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 . As a Senior People Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering thoughtful, scalable people programs and operational support across the employee lifecycle. As part of our People Operations team, you’ll combine strong operational expertise with the judgment and partnership skills needed to support HR Business Partners, managers, and employees through both day-to-day needs and more complex people matters. You’ll own and continuously improve key people programs and processes, with a particular focus on employee lifecycle operations, immigration
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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 We are seeking a proactive, customer-focused IT Support Specialist based in Toronto to anchor our regional IT operations. In this role, you will be the primary point of contact for internal employees, delivering white-glove technical support while managing core identity, collaboration platforms, and SaaS systems. Beyond day-to-day helpdesk operations, this position bridges traditional IT support and modern systems engineering. You will leverage automation, scripting, and modern DevOps practices to streamline user lifecycles, eliminate manual toil, and ensure our workforce operates securely and efficiently. Key Responsibilities Serve as the first point of contact for internal employees, triaging incoming requests through the ticketing system and established support processes. Troubleshoot and resolve workstation, laptop, mobile, and basic network issues for on-site staff and remote employees, escalating more complex support cases to senior staff or the appropriate team. Deliver calm, clear support during high-priority incidents, keep users informed, and document work thoroughly through to resolution. Manage end-to-
From $119.3K/yr
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 As a Senior Manager, Lifecycle Marketing, you will manage a team of Managers and/or Specialists across multiple game genres, and own the planning and execution of Lifecycle strategy for that portfolio. This position requires you to be data-driven, strategic, and a strong cross-functional collaborator. You will represent the Lifecycle Team in cross-functional and strategy meetings, sharing insights that keep the team's work aligned to broader Lifecycle and organisational goals, and you will set team objectives in line with BU objectives. What You'll Do Manage and develop a team of Managers and/or Specialists across owned genres, providing clear direction, coaching, and day-to-day people leadership. Own performance management for direct reports, including goal-setting, regular 1:1s, feedback, and
C$189K – C$244K/yr
Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are Do you enjoy turning complex international employment issues into clear, practical guidance that helps teams move with confidence? Are you energized by helping a global EOR business handle sensitive employment lifecycle matters with sound judgment, consistency, and care? You are an experienced employment lawyer who understands that strong EOR legal support requires both legal judgment and operational follow-through. You know how to evaluate lifecycle risk, partner with local experts, align stakeholders, and help teams reach practical outcomes in complex and time-sensitive employment matters. You bring clear communication, business-oriented judgment, and a steady approach to sensitive employee lifecycle issues. As part of the International Legal team, the Senior Lifecycle Counsel, International will provide legal support for complex employment lifecycle execution across Justworks’ EOR offering, with particular focus on sensitive, complex, or escalated matters such as terminations, performance management, leave, and employee relations. You will serve as the legal point of contact for selected lifecycle matters that require Legal in
From C$1.4M/yr
About the Role: We're hiring Senior and Staff Data Platform Engineers to join the Data Infrastructure teams in Toronto. Together these teams own the infrastructure that processes billions of events per day: Spark-on-Kubernetes, Flink and Kinesis pipelines, a multi-petabyte Delta Lake, a large-scale MemoryDB feature store, Databricks multi-environment operations, and the catalog and lifecycle systems that govern it. The team is small and senior. Each engineer owns major platform components: you design it, build it, and support it in production. This is a hybrid-role based out of our Toronto office. You must be willing to travel to our Toronto office two days/week. What You'll Do: Spark-on-Kubernetes — EKS-based compute platform for Spark workloads: cluster configuration, Pod Identity IAM, job environment setup, Kustomize overlays, and shadow canary validation Event ingestion — Rust services and Flink jobs processing billions of events per day over Kinesis; throughput, reliability, on-call response, and AI-assisted operational tooling to reduce toil Platform infrastructure — Terraform modules for environment provisioning, cross-account AWS IAM, ARC runner infrastructure, and CI/CD for data platform changes Feature store and ML compute — Flink-based real-time feature pipelines feeding a large-scale MemoryDB cluster; GPU capacity governance and Databricks multi-environment operations for ML training workloads Workflow orchestration and CDC — Airflow-based DAG deployment, change data capture pipeline operations, and data quality monitoring Your Background: 3+ years building and operating production data platform infrastructure at the cluster or platform level, across Spark, Flink, Kinesis, Kubernetes, or equivalent Deep experience in at least one of: Spark-on-K8s cluster operations, Rust-based data or systems engineering, Kubernetes platform engineering and IaC, or data catalog and governance tooling Production AWS experience or equivalent: EKS, S3, Kinesis, and mu
