Job Summary:
WHO ARE WE?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 550 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
WHO ARE YOU?
Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!
At Live Nation our fans use our sites and apps powering one of the world’s top ecommerce sites. Our events can sell out in seconds, and we leverage our data to reach and connect fans to the events they love. As a member of the engineering team, you will work on our Automated Fan Engagement and Targeting Engine creating personalized fan experiences. You will focus on improving Live Nation’s customer acquisition capabilities, amplifying our voice and enabling timely, personalized communication with fans. Your work will increase millions of fans’ awareness of live events, providing them with opportunities they otherwise would have missed.
THE ROLE
We are looking for software and machine learning graduate students to leverage and explore methods and algorithms to help connect fans to the live events they crave and remember. You are an individual with a strong curiosity about data and leveraging it to connect to fans. You are excited to work on large data sets and summarize them using a broad range of algorithms and computational approaches.
You will be working with some of the most exciting data, tools, frameworks like Spark, Scikit Learn, Pandas, and AWS just to name a few, and be a key contributor to Live Nation’s large-scale collaborative filtering system and marketing platform.
WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
We have a variety of teams and problems where you can work and learn
Be part of a dynamic, highly-focused team that is responsible for providing machine-learning insights and products that engage Live Nation’s 170+MM users
Research and evaluate the effectiveness of various tech tools
Work with Recommendations, Analytics, Marketing Automation and SEO Team members to create tools to analyze audiences, website content, conversion, search keywords and their relationships
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
Must be currently a Masters or PhD student
Coursework and/or professional experience with a high-level programming language like: Python and/or Java
Coursework and/or previous experience with data analysis and SQL languages a plus (some projects may require it)
Machine learning coursework a plus
Experience with state-of-the-art machine learning tool kits and algorithms
Interest and the desire to learn
Effective communication skills and enjoying work as part of a team
Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking related to a pandemic or other infectious disease control measures, acts of God, health and safety mandates and/or restrictions imposed by applicable local, state or federal governments has evolved over time. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated from such infectious diseases for which vaccinations are available. You are expected to follow Live Nation’s health and safety protocols and policies as they change from time to time.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.
We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.
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
Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
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The expected compensation for this position in California is:
$24.00 USD - $30.00 Hourly
The expected compensation for this position in Washington is:
$24.00 USD - $30.00 Hourly
** Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the California Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements Law and the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act.It is estimated based upon what a successful California applicant or an individual working in this position in the state of Washington would be paid. It assumes that the candidate will be in California or Washington or perform the position from California or Washington. Similar positions located outside of California or Washington will not necessarily receive the same compensation. Live Nation takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the California and Washington Laws, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.
