--- title: 'Lead AI Engineer at FeverUp' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-ai-engineer-feverup-madrid-ajxndwww7p53' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Lead AI Engineer at FeverUp - **Company:** FeverUp - **Location:** Madrid, Spain - **Posted:** 2026-04-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/feverup/jobs/4852654101 ## Job description Hey there! We’re [Fever](https://feverup.com/), the world’s leading tech platform for culture and live entertainment. Our mission? To democratize access to culture and entertainment. With our proprietary cutting-edge technology and data-driven approach, we’re revolutionizing the way people engage with live entertainment. Every month, our platform inspires over 300 million people in +55 countries (and counting) to discover unforgettable experiences while also empowering event creators with our data and technology, helping them scale, innovate, and enhance their events to reach new audiences. Our results? We’ve teamed up with major industry leaders like Netflix, F.C. Barcelona, and Primavera Sound, presented international award-winning experiences, and are backed by several leading global investors! Impressive, right? To achieve our mission, we are looking for bar-raisers with a hands-on mindset who are eager to help shape the future of entertainment! Ready to be part of the experience? Now, let’s discuss this role and what you will do to help achieve Fever’s mission. ## The Role We're looking for a Lead AI Engineer to drive Fever's company-wide AI transformation. This is a powerful 50% leadership, 50% hands-on building role designed for someone who sits right at the intersection of human operations and advanced AI engineering. We are not looking for a theoretical manager who focus on KPIs, nor a developer who only wants to code in isolation. We need a hybrid leader. Half of your time will be spent interacting with stakeholders across business domains (Operations, Creative, Support), shadowing them to understand their manual workflows, and identifying where AI can genuinely give them their time back. The other half will be spent in the trenches: designing the technical architecture, writing production code, and building internal AI products—like advanced chatbots, agents, and automated workflows—alongside a small, high-performance squad.The Role ## What You'll Do - Stakeholder Management & Discovery (50%): Partner with internal business leaders to audit their current manual processes. Act as a translator: understand their operational bottlenecks, manage expectations on what AI can do, and shape those needs into a clear AI product features. - Hands-on Engineering & Architecture (50%): Design, code, and deploy advanced AI systems (LLM applications, agentic workflows, RAG, and custom chatbots) that solve those operational pain points and scale seamlessly. - Lead & Mentor: Build and lead a small, agile team of AI engineers. Lead by example by contributing to the codebase, setting high standards for code craftsmanship, and fostering a culture of high-velocity shipping. - Own the Product Lifecycle: Take internal tools from early discovery and rapid prototyping to production-grade deployment, ensuring they are intuitive enough for non-technical teams to adopt. ## What We're Looking For - The 50/50 Split: You love writing clean, scalable Python code and building AI systems, but you are equally energized by talking to people, understanding their daily operational frustrations, and solving their problems. - Proven AI Product Delivery: Deep, hands-on experience shipping AI systems in production (LLM frameworks like LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or agentic automation) — ideally tools or chatbots that have actively optimized human workflows. - Strong Operational Sense: You can naturally look at a messy, manual process and instantly visualize how an AI product could streamline it to save hours of manual labor. - Solid Engineering Foundations: Strong software engineering background (APIs, microservices, databases, AWS ecosystem) combined with a pragmatic, outcome-driven mindset. - Empathy & Communication: Exceptional ability to build relationships with non-technical stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and align engineering efforts with operational needs. The environment - Product-driven, action-oriented, and fast-moving. We value shipped code and tangible internal time-savings above all. - We hire builders with empathy: people who own systems end-to-end, love solving human operational chaos, and turn it into smooth, AI-powered workflows. - Leadership is collaborative, highly communicative, and technically sharp. - This role is based in our Madrid office with a minimum of 3 days per week on-site. ## Benefits & Perks - Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth in one of the most exciting AI roles in the company. - Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader. - A compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance. - Stock options plan. - 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences. - Based in Madrid, with a home office friendly setup. - Health insurance and other benefits such as Flexible remuneration with a 100% tax exemption through Cobee. - English / Spanish lessons. - Wellhub membership. - Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary by Payflow. Thank you for considering joining Fever. We cannot wait to learn more about you! If you want to learn more about us: [Fever's Blog](https://newsroom.feverup.com/en-US/) | [Tech.Eu](https://tech.eu/2023/02/02/fever-raises-110-million-in-new-round-at-1-8-billion-valuation) |[TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/04/data-driven-events-discovery-and-planning-startup-fever-raises-35-million-led-by-rakuten/) Fever is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workspace where everyone's background and ideas count. Our main goal is to find the best possible talent regardless of place of birth, racial or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, religion, opinion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, marital status, age or caring responsibilities. We encourage everyone to