Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Director, SME Growth Program Management Overview: SMEs are the backbone of the global economy and a key driver of Mastercard’s growth strategy. As both buyers and sellers within the payment ecosystem, they represent a significant opportunity to expand adoption, deepen engagement, and deliver innovative solutions that help businesses thrive. The Director, SME PMO & Strategic Execution will serve as the operational backbone of Mastercard's global SME business across the enterprise, ensuring priorities are translated into coordinated action and measurable outcomes. This role is responsible for driving cross-functional execution, governance, and accountability across the SME organization, partnering closely with senior leaders to align stakeholders, prioritize investments, and maximize business impact. As a trusted advisor and chief integrator, the Director will establish the operating rhythms, performance management processes, and decision-making frameworks that keep strategic initiatives on track. The role requires a highly collaborative leader who can influence across a complex global matrix, anticipate risks and dependencies, and bring teams together around shared objectives. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with exceptional program management and stakeholder leadership skills.
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ROLE: MEDIA ACCOUNT MANAGER TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID 2X/WEEK) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW As an Account Manager at Salt Media, you’ll take day-to-day ownership of client accounts or campaign workstreams, keeping delivery on track while building trusted relationships with client contacts. You’ll work closely with an Account Supervisor or Director to execute against the account strategy, translating plans into clear, well-managed execution. You’ll manage the moving pieces of a campaign or account — timelines, budgets, vendor coordination, and status reporting — while flagging risks early and keeping internal and client stakeholders informed. You’ll also start to build your own point of view on the account, contributing ideas for organic growth and supporting the planning behind key client moments like QBRs. You’re organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams at once. You communicate clearly, take ownership of your work, and are eager to grow your account management craft — building the judgment and client presence that will carry you toward an Account Supervisor role. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Project & Operational Management
From $90K/yr
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
From $225K/yr
About Stitch Fix, Inc. Stitch Fix (NASDAQ: SFIX) Stitch Fix is redefining retail by combining human creativity with advanced data science and Generative AI. As we build the future of personalized shopping, we’re equally committed to building yours. We believe in investing in our team as much as our technology. Join us to be a trendsetter in the industry and help us redefine what’s possible for our clients, while we help you reach your full potential. About the Role The Client Experience Product Algorithms team is responsible for the machine learning, AI, experimentation, and product analytics capabilities that power personalized experiences for Stitch Fix clients and stylists. Partnering across Product, Engineering, Design, Styling, Marketing, Merchandising, Finance, Enterprise Analytics, Data Platform, and DSN, the team translates data and algorithms into measurable business impact. As Director, Product Algorithms, you will lead the strategy, execution, and people behind our Growth, Styling, and Fix & Freestyle Algorithms portfolios. You'll define how AI, machine learning, experimentation, and analytics shape the future of personalized shopping while building the operating discipline, technical excellence, and cross-functional alignment needed to deliver scalable business results. Responsibilities Lead the Product Algorithms portfolio across Growth, Styling, and Fix & Freestyle, setting strategy and driving measurable outcomes across acquisition, engagement, retention, styling quality, Fix, Freestyle, outfitting, and related commerce experiences. Define the vision and roadmap for applying data science, machine learning, AI, experimentation, and product analytics to improve client experiences, stylist effectiveness, and business performance. Drive innovation by identifying, evaluating, and scaling modern AI, machine learning, personalization, and experimentation techniques that create meaningful impact while balancing technical feasibility, exec
From $140K/yr
ROLE: SENIOR MEDIA DIRECTOR TEAM: MEDIA LOCATION: TORONTO (HYBRID 2X/WEEK) COMPANY OVERVIEW At Salt Media , we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you. ROLE OVERVIEW As a Senior Media Director, you’ll set the strategic direction for how media investment is planned, bought, and optimized across CPG clients in North America. Operating at the intersection of media strategy and team leadership, you’ll ensure every plan is grounded in strong channel logic, sound investment principles, and a clear line to business outcomes. You’ll own cross-channel strategy and plan alignment across your portfolio, setting the optimization roadmap and reporting rhythm that keeps campaigns performing against KPIs. You’ll lead a team of media managers and directors — training them on tools and platforms, mentoring their growth, and ensuring the team’s segmentation and audience strategies stay sharp as channels evolve. You bring a senior media point of view that Account leads and clients rely on, and a team looks up to. You move fluidly between investment strategy and hands-on problem-solving, and you know how to translate performance data into a clear learning agenda for the whole team. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Media Planning & Buying Lead plan development and investment approach across your portfolio, ensuring every plan is gr
