Zenefits (YC 13) is hiring here in San Francisco, in Vancouver, and in our Bangalore office for a handful of eng, product & design roles. Open roles & good rundown of benefits/perks here: https://www.zenefits.com/careers/
I've been a Program Manager that works across the product & eng teams for the last couple of years at Zenefits and it's really exciting watching the team build and change, together with our business and new leadership. We're humming - designing & releasing brand new products (benefits partner tools, performance management tools, much more), introducing new tech/supporting the team as they adopt it (kafka, react) and intentionally shifting who we are - all the way from our board membership to release processes to which software we use for data analysis.
Ask away if you have questions for me - Kathleen at - or apply on our careers page!
The 'normal conference' (aka Startup School) does admit women.
I was admitted last year but couldn't attend. This event supports and encourages a community.
This will be my second and there isn't an event I went to last year (when I was starting my first company) that was more productive or helpful, including several I paid a lot of $$ for (this is also a free conference).
Nick, this is so awesome! I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm really interested in what a ticketing deployment for a "regular" restaurant that uses OpenTable now might look like.
Recognizing that, as you mentioned, many restaurants have different OT strategies (Girl & Goat vs., e.g., SF's Fang, which is great and often full but has tables avail every 15 mins in perpetuity and seems to manage fine, as they turn quickly):
1. Do shoppers used to limited merchandise translating to high quality get turned off by seeing all the inventory?
2. How to they get the word out to sell tickets? Will you help customers with deployment?
3. How do they restaurants convince an existing customer base not to just call (if they continue to call, it reduces cost savings) or show up (rendering system unnecessary/reducing it to a crm) without turning off their phones, like fab (http://recode.net/2014/06/04/codered-fab-operators-no-longer...)?
4. How sophisticated does a manager/hostess need to be to run & record results of the pricing experiments it would presumably take to optimize, once they did get adoption up? I don't mean to imply that people in restaurants aren't smart, just that recording, passing on the info and rerunning tests seasonally seems like a large organizational difficulty, assuming results didn't arrive instantly, like they might in a high-demand restaurant (your superbowl test).
Ok sorry I got excited and hung up on lots of little details!
I've been a Program Manager that works across the product & eng teams for the last couple of years at Zenefits and it's really exciting watching the team build and change, together with our business and new leadership. We're humming - designing & releasing brand new products (benefits partner tools, performance management tools, much more), introducing new tech/supporting the team as they adopt it (kafka, react) and intentionally shifting who we are - all the way from our board membership to release processes to which software we use for data analysis.
Ask away if you have questions for me - Kathleen at - or apply on our careers page!