Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at Upwork.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X; and learn more about Lifted at Go-Lifted and follow on LinkedIn. Lifecycle Marketing is a horizontal team that shapes how we engage clients and talent across the full journey, and this role sits in our demand-side acquisition lane. We’re hiring a Lifecycle Marketing Lead, Growth & Acquisition to own high-impact lifecycle programs that help close the new-client acquisition gap through smarter demand capture and stronger engagement with SMB audiences. You’ll lead key initiatives across outbound prospecting and always-on content, translate performance signals into clear recommendations, and help shape how lifecycle marketing contributes to Upwork’s 2026 priorities. This is a senior indi
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Lead Senior Workforce Development Program Manager Manager in Canada
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From C$173K/yr
Position Overview We are seeking a transformative Senior Director, Talent Acquisition to lead the overall recruiting function and deliver a high-impact, modern, and scalable hiring experience across the organization. In this role, the successful candidate will partner closely with senior business leaders and HR stakeholders to align hiring priorities, shape workforce plans, and support business growth through innovative, data-driven talent strategies. This leader will oversee end-to-end recruitment strategy and operations, guide team performance, and drive process improvements that strengthen hiring outcomes, scalability, speed, and quality of hire. A key focus of the role will be leading the successful implementation and optimization of Workday Recruiting and related processes, while advancing the use of AI-enabled recruiting tools, automation, talent intelligence, and analytics to improve sourcing effectiveness, decision quality, operational efficiency, and candidate experience. The ideal candidate is an AI-forward talent acquisition leader who brings strong leadership, stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and communication skills, along with deep expertise in recruiting operations, team development, talent analytics, recruiting technology, and enterprise process transformation. They will bring experience leading large-scale systems and process change, including Workday implementation or optimization, as well as a thoughtful approach to the responsible use of AI and technology across the hiring lifecycle. They will also bring a fresh and creative approach to attracting top talent and play a key role in advancing and strengthening our employer brand in the market. Key Responsibilities Lead the global Talent Acquisition function across a broad team or portfolio, with accountability for recruiting strategy, delivery, team capability, technology adoption, and performance against hiring goals. Partner closely with senior business leaders, HR
$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
From C$1.5M/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Enterprise Operations Workforce & Vendor Excellence team at Airbnb increases the effectiveness, utilization, quality and impact of the Homes, Hotels, Services and Experiences on Airbnb using AI and people-powered operations. Our Workforce Planning and Insights team works with both our Scaled Operations and our Revenue Operations teams to optimize our vendor footprint, plan our capacity needs, staff projects and improve the performance of our vendor teams. The work of our agents is highly variable, from Sales work, to Account Management to AI labeling, often across 5-6 languages. We typically have 30-40 projects running concurrently, with demand changing weekly, so forecasting and staffing is a complex challenge. Our team moves very quickly, staffing up and down projects in the space of days, and increasingly uses AI as a core component of our workflows, which further speeds up cycle times. The Difference You Will Make: As the Workforce Management Lead, Enterprise Ops, you will serve as the operational intelligence and capacity strategy hub for our Scaled and Revenue Operations teams. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that sits at the intersection of workforce strategy, financial efficiency, and executive stakeholder management. You will transform complex, real-time workforce data into clear, compelling narratives that drive decisions at the most senior levels of the organization, proactively surfacing what is working, what is at risk, and where intervention is needed before problems escalate. You will own our capacity planning, staffing and
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Senior Identity Security Engineer on Palantir's Identity Security team, you will own the security posture of the identity infrastructure that Palantirians, customers, and services rely on every day. The Identity Security team is responsible for all identity types at Palantir - workforce, customer, workload, and agentic - giving you the rare ability to architect, threat model, and drive security outcomes across the full identity surface. You will help shape the technical direction for identity security at Palantir, reduce standing access, lead identity threat modeling, and contribute to the next generation of identity primitives including agent identity, JIT-native governance, and unified policy enforcement across workforce and customer IAM. As part of Palantir's best-in-class Information Security organization, you will research, architect, and scale solutions that help Palantir stay ahead of a dynamic identity threat landscape.
