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Groupon

groupon.com · e-commerce

29open roles
10new in 30 days
1closed in 30 days
6remote-eligible
steadyhiring velocity

What they're building

Enterprise and vertical sales build-out (Food & Drink, Health, Beauty & Wellness, Auto-Services & Home, Things To Do) strong signal

Today: Postings describe a deals marketplace for local merchants that Groupon says it is "moving" to "an experience discovery platform"

Roles: Enterprise Business Development Manager / Director - Food & Drink · Enterprise Business Development Manager Health, Beauty & Wellness · Category General Manager, Health, Beauty & Wellness (Chicago or New York) · Enterprise Business Development Director - Auto-Services & Home Verticals · Enterprise Account Manager – Things To Do (TTD)

Requirements mention: Enterprise-level sales experience · Enterprise B2B sales experience · negotiate sophisticated deal structures · B2B sales · margin-aware deal architecture · two-sided marketplace or platform business

Inference: the Commercial and Sales departments are staffing enterprise partnership roles vertical by vertical. A Category General Manager is also open to own the Health, Beauty & Wellness plan. Five roles are open, based in Chicago, Dallas or remote in the United States.

Bengaluru Center of Excellence for content, merchant and customer operations strong signal

Today: Postings say Groupon is "building a Center of Excellence in Bengaluru to own content quality" and that it "owns the hard support cases"

Roles: Content Operations Manager - Center Of Excellence · Merchant Operations Manager - Center Of Excellence · Customer Support Manager - Center Of Excellence

Requirements mention: root-cause mindset · escalations · quality · AI content tools · merchant/partner operations · QA dashboards

Inference: content, merchant and customer quality and escalation work is being set up in Bangalore (Gopalan Axis SEZ) as a Commercial function. Three manager roles are open there.

New Dallas-Fort Worth business development site moderate signal

Today: The Sales Lead/Manager posting says the role "leads a brand-new Business Development site in Dallas-Fort Worth"

Roles: Sales Lead/Manager - Dallas, TX · Business Development Representative - Dallas, TX

Requirements mention: outbound SMB · merchant acquisition · prospecting local merchants · cold-calling · Salesforce · Salesloft

Inference: Groupon is building an outbound local-merchant sales team in Dallas, with a manager and front-line representatives being hired.

AI-run paid marketing (search, social and video) moderate signal

Today: Postings say the Paid Social Lead builds "the AI-run paid social operating system that runs its ad accounts" and the PPC role runs the "North American Non-Brand and Shopping book"

Roles: Senior PPC Specialist (AI-Native Search) · Paid Social Lead · Senior Motion & AI Video Designer

Requirements mention: AI Max · Performance Max · AI-driven video workflows and pipelines · Advantage+ shopping · incrementality design · generative AI video tools

Inference: Marketing is running paid search, paid social and campaign video with AI tooling. Three roles are open across Madrid, Prague and Warsaw; the Paid Social Lead has been open since December 2025.

Groupon IQ internal deal platform weak signal

Today: Posting says "Groupon IQ is the one internal platform where deals are created, checked and published"

Roles: Engineering Manager, Merchant

Requirements mention: workflow engine · Groupon IQ · Temporal · model gateway

No inference: one role only.

User Journey data flow weak signal

Today: Posting says the flow carries "web/app events, CDP identity and orders through Keboola into Bloomreach and BigQuery"

Roles: Senior Business Analyst

Requirements mention: ETL/ELT platform · Keboola · CDP · customer event data

No inference: one role only.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Marketing 9
Commercial7
Sales5
People2
Financial Operations1
Operations1
Internal Audit1
Engineering1
Finance1
Product1

Of 23 open roles, Commercial (6), Marketing (5) and Sales (5) make up most of the openings, with Engineering at 2 and one role each in People, Financial Operations, Operations, Internal Audit and Finance.

Who they need

Seniority: Manager-heavy: 9 manager, 3 director, 5 senior, 5 mid and 1 junior across 23 roles.

