Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.
Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.
About the role : Groupon is seeking a Category Growth Manager who will own the category strategy and revenue enablement for Massage and Maintenance L3s. Define what “good” looks like through category playbooks, control shopping list execution and deal productivity, drive go-to-market initiatives for high-AOV and emerging services, and ensure cross-functional alignment between planned inventory, merchandising, campaigns, and actual performance.
This is a senior, hands-on role requiring flexibility between strategic category development and tactical execution, with deep category expertise and curiosity to identify what drives performance.
North Star : Own and scale the Massage & Maintenance categories by defining clear success standards, ensuring disciplined production and deal quality, and driving revenue growth through portfolio expansion, GTM excellence, and cross-functional execution alignment.
What You’ll Do :
What you own:
How you collaborate:
Portfolio Expansion (Locations & Services):
High-AOV Service Expansion & GTM:
Emerging Services GTM:
What you own:
Performance Alignment:
What you own:
Collaborate with Product & Global Ops:
Collaborate with Market Managers:
What You Bring : Required Experience
Technical & Analytical Skills
Who You Are :
How We Operate At Groupon, we're building a culture of extreme ownership, speed, impact, simplicity, and discipline. These aren't aspirational values - they're how we expect everyone to show up every day:
Extreme Ownership – One owner per outcome, no passengers, no excuses. We avoid accountability theater; we don't blame teams or create shared ownership that diffuses responsibility. When something goes wrong, we look in the mirror first. We escalate early, make trade-offs explicit, and ensure everyone knows who owns what.
Speed Over Comfort – We ship fast and learn faster. Perfect is too slow. We make fast, reversible decisions, normalize iteration, encourage early demos and prototypes, and admit mistakes openly. Bureaucracy and endless debate are the enemy. We clear bottlenecks and accelerate decisions across functions.
Impact Obsessed – We focus only on what moves the metrics that matter. We set metric-first goals, direct effort to high-value work, avoid feel-good activity, and use data and customer/merchant stories to guide decisions. We don't confuse effort with impact or tolerate low-ROI work that erodes trust. We drive team ROI and raise the quality bar by prioritizing ruthlessly.
Simplify to Scale – Complexity kills; simplicity scales. We build lean, scalable processes, remove noise, champion clarity and efficient ways of working. We drive cross-org simplification, push automation and tooling, question every layer, and ensure systems work for diverse voices - especially those closest to customers and merchants.
Disciplined – We do more with less; constraints breed creativity. We make ROI-based decisions, enforce resource discipline, set clear priorities, make durable decisions, and uphold integrity in data and commitments. We use constraints to drive innovation, build efficient operating rhythms, lift team productivity, and protect trust in trade-offs. We prioritize long-term value and create organizational leverage that scales efficiently.
In This Role, These Principles Mean :
How We Measure Your Success :
Location: Downtown Chicago (Hybrid)
Salary Range: $75k—$100k + bonus
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, EAP, 401(k) Match, ESPP, Life and Disability Insurance, FSAs, and more
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