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About the role: We are looking for a talented and experienced University Recruiter, Contractor based in San Francisco to join our team and participate in the hiring process from beginning to end. You’ll be working directly with our hiring partners, recruiters and candidates to create a personal and positive recruiting experience. You will: Support Scale’s University Recruiting strategy: assist with the hiring process for our Internship and New Grad programs. Manage the full-cycle recruiting strategy and process including, but not limited to, sourcing, screening, interview process, closing and more. Understand what makes a great profile for our University roles and drive strategic sourcing and candidate engagement strategies to build strong and diverse pools of candidates. Cultivate relationships with students across partnered universities and develop positive relationships with faculty, staff, and student organizations as part of a well-researched recruiting strategy. Collaborate closely with various leaders across the organization in understanding and meeting their intern and new grad hiring needs. Work from the San Francisco office 3x per week. You have: 4+ years of full-cycle university recruiting experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, managing high-volume hiring. Experience in managing/leading all aspects of recruiting strategy for hard-to-fill, competitive positions. Passionate about campus recruiting and strong believer in bringing early career talent to Scale. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent negotiation tactics, and market knowledge. You have the ability to work with multiple departments, including remote teams, and build strong personal networks across our complex organization. Proven ability in attracting and sourcing both passive and active candidates (aka future graduates) across Bachelors, Masters, and PhD programs. Utilizing data to perform analysis, garner insights, and set goals. A flexible, adapt

About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior/Staff electrical and firmware engineer who designs the board and writes the firmware for connected consumer and enterprise devices, including tablets, POS systems, peripherals, and emerging robotics applications. In this role, you will take connected devices from ambiguous user or business needs through system architecture, rapid prototyping, board design, firmware implementation, bring-up, field deployment, and production transition. The ideal candidate has a passion for building and shipping reliable hardware at scale and thrives in an environment that demands technical depth and high-quality execution across multiple concurrent programs. This is a build-heavy role on a small, senior team. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own connected devices end to end, including: Own connected devices from an ambiguous product need through field deployment. Work across the hardware and firmware boundary instead of handing work between specialists. Explore uncertain product ideas through rapid prototypes and experiments. Make consequential tradeoffs on a small, senior team with direct exposure to users and field behavior. Key Responsibilities Translate user and business needs into an integrated electrical and firmware architecture. Design compute-based, mixed-signal boards incorporating processors

About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Senior/Staff Test Engineer to join our team. This individual will play a key role in the development and validation of our unmanned platforms at the system and component levels. The ideal candidate has a strong background in test development, test execution, and root cause analysis with a proven track record of collaboratively managing risk throughout a fast paced development process. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Run and monitor tests within our facility as well as at outside test labs. Collaborate with a tight knit team to identify and understand test failures. Be hands-on in developing test methods and equipment to uncover failures before they happen in the field. Find clarity through root cause analysis of lab and field failures and suggest design changes to prevent them. Use your creativity to create novel and scaled tests for autonomous systems. We’re excited about you because you have… A bachelors or advanced degree in a relevant engineering discipline. Mastery of test equipment such as environmental chambers, vibration tables, water testers, DAQs, etc.. Ability to bring order to complex test and development programs via clear technical communication and documentation. Experience designing and building testers and equipment. Ability to write Python scripts to automate

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

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 HP IQ is looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented Executive Business Partner to support to our SVP, Design & Innovation while also providing operational support to the Design team. In this role, you will act as a strategic partner to SVP of Design & Innovation by managing priorities, anticipating needs, and executing with precision, while also keeping all operational processes for the Design Team running smoothly. This role collaborates closely with the Chief of Staff and builds strong relationships to communicate and work effectively across the organization. Our ideal candidate is someone who is excited to make things happen, has a fastidious attention to detail, thrives in bringing structure to fast-paced environments, enjoys being part of a team and is genuinely motivated by this work. What You Might Do Manage complex calendars, scheduling, and prioritization for HP IQ’s SVP, Design & Innovation; independently prioritize and make decisions to resolve scheduling conflicts Prepare expense reports, route vendor invoices and purchase orders for approval,

ABOUT INKHOUSE Inkhouse is part of Orchestra, a strategic communications and marketing company built for today’s complex and fragmented world. From decoding audiences to designing bold strategies, Orchestra integrates people, platforms, and stories that stick to help clients build lasting influence. The company offers programs that span from the highest level strategic business counsel through to tactical execution. Orchestra brings together 700+ people with experience across consumer and lifestyle, technology, nonprofit and philanthropy, real estate, sports, travel, hospitality, and more. Made up of leading firms BerlinRosen , Civitas Public Affairs Group , Derris , Glen Echo Group , Inkhouse , M18 , Message Lab , Onward and Small Girls PR . It also launched Brightmode , a talent acquisition firm for communications professionals, and Versus Media Group , a strategy-first political media team. Learn more at www.orchestraco.com . People of all backgrounds and abilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Orchestra is committed to building and maintaining a diverse staff, and recognizes that its continued success depends on hiring and retaining high-quality creative professionals with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Opportunities for advancement exist, and we are committed to helping all staff develop and grow. ABOUT THIS ROLE Inkhouse is seeking an Account Manager to lead day-to-day client relations and drive strategy across a portfolio of technology clients. This is an opportunity for someone who pairs expert tactical execution with a real point of view on strategy — someone who can run the work while shaping where it's going. The Account Manager will ideally have experience across B2B and consumer technology, integrated communications spanning earned, owned and social, and a track record of high-priority media relations. This person will be a team player who keeps accounts moving to help clients achieve their goals. We're looking for candidates who are pass

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com . As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. About the Role Amplitude's Cloud Platform team builds the systems that every Amplitude engineer relies on every day to ship code — and we're rebuilding them for the AI era. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll own medium-to-high-complexity platform projects end-to-end and help shape a platform where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans: kicking off deploys, opening pull requests against infrastructure, and triaging incidents, so a single engineer can get the throughput of a team. You'll partner with Staff engineers and product teams to make Kubernetes effortless across the engineering org, building self-service automation and scalable AWS infrastructure that lets product teams ship faster, safer, and with less cognitive load. If you're excited about building the systems that other engineers will rely on every day, this role is for you. Key Resp

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is looking for a seasoned Sr. Manager, Accounts Payable, tto join our Controllership organization. In this high-impact leadership role, you will own Lyft’s end-to-end AP, which includes the T&E and corporate card programs. The role spans domestic and international operations—and serves as a key strategic and operational leader overseeing how the company pays its corporate suppliers, manages vendor relationships, and scales its procure-to-pay processes. You will lead a team of managers and individual contributors located across multiple locations, and partner closely with Finance, Procurement, Treasury, Legal, Tax, and the broader business to ensure operational and compliance excellence at scale. This role is uniquely positioned at the intersection of operational rigor, global expansion, and financial transformation—making it ideal for a leader who thrives on building world-class teams, deploying automation intelligently, and delivering best-in-class supplier experiences. Responsibilities: Team Leadership & Development Lead, mentor, and develop a multi-layered team of AP managers and staff distributed across the multiple locations, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and growth. Set clear performance expectations, provide regular coaching and feedback, and support career development pathways for all direct and indirect reports. Build organizational capacity by identifying skill gaps, championing training initiatives, and creating succession plans for critical roles. Model Lyft’s values and leadership principles, cultivating a high-trust, inclusive, and results-oriented team environment. AP and T&E Operations & Procure-to-Pay Collaborate with business partners on the full end-to-end procure-to-pay cycle including Global Supply Management and Procurement O

Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The role: SoFi's Associate AI Engineer, Finance Transformation is a hands-on builder within SoFi's Finance organization, focused on building agentic AI workflows that transform how Finance works from close and reconciliations to forecasting and reporting. Finance has one of the largest AI opportunity surfaces at SoFi: over a hundred identified use cases, an active champions network, and executive sponsorship. In this role you will build multi-step AI workflows on approved enterprise AI platforms, stand up the telemetry that measures AI usage, cost, and ROI across Finance, and help make AI outputs trustworthy enough for Finance decision-making in a controlled environment where outputs must be explainable, auditable, and reconciled to the number. You will work directly with the AI Transformation Manager for Finance, who owns use-case strategy and stakeholder engagement, and in close partnership with SoFi's AI SDLC and platform teams, who support the path from prototype to production. This is a build-focused role with an unusual growth surface: SoFi's AI Engineering ladder (through Staff and Senior Staff) is the visible progression path. What you’ll do: Build agentic AI workflows: Develop multi-step AI workflows such as planning, tool use, retrieval, structured orchestration on approved enterprise AI pla

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is looking for an experienced Public Policy Manager to join our Policy Team! Based in San Francisco, this position will manage local-level policy efforts in California. This policy expert will work directly with elected officials, policymakers, and key stakeholders at all levels of local government. They will engage with a broad range of regulatory and legislative issues critical to the company, ensuring Lyft’s business needs align with evolving policy landscapes. Come join the exciting ride! Responsibilities: Execute Lyft’s legislative, regulatory, and political strategy across major local markets in California, with a primary focus on San Francisco/Bay Area (SFO), Los Angeles/Greater Los Angeles (LAX) and San Diego (SAN) Identify, cultivate and manage relationships with strategic local third party and business groups, local nonprofits and community organizations leveraging Lyft’s internal programs and product offerings, in key markets. Travel to attend local community and industry events as needed. Work closely with business, communications and marketing teams to highlight relevant Lyft partnerships, capture key moments, strategize Lyft’s engagement with large events (e.g., LA28, Super Bowl, etc.), and leverage relationships for business opportunities. Represent Lyft in interactions with elected officials, government agencies, staff, and business groups including drafting and providing testimony in legislative and regulatory hearings and traveling to attend political events and fundraisers as needed. Track legislation relevant to Lyft at municipal and county levels and inform company stakeholders and lines of business on legislative and regulatory developments. Develop strategic public engagement plans positioning Lyft as a “Force for Good” and reliabl

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 . About the Role: As a Program Manager, you will serve as an individual contributor on the PEP team, reporting to the Head of People Engagement & Performance. You'll manage a series of programs centered around how employees connect to Twitch (to the company, to each other, and to the product) across their entire lifecycle. You Will: Own end-to-end program management of the Engagement portfolio, including the New Employee Experience, Tenure Recognition, the Mentorship Program, and Twitch Clubs Project manage Twitch's company-wide listening mechanism, the annual Purple Pulse Engagement Survey, end to end. Keep a distributed workforce informed and aligned by producing the bi-weekly Staff Brief and Manager Monthly newsletters, and maintaining Twitch's Role Guideline Repository on ServiceNow. Manage relationships with our swag vendors end to end, from procurement through ongoing partnership. Modernize the portfolio, evolving the new employee experience, recognition, and mentorship programs and scaling delivery through AI-enabled automation Define success metrics, drive timely decisions, and proactively identify and mitigate risks to keep every program on track and continuously improving. You Have: 4+ years in program management, employee engagement, communications, L&D, or a related people/HR function. Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. A track record managing concurrent programs

Data Engineer, Data Platform About the Role We are building out our Data Platform team at Sigma, with a relentless focus on developing data models that fuel trusted insights across the company. As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the underlying data architecture across Snowflake and Databricks, as well as building and optimizing various ETL pipelines to fuel both internal and external (demo) use cases. Reporting to the VP of Data & Revenue Engineering, this is a high visibility role with the opportunity to work on greenfield projects. If you’re a data engineer with a builder mindset who wants to leverage a best-in-class stack, and genuinely is invested in Sigma’s mission, let’s chat! What You Will Be Doing Architect and manage our production data pipelines in Snowflake and how they are consumed in Sigma ( Tech we use : Fivetran, dagster, dlt, terraform, dbt, Snowflake, Sigma, Hightouch, Metaplane) Build foundational processes for scaling our demo asset data across various Cloud Data Warehouses Scale our terraform deployment across all of our Snowflake assets Continue to advance our data governance policies Work cross functionally to accomplish all of the above! You’ll work across Product, Engineering, GTM—with users of all skills and levels Qualifications We Need Strong knowledge and experience of working with APIs and building data pipelines from various systems into Cloud Data Platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) Strong communication and collaboration skills. You will primarily partner with the Analytics and Infrastructure Engineering teams internally at Sigma; your ability to work and collaborate closely with them will be integral to your success. Experience deploying data governance frameworks with a scalable and repeatable process Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and get stuff done. We move fast and iterate quickly, and we want you to feel empowered to do exactly that 3+ years of relevant experience wor

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is looking for an Engineering Manager from across multiple disciplines. We are growing our team with people who want to build, improve, and incorporate technologies that make the lives of our community more enriched. As an Engineering Manager at Lyft, you'll collaborate with other teams and orgs, product managers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and operations on technology that empowers us to iterate quickly, while focusing on delighting our passengers and drivers. The Rider organization is focused on building a seamless, best-in-class rideshare experience for riders. From the foundational functionality of requesting a ride to the tailored interactions with specific verticals like your flight, we sweat the small stuff to help make Lyft the best transportation solution. As an Engineering Manager on the Rider vertical team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of supporting current projects and delivering new products from 0 to 1. This includes developing complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and ensuring engineering excellence to improve the rideshare experience. Responsibilities: Drive team execution, proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs. Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Marketing, Science, and Analytics) to define the team's strategic direction. Translate high-level business goals into actionable projects. Own a team roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. Maintain operational excellence through contributing to best practices for observability, reliability, and on-call processes. Ensure technical excellence through architecture reviews, tech debt management, and engineering guidance. Maintain team health