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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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 $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$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
C$110K – C$150K/yr
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! The Role As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will play a critical role at the intersection of data, technology, and customer impact. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-impact technical implementations for our enterprise clients. Working with diverse and complex datasets across industries, you’ll build and optimize end-to-end analytics solutions that directly influence how customers engage with the Forma platform. You’ll partner cross-functionally to identify opportunities, scope high-value solutions, and deliver outcomes that drive measurable business impact. This is a highly visible, client-facing role that combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking. What You’ll Do Lead strategic technical engagements with enterprise clients, guiding solution design for complex business challenges using the Forma platform Design, build, and optimize scalable data architectures, pipelines, and workflows (e.g., PySpark, Databricks) Translate business requirements into robust, production-ready data solutions Design and deliver custom code and customer-specific integrations to extend the Forma platform for unique client requirements Partner with Professional Services to extract, transform, and analyze client data to optimize incentive compensation and sales performance strategies Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality, actionable datasets and insights Drive improvements in data infrastructure, perfor
C$140K – C$180K/yr
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! The Role Forma is hiring a Product Manager to lead key initiatives across our ICM Operations platform , spanning Core Services and Business Intelligence (BI). This includes workflows, automation, APIs, claims management, and next - generation reporting and data capabilities. This role is for someone who can take full ownership of a product area, not just manage a backlog. We’re looking for a strategic product leader who starts with the business problem, understands the user workflow end to end, and partners cross - functionally to define the right solutions. Success in this role requires strong product judgment, a deep understanding of operational processes and user pain points, and the ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution. What You’ll Do Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will own a portfolio of platform capabilities end to end. You’ll work closely with engineering, operations, and leadership to identify the most important problems to solve, shape requirements, and prioritize high - imp act investments. We’re looking for someone who brings strong product thinking and operational awareness to help evolve how internal teams and customers interact with mission - critical systems — from approvals and ticketing to policy engines and data exploration. Strong expertise in data visualization and business intelligence tools. This person should be comfortable working with dashboards, with a keen ability to select and articulate the most effective visualiza
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
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. The role At Okta, we believe AI will fundamentally transform how design, research, and product development happen. We are looking for a Senior Design Operations Program Manager, Agentic Design to lead the operationalization and enablement of internal AI agents, plug-ins, and automated workflows across our Design team — reimaging how designers create in the AI era through internal AI agents. In this role, you will bridge the gap between AI tooling capabilities and practical design ops execution. You will partner closely with design, product management and design systems to govern, evaluate, deploy, and scale AI-driven design capabilities — making our 60+ person design org dramatically faster, more consistent, and highly innovative. This is a tactical, execution-focused builder role for an operations leader who is deeply curious about AI tools, understands modern UX workflows, and excels at change management, team enablement, and operationalizing new frameworks. What you'll do AI & Agentic Design Enablement Serve as the operational connective tissue driving AI adoption, evaluation, and workflow integration across Product Design, UX Research, and Content Design. Manage the intake, evaluation, and approval process for design plug-ins, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, and generative AI tools (e.g., custom content design assistants, design-to-code agents). Partner with internal engineering teams to operationalize, ship, and drive adopt
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! The Integrations Platform team mission is to power the world’s largest trust automation ecosystem, enabling any person or agent to build, connect, and automate trust seamlessly. We own Vanta’s integration ecosystem, which currently includes over 400 integrations across Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), Identity Providers, Mobile Device Management (MDM), and Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are focused on developing the Integration Platform. This includes creating shared primitives for authentication, lifecycle, observability, and publishing to ensure all integrations are built on the same fou
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Senior Software Engineers lead and mentor engineers, delivering high-value products for our customers and infrastructure that enables our business to scale. Vanta’s team and technology surface are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale with our business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for setting technical direction to enable our product and infrastructure to scale with our business, driving complex projects across our technical stack, and mentoring our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to enable and accelerate Vanta’s growth. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! Please note we are only able to hire in Alberta, Ontario, and British Columbia. The GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) organization is the primary org responsible for developing and maintaining Vanta's core product offerings. These teams are at the heart of Vanta moving upmarket to support enterprise customers and build products that enable our customers’ existing security and compliance programs to integrate seamlessly with Vanta, giving them invaluable insights and recommendations to continue to operate, mature and evolve their programs. What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta: Lead comp
C$162K – C$420K/yr
About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is responsible for the infrastructure that powers all of Sentry's time-series data and searching capabilities across billions of events with sub-second latency. We started this initiative by building Snuba, the primary storage and query service for Sentry's event data powered by ClickHouse, and we are now focused on unlocking deeper visibility and reporting across the terabytes of event data our users generate. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead efforts to push the boundaries of data visibility at Sentry. You will do this by expanding the capabilities of our search infrastructure, building new capabilities on top of our state-of-the-art storage layer and increasing the performance and integrity of Sentry’s core data services. You will also help shape Infrastructure's technical direction at Sentry and collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to turn that vision into a reality. If you want to solve the hard problems that come with scaling event data into the petabyte range, this could be the job for you. In this role you will: Expand EAP's ability to deliver data at world-class speed and reliability. Architect and automate services and systems to scale reliably under growing demand. Make architectural trade-offs that balance product requirements with engineering constraints. Maintain and grow the team's code quality initiatives by regularly reviewing code and contributing to design decisions. Lead design and discussions around deliverables the team is working towards. Improve the maintainability and developer experience of the codebases EAP owns. Exa
From C$136K/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. Our team is dedicated to creating a seamless and secure experience for our riders and drivers, ensuring their identity and data are protected at all times. As a Senior Product Designer, you'll lead the design of solutions that help drivers understand their earnings and get paid securely while protecting our communities from fraud. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists, to create intuitive and effective designs on driver payments and complex security challenges. You’ll advocate for a customer-centric approach and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. From initial ideation through to launch, you'll support projects with interaction, visual, and product thinking skills, helping to define and deliver impactful experiences for our Payment, Identity and Integrity teams. The Opportunity Design features that help drivers understand their earnings, access their pay, and resolve payment issues efficiently Lead end-to-end design for driver earnings and identity verification experiences, from research and ideation through execution Play a critical role in designing solutions that protect our users and enhance their trust in our platform Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design intuitive and effective designs that address unique rideshare driver, identity and fraud challenges Responsibilities: Problem solve, think big, and explore divergent concepts/ideas while understanding how to converge and build iteratively towards your vision. Influence the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and cross-platform interactive prototypes. Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to
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