Family Meal: Employee Spotlight with Sam Wolpert

Welcome to Family Meal, our blog series where we shine a spotlight on one of our amazing Roomies. This month, we sat down with Sam Wolpert, a Senior Product Manager in the US.

Sam: Hi, my name is Sam Wolpert. I’m a senior product manager here at SevenRooms. I started working here in September 2022 and I work on our API and Partnerships team. 

We’re responsible for supporting anyone who builds an application that integrates with SevenRooms. With hundreds of integrators and thousands of venues that use our API every day, we’re constantly working on new ways to make it easier to build powerful applications on top of SevenRooms.

Sam: I have two answers to this:

Sam: Let me tell you a story about being Here to Serve…

My team once released an update that had some unintended consequences. For a short period, some guests weren’t receiving confirmation emails from a small number of our clients. We planned to just email our restaurant contacts to let them know about the situation. We quickly realized that if we only reached out to our contact, all of the guests who thought they booked a reservation would be turned away at the host stand. So we immediately picked up the phone and called each impacted restaurant to let them know what happened. We took it a step further and spoke to multiple guests to help them re-book their reservations.

Sam:

Sam: I do my own clothing alterations! Early in my career, I worked in an office with a dress code, so I was buying a lot of business casual attire. To save money I would shop at stores like Nordstrom Rack, TJ Maxx and Marshalls, but finding the right size was always a challenge. After doing some research on YouTube I learned that I could do most of what I needed with a budget sewing machine and a few pins. 

Sam: I have the pleasure of working on our partnership with the Capital One Dining Program. Capital One cardholders have access to thousands of exclusive reservations at SevenRooms restaurants. Every week we add new world-class restaurants and exclusive cardholder events, so we’re constantly enhancing the browsing experience to make it easier to find and book unforgettable dining experiences.

Sam: This year, I moved back to the northeast from Arizona, but right before I left my friends threw me a surprise going-away birthday party at Maple & Ash in Scottsdale, AZ, a SevenRooms client. We were greeted with these custom bold “Happy Birthday Sam” menus and complimentary craft cocktails. Maple & Ash knock all of the classics out of the park and have truly incredible handmade pastas. The entire experience was a wonderful send-off!

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Interested in working with Sam and our other Roomies? Check out our open roles here.