North America and our Chief Commercial Officer in London, your mission will be to build on existing partnerships ensuring that there is an increase in sales and profitability year on year.

Requirements

Experience within Sales/Business Development in the North American Live Music, Festivals, Events, Travel, Leisure, or Tourism industry.
Minimum 2 years experience in sales, partnerships or commercial development
Have a confident telephone manner with experience in face-to-face meetings
Have a comprehensive understanding of the full sales cycle including lead generating, negotiations skills and closing
Demonstrate an ability to manage projects, focus on achieving objectives, adjust priorities, manage time and follow up on actions
Show an ability to work autonomously and be able to take responsibility beyond scope of role
Actively look for new solutions and create new ideas regarding the on-going commercial development.
Be aware of and take responsibility for implications of decisions
Have the ability to cope in a high-pressure environment

Benefits & Perks

By joining us you will be part of one of the fastest growing music / travel start-up companies in Europe, where you will have ample opportunity for career progression as we continue to grow. 📈
25 Vacation days + 10 federal holidays per annum
Discretionary flexible working from home
Health Insurance Coverage
401k
Opportunities to go to selected & partnered music festivals for free & all year round staff discount
Value driven start-up culture

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Festicket is the world's largest platform for discovering and booking festival trips. Founded in 2012 by Zack Sabban and Jonathan Younes, the company is backed by a range of investors including Beringea, Edge, Lepe Partners, ProFounders and InMotion Venture and in 2019 completed the acquisition of multi-award winning Leeds (UK) based ticketing and cashless POS platform Event Genius, and the related Ticket Arena consumer website and brand. The new joint venture, Event Genius by Festicket, creates an end-to-end platform for organisers and fans alike, providing the most complete offering in the live entertainment industry. The platform brings together technology and expertise including POS and cashless payment services, ticketing, accommodation, travel & packages, marketing, data insights & analytics, access control, fan engagement tools and more to plug a gap in the market that no other organisation has addressed to date. Together, the company works closely with over 4000 official festival and event partners including Coachella, Tomorrowland, BST Hyde Park, Ibiza Rocks, Motion Bristol and Wales Rally GB, serving a growing community of over 5 million customers. Alongside its London HQ, Festicket has offices in Leeds, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Berlin, Porto and Nantes. _________________________________ Awards 2019 - FT (Financial Times) 1000 2019 - Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019 - Partnership of the Year - Forum de la Billetterie 2017 – Sunday Times Tech Track 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies 2017 – Future Fifty company in 2017: hottest UK start-ups /Tech City UK's Future Fifty 2017 – Ticketing Technology Awards 2017: Smart & Connected Award 2016 – The Next Web UK Fastest Growing Tech Start Up: Finalist 2015 – TNW Europe’s fastest-growing young tech companies: UK Tech5 2015 winner news.festicket.com/follow

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Posted on Jun 17

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Full time

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Festicket

Business Development Manager - North America

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