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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Perfect Venue'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Perfect Venue

- **Company:** Perfect Venue
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perfect-venue/4a2e290f-e855-4e69-8196-002dbbb0600b

## Job description

## About Us

The more AI does, the more people want to be in the same room. The retirement party. The rehearsal dinner. The offsite where a team that has only met over video finally sits at one table.

Someone has to make those gatherings happen, and today that person is drowning. Private events and group dining are an $80 billion market in the United States, and most of it still runs on email chains and spreadsheets or legacy software.

At Perfect Venue we are on a mission to bring communities together by making it effortless to plan events. We combine intuitive software with AI agents that make it easy for venues to increase sales, save hours every week, and bring their communities together.

We are backed by top investors and operators like the Hustle Fund, [Defy.vc](http://Defy.vc), Amity Ventures and are used by thousands of venues nationwide from Michelin star restaurants to your favorite bar.

## About the Role

We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to get our AI features working for real venues. We've launched agents that help our customers send messages, build menus, and more. Every venue runs its business differently, and the gap between a feature that works in general and one that works for a specific customer is where you come in. This role is based in San Francisco, in office 5 days per week so that you can work closely with sales, customer success, and engineering. Expect regular time on-site with customers.

## What you'll own

You own AI adoption for our customers end to end.

- Embed. Work directly with restaurants and venues to learn how they handle inquiries, menus, and follow-up. Find where our AI falls short for them.
- Customize. Customize the AI features to our customers needs so that they can be successful.
- Drive adoption. Track and improve customizations so that they drive real outcomes for our customers.
- Feed the product. Turn patterns across customers into improvements for the core product. Bring engineering the problems worth solving for everyone. Help write evals to improve performance.

## What we're looking for

- You love working with customers, but also have a technical background
- You have built products where AI features are core to the user experience
- You are familiar with LLM observability tools
- You have been a founder or worked at an early stage startup
- You have a strong sense of urgency and move quickly
- Bonus: experience in hospitality, restaurants, or events

## What We Offer

- Competitive compensation including meaningful equity you’ll actually be able to use
- Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you, cost-sharing for dependents
- Flexible PTO & 401(k)
- Daily lunches when onsite
- Unlimited book budget
- Company laptop
- Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family

Perfect Venue is committed to building a winning team We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We will work to provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

## About Perfect Venue

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Perfect Venue provides event management software that helps restaurants and independent venues streamline the entire private event booking process, from inquiry to payment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Luke Hutchison

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Event Management Software, Hospitality Technology, Restaurant Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – independent restaurants, hotel venues, and hospitality groups that host private events
- **Mission or purpose**: To help restaurants and venues thrive by making private event management fast, simple, and automated; private events can account for as much as a third of a venue’s revenue

## Products & Services
- **Perfect Venue Platform (SaaS)**: A cloud-based event management system covering lead management, proposals, contracts, Banquet Event Orders (BEOs), central calendar, payments (Stripe integration), email templates with AI Reply, team tasks, and real-time analytics. Includes a mobile app for on-the-go management.
- **White Glove Migration Service**: Full-service data migration for venues switching from other software or spreadsheets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $4.39M raised (last round: Seed VC, ~2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Defy Partners (lead), Context Ventures, Amity Ventures, Paul Madera, Shawn Tsao, and several others.
- **Growth Signals**: Workforce grew 121.4% year-over-year (currently ~27 employees). Company states that venues switching to Perfect Venue save an average of 12 hours per week and increase sales by 40% or more. Active job postings include Founding Marketer, Founding Recruiter, and Inside Account Executive, signaling continued scaling.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for private events**: Unlike generic CRM or project management tools, Perfect Venue is purpose-built for the restaurant/hospitality event workflow, including BEO creation and venue-specific calendar management.
- **Customer obsession**: Stated value of being “customer obsessed” with a 4.9/5.0 product rating (189 reviews) and 5.0/5.0 employer rating.
- **AI & automation**: AI Reply features and email templates that auto-fill event information, reducing manual work for event managers.
- **Ease of migration and onboarding**: “No training required” claim and white glove migration service lower switching costs for venues.

## Strategic Focus
- **Hiring for growth**: Actively looking to fill founding-level revenue and marketing roles, suggesting a focus on scaling go-to-market and brand presence.
- **Product expansion**: Continued investment in features like analytics, AI, and integrations (Stripe, floorplan tools) to deepen the platform’s value.
- **Market penetration**: Targeting independent venues and restaurant groups that are underserved by expensive enterprise event software.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of “passionate and curious builders” with values including “We are optimists,” “We have fun,” and “We FITFO (figure it the f\*ck out).” A play-to-win mentality balanced with joy and resilience.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid work model based in San Francisco, CA. In-office presence is expected for some roles.
- **Benefits**: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance; meaningful early-stage stock options; 401k; company laptop and equipment; flexible vacation policy; One Medical membership; company off-sites; unlimited book reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: Small, fast-moving team (3 people in technical roles) with strong ownership. Employees come from backgrounds at Toast, Cameo, and DoorDash, indicating a high-caliber product and engineering environment.
- **Customer impact**: Directly helps small businesses increase revenue, which can be highly motivating.

## Sources
1. [perfectvenue.com](https://www.perfectvenue.com/)
2. [perfectvenue.com/careers](https://www.perfectvenue.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/perfect-venue](https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfect-venue)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/perfect-venue)
5. [builtin.com/company/perfect-venue](https://builtin.com/company/perfect-venue)

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