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📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada· Full-time
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Overview We are seeking a hands-on Director of AI Software Engineering to lead and scale AI engineering efforts supporting multiple business units across Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). This role sits at the intersection of product delivery, platform evolution, and applied AI—driving real-world impact across core workflows. This is not a pure management role. We are looking for a builder who leads from the front, someone who has recently written production code, shipped systems end-to-end, and can operate comfortably in ambiguity while aligning teams and stakeholders. What You’ll Do Lead AI Engineering Across GRC Own delivery of AI-powered capabilities embedded directly into business unit workflows (e.g., risk analysis, compliance automation, reporting, due diligence) Partner with product, data, and platform teams to translate business problems into scalable AI systems Stay Hands-On Contribute to architecture, code reviews, and critical path implementation Prototype and validate new approaches (LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, classification pipelines, etc.) Set engineering standards for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency Build and Scale Teams Lead and mentor a high-performing team of AI/ML and software engineers Drive hiring, coaching, and career development Establish a culture of ownership, speed, and technical excellence Drive Execution Deliver production-grade systems—not experiments Balance speed with rigor (security, privacy, compliance) Operate across multiple concurrent initiatives with clear prioritization Communicate and Influence Act as a bridge between engineering and business stakeholders Clearly articulate trade-offs, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership Align cross-functional teams around shared goals and timelines What We’re Looking For Proven Builder 10+ years in software engineering, with recent hands-on coding experience Demonstrated track record of shipping production systems at scale Experience with modern

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team The Customer Experience team serves as a foundational operations pillar at DoorDash, dedicated to resolving friction within the last mile. We architect and oversee an expansive global network of support centers, obsessing over the user journey to ensure every interaction is seamless and reliable. Our mission is to scale a best-in-class support infrastructure that advocates for our community and delivers excellence at the lowest level of detail. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Director of Customer Experience Strategy & Operations to define and scale the operating systems that shape how consumers, Dashers, and our broader marketplace experience DoorDash. This leader will own a broad portfolio across customer experience strategy, support operations, policies and processes, safety-critical contact handling, and cross-functional CX initiatives across business lines including New Verticals, International, Dasher, Marketplace, and DashPass. You will lead a high-performing S&O team, partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Fraud, Operations, and senior business leaders, and translate ambiguous customer and operational problems into scalable solutions. We are especially excited about leaders who bring an AI-native operating mindset: people who have used AI, automation, lightweight tooling, or internal apps to solve real problems, improve team productivity, and redesign manual workflows. This role is an opportunity to apply that builder mindset at marketplace scale. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Define the vision, metrics, and operating principles for a best-in-class customer experience across consumers, Dashers, and emerging business lines. Lead a high-impact S&O team responsible for turning defining the customer experience using a multitude of inputs Redesign how CX work gets done by combining people, process, product, data, and AI-enabled workflows. Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Fraud

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role: The Machine Learning team at Tubi drives the innovation behind personalized user experiences. With the largest inventory in the industry and hundreds of millions of viewers, we tackle problems in the space of recommendations, search, content understanding, and ads optimization that shape the future of streaming. We are seeking a Director of Machine Learning Engineering and Infrastructure to lead a hybrid team bridging advanced ML engineering with world-class infrastructure design. In this role, you will own the strategic direction and execution for scaling our machine learning capabilities while ensuring our distributed systems and infrastructure can support innovation at massive scale. You will combine technical depth with leadership excellence to guide teams that deliver both foundational ML systems and high-performance distributed services. This is a hybrid role for our Toronto office. What You'll Do: Lead and manage high-performing teams across ML engineering and ML infrastructure, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth. Define and execute the strategic roadmap for ML systems, including recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization. Oversee the design, development, and deployment of scalable ML pipelines: data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and serving. Architect distributed systems to support ML workloads at scale, ensuring reliability, observability, and operational excellence. Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Content teams to align on business goals and deliver impactful ML-driven experiences. Support best practices in experimentation, evaluation, and ML system monitoring. Ensure cost efficiency, scalability, and performance in ML infrastructure investments. Your Background: 10+ years of industry experience spanning machine learning engineering and distributed systems. 3+ years of leadership and management experience, with a proven ability to build and lead strong t