From C$118K/yr
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. Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology— anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you. Position Description: As a Senior Research Operations Program Manager at Okta, you will play a crucial role in building and enabling an impactful beta program. Via close collaboration across research, design, product, engineering teams, QA, and release teams, you will programmatically manage cross-functional teams’ research needs. You will proactively build and manage the operations for a beta program, collaborating with other cross functional functions to plan the necessary infrastructure for this programming to be successful, following compliance and governance best practices. In this role, you’ll get to: Lead research operations and panel management for beta programming Work collaboratively across multiple teams to empower Okta staff to carry out impactful research Help manage the general pipeline o
From C$146K/yr
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. Auth0 is an easy-to-implement, authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make applications’ login boxes safe, secure, and seamless for anyone logging in. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to join our Enterprise Federation team. In this role, you will partner closely with engineering teams to shape the future of Auth0's core B2B platform. We need a creative, engineering-minded leader to uncover and solve the complex operational realities our customers face when deploying high-scale, multi-tenant B2B applications on Auth0. As the owner of the "front door" to Auth0 B2B, you will directly shape how our enterprise customers—and their end-users—experience our platform. Core Responsibilities & Ownership You will lead two critical product areas: Enterprise Connections: A suite of pre-built connectors that integrate workforce Identity Providers (IdPs), enabling a seamless onboarding experience for enterprise B2B customers. B2B Connect: An innovative offering that allows Auth0 to be deployed on top of—rather than instead of—a customer's existing IdP. In addition to managing these areas, you will: Drive Modularization: Focus on modularizing Auth0’s B2B offerings so customers can quickly adopt high-value features without needing a full identity migration. Lead the Standards Roadmap: Deepen your understanding of regional and vertical identity standards to build, drive, and propel a highly competiti
From C$2.1M/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. 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
From C$167K/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Roblox's Vancouver office is a growing hub of engineering talent, and we're looking for someone to shape how the team grows, stays, and thrives. As the Vancouver People & Talent Lead, you'll lead talent strategy for the site while serving as the people and office point of contact for the Vancouver site. This role sits at the intersection of talent strategy and organizational health. You'll work closely with Recruiting, People Business Partners, and Engineering leadership to understand what the Vancouver team needs to scale well, then build the programs, systems, and relationships to make it happen. The experience you create will be a direct expression of Roblox's investment in this team. You will report to the People Business Partner Lead supporting the Vancouver engineering organization. You Will: Talent Strategy Own full-cycle talent acquisition for the Vancouver site. Partner with Engineering leadership to define hiring strategy, recruit for senior and niche technical roles, build local talent pipelines, and support workforce planning as the team scales. Champion Roblox as an employer of choice in the Vancouver tech market through partnerships with universities,, and local indu
From C$128K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: This Senior Quality Lead will own the quality program for AirCover. AirCover is Airbnb's host protection and property damage insurance product, handling claim reviews at global scale with direct financial exposure in every case. The Difference You Will Make: This function requires a quality leader who can operate rigorously in environments where the stakes of a wrong answer are high, the workflows are complex, and quality measurement must go beyond behavioral compliance to evaluate decision accuracy and defensibility. A Typical Day: Strategic Leadership & Program Ownership Own and execute the quality strategy for AirCover, aligned to the evolving needs of the business. Serve as the single accountable Quality leader for AirCover. Establish and optimize operating models and frameworks that are COPC-aligned. Represent quality in WBRs, MBRs, QBRs, and executive reviews; deliver a proactive narrative that surfaces emerging risks. Measurement & Quality Execution Oversee QA evaluation execution across AirCover, internally and at BPO partner sites globally, ensuring consistent application of QA processes and frameworks. Lead root cause analysis on systemic failures, translating QA findings into product, process, and policy recommendations that go beyond agent-level coaching. Define sample selection, alignment thresholds, root cause review, and evaluator-level remediation processes. Ensure evaluations close with a documented coaching action; build the tracking mechanisms to measure whether coaching is translating into performance improvement over time. Insight
From $115K/yr
ROLE: SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER LOCATION: TORONTO The Role Salt XC is looking for a Senior Finance Manager to lead the day-to-day financial management of The Kitchen, a large-scale embedded agency partnership with a Fortune 500 client. This role will be the primary Finance partner and point of contact for The Kitchen. While Salt’s broader Finance team will continue to execute transaction processing, including payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and expense processing, this person will sit at the centre of the operation—ensuring projects are financially controlled, billings happen on time, revenue and costs are appropriately recognized, reporting is accurate, and stakeholders have clear and timely visibility into the financial health of the business. This is an ideal role for someone with strong project accounting and revenue accounting experience who is equally comfortable working with Finance teams, agency operators, producers and senior client stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Project & Financial Management • Own the financial oversight of approximately 100-150 client projects annually • Maintain accurate project financials, including budgets, committed costs, actual costs, billings and project-level profitability • Ensure production costs and employee expenses are accurately captured and allocated to the appropriate projects • Monitor project financial activity from initiation through final reconciliation and close • Identify financial discrepancies, aging items and project risks and proactively drive them to resolution • Maintain strong financial controls while supporting the speed and flexibility required in an agency environment • Identify areas for efficiency and cost reductions Revenue, Billing & PO Management • Own the financial workflow between project teams, both internal and external, to ensure projects are billed accurately and on tim
