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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.5M/yr

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About the Team The Analytics team is looking for experienced Data Scientists and Senior Data Scientists to guide measurement, strategy, and tactical decision-making across the company across a variety of teams and levels. Data Scientists at DoorDash work to uncover insights and turn them into relevant recommendations, driving decisions for the entire organization. Analytics is integral to all operational areas at DoorDash. Please apply here for all non-managerial levels within the following analytics teams: Consumer & Growth Business Operations Dasher & Logistics Customer Experience & Integrity Merchant, Ads & Sales New Verticals International Data Science About the Role As a Data Scientist at DoorDash, you'll use your quantitative background to mentor other scientists and dive into large datasets to guide decision-making. We solve a multitude of exciting challenges including customer acquisition, fraud and support, marketing, balancing supply and demand, new city launches, marketplace efficiency, and more. If you enjoy finding patterns amidst chaos, and have experience using analytics to affect revenue, growth, operations or beyond, we're looking for someone like you! You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Use quantitative analysis and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand what drives our business Build full-cycle analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, R, Python, or other scripting and statistical tools Work with and mentor junior analysts on how to use more advanced methods and solve challenges Produce recommendations and use statistical techniques and hypothesis testing to validate your findings Provide insights to help business and product leaders understand marketplace dynamics, user behaviors, and long-term trends Identify and measure levers to help move essential metrics and make recommendations Work backwards from understanding and sizing problems to ideating solutions Report aga

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team The Analytics team is looking for Data Scientists to guide measurement, strategy, and tactical decision-making using Advanced Analytics approaches, as we expand our platform across the globe. Data Scientists at DoorDash work to uncover insights and turn them into actionable recommendations, helping drive decisions for the entire organisation. Analytics is very integral to all operational areas at DoorDash. About the Role Data Science at DoorDash involves diving deeper into our data to solve crucial business problems, ideate & run experiments to solve for insights gleaned from this deep dive and work with a cross-functional team to drive real-world operational change. This is a rare operational and actionable data-driven experience. We solve many exciting challenges from all three sides of our marketplace including customer acquisition, balancing supply and demand, fraud and support, marketing, marketplace efficiency, and more. If you enjoy finding patterns amidst chaos, are excited to build a market from 0 to 1, and have experience using analytics to affect revenue, growth, operations or beyond, we're looking for someone like you! You're excited about this opportunity because you will… As a senior Individual Contributor, mentor and influence junior Data Scientists in investigating complex issues and uncovering key drivers of our business Influence the Product and Operations roadmap by making actionable recommendations based on data Interface frequently with senior leadership to showcase your team’s work and tackle complex business problems Drive measurement strategy for the area under scope, defining success metrics and implementing best practices around experiment design and statistical analysis Develop a strategic learning roadmap based on data observations, strategic questions, and hypotheses We're excited about you because you have… A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain 8+ years of experi

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $302.4K/yr

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About Scale At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. About the ACE team The Agent Capabilities & Environments (ACE) team, part of Scale’s Research organization, brings together customer-facing Researchers and Applied AI Engineers. Our core mission includes research on agent environments and RL reward signals, benchmarking autonomous agent performance across real-world scenarios and environments, creating robust data programs to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) agentic capabilities and building foundational tools and frameworks for evaluating models as agents. ACE focuses on autonomous agents that dynamically interact with diverse external environments, including code repositories, GUI interfaces, browsers, and more. About This Role This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and practical application, with a focus on studying the data types essential for building state-of-the-art agents, such as browser and SWE agents. The ideal candidate will explore the data landscape needed to advance intelligent, adaptable AI agents, guiding the data strategy at Scale to drive innovation. This position requires not only expertise in LLM agents and planning algorithms but also creativity in addressing novel challenges related to data, interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research publications on agents, collaborate with customer researchers, and work alongside the engineering team to translate t

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team As DoorDash continues to expand rapidly, our Core Consumer team plays a pivotal role in shaping the consumer experience through enhancing personalization, search relevance, merchandising strategy, app quality, and the overall ordering experience. Our mission is to implement scalable data solutions and provide insights that directly influence our strategic product direction. We are looking for an Analytics Senior Manager to lead our Discovery team. About the Role As a Senior Manager of Data Science/Analytics, you’ll be leading a team of data scientists who are working on improving the consumer experience. You will develop strategic insights and work closely with the product, engineering, strategy and operations teams to actively build and measure the impact of new features. You will oversee our metrics and analytics strategy to inform strategic product direction, offer technical leadership and build processes to support velocity, and partner with data and product engineers to build robust data foundations. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and develop a team of Data Scientists in investigating complex issues and uncovering key drivers of our business, along with your own contributions as an Individual Contributor Influence the Product and Operations roadmap by making actionable recommendations based on data Interface frequently with senior leadership to showcase your team’s work and tackle complex business problems Drive measurement strategy for the area under scope, defining success metrics and implementing best practices around experiment design and statistical analysis Develop a strategic learning roadmap based on data observations, strategic questions, and hypotheses We're excited about you because you have… A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain Experience managing a team of data scientists, and a track record of delivering impactful analyses 8+ years of experience i