Level Up Your Career with Zynga! At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition. From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more! Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level. Join us and be part of the play! Position Overview: The Senior Director, Data Platform will lead Zynga's centralized data platform and product strategy, managing one of the largest data footprints in the gaming industry—billions of daily gameplay events flowing through a cloud-native stack spanning real-time ingestion, a petabyte-scale warehouse, experimentation, and a self-serve metrics and AI platform. Operating with high autonomy and direct executive sponsorship, you will act as a pathfinder: empowering our global studios to extract maximum value from central data and transforming the group to an AI-first way of working. This highly visible role is based in Toronto and partners closely with studio leaders, central teams, and executives across Zynga's global labels. Relocation support is available. What You'll Do: Craft data product strategy:
$192K – $240K/yr
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
ROLE: SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOCIAL & CREATIVE STRATEGY DEPARTMENT: CREATOR & SOCIAL LOCATION: TORONTO, HYBRID ONSITE 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 We are looking for a hybrid social strategist who balances creative vision with deep analytical rigor to guide our social and creator-led initiatives. In this role, you will act as the strategic engine for client accounts—building sharp social playbooks, scoping complex programs, consulting and collaborating with internal teams and translating performance data into clear creative direction and effective strategy . We are looking for someone who understands social because they have actively helped shape brands’ social presences, understand how to identify culturally relevant opportunities, kn ow how to source strategic creator partners, cultivate communities, and evolve a brand’s social approach in real time based on data and insights. You will consult closely with our influencer execution team on strategy and creator alignment (without managing day-to-day execution ) and provide strategic and creative leadership to our internal social and creator teams The ideal candidate b
From $120K/yr
Small Girls PR is looking for a Director of Influencer and PR with 7-8+ years of experience to manage overarching strategy and client relationships, concept novel initiatives that drive social virality and press headlines, manage deliverables for integrated campaigns, as well as oversee a team of talented junior staffers. This role will work with a wide range of creative and innovative brands across food & beverage, wellness, consumer tech, and more There is no one-size-fits-all for an SGPR client which means your career will be further enriched with meaningful and diversified experience. We've taken on the main stage at CES, announced Esusu as one of the first Black-owned tech unicorns, cheered on the powerful women of the WNBA with a well known ticketing platform, helped pet owners communicate with their dogs through a psychic for Rover, and piloted influencer marketing programs for B2B brands. This team concepted “Ring’s Great Ghost Search,” a lighthearted campaign calling on consumers to capture ghosts on their home cameras. By enlisting Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and an array of comedic influencers to participate, the campaign drove mass awareness and broad positive sentiment across earned media and social channels. Note: This role can be based in either our NYC or LA office, working two days a week in the office on a hybrid schedule. How you’ll make an impact: Drive long-term strategy and create tentpole campaigns for a range of clients on both retrainer and project-based engagements. You’ll manage expectations and set goals, timelines, and deliverables, with responsibility for meeting or exceeding client KPIs - both qualitative and quantitative. Originate out-of-the-box ideas that strengthen client’s marketplace positioning and earn attention - whether through press placements or through earned talkability above and beyond paid influencer deliverables. Collaborate across disciplines to create and execute integrated campaigns. Based on the cl
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
Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Director, Product Management, Rewards - Enterprise Loyalty Overview: Mastercard’s Loyalty team is part of Consumer Acquisition and Engagement (CA & E) and works with leading financial institutions, retailers, airlines, and digital partners to deliver loyalty capabilities that improve customer engagement and create measurable business value. The team’s rewards products help clients modernize rewards, expand consumer choice, increase program value, and deliver more seamless loyalty experiences across channels and markets. The Director, Product Management, Enterprise Loyalty will help shape the global product strategy for Enterprise Loyalty, define how new capabilities come to market, and support commercialization across regions. This role will partner across Product, Marketing, Sales, Delivery, Servicing, regional teams, and external partners to build clear product narratives, strengthen go-to-market execution, and ensure rewards solutions deliver measurable value for clients, consumers, and Mastercard. Role and Responsibilities: • Contribute to the global product strategy and roadmap for Enterprise Loyalty, with a focus on client value, market relevance, and scalable growth. • Translate client needs, market insights, and business priorities into clear product opportunities, roadmap recommend
Role Summary Scale builds AI applications for organizations where reliability, security, and measurable results matter. Our core platform, SGP, gives teams the capabilities to build, deploy, evaluate, and operate those applications in customer environments. We're looking for a product leader to own the strategy and roadmap for SGP's core platform and lead the PM team responsible for it. You will work with customers, platform engineering, and forward deployed teams to build capabilities customers need, productize work developed in the field when it has broader value, and improve how teams build, deploy, and operate AI applications. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will connect work across teams into a coherent product, make difficult scope and investment decisions, and stay close enough to the details to know whether what we ship works for the people using it. What you'll do Own the platform strategy and roadmap. Prioritize across developer experience, capabilities customers need, and productizing work built in the field where it has broader value. Sequence investments against customer value, commitments, and dependencies. Define how the product should work. Work with users and engineers to write clear requirements and vibe code prototypes, user journeys, and measure success through customer outcomes, capability adoption, delivery time, and production performance, and follow through on gaps after launch. Align teams across the business. Work with platform engineering, forward deployed PMs, and business leaders to agree on shared capabilities, rollout priorities, and necessary differences across environments. Make clear what is available, where it works, and what remains to be delivered. Build and lead a strong PM team. Establish clear ownership across related product areas, hire and coach PMs, and raise the quality of product thinking and written requirements. Stay directly involved in the most consequential decisions. What we're looking for A track record of
