LN Venues, Lead AI Engineer – Finance Transformation

Live Nation Entertainment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Live Nation Entertainment in Chicago seeks a technical leader to transform how our Finance organization operates by automating workflows and enabling smarter, scalable decision-making across reporting, close, reconciliation, and forecasting. You will own solutions from discovery to production within Venue Nation Analytics, shipping code to production and guiding AI use across finance.

A self-starter who can structure undefined problems and architect agentic workflows is ideal.

Qualifications

• Experience designing AI-powered finance solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI concepts and their application in financial processes.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-powered solutions across the accounting lifecycle (reporting, close, reconciliation, forecasting).
• Apply LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows to business problems.
• Lead pilots in development environments and deploy to production.
• Partner with Finance leadership to understand current workflows and decompose processes for AI improvement.
• Collaborate with Data Science to apply AI to forecasting and planning.

Skills

AI-powered solutions

LLMs

RAG

Agentic workflows

Finance automation

Tools

Python

Job description

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

Job Summary

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

THE JOB

Venue Nation is seeking a technical leader to help transform how our Finance organization operates - from automating complex workflows to enabling smarter decision-making at scale. You will partner directly with Finance leadership and Accounting teams to identify high-impact opportunities, then design and build the AI-powered solutions that deliver on them, spanning financial reporting, close, reconciliation, and forecasting.

This is a builder-leader role: your code ships to production, and your technical judgment shapes how AI is applied across the finance function. Based within Venue Nation Analytics alongside our Data Science team, you will own solutions from discovery through production. Your work will span a growing portfolio of projects sponsored by the Division CFO. We are looking for a self-starter who brings structure to undefined problems - someone who can break down a business process as readily as they can architect an agent.

What This Role Will Do

Build and Ship

• Design and build AI-powered solutions across the accounting lifecycle, from high-volume transactional work (invoice coding, cash application, account reconciliations, journal-entry support, and close-task coordination) to management reporting, forecasting, and decision support.
• Apply LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows to real business problems, selecting the right approach for each use case.
• Stand up pilots in development environments to validate solutions with business users and partner with Data Services to deploy to production.
• Collaborate with the Data Science team to apply AI to forecasting and planning workflows, including variance detection and driver analysis.

Partner and Discover

• Partner with Finance leadership and operational finance teams to understand how work is done today and decompose workflows to identify where AI can assist.
• Serve as a translator between finance and technical stakeholders, ensuring solutions reflect how the