apply! If you require any kind of accommodation during the selection process please contact our Talent team so we can help you by providing a welcoming and seamless journey. If you want to know more about how Fever processes your personal data, click here [Fever - Candidate Privacy Notice](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cIzPP7QJGht5LAGKkRGQP8fxh-Z4Mfph2JhGSvhd8zM/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.y7rpsj7nzave) ## About FeverUp ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery tech platform that helps millions of people weekly discover and book local experiences, from immersive exhibitions and festivals to pop-up events, while empowering creators with data and technology. - **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-Backed; latest deal type: PE Growth/Buyout-LBO) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (50 Greene Street, 3rd Floor) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Alex Marti (CEO) and Francisco (Paco) Herrero ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Application Software, Live Entertainment, Event Ticketing, SaaS, Mobile - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers looking for local experiences) and B2B (event organizers, creators, venue owners, brand partners) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To democratize access to culture and entertainment in real life. ## Products & Services - **Fever Platform (App/Web)**: A discovery and ticketing platform offering personalized recommendations for local events, immersive experiences, interactive theaters, festivals, molecular cocktail pop-ups, and more. Users can browse, discover, and book tickets. - **Fever Originals**: Fever’s in-house production arm that creates and produces its own proprietary events and experiences (e.g., immersive exhibitions, pop-ups). - **Fever for Business**: A B2B offering providing tools for event promotion, management, and audience reach, empowering creators with data and technology to scale their experiences. - **Secret Media Network**: An advertising and sponsorship network connecting brands with Fever’s audience through integrated campaigns and event partnerships. - **Onebox**: A product/service line (likely a unified platform or integration tool for partners). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (recent PE buyout/LBO deals suggest significant private market valuation). - **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $561M raised across 13 financing rounds. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ares Management, Crescenta, Endeavor Catalyst, Everything is Awesome, G Squared (among 31 total investors). - **Growth Signals**: - **Employees**: ~3,000+ (careers page) to 3,954 (PitchBook, as of 2025) — rapid scaling from 2,200+ full-time employees. - **Global Presence**: Headquarters in NYC with local offices in 15+ cities (Madrid, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico City, Sydney, Singapore) and presence in 150+ cities globally. - **Recent M&A**: Acquired Dice (music ticketing, June 2025) and Atom Tickets (movie ticketing, March 2025) via buyout/LBO, signaling aggressive expansion into new entertainment verticals. - **Team Diversity**: 56+ nationalities represented. ## Competitive Advantages - **Data-Driven Platform**: Fever leverages data to inform intuition, personalize recommendations, and help creators optimize events — a core differentiator over traditional ticketing. - **Proprietary Content (Fever Originals)**: By creating its own events, Fever controls supply and margins, reducing reliance on third-party inventory. - **Global Scale & Network Effects**: A vast, multi-city presence creates a powerful two-sided marketplace: more events attract more users, which in turn attracts more event creators. - **Strong Brand & Talent Magnet**: Known for a high-performance culture (“Get things done,” “Good and fast is 10x better than perfect and slow”), attracting ambitious talent. ## Strategic Focus - **Expansion via M&A**: Recent acquisitions of Dice and Atom Tickets indicate a strategy to consolidate the event ticketing space and enter new verticals (live music, cinema). - **International Growth**: Continuing to expand into new cities and countries across Europe, Americas, Asia, and Oceania. - **Deepening B2B Offerings**: Empowering event creators with more data, technology, and marketing tools through “Fever for Business” and “Secret Media Network.” - **Vertical Integration**: Growing Fever Originals to produce more high-margin, proprietary events. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes a fast-paced, data-driven, and entrepreneurial environment. Core values include “Get things done,” “Make decisions based on facts and data,” “We are bar-raisers,” and “We are Fast.” The company encourages direct, actionable feedback and a “bias for action” over excessive process. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Not explicitly stated on careers page, but the presence of offices in 15+ cities and roles listed with specific locations suggests a hybrid or office-based model with flexibility depending on role and team. - **Notable Perks & Environment**: - **Diverse & Inclusive**: Equal opportunity employer with 56+ nationalities; average employee age is 31. - **High Talent Bar**: “A few motivated and skilled team members achieve much more than many who are disengaged or ineffective.” - **Hands-On Culture**: All employees, including leadership, are expected to be hands-on and lead by example. - **Growth Opportunities**: With 500+ open roles across 20+ departments (Engineering, Product, Data, Marketing, Sales, Operations, etc.), there is significant room for internal mobility and career growth. - **Impact**: Employees directly shape how millions of people discover culture and entertainment globally. ## Sources 1. [Fever Careers - Overview](https://careers.feverup.com/) 2. [Fever Careers - Life at Fever](https://careers.feverup.com/life-at-fever/) 3. [Fever Careers - Work Areas/Jobs](https://careers.feverup.com/work-areas/) 4. [PitchBook - Fever 2026 Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/62912-89) 5. 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