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Build Groupon with builders, not passengers.

Work on production systems, agentic workflows, and local commerce problems with real customers attached. Groupon is not asking you to admire a transformation. It is asking you to help operate it.

54M
transaction rows queried
3M
URLs in daily SEO runs
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operating model to write

Operating setup

Start with leverage. Then prove it shipped.

A careers version of the merchant product grid: concrete surfaces, specific workflows, and visible ownership.

You do not start with a blank page. The system gives you leverage.

Agents draft analysis, inspect data, summarize customer signals, and turn repeated work into workflows. You decide what matters and ship the next version.

Agent briefEvidence packHuman decision

Production is the test environment.

This work touches merchants, customers, finance close, marketing operations, and support. The feedback loop is live.

Live signalOwner assignedShipped today

The proof sits next to the work.

If a workflow saves time, finds revenue, or removes manual drag, it has a number beside it. Narrative follows evidence.

54M rows3M URLsDaily run

Autonomy comes with the scoreboard.

You get room to move because the outcome is visible. Make the call, write down the reasoning, measure what changed.

DecisionMetricNext action

Tools are part of the job.

The operating model assumes builders use models, scripts, docs, dashboards, and judgment together. Waiting for a platform team is not the default.

PromptScriptRunbook

The work is cross-functional by default.

Engineering, product, sales, finance, marketing, operations, and people teams are all changing how they operate.

EngDataOps

Return on effort

The hard part brings you in. The ownership makes you better.

Groupon is not selling comfort. It is selling a place where constraints are visible, decisions are close to the work, and improvement compounds.

Flat

decision paths

The shortest path to the person who can unblock the work is usually the right one.

Daily

shipping rhythm

Small releases beat polished decks. Artifacts are the argument.

Real

customer pressure

The problems are not abstract. Merchants and customers feel the system every day.

Performance model

Choose the messy system, not the sleepy one.

The merchant comparison block becomes a careers decision block: what you trade away, and what you get back.

The comfort model

Settled company

The roadmap is finished before you arrive.

  • Narrow ownership
  • Slow approvals
  • AI as a side project
Your path

Groupon

The operating model is being written while it runs.

  • Direct ownership
  • Production feedback
  • AI inside the workflow

Operating audience

A company-wide operating system, not an AI demo lane.

Every function has a surface area: customer experience, merchant quality, finance close, marketing reach, and the internal tools that make the work repeatable.

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core functions are rewriting how they work: engineering, product, data, sales, marketing, finance, and people. The pattern is shared; the artifacts are local.

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2Agent
3Operator
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Builder proof

The stories are specific. The numbers travel with them.

A merchant proof block rewritten for careers: every claim pairs with the artifact or operating metric behind it.

Finance operator

Queried 54 million transaction rows in plain language and moved the close faster.

54Mrows
Marketing lead

Built a daily SEO pipeline across nearly three million URLs, running every morning.

3MURLs
Builder profile

High agency, low ego, system thinking, and enough discomfort to keep learning.

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Open roles

6 open roles

A rolling list. New roles open as the operating model grows. If you don't see your shape, write to us anyway.

6 open · updated weekly
  • ENG
    Engineering Shared

    (AI-First) Engineering Manager

    Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our m

    PragueApply
  • PRO
    Product

    AI Product Manager

    Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our m

    PragueApply
  • ENG
    Engineering Shared

    Engineering Manager for Groupon's Internal Next-Gen App

    Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our m

    PragueApply
  • LEG
    Legal

    Paralegal

    Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our m

    Chicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.)Apply
  • ENG
    Engineering Shared

    Senior Data Base Engineer

    Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our m

    Chicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.)Apply
  • ENG
    Engineering Shared

    Senior Engineer - Fullstack Typescript

    Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our m

    PragueApply
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