C$108K – C$135K/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. This is a contract position through our staffing partner Magnit. 108,000.00 - 135,000.00 - 162,000.00 CAD Annual This role is not eligible for the Okta-sponsored benefits listed below. Magnit will provide any locally required benefits. Okta seeks a skilled Senior Recruiter to drive full-lifecycle recruitment and build strategic talent pipelines for our Engineering organization across North America. As part of our AMER Tech Recruiting team, you will be a trusted talent advisor responsible for sourcing, engaging, and delivering top-tier engineering talent while maintaining an "always recruiting" mindset in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. What You'll Be Doing Own full-lifecycle recruitment for Engineering and technical roles (Software Engineering, Site Reliability, Security, TPM, Product) across US & Canada, managing a flexible req load that scales with business priorities. Partner strategically with hiring managers and leadership to understand talent needs, define role scope, advise on talent gap mitigation, and challenge assumptions to ensure hiring decisions strengthen long-term organizational capability. Build and execute talent strategies that balance external hiring with internal mobility, creating sustainable pipelines that reflect commitment to diversity, inclusion, and high-performing engineering culture. Drive metrics-informed recruiting decisions by developing KPIs, analyzing recruiting data, and using insights to optimi
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 Data Enablement Team Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Within the Data organization, the Data Enablement team is chartered with creating scalable semantic models that make it safe for anyone to see and understand data. By partnering with product and engineering leaders, this team owns the data lifecycle from strategy to prototyping to implementation, executive dashboard and product level self-service support. The Senior Data Analyst Opportunity Reporting to the Manager, Data Enablement - this role will be responsible for unlocking analytics across the company. You will do this through a combination of data lifecycle ownership, data tooling enablement and outreach programs designed to foster the safe usage of scalable data models for reporting and analytic consumption. You'll serve as a critical data and technical partner that empowers our Sales, TAM, and Customer Success teams with the deep product insights they need to succeed. An average week will find you partnering with these teams to understand their measurement needs, reviewing engineering plans to ensure we capture critical data signals from the Auth
From $96.4K/yr
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 We are seeking a Senior Product Manager with experience in Ad monetization or Ad Technology systems to shape, execute & distribute our Ad Technology SDK across 50+ Games at Zynga! This role specializes in key aspects of our product lifecycle, building customized ad formats for our games and delivering experiments, readouts and optimizations. This role requires a blend of product management and ad monetization experience. Ideal candidates should have experience working on monetization/payments systems and should be deeply familiar with how games balance engagement with IAA/IAP monetization. What You'll Do Lead experiments for our Advertising platform from experiment design through analysis and rollout -> fine-tuning supply and demand side features that impact how our players see ads
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$75K/yr
Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. About the Team Appian Customer Success is obsessed with delivering exceptional customer outcomes and high-velocity business impact. Our Public Sector team acts as a trusted strategic partner to government agencies and organizations, bringing their most vital ideas to life. By joining this high-performing team, you will strengthen and evolve your technical consulting skills while accelerating the adoption of our AI-Powered Process Automation platform across critical public infrastructure. As a Senior Consultant, you will step into a pivotal leadership role at the intersection of public sector strategy and modern technical innovation. This is your opportunity to move beyond isolated coding tasks and own the end-to-end delivery of highly visible, complex enterprise systems. You will lead small engineering teams, architect robust integrations, and serve as a trusted technical advisor to client stakeholders - enabling enterprise organizations to achieve true Enterprise-Grade Orchestration . What You’ll Do Lead Project Delivery: Oversee and drive the entire project lifecycle to define, design, and implement custom automation solutions using the Appian platform. Mentor & Develop Talent: Actively lead, coach, and mentor junior consultants through fast-paced software implementations, fostering a culture of technical excellence. Architect Integrations: Build seamless data pipelines and robust APIs to integrate multiple external enterprise systems using REST, SOAP, and JDBC connections. Drive Data Modeling: Design and launch sophisticated relational data