Skills named most: AI tools, CRM, SQL, BigQuery, Keboola, Tableau, Python, Salesforce, Meta, TikTok, dbt, Fivetran

Locations: Chicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.) appears in 6 postings, Dallas, Texas, United States in 5 and Bangalore (Gopalan Axis SEZ) in 4. Madrid, Valencia, Prague, Warsaw and London account for the rest. 5 roles are Remote - United States.

How to use this

If you're applying: If you have enterprise B2B sales experience, apply to the enterprise sales roles in Chicago, Dallas or remote in the United States. If you have outbound SMB sales experience, apply to the new Dallas business development site. If you have escalation and quality management experience, apply to the Bangalore Center of Excellence roles. Check each posting's language and location requirements first.

If you're selling or recruiting: Five enterprise roles are open in Commercial and Sales (Chicago, Dallas and remote United States). The new Dallas-Fort Worth business development site is hiring a sales lead and representatives. Three Bangalore Center of Excellence manager roles are also open. The 23 open roles were opened between November 2025 and October 2026: 8 were new in the last 30 days, 8 in the 30 days before that, and none closed.

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Open roles (29)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Head of CommunicationsPeopleChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.)2026-10-21
Head of Managed ChannelsMarketing Prague2026-10-20
Head of Managed ChannelsMarketing Madrid; Spain2026-10-20
Social Media SpecialistMarketing Chicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.); Remote - United States (remote)2026-10-14
Senior Marketing Analytics EngineerMarketing Madrid; Valencia2026-10-05
Benefits Specialist, Europe & APACPeopleMadrid; Valencia2026-10-05
Enterprise Business Development Manager / Director - Food & DrinkCommercialChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.); Dallas, Texas, United States; Remote - United States (remote)2026-10-04
Finance Analyst - Strategic FinanceFinancial OperationsPrague2026-10-01
Customer Experience Project ManagerOperationsMadrid2026-09-25
IT SOX ManagerInternal AuditLondon2026-09-25
Head of SEO & AI SearchMarketing London; Madrid; Prague2026-09-23
Sales Lead/Manager - Dallas, TXSalesDallas, Texas, United States2026-09-22
Engineering Manager, MerchantEngineeringPrague2026-09-22
Enterprise Business Development Manager Health, Beauty & WellnessCommercialChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.); Dallas, Texas, United States; Remote - United States (remote)2026-09-16
Director / Senior Director, Marketplace Strategy & OperationsCommercialChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.)2026-09-16
General Manager, Health, Beauty & Wellness Services (Chicago or New York)CommercialChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.)2026-09-15
Content Operations Manager - Center Of ExcellenceCommercialBangalore (Gopalan Axis SEZ)2026-09-08
Merchant Operations Manager - Center Of ExcellenceCommercialBangalore (Gopalan Axis SEZ)2026-09-08
Customer Support Manager - Center Of ExcellenceCommercialBangalore (Gopalan Axis SEZ)2026-09-08
International Tax ManagerFinanceLondon2026-08-28
Sales Account Manager - German speakingSalesValencia2026-08-26
Senior Motion & AI Video DesignerMarketing Madrid2026-08-11
Social Media & Influencer Manager, North AmericaMarketing Chicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.); Remote - United States (remote)2026-08-06
Business Development Manager- Dallas, TXSalesDallas, Texas, United States2026-07-28
Enterprise Account Manager – Things To Do (TTD)SalesChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.); Remote - United States (remote)2026-07-22
Senior PPC Specialist (AI-Native Search)Marketing Prague; Warsaw2026-04-20
Senior Product Manager, Booking ExperienceProductPrague2026-02-24
Paid Social LeadMarketing Madrid; Prague; Warsaw2025-12-01
Enterprise Business Development Director - Auto-Services & Home VerticalsSalesChicago (35 W. Wacker Dr.); Dallas, Texas, United States; Remote - United States (remote)2025-11-26