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role The Machine Learning team at Tubi drives the innovation behind personalized user experiences. With the largest inventory in the industry and hundreds of millions of viewers, we tackle problems in the space of recommendations, search, content understanding, and ads optimization that shape the future of streaming. We are seeking a VP / Director of Machine Learning Engineering to lead and build a high-performing team while staying close to the technical work. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will set the strategic direction for our recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization systems, including recommendation foundation modeling, and you will stay in the algorithms and the code, conducting deep dives into modeling components and guiding the hardest technical decisions yourself. You will tackle complex machine learning problems at scale and partner closely with cross-functional teams to ship solutions that measurably improve how hundreds of millions of viewers experience Tubi. What You’ll Do Lead, build, and grow a high-performing ML engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and rapid iteration. Define and drive the ML strategy and long-term technical roadmap for recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization, including recommendation foundation modeling, identifying opportunities for ML to shape Tubi’s broader product and business strategy. Stay hands-on: conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring models are optimized for both performance and scalability across regions and product areas. Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced recommendation systems and algorithms, contributing directly to the most challenging technical problems. Build and deploy robust, full-stack ML pipelines: data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, deployment, and serving. Continuously monitor, evaluate, and optimize the performance of deployed models, ensuring

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! Director, SPM Implementation About the Team The Customer Operations team partners with new and existing customers to implement and optimize the company’s platform, ensuring clients maximize the revenue-driving potential of their sales compensation programs. The team leads complex implementations, drives operational excellence, and continuously evolves Sales Performance Management (SPM) processes through data-driven insights and scalable platform solutions. As a Director of Implementation , you will lead the strategic direction of implementation and customer onboarding across a portfolio of enterprise customers. You will oversee implementation teams, guide architectural design of customer solutions, and collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Revenue teams to ensure the platform evolves in alignment with customer needs and business priorities. If you’re passionate about building high-performing teams, driving customer impact through data and technology, and shaping the future of sales operations , we’d love to hear from you. What You'll Be Doing Leadership & Strategy Define and lead the implementation strategy and operational framework for onboarding and scaling customer deployments. Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing implementation team , establishing best practices, processes, and standards for delivery excellence. Partner with executive leadership to align customer implementation strategy with company growth and product roadmap priorities . Establish KPI

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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About Prophecy Prophecy is building the next generation AI-powered data prep and analysis platform. Our platform enables business analysts and data teams to transform raw data into reliable, production-ready datasets and insights faster, using modern data infrastructure and AI-driven capabilities. We work with leading enterprises to simplify how organizations prepare, analyze, and operationalize data, while maintaining strong governance, security, and operational control. Our mission is to make it dramatically easier for organizations to turn complex data into trusted insights that drive decisions. About the Roles We are looking for a Director of Strategic Partnerships who can do both: drive revenue through Prophecy's partner ecosystem, and build an effective partner program. This is an early-stage, high-ownership motion, the playbook is still being written, and you'll have real influence over how we engage partners, what good looks like for partner-sourced pipeline, and how we build durable co-sell relationships with Snowflake, Databricks, GCP field and partner teams. You will sit at the intersection of sales, partnerships, and strategy, owning partner performance while building the programs and processes that scale it. You'll work directly with our AEs and SEs to bring partners into deals at the right moments, and you'll serve as the primary point of contact for our strategic cloud and ecosystem partners. What You’ll Own Partner Revenue & Pipeline Own and exceed partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue targets on a quarterly basis Proactively generate pipeline through Snowflake, Databricks, and GCP field AEs and PDMs — building the relationships that produce qualified, sourced opportunities Drive joint account mapping and target account activation against Prophecy's ICP: enterprises running Alteryx on Snowflake or Databricks Activate co-sell motions through marketplace programs (GCP Marketplace, Snowflake Partner Network, Databricks

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team Our US Marketplace team is responsible for growing the DoorDash business in the US, helping customers to discover & order what’s best in their city, merchants to grow their sales, and dashers to find flexible work. About the Role The US Marketplace team is looking for a motivated and hands-on operator to be the Director of Local Markets. As a Strategy & Operations Director, you’ll be responsible for driving marketplace growth in every U.S. market, across a variety of market types. You will report into the Growth and Markets team, leading cross-functional collaboration between DoorDash’s marketing, sales, product, finance, and analytics teams to deliver new products and service level improvements to drive local market growth. You'll have the opportunity to help define new ways to grow locally, incubate 0-1 experiments, scope partnership opportunities, foster relationships with external partners, and execute on a roadmap to grow the marketplace at the local level. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead - From day one you’ll lead a team, helping the team to further develop the muscle of lowest level of detail analyses and execution rigor Business development - Develop relationships with new growth partners and top merchants Influence - Work cross-functionally across the US Marketplace Organization to help craft roadmaps, secure investment, and partner with other organizations to improve the user experience at local level Build – Explore growth opportunities alongside our partners in Product, Marketing, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations teams Analyze – Shape and define our strategy based on quantitative and qualitative data, querying data directly and empowering yourself with AI tooling (Cursor, Claude) Operate – Figure out how to get from A to B–then actually make it happen. Grow – Help the business get 1% better every day. We're excited about you because… You have 10+ years of experience in strategy &