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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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

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $196K/yr

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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 Data Science team works closely with partners from Design, Product and Engineering across Airbnb’s product portfolio. Our work involves 0-to-1 innovation, applying sophisticated modeling techniques to critical Airbnb problems and finding new ways to leverage science for the good of the Airbnb community. Web prototypers work with Data Scientists to identify key questions during the development of these new solutions and build software prototypes that answer them. The work of DS prototyping covers everything from designing the right data visualization to focused explorations that help solve key design questions to broad explorations that help validate ideas. The Difference You Will Make: This role is focussed on partnering with the Data Science team to develop prototypes that show the potential of new data models targeting critical business and user problems. Step change advances in ML/AI have the potential to transform Airbnb, but doing that well requires not just building the right models, but also creating the right experience -- your work will be critical in enabling us to do that. Sophisticated and impactful models are often complex and hard to understand -- by building effective prototypes you can help close that gap and allow innovation to flourish. Your prototypes will enable leadership to make critical and strategic business decisions by demonstrating technical feasibility, suggesting implementation approaches, enabling user studies, and more. A Typical Day: As a web prototyper, you will create prototypes that enable differentiating and industry-leading produc

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $130K/yr

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About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! About the Team Marketing at Snorkel is growing rapidly and anchored by high-ownership operators who lead independently, align cross-functionally, and consistently deliver outsized results. We partner across Sales, Product, Research, and the executive team to translate complex AI and data value into differentiated positioning, integrated programs, and field-ready enablement that accelerates growth. The culture is high standards, high autonomy, and high collaboration. About the Role Reporting to the Sr. Director of Product Marketing, the Product Marketing Manager, Frontier Labs will own the GTM execution for our frontier lab business. You will partner closely with Research, FDE, and frontier-facing sales teams to translate technical work into research-credible positioning, repeatable sales plays, and high-quality GTM programs that resonate with research and procurement leaders inside frontier labs. You will keep the frontier asset library (battlecards, technical one-pagers, decks, benchmark and eval narratives) sharp against a fast-moving market, and bring competitive and customer insight into every motion. This is a hands-on role for a product marketer who wants

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $302.4K/yr

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Director of Engineering, Physical AI Role Overview The Director of Engineering will report to the General Manager of Physical AI, and will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary engineering organization. In this senior leadership role, you will own the execution of the Physical AI Data Engine — the platform powering the next generation of Physical AI/Embodied AI. You will collaborate closely with Operations and GTM to guide product direction and help solve the data bottleneck that stands between today's robotics research and real-world deployment. This role requires significant ownership in a fast-paced environment and you will motivate internal teams to set the pace for business growth. Travel will come into play. Key Responsibilities: Set and drive the technical vision across data collection infrastructure, teleoperation systems, ML training pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, annotation tooling, and research Lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization—spanning engineering managers, software engineers, ML engineers, and ML research scientists—while designing the organizational structure, talent strategy, and culture required to scale rapidly without compromising on quality or strategic alignment Maintain exceptional technical and operational excellence by deeply understanding team deliverables, asking incisive questions, identifying slipping standards early, and knowing precisely when to step in Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Operations, and GTM on platform architecture, release processes, and shared priorities Collaborate with researchers and clients to architect and deliver scalable, production-grade data infrastructure tailored for complex robotics workloads Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical field 8+ years of engineering experience in fast-paced environments, including 4+ years direct people management demonstrated history of recruiting, mentorin

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Hybrid
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About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! In September 2026 we raised a $350 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation , and we are scaling our engineering and research teams to meet demand. The role Frontier AI data is expensive to make and hard to measure. Every task we deliver is tested against the strongest models, often through many long-running agent rollouts. Your job is to make that process faster, cheaper, and more rigorous with ML and AI You will be one of the early members of ML & Research Engineering at Snorkel. You will study how frontier-grade data is generated and evaluated, form hypotheses, validate them against real production data, and ship the winners at scale. You will shape the discipline's direction, its standards, and the team that grows around it. What you'll work on Efficient agentic evals. Cut the cost of long-horizon agent evaluation with adaptive sampling, statistically grounded early stopping, model cascades, caching, and cheap-first gating. AI model routing. Route every eval and judge call to the cheapest model that clears the quality bar, with fallback, monitoring, and cost attribution. Fine-tuned small models. Fine-tune and serve open-weight models (LoRA and other