From C$172K/yr
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 looking for a Design Systems Manager to join Design Foundations, the infrastructure layer of Lyft's design organization. Design Systems at Lyft is an integral part of the overall user experience. Our design system spans product surfaces, marketing, and brand, officially known as the Lyft Product Language (LPL) and shipped directly to code. You'll own the craft and execution of that system, partner closely with design, engineering, and marketing, and lead Design systems work through a period of active global growth and capability expansion. This role reports to the Director of Design Foundations and works alongside a dedicated DPM and Engineering managers, and a tight-knit team of design systems practitioners. Responsibilities: Strategy & Vision Set the strategy and roadmap for Lyft Product Language (LPL) across product, marketing, and brand surfaces, in partnership with the Director of Design Foundations and engineering leadership and the Design Systems team Lead the AI transformation of the system: integrate AI into LPL tooling, adoption workflows, and the day-to-day designer experience at Lyft Represent Design Systems in reviews and other senior leadership forums People & Craft Manage and develop a team of design systems designers and illustrators working across iOS, Android, web, and brand Hold the quality bar for system-wide design: cross-platform coherence, accessibility (WCAG), road safety, localization, and brand consistency. Coach the team on making educated tradeoffs between flexibility, coherency, usability, and efficiency Execution & Partnership Partner closely with the Design Systems DPM and engineering managers to maintain system health, sequence work, and unblock teams Own the LPL component contribution and review process end-to-end, from intake through release Commu
About the Team DoorDash Ads will become the most transparent and effective advertising channel for merchants, brands, and ad buyers/agencies of all sizes to market their offerings to engaged local audiences. We build a variety of products that are easy to use and confidently generate incremental value for advertisers, while also helping consumers discover and engage with brands they love and save money. As the analytics team our goal is to advance product development, understanding of the business, and identify opportunities for the team to drive towards our north stars. About the Role As the leader of a large, high-performing team of data scientists, you’ll own the analytics strategy for DoorDash Ads for Restaurants—one of the company’s fastest-growing and most dynamic businesses. You’ll guide a team spanning multiple levels of seniority to drive insights and decisions across a multi-sided marketplace, optimizing across consumer and merchant outcomes . In your first few months, you’ll establish clear priorities, align cross-functional partners in product, engineering, sales, and strategy, and set the analytical vision for sustainable growth. Success in this role means delivering measurable business impact, elevating the quality of analytics across the organization, and building systems that balance advertiser ROI, consumer experience, and platform health. You will report into the Senior Director of Analytics on our Ads team in our Ads & Promos organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and develop a high-performing analytics team, providing mentorship, feedback, and clear career development pathways. Define and drive the analytical and product roadmap by setting measurable goals and aligning cross-functional teams around success metrics. Partner closely with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to uncover insights, optimize funnels, and inform high-impact decisions. Apply advanced analytical methods—such as co
$160K – $185K/yr
About the role Every enterprise is racing to build AI-powered apps and agents but speed without the right runtime creates chaos, not transformation. Sigma is the AI Runtime Environment that makes those apps governable, scalable, and real, and the Sr. PMM, Sigma Apps will play a critical role in developing and executing the go-to-market narrative and strategy for Sigma Apps. This role requires someone who understands both sides of the enterprise software conversation: the IT leaders and data engineers who evaluate and govern application infrastructure, and the line-of-business owners who care about outcomes, speed, and usability. You'll translate Sigma's application development capabilities into stories that resonate with both and create the materials the sales team needs to tell those stories in the field. What you'll do Develop and maintain positioning and messaging for Sigma Apps including no-code app building, AI-assisted workflow automation, embedded analytics, and apps built with external coding agents working closely with the Director of Product Marketing, Apps and the Product team. Support new feature launches and capability expansions, coordinating across product, design, marketing, and sales to bring new capabilities to market clearly and effectively. Work closely with Product and Engineering to deeply understand and influence the Sigma Apps roadmap bringing market, customer, and competitive insights that help shape and prioritize it. Partner with sales reps and the Enablement team to understand what's working in the field and use those insights to sharpen messaging, update battlecards, and improve enablement materials. Partner with the Enablement team to build and maintain sales enablement content solution briefs, pitch decks, use case guides, competitive comparisons, and discovery question frameworks that help the field confidently sell Sigma Apps Build and maintain competitive analysis and battlecards for the no-code/low-code, embedded anal
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