Pricing Analyst

Company Description Optimal Ticketing helps sports teams, venues, artists, and promoters turn the secondary ticket market into a strategic advantage. Powered by more than $5 billion in annual secondary market ticket data, the company provides insights, technology, and expertise to understand demand, optimize pricing, and maximize revenue. Its platform unifies real-time market intelligence, pricing and revenue analysis, inventory management, and multi-marketplace distribution in a single solution. With more than 350 partnerships across sports and entertainment and over 100 years of combined industry experience, Optimal Ticketing acts as a trusted extension of partners’ teams. The organization focuses on helping partners unlock the full value of their ticket inventory in an increasingly complex ticketing landscape.

Role Description This is a full-time, on-site Pricing Analyst role based in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The Pricing Analyst will monitor and analyze secondary market ticket data, evaluate demand trends, and develop dynamic pricing recommendations to support revenue optimization across client portfolios. Responsibilities include building and maintaining pricing models, preparing data-driven reports and dashboards, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to translate insights into actionable strategies. The role will also involve supporting inventory management decisions, testing pricing strategies, and contributing to continuous improvement of tools and processes. The Pricing Analyst will work closely with client-facing teams to communicate findings, inform strategy, and help partners achieve measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Sports Management, or a related field preferred.

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to turn large amounts of data into actionable pricing decisions.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel or similar analytical tools.

• Experience with SQL, BI/data-visualization tools, or large datasets is strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of supply-and-demand dynamics and an interest in pricing, trading, revenue management, or marketplace businesses.

• Ability to make informed decisions in situations where information is incomplete and market conditions are changing quickly.

• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify unusual market movements or data anomalies.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage a large number of events and competing priorities simultaneously.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with other pricing analysts and cross-functional teams.

• Strong interest in sports, concerts, live entertainment, and the secondary ticket marketplace.

• Willingness to occasionally monitor or respond to significant market developments outside traditional business hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• Secondary ticketing or live-event pricing

• Revenue management or dynamic pricing

• Sports or entertainment analytics

• E-commerce or marketplace businesses

• Trading, financial markets, or other real-time pricing environments

• Inventory management

• Using AI for analysis

The Ideal Candidate

The strongest candidate will be someone who enjoys both analytics and decision-making. This is not a role focused solely on producing reports. Pricing Analysts are expected to develop a point of view, make decisions, measure the results, and continuously improve their approach.

You may be a strong fit if you enjoy looking at a market, understanding why prices are moving, identifying where an opportunity exists, and making a decision before that opportunity disappears.