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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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: Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe. The Trust team is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.). We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community. You'll work side-by-side with talented product managers, data scientists, software engineers, fraud intelligence, and operations teams. Together, you'll design and build ML solutions that have direct, meaningful impact on user trust, business success, and the global Airbnb community. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Trust team, you will actively contribute code and ideas that shape the ML systems protecting millions of Airbnb users. You'll own and deliver ML projects end-to-end — from designing and training models to productionizing and operating them at scale, while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners. You'll tackle real-world challenges such as account takeover, fake accounts, payment fraud, and bot detection. Your work

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$200K – $260K/yr

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About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craf

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X , and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog . Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the technology at the intersection of security, privacy, software engineering, and data engineering. As a Senior Engineering Manager, Security Platform, you will guide a diverse group of software engineers to build critical tools and automation solutions used across Twitch. You will report to the Director of Security, Identity, and Privacy Platforms. You will manage engineers responsible for operating our security data platform handling billions of weekly events, a multi-petabyte data lake, and numerous analysis tools that provide critical data across the organization to support important security programs. You will also lead engineers responsible for writing software to accomplish security at scale through automation, libraries, and services. With this team, you will lead the full software development lifecycle from product discovery, roadmap prioritization, and execution. Programs you support will include Fraud, Service-to-Service Auth, Detection and Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Engineering Intelligence, and Privacy. You are experienced in software and data engineering, you bring awareness of the industry's cutting edge, and you're passionate about security. If this sounds accurate, come join us! You can work from San Francisc

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft Ads’ vision is to build the largest transportation media network. We leverage media to elevate the transportation experience for our users while building an exciting and sustainable advertising business. Our assets include Lyft in-app sponsorship opportunities, the largest bikeshare network in the country, off network audience programmatic solutions, as well as experiential activations. Our work is fun, challenging, and rewarding and we are looking for a customer-focused team member passionate about solving problems, delighting our agency partners, and winning new business. As a Senior Digital Account Executive for Lyft Media, you will be the primary point of contact for major advertising agencies and marketing clients. You will have discretion to shape the future of our growing media business while managing the day-to-day sales processes and relationships with advertising agencies. Responsibilities: Lead C Suite level conversations to increase revenue and grow strategic partnerships Demonstrate in-depth insights of the sales process and product combination Lead account planning process that aligns brand and Lyft’s resources to maximize opportunities Grow revenue, educate and lead strategic conversations with clients and navigate complex relationships Demonstrate expertise in all matters relevant to your book of business, including escalation and troubleshooting to resolve client issues Spearhead client education on products and give product updates to advise on the best approach to drive business outcomes for clients and agencies Lead collaboration with external clients and internal stakeholders Create compelling media packages and custom offerings to close new media business Build and manage sales pipelines while achieving quarterly revenue goals Work autonomously and independently to seek new

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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$149.9K – $270K/yr

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Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role As a Senior Platform Engineer at HP IQ, you will help build and evolve the infrastructure, tooling, and shared platform capabilities that enable our engineering teams to develop and operate reliable, secure, and scalable services across cloud and edge environments . You will work closely with application, services, AI/ML, and security teams to improve developer velocity, production readiness, reliability, and operational efficiency across a heterogeneous infrastructure footprint. What You Might Do Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure and platform capabilities across cloud and edge environments. Build automation and self-service tooling that improves engineering velocity and operational consistency. Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, deployment workflows, and environment provisioning. Partner with engineering teams on production readiness, including reliability, security, observability, scalability, and recovery. Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational tooling across distributed environments. Automate repetitive operational t

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Senior Manager, Marketing Operations and Strategy is responsible for ensuring marketing efforts are efficient, data-driven, and aligned with business goals through process optimization, technology management, and strategic planning. Key duties include managing budget and org health, leading org-wide annual planning process, managing quarterly reporting (QBRs), overseeing campaign execution and budget, and providing overall operations support to the marketing leadership team. Responsibilities: Strategic planning: Developing and implementing marketing strategies and plans to achieve business objectives, improve brand awareness, and build customer loyalty. Technology management: Evaluating, implementing, and managing the marketing technology stack (e.g., CRM, marketing automation platforms, CMS) and ensuring the team can effectively use these tools. Process optimization: Designing, streamlining, and refining marketing processes to improve productivity, efficiency, and cross-team collaboration. Budget management: Developing, managing, and monitoring the marketing budget, including tracking budget vs forecast, and providing financial reports to management in partnership with Finance. Data analysis and reporting: Working with Analytics to analyze marketing campaign performance data, generating reports for stakeholders, and providing data-driven insights and recommendations for improvement. Collaboration: Acting as a liaison between marketing and other departments to ensure alignment on goals and efforts. Building rapport with the Chief of Staff community and working with on cross-company initiatives and planning. Team support: Training and supporting marketing staff, and providing internal support and training on marketing platforms. Experience: 7+ years of experience in operations or

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