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The best things in life happen offline.
We're the company proving it.
Most tech companies measure success in screen time.
We measure it in real-world moments - and we think technology should have one job: get people offline and into the real world, fast.
Most tech companies measure success in screen time.
We measure it in real-world moments - and we think technology should have one job: get people offline and into the real world, fast.
Local commerce is one of the most complex, underserved markets in the world. Millions of independent businesses. Fragmented supply. Infinite local variation. Customers who want quality, value, and relevance - all at once. We believe it can be solved. But not with incremental improvements to an old model. The complexity of local commerce - the sheer number of variables, the pace of change, the diversity of markets - requires an operating model built around technology that works harder, moves faster, and serves people better than anything that came before it.
That's what we're building.
The mission: We get people offline through quality local experiences at great value. That's not a tagline. It's the decision filter for everything we do. If it doesn't get more people into the real world - it's not our priority.
How we're pursuing it: We are transforming Groupon into an AI-native company - because we believe it's the only way to deliver on that mission at the scale and complexity this market demands. Every employee works with AI from day one. Our engineering teams have moved from AI-assisted coding to agentic-first development - agents build, engineers orchestrate. Over 50% of our code is now AI-generated. Across every function, we expect people to use AI to remove low-value work and focus human effort on what actually requires human judgment. The goal is always the same: get the right experience in front of the right person at the right moment - and make it effortless for them to say yes. Technology is how we do that at scale. The real-world moment is why.
How we work:
Five principles govern how Groupon runs:
Extreme Ownership - one owner per outcome. No passengers.
Speed Over Comfort - ship, learn, iterate. Perfection is a delay we can't afford.
Impact Obsessed - only work on what moves the metrics that matter. Filter everything else.
Simplify to Scale - the simplest path wins. Complexity is a liability we actively reduce.
Disciplined - do more with less. Every constraint is a forcing function.
Who Belongs Here
People who want to work on a genuinely hard problem - not a solved one dressed up as ambitious. People who see AI as a baseline operating skill, not a specialism. Who want ownership over outcomes. Who care about the quality of what they build and whether it actually lands in the real world.
Builders. People who want to see their work convert into real moments, for real people, in real places.
The pace is real. The standards are high. The mission is worth it. Come build with us.
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