Elevate

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ABOUT ELEVATE: Elevate is a full-service consulting firm that inspires high-performing organizations to find their limits and push past them. With expertise in brand consulting, sales strategy, data-driven insights, and talent optimization, Elevate gives its clients a competitive edge in the fight for people’s precious time and attention. Established in 2018, Elevate set out to help sports teams and leagues spark innovation and drive performance. In the years since, the world of sports has transformed, today standing at the convergence of media, entertainment, and consumer brands, with Elevate supporting some of the world’s most ambitious businesses across these sectors. Elevate’s proprietary technology, data sources, and software products combined with our thoughtful insights, and people-centric approach give clients a 360-degree view of their customers, underpinning intelligent decision-making on marketing spend, growth strategy, and more. Our team of 400+ employees spans the globe with in 20 locations worldwide. We value recruiting diverse individuals to our team to bring new perspectives to our company and look forward to learning more about you in the recruitment process. To learn more and see what we’ve been up to, follow Elevate on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Where you come in Elevate is embarking on an exciting transformation journey from a consulting company to a product-led organization where our technology will become a primary revenue driver. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of our engineering culture, practices, and products. As a Tech Lead for the Experiences product, you'll work directly with our Head of Engineering to build and evolve our next-generation Experiences platform. This platform revolutionizes how we create, manage, and deliver curated event packages - combining tickets, hotel accommodation, transportation, and luxury add-ons into seamless customer experiences. You'll lead a team of engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture and coding, collaborating with other Tech Leads to shape engineering culture across the organization. What You'll Bring • Deep Technical Expertise: 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role • Strong Coding Skills: You're still passionate about writing code and can lead by example with hands-on development • Full-Stack Proficiency: Strong experience with modern web development technologies including React, TypeScript, and Python web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI) • Cloud Native Skills: Experience designing and building scalable applications on AWS using services like ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, and Aurora • Team Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineers while managing team dynamics and performance • Product Engineering Mindset: You understand that technology exists to solve customer problems and create business value • Systems Thinking: You can design solutions that balance technical considerations with business needs • Outcome Orientation: You measure success by business impact and customer satisfaction, not by features shipped or lines of code written • Problem-Solving Approach: You start with understanding the problem deeply before jumping to solutions • Experimentation Mindset: You value learning through rapid experimentation and embrace a "progress over perfection" approach • Communication Skills: You can clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Agency Experience: Experience working effectively with development agency partners is a plus • Travel/Hospitality Tech: Background in travel booking systems, hospitality platforms, or package management systems is highly valuable • Payments Experience: Experience with payment processing and cart systems is a plus How You'll Make an Impact • Hands-On Technical Leadership: Write high-quality code while also guiding the technical direction of the Experiences platform • Lead and Develop Your Team: Manage, mentor, and develop engineers on your team, providing technical guidance and career development • Advise Leadership: Provide technical guidance to Elevate leadership on key technology decisions and product roadmap considerations • Roadmap Development: Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and technical sustainability • Build Customer-Centric Products: Organize teams around customer problems rather than features, using rapid experimentation to validate solutions before investing heavily in them • Develop Engineering Culture: Help establish a product engineering culture centered on outcomes, not outputs, where engineers are empowered to solve problems, not just build features • Collaborate with Other Tech Leads: Work with other Tech Leads and the Head of Engineering to shape engineering culture, practices, and organizational structure • Partner with Agency Teams: Effectively collaborate with our agency partners, leveraging their expertise while guiding the technical direction • Create Scalable Solutions: Build high-quality, maintainable software that can scale with our business while maintaining the agility to pivot as we learn • Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to ensure our technical solutions deliver business value Your Journey: First 90 Days First 30 Days • Deep dive into the Experiences platform architecture, codebase, and infrastructure • Build relationships with your team members, key stakeholders, and agency partners • Start contributing code to understand the system more deeply • Work with our Head of Engineering to develop your personal roadmap for impact Days 31-60 Lead a significant technical initiative or feature implementation • Design and run a product experiment using the build-measure-learn loop • Start advising on technical decisions and helping shape the product roadmap • Begin establishing team processes and development practices Days 61-90 • Represent the engineering team in cross-functional planning meetings • Drive technical decision-making for upcoming product features • Assist with hiring and interviewing to scale the engineering team • Collaborate with other Tech Leads on engineering culture and practices Why This Role Matters Now • Ground Floor Opportunity: Be the founding engineering leader that shapes Elevate's Experiences platform • Product-Led Transformation: Drive the shift to a product-led organization following the playbook of companies like Spotify, Airbnb, and Stripe • Direct Mentorship: Work directly with our Head of Engineering to grow your technical and leadership skills • Significant Impact: Your work will directly enable millions in premium experience revenue for our clients • Technical Leadership: Shape not just the technology, but the engineering culture and practices for years to come The Technology You'll Work With • Our Experiences platform leverages modern technologies including: • Frontend: React, TypeScript, MUI • Backend: Python (Flask, FastAPI) • Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL, API Gateway, S3) • Payments: Stripe integration • Data Architecture: Redshift for analytics, Glue for ETL • Development Practices: Microservices architecture, micro-frontends, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code Our Product Engineering Principles • Customer Obsession: We start with the customer and work backward. We don't build features; we solve customer and business problems. • Ownership: Teams own outcomes, not just outputs. Success means business impact and customer delight, not shipping on schedule. • Simplicity: We choose architectural and product simplicity over complexity. Complex solutions are harder to maintain, evolve, and explain. • Data-Driven Decisions: We measure what matters and use data to guide our product development and business decisions. • Rapid Learning: We implement quick feedback loops, focus on learning through experimentation, and value progress over perfection. • Transparency: We invite visibility and are transparent with where we're spending our time. We're looking for engineers who want to do the best work of their careers while transforming how the sports and entertainment industry operates. At Elevate, you'll have the freedom to solve meaningful problems, the support to grow as a leader, and the satisfaction of seeing your work impact millions of fans. If you're ready to help shape our product-led future, we'd love to connect. WORKING CONDITIONS Travel Requirements • Occasional travel may be required Physical Demands • Extensive work in front of a screen Work Environment • This role is remote, with the potential for a hybrid work arrangement in the following cities: New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Charlotte, NC; Salt Lake City, UT; or Nashville, TN. POSITION AND BENEFIT DETAILS: • Full Time, Non- Exempt • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance + FSA, HSA, and more • 401k Employer Match after meeting eligibility requirements • 14 Paid Holidays • Unlimited PTO This position is open to all qualified candidates. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability in connection with the application process, you may contact us at HR@oneelevate.com We are proud to be an equal opportunity/veterans/disabled/ LGBT employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.