About the Role
vivenu is seeking a Senior Account Executive to shape the company's strategy in the live entertainment vertical, identifying opportunities where cutting-edge technology meets high-demand events. This role involves hunting and converting target accounts, understanding the high-stakes realities of the industry, leading product conversations, managing multiple stakeholders, and building long-term partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Shape vivenu’s strategy in the live entertainment vertical, working closely with leadership to identify where cutting-edge tech meets high-demand events.
- Hunt and convert target accounts — including festival organizers, touring promoters, concert operators, and large-scale live event organizations.
- Translate industry empathy into results: understand the high-stakes realities of on-sales, VIP experiences, secondary market challenges, and complex promoter settlements.
- Lead high-impact discovery and product conversations that demonstrate ROI, operational scalability, and the power of data ownership.
- Manage multiple stakeholders across C-suite executives, tour managers, marketing directors, and venue operations teams.
- Build and promote long-term partnerships, ensuring vivenu becomes the primary technology backbone for the world’s most exciting live tours and events.
- Stay at the forefront of live event innovation, while maintaining a sharp pulse on competitors and market trends.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Music Business, Sports/Entertainment Management, or a related field.
- 7+ years of customer-facing or sales experience, ideally in high-growth SaaS environments or the live entertainment industry.
- Experience selling technology or enterprise solutions to promoters, festivals, or venues — or hands-on experience working within these environments.
- You have early-stage DNA, ideally as a founding member or one of the first 10 employees in a startup where you excelled at creating your own path and enjoyed building the plane while flying it.
- Experience in digital consultancy or transformation, particularly in helping organizations adopt new technologies or optimize digital strategies.
- Deep passion for the live experience and a drive to empower the organizers who bring fans and artists together.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills; able to connect technology to purpose.
- A consultative, disciplined approach to sales, with the grit required to win in a fast-paced, relationship-driven industry.
- Commitment to growth through learning — from industry summits to festival operations workshops.
Skills
- Sales
- Customer-facing experience
- SaaS
- Live entertainment industry
- Technology sales
- Enterprise solutions
- Digital consultancy
- Digital transformation
- Communication
- Storytelling
- Consultative sales
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 7+ years
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 - $280,000 a year
Benefits
- Commission is not guaranteed
About the Company
- vivenu is the global leader in event ticketing tech and one of the world’s fastest-growing live entertainment tech firms.
- The platform empowers event organizers to own their brand experience, unlock deep data insights, and seamlessly integrate ticketing into their digital infrastructure.
- With six offices worldwide and growing, vivenu delivers a customizable, intuitive solution and industry-leading support.
- We scale sustainably on a profitable, VC-backed foundation with true product-market fit.
- We are a diverse, merit-driven team spread across six global offices.
- Sifted consistently ranks us among the fastest-growing scale-ups in Europe.
- We are driven by daily learning, shared wins, and collective growth.
- Work alongside some of tech’s brightest minds — from Forbes 30 Under 30 founders to Executive of the Year award winners.
Equal Opportunity
- At vivenu, we believe our people define our success – and that we win with bold, diverse minds. The strongest teams are built on different perspectives, experiences, and voices. We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels empowered to contribute, grow, and thrive to shape the future of live entertainment globally.