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📍 Washington, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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From C$143K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. About our team The Brand and Creative team at Okta is a growing group within Marketing, composed of creatives, strategists, producers and marketing managers alike. Our team’s focus is to lead the brand, tell powerful stories and inspire creative excellence. As a partner to cross-functional teams across all of Okta, we tie our goals to our most important company initiatives, driving towards shared KPIs, strategies and processes to unify and push the brand and business forward. About this role We are looking for a passionate Digital Art Director to drive the creative experience on oktane.com with a knack for creating innovative, product storytelling digital experiences. You are an expert in digital and web properties, love solving product stories through visual and UI designs, enjoy working with design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to get projects launched. Reporting into the Creative Director of Digital, you will be challenged to deliver design solutions against key digital marketing briefs. You will help craft innovative website experiences throughout the event lifecycle to showcase a world class event experience, always advocating for the brand and taking pride in beautiful, inspiring, and innovative work. This role will be instrumental in collaborating across the Creative Events, Event Marketing, and Digital teams to create effective and smart solutions that meet the brief requirements while pushing creative innovation

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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$192K – $240K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is seeking a seasoned People Business Partner with deep expertise in M&A to join our People Team. Reporting to the Senior Director of People Business Partners, this high impact Director role will be the strategic center of gravity for all People M&A work. Role & Responsibilities: Lead the People M&A Function: Serve as the senior People partner and decision-maker across the M&A lifecycle. Lead through influence across a matrixed environment, coordinating across a shared Project Manager, People Business Partners, and COE partners. Partner effectively with a dedicated Project Manager to delegate execution and workstream coordination, while maintaining clear ownership of People strategy, talent decisions, and integration outcomes. Define and drive People integration strategy as the dedicated advisor to the Integration Management Office (IMO). Flex into other high-priority areas of PBP or People Team initiatives as needed. Drive Due Diligence: Lead People due diligence efforts, assessing organizational culture, headcount structures, compensation and benefits gaps, employment contracts, and law exposure across geographies. Conduct or oversee talent assessment processes, evaluating leadership bench strength, key person dependencies, and retention risk. Partner with Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance to ascertain People risks, synthesize findings into clear deal recommendations, and inform decisions. Design & Execute Workforce Integration: Advise senior leadership on org design decisions arising from acquisitions, including role mapping, spans and layers, redundancy management, and leadership selection - connecting org decisions to Lyft's operating model and culture. Partner with People Business Partner and Peop

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Sitting within the broader Safety & Customer Care team, Lyft's Customer Care Operations organization manages over 1.7 million monthly customer interactions and serves as the company's primary direct touchpoint with riders, drivers, and businesses — spanning frontline support across multiple customer segments, a global BPO workforce, and the central functions that enable them to operate at scale. The Director of Business Planning & Central Operations is a newly created role at the center of how Customer Care runs and grows. This leader will ensure the org is resourced and positioned for the future, and will own the functions that keep Customer Care financially disciplined and execution-ready. Reporting to the Senior Director of Customer Care Operations, they will lead five functions: Planning & Forecasting, Workforce Management, Readiness & Integration, Vendor Management, and Support Excellence. What You'll Do Business Planning & Strategy Partner with the Senior Director to drive H1 and H2 planning — translating annual objectives into operational plans, investment decisions, and resource models. Lead the investment brief process: sizing opportunities, articulating trade-offs, and building the business cases that secure resourcing for strategic priorities. Drive capacity planning, scenario modeling, and long-range forecasting to ensure the internal and external workforce scales efficiently alongside platform growth and AI adoption. Define and operationalize OKRs across the portfolio, then build the rhythms and infrastructure — scorecards, business reviews, and performance dashboards — that hold teams accountable and give leadership clear visibility into progress and outcomes. Growth & Integrations Lead operational readiness for major product launches, external partnerships, and

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time· Remote
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere builds frontier AI for the enterprise. We're hiring a Senior Director of Integrated Marketing to bring our demand engine, product marketing, and field/partner motion under one strategic roof. This is the senior marketing leader most accountable for pipeline. You're the person who turns Cohere's product, brand, and category narrative into qualified enterprise opportunities for our sales team. Sub-functions report to you: Product Marketing, Web Marketing, Growth, and Events & Partnerships. You'll work with the Chief of Staff on planning, budget, and operating cadence, and with the Marketing Operations Director and her analytics team on attribution, forecasting, martech, and the dashboards your pipeline number lives in. The demand engine only runs if you and the analytics group work as one team on measurement, and building that partnership is part of the job from week one. This role is built for someone who has done it before at a high-growth B2B SaaS or infrastructure company, and is ready to do it again at the frontier of AI. What You'll Run Integrated marketing strategy Build and run the integrated mark