From C$1.2M/yr
About the Role: Tubi is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead quality assurance initiatives for our cutting-edge streaming and AI-driven product features. This pivotal role involves ensuring exceptional end-to-end user experiences, robust streaming playback, and the accuracy and integrity of our AI/ML features across web, mobile, and OTT platforms. We're looking for a candidate with a strong background in streaming QA and deep technical knowledge of media workflows. You'll be instrumental in collaborating with engineering, product, and data science teams to define comprehensive QA strategies that guarantee both functional excellence and data-level quality. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office three days/week. What You'll Do: Design and lead test strategies for streaming workflows, playback systems, and AI-powered features. Test across platforms (web, mobile, and connected TV) to ensure functional parity and playback stability. Validate streaming performance—including ABR logic, encoding pipelines, and DRM integrations—under diverse real-world conditions. Debug with precision using tools like Charles Proxy, Chrome DevTools, ADB, and Xcode. Collaborate with data and ML teams to validate AI model updates, recommendations, and personalization accuracy. Leverage AI-assisted QA tools to enhance regression coverage, UI validation, and anomaly detection. Contribute to automation and CI/CD frameworks, driving faster, more reliable releases. Help drive a shift-left testing approach by engaging early in the software development lifecycle, partnering with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to identify quality risks, define test strategies, and ensure testability during requirements and design phases. Oversee QA deliverables for multiple concurrent releases and ensure seamless sign-off for production launches. Monitor live environments for playback or reco
From C$250K/yr
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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We are looking for a Lead, Data Development, AI Platform to lead the team building and operating the technical platform behind Hootsuite's Analytics MCP. This includes routing infrastructure, orchestration services, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines that enable reliable AI-driven analysis at scale. You will set technical direction for the team, strengthen engineering practices, and translate target architecture and integration standards into secure, production-grade systems that Data Analytics & AI teams can confidently build on. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will stay close to the code while owning delivery outcomes, engineering quality, and the team's culture of craft and accountability. You will develop strong, well-reasoned recommendations on how the platform and orchestration architecture should evolve, seek approval at the Senior Manager and Director level, and then guide the team through disciplined execution. You will also partner closely with AI Context & Integration and AI Data Architecture to ensure the platform, context layer, semantic layer, and downstream agent workflows operate as one coherent system. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead the design and delivery of the orchestration layer that connects the Analytics MCP platform across its most complex surfaces, including query execution across schemas and models, federated data access between the data warehouse and external source systems, and multi-step agent workflows for cross-functional business processes. Develop clear technical recommendations for platform and orchestration architecture evolution, align those recommendations with Senior Manager and Director-level direction, and guide the team through disciplined execution within the approved architecture. Own the operational reliability, scalability, quality, and observability standards for core Analytics MCP components, including routing and agent infrastructure. Guide the team to build and operate these systems to prod
From C$122K/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 hiring a Senior Financial Data Analyst to lead the Reporting sub-team within Finance Data & Insights. This sub-team is core to ensuring all key Run the Business (RTB) financial reports are complete, accurate, and operationally reliable on a day-to-day basis. The mandate is two-fold: build repeatable systems, playbooks, and documented workflows that reduce reactive work, and own the primary stakeholder relationships for RTB work across teams. This is a high-visibility role that combines hands-on ownership of critical reporting with team leadership and process-building. Responsibilities: Own all RTB and Compliance reporting (tax, airports, audit requests, etc.), ensuring accuracy, completeness, and operational reliability Build and maintain process documentation, checklists, and operational playbooks that make reporting workflows repeatable and resilient Receive and operationalize reports stabilized by Finance Data Products, integrating them into day-to-day RTB reporting operations Reduce fire-drill, ad-hoc response patterns by replacing them with documented, recurring workflows and automation Identify and drive automation opportunities across RTB reporting processes to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and further reduce ad-hoc work Own primary stakeholder relationships for RTB work, serving as the go-to point of contact across teams Lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives with significant autonomy — from problem definition through execution — proactively communicating progress and risks to stakeholders and management Proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement within RTB reporting and drive initiatives to address them Experience: BA/BS with 5+ years of experience in finance, accounting, business, consulting, or analytics Advanced proficiency in
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