C$135K – C$210K/yr
Overview: Guidepoint seeks an experienced Data/AI Engineer as an integral member of the Toronto-based AI team. The Toronto Technology Hub serves as the base of our Data/AI/ML team, dedicated to building a modern data infrastructure for advanced analytics and the development of responsible AI. This strategic investment is integral to Guidepoint’s vision for the future, aiming to develop cutting-edge Generative AI and analytical capabilities that will underpin Guidepoint’s Next-Gen research enablement platform and data products. This role demands exceptional leadership and technical prowess to drive the development of next-generation research enablement platforms and AI-driven data products. You will develop and scale Generative AI-powered systems, including large language model (LLM) applications and research agents, while ensuring the integration of responsible AI and best-in-class MLOps. The Senior AI/ML Engineer will be a primary contributor to building scalable AI/ML capabilities using Databricks and other state-of-the-art tools across all of Guidepoint’s products. Guidepoint’s Technology team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new AI-enabled products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. This is a hybrid position based in Toronto. What You'll Do: Architect and Build Production Systems: Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency backend services and APIs that serve Generative AI features, from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to complex agentic systems. Own the AI Application Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered applications, including system design, development, deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and optimization
From C$136K/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. Senior Software Engineer, Device Identity 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. Device Identity and Access Organization The Device Identity and Access organization is at the forefront of Okta’s Zero Trust vision. As a foundational pillar within Okta Research and Development (ORD), our mission is to transform the device itself into a secure, trusted, and effortless identity factor. We are the teams responsible for ensuring users can seamlessly interact with their work from any endpoint, anywhere in the world. We engineer the end-to-end device experience—from our flagship FastPass , Okta Device Access (ODA), and Device Assurance . Our teams own the continuous authentication pipeline, device lifecycle management, and the sophisticated cloud services that analyze real-time trust and assurance signals to make frictionless, passwordless access a reality across Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux and Android. Our organization is comprised of engineers who thrive at the intersectio
From $10K/yr
About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role As the founding Channel Partner Manager for Canada, you will build the partner motion that helps Canadian businesses discover, evaluate, and adopt Ramp through trusted advisors and ecosystem partners. This is a zero-to-one role. You will own the full partner lifecycle, from identifying and engaging Canadian accounting, advisory, private equity, and venture capital partners through signing, enablement, activation, and partner-sourced pipeline. Your early results will help determine how Ramp scales its Canadian channel motion. You will work closely with Sales, Growth, Product, Engineering, and the broader Partnerships organization. The right person is a hands-on builder: equally comfortable opening a new relationship, running a partner meeting, solving an operational blocker, and turning early learnings into a repeatable playbook. What You’ll Do Build Ramp’s Canadian channel strategy and operating rhythm from the ground up. Research, identify, source, qualify and sign net-new Canadian partners. Create joint go-to-market and activation p
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
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world's biggest financial problems. We're looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn't a place for complacency, it's where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We're a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Core Infrastructure team's mission is to build and evolve the foundational platform that every Robinhood engineering team builds on — owning the systems, primitives, and developer-facing abstractions that power 24/7 trading, crypto, and global expansion. We treat infrastructure as a product: reliable, fast to provision, and invisible to the teams above it. As a Senior Staff Software Developer on Core Infrastructure, you will own the architectural evolution of three deeply interconnected domains: service mesh and connectivity, compute platform, and infrastructure provisioning. Your decisions will directly shape engineering velocity, operational reliability, and Robinhood's ability to expand to new regions and markets. This is not an operations role — it's a once-in-a-platform-lifecycle opportunity to redesign the foundation before complexity becomes permanent! This role is based in our Toronto, ON office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-p
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