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$132K/yr

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We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity As the Manager, GTM Engineering (AI and Automation), you will be key to constructing and maintaining our "Revenue Velocity" engine with a specialized team of architects. In this high impact role, you will report to the Director of Enterprise Systems & Solutions. You will be responsible for the successful technical integration of advanced AI and automation tools throughout our Go-To-Market (GTM) technology stack. This role requires a proactive player-coach who balances thinking strategically about our revenue systems while remaining deeply involved in the creation of durable, data-driven automation frameworks. What you'll do GTM Tech Stack Management: Integrate with and optimize the core Sales and Marketing technology stack (Salesforce, Clay, Rox, Boomi, Salesloft) in alignment with customer-centric initiatives. Workflow & AI Automation: Execute end-to-end automated workflows (lead scoring, routing, alerts) and deploy AI/ML solutions to scale business outreach efficiency. Data Integrity & Analytics: Manage data pipelines and routine hygiene (deduplication, enrichment) across systems; maintain dashboards to track key GTM metrics and deliver forecasting to leadership. Process Execution & Enablement: Work with Program teams to map GTM workflows and drive technical projects from requirements gathering through implementation and user adoption. This role requires 2+ years of people management or relevant leadership experience, such as lead

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📍 Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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C$90K – C$130K/yr

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About Us At BGBx , we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges. Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day. If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx. Senior Project Manager Position Overview The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the overall management and administration of client projects throughout the entire project lifecycle. The Senior Project Manager is at the core of the team and helps everyone to communicate clearly while staying on time, on budget, and meets the highest of quality standards. This individual must demonstrate solid business judgment and sound strategic thinking. This role reports to the Director of Project Management. Responsibilities: Understands the scope of work across an assigned account, as well as the project plan at an individual project level Facilitates interdepartmental negotiation process to reach alignment on project resources and timelines Aligns with Department Resource Managers to assign resources and ensure effective time management throughout a project life cycle Continually monitors projects to ensure deliverables are on schedule and within scope&nbsp

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From $90K/yr

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POSITION DESCRIPTION ROLE: SENIOR, TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER TEAM: TALENT LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID) COMPANY OVERVIEW Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital & media innovation. Our mission is to “Earn the World’s Attention” and Salt is built to find, develop, execute, and amplify the ideas that are worthy of our clients’ audiences. We’ve structured our agency to do what’s right for our clients – to connect different perspectives, to work across mediums, and to focus on delivering meaningful, effective results. We’re committed to living up to the values in our name. “Salt of The Earth” means we value collaborative, humble, hard-working people here. We’re looking for people who are as smart as they are kind because we believe the right talent and the right culture help us do what’s right for our clients. ROLE OVERVIEW As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner you are a trusted strategic partner responsible for leading full-cycle recruitment across key disciplines for Salt and The Kitchen North America. You combine relationship building, operational excellence, and data-driven insight to ensure we attract, hire, and retain the best talent in the market. Reporting to the Director of Talent, you will play a central role in designing and refining Salt’s hiring practices, shaping our employer brand, and building inclusive pipelines for future growth. You balance hands-on execution with strategic foresight while managing high-priority searches while also mentoring others, improving systems, and helping define what great hiring looks like at Salt. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Lead end-to-end recruitment for senior and specialized roles across Creative, Strategy, Media, Digit

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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From $162.7K/yr

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About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X , and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog . Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role Come create the future of live streaming at Twitch! As a member of Twitch's Business Development team, you'll use your industry and product acumen, existing network, and partnership knowledge to support new product initiatives and develop new opportunities with strategic B2B partners that benefit Twitch communities. To support our growth, we are looking for an accomplished, motivated, and data-driven Senior Manager of Business Development who is a detail-oriented problem solver, thrives in ambiguity, and delivers results with limited oversight. The ideal candidate will have experience with relationship building, financial analysis/modeling, designing creative deal structures, and closing complex partnerships by working with cross-functional partners including product, legal, marketing, partnerships, and sales. You will report to the Director of Business Development and manage new and existing Twitch partnerships, which may include opportunities with other major tech companies, consumer services and products, payments, distribution partners, and more. You can work in San Francisco, CA. You Will: Both independently and collaboratively identify, source, and close a variety of high impact partnership agreements with a diverse variety of companies. This includes developing strategy withi

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