Venues Product and Growth Lead

Bizly • Palo Alto, CA

7h • Onsite

About The Position

We're transforming how people book in-person group experiences. With major partnerships including Booking.com for Business and growing enterprise adoption across the Fortune 500, we're scaling fast across both enterprise and SMB accounts. We're launching a revolutionary new "zero to one" product shortly.

Requirements

• Hospitality or Events Passion: You understand what makes venues impressive for B2B gatherings and can spot quality instantly.
• Data/Ops Skills: Comfortable using AI tools, scraping data, building systems to scale curation without doing everything manually.
• BD/Sales Ability: Can build relationships with venue operators and convert them from "why should we care?" to eager partners once you're driving them revenue.
• Product Thinking: Strong instincts for what customers want to see, how to present packages, and what makes a marketplace feel curated vs. cluttered.
• Scrappy Execution: Thrive in 0-to-1 environments where you're building processes and moving faster than feels comfortable.
• 3-5 years experience in operations, partnerships, marketplace building, or hospitality - ideally at high-growth startups.

Responsibilities

• Define and Enforce Standards: Establish and enforce our curation criteria (each package includes space, food, drink, and a vibe) that makes our offering feel exclusive and premium - not just another directory. We arent focused on just high end, but we are broadening the aperture to all places that can support elevated group experiences.
• AI-Powered Curation and Growth Hacking: Build our marketplace by identifying and listing the "top 20 venues per category per market" using AI tools, data scraping, and smart automation. Build the defining directory on the planet.
• Convert Existing Relationships: Take our current lists of venues receiving bookings through Bizly and Kapow and convert them into deeper partnerships.
• Convert to Partnerships: Once we're driving booking volume to venues (whether through stub listings or onboarded venues), convert them into deeper partnerships with better rates, exclusive packages, and automated management.
• Manage OS Rollout: Oversee venue onboarding into our new OS platform - ensuring packages, pricing, content, and photography meet quality standards. Ensure the product and workflows are fine tuned and deliver high quality results
• Quality Control: Ensure every listing has compelling imagery, transparent pricing, and the right turnkey packages to drive success.
• Move Fast: Growth hack the marketplace and have adequate onboarded suppliers ready for our various launches in 2026.

Benefits

• Ownership: This is your marketplace to build - you define standards, choose venues, create the experience.
• Fast growth path: Prove this works and you'll scale a team as we expand nationally.
• Work with founders: Direct collaboration on strategy and execution.
• Competitive compensation and equity in a company with a clear path to major outcome.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed