Strategic Alliances And Partnerships Director in San Francisco

You will: Manage the growth program from end to end, including top-of-the-funnel growth / recruiting campaigns, applications processing, and hiring and onboarding Represent and champion the brand, promoting its value proposition to candidates and stakeholders, driving engagement, and taking ownership of process improvements that streamline growth pipelines and support program success Optimize full growth funnel for conversion and experience Build and lead new growth recruiting campaigns and channels to meet business goals Be the subject matter expert for all recruiting systems (ATS: Greenhouse), tools, and processes, and provide training/onboarding as needed Own internal reporting and analytics, and keeping all the internal hiring data clean and up-to-date in our systems Be the strategic driver behind on impactful initiatives to improve the workflow, data infrastructure and reporting Proactively flag discrepancies in hiring plans, interview process, JDs, offer details, etc. and maintain data integrity and operational excellence within the team Work from the San Francisco office, with occasional travel for onsite growth events. Ideally you’d have: Minimum of 3-7 years of experience working in Growth, Recruiting or RecOps at a rapidly growing company Extensive experience using Greenhouse as a Site Admin (user permissions, approvals, custom options) and pulling ad hoc reports using our internal TA tools (report connector, reporting capabilities, and limitations) Strong knowledge of Gsuite (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, data validation, conditional statements and formatting, filters, etc.) Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to diverse audiences Must have a deep understanding of Growth / Recruiting Pipelines, Funnels and Conversion metrics Demonstrated excellent project management skills, ability to pull and manipulate data sets, critically analyze existing processes, and identify opportunities for process improvement Able to

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

Scale works with the industry’s leading AI labs to provide high quality data and accelerate progress in GenAI research. We are looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with expertise in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling). This role will focus on optimizing data curation and eval to enhance LLM capabilities in both text and multimodal modalities. In this role, you will develop novel methods to improve the alignment and generalization of large-scale generative models. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to define best practices in data-driven AI development. You will also partner with top foundation model labs to provide both technical and strategic input on the development of the next generation of generative AI models. You will: Research and develop novel post-training techniques, including SFT, RLHF, and reward modeling, to enhance LLM core capabilities in both text and multimodal modalities. Design and experiment new approaches to preference optimization. Analyze model behavior, identify weaknesses, and propose solutions for bias mitigation and model robustness. Publish research findings in top-tier AI conferences. Ideally you’d have: Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field. Deep understanding of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large-scale model fine-tuning. Experience with post-training techniques such as RLHF, preference modeling, or instruction tuning. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals Previous experience in a customer facing role. Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined du

Scale works with the industry's leading AI labs to provide high quality data and accelerate progress in GenAI research. We are looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with expertise in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling) and evaluation. This role is on the evaluation pod within the GenAI Research Organization and will focus on building benchmarks and diagnosing model failure modes in both text and multimodal modalities. In this role, you will develop rigorous evaluations and diagnostic methods that reveal where frontier models fail and why. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to define best practices in evaluation-driven AI development. You will also partner with top foundation model labs to translate failure analysis into technical and strategic input on the next generation of generative AI models. You will: Analyze model behavior to identify, characterize, and diagnose failure modes in frontier LLMs and Agents. You’ll identify everything from capability gaps and reasoning errors to robustness and alignment issues, all focusing on RCA. Design and build benchmarks and evaluation methods that measure LLM capabilities in both text and multimodal modalities. Apply post-training expertise (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling) to connect observed failures to the data and training interventions that address them. Publish research findings in top-tier AI conferences. Ideally you’d have: Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field. Deep understanding of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large-scale model fine-tuning. Experience with post-training techniques such as RLHF, preference modeling, or instruction tuning, and with LLM evaluation or benchmark development. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals. Previous experience in a customer facing r

About Scale AI Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. Role Overview As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, lead a team that architects specific AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a Management role that combines deep engineering and AI expertise, leading a team, and working on customer-facing problems. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows. Key Responsibilities Customer Integration & Deployment Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs) Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries AI Agent Development Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement Prompt Engineeri

At Scale, we believe that AI will dramatically improve the world, and our mission is to accelerate the development of AI. We’re looking for a Field Marketing and Events leader to continue to build and manage Scale’s robust Gen AI and Research field marketing and events program, including but not limited to Scale hosted executive events, Scale hosted practitioner events and meetups, research conferences, and our annual flagship conference, AI Leadership Summit. You will join a rapidly growing team with the opportunity to manage and execute events from start to finish, drive lead generation and pipeline growth, and plan event programming with the largest names in AI. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of technology, model builder, and research markets, strong project management skills, a strategic mindset, ability to manage and grow a team, and a passion for AI & technology. You will: Own annual planning for all Gen AI and Research events including strategy and budget Establish event activities in line with sales goals and deal acceleration, prioritizing goals from the go-to-market leadership and business development teams on event location and audience Manage team of field marketing and events managers who will execute on planning and logistics. This role should have a player-coach mentality and ability to also execute on nuts to bolts planning for all executive dinners, meetups, happy hours, sponsored trade shows, and hosted conferences Manage contractor relationships including event production firms and outside vendors, and event budgets Align with growth marketing on marketing campaigns and marketing qualified lead (MQL) reporting Track event campaign performance, measuring ROI, results, and metrics through Salesforce and own any course correction for events that are not performing Own all aspects of Scale hosted conference, Scale AI Base Camp, including venue selection, vendor management, logistics, speaker

About Scale AI Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. Role Overview As a Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, architect custom AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a hands-on technical role that combines deep engineering expertise with customer-facing problem solving. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows. Key Responsibilities Customer Integration & Deployment Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs) Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries AI Agent Development Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement Prompt Engineering & Optimization Create sophisticate

About the Team Our US Marketplace team is responsible for growing the DoorDash business in the US, helping customers to discover & order what’s best in their city, merchants to grow their sales, and dashers to find flexible work. About the Role The US Marketplace team is looking for a motivated and hands-on Associate Manager to join the Strategy & Operations Growth and Markets team. You will own a portfolio of projects aimed at growing the core Marketplace business, working closely with DoorDash’s product, marketing, finance, and analytics teams.You’ll have the opportunity to help grow strategic markets, identify new growth bets, incubate 0-1 experiments, and execute on a roadmap to drive growth. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and own. You’ll have your fingerprints all over DoorDash’s next wave of growth. You’ll do whatever it takes to launch, get 1% better every day, and scale something completely new, from high-level strategy down to the nitty-gritty operational details. Incubate. You’ll take bets that don’t have an owner yet, scope them, test them, and either graduate them into funded programs or kill them with a clear, well-argued recommendation. Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for growing segments and launching bets that no existing playbook covers. Experiment. You’ll turn strategies into operational experiments that create measurable, actionable outcomes, then use those results to shape the larger implementation plan. Analyze. You’ll pull your own data, assess the operational and financial impact of your decisions, and iterate based on what you find. Lead and collaborate. You’ll work with cross-functional partners across product, analytics, marketing, sales, and finance to get your initiatives resourced and shipped. We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in a problem-solving role: consulting, tech, banking, or similar. Experience taking something

About the Team The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for people who can use strategy to identify areas of opportunity, and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution. About the Role We are looking for someone who will help guide our global strategy. You will be a strategic advisor to important partners across DoorDash to ensure we are making the most efficient investment and capital allocation decisions across the geographies in which we operate while improving the experience for all of our marketplace participants. You will help lead financial reporting and planning, and will guide financial insights and direction for our operational decisions and strategies. This role reports to a Senior Director in our Finance & Strategy organization and is remote-friendly within the United States. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Partner with senior leadership to help guide and run our Digital Ordering business, implementing, measuring and optimizing the SaaS and transactional components of the business Own the global financial performance picture for this business line and understand the levers to optimize our approach to balancing global growth vs. profitability Track and analyze key business/financial KPIs, including SaaS specific metrics, uncover trends and assess current/future business risks and opportunities Support DoorDash’s quarterly financial planning, collaborate with cross functional business partners to identify growth areas and business priorities. Leverage and apply knowledge of SQL, finance, analytics, and AI technology to manage financial reporting, forecasting, and quantitative analysis to assist DoorDash in making better business decisions. Deep-dive into complex operat

About the Team AI Research Lab is one of DoorDash’s frontier innovation hubs, focused on building the foundation for an AI-native future across our three core audiences: consumers, merchants, and dashers. As AI capabilities accelerate, the AI Research Lab operates at the center of technical exploration and real-world execution — connecting frontier model research, internal platform investments, operator teams, and strategic external partners. Our mission is to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready systems that drive measurable business impact. We combine deep technical rigor with strong operational execution to ensure that breakthrough capabilities become durable competitive advantages for DoorDash. About the Role As an Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations on our AI Research Lab, you will play a central role in converting frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from early discovery and experimentation to deployment and impact. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, technical innovation, and business execution. You will help define and scale the Lab’s most important bets while building the foundations that enable AI applications to compound over time. You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will … Reimagining core experiences through AI, such as the merchant journey, by partnering directly with in-field merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams. You will help unify major initiatives into a coherent, AI-native interaction model. Own revenue-driving AI initiatives, operating as the accountable business owner for high-priority AI bets and ensuring clear linkage between technical progress and financial outcomes. Lead business planning cycles, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities, overseeing execution through structured project plans, resource allocation,

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a strong individual contributor within Sales Strategy - Sales Planning & Incentives, to execute top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will bring a strategic mindset and deliver critical insights using analytical and technical support to the successful administration of sales incentive programs globally while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. This role specifically supports our US SMB Presales organization spanning multiple sales motions and role types. You'll be a planning and strategy partner for a high-velocity, high-volume sales motion where quota attainment, goaling accuracy / consistency, and rep productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Senior Manager, Sales Strategy and Planning. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Work closely with sales leadership, sales strategy, finance, and product teams to own the development, implementation and administration of new and existing sales incentive structures Work closely with cross-functional partners (product, finance, sales, sales operations) to build a

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role As Associate Manager, Sales Planning and Strategy at DoorDash, you will play a pivotal role in executing against top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will serve as a strategic thought partner to Sales leadership while driving operational discipline across the organization. You will own cross-functional programs end-to-end, ensuring alignment across Sales, Product, Finance, Analytics, and Sales Operations to achieve business goals while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. This role specifically supports our CAN SMB Presales or Enterprise Ads & Promos Sales organization spanning multiple sales motions and role types. You will be the primary planning and strategy partner for the sales organization supported, where quota attainment, goaling accuracy and consistency, and seller productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Sales Planning and Strategy manager. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Become the subject matter expert on sales data, sales incentives, while also gaining a comprehensiv

A bout the Team Our sales and success teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, helping us partner with top merchants (think restaurants, grocers, convenience stores, retailers) across the country to grow their revenue and help them operate even better. As DoorDash grows both in scale and scope of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. We are looking for a Manager level in Sales Strategy and Operations to 1. Develop strategic plans in retaining and growing partnerships at scale, 2. Leverage data tools (e.g. SQL) to help enhance sales productivity in targeting and closing the most valuable partnerships. You'll work among our sales, partner management, operations, product, and analytics teams to build the merchant foundation About the Role Within this job posting, we’re hiring for roles on the following team(s): Long-Tail: We are looking for a Sales Strategy Manager to build and execute the Long-Tail Emerging Bets strategy for our Global Sales Vendor organization. You will work closely with internal stakeholders (Sales, Sales S&O, Finance, and more!) to retain and grow Merchants at scale. You will report into the Manager of Revenue Strategy and Operations in our Merchant organization. You’re excited about this role because you’ll… Contribute to post-sales strategy for our top company priorities. This team sits at the nexus of both scaled initiatives and innovative bets at DoorDash focused on catapulting our restaurant partners’ growth. This role will help to develop a strategic vision for SMB Emerging Bets sales strategy, aligning it with DoorDash's overarching business goals. Drive operational excellence in reporting cadences, rigorous pipeline tracking, and sales productivity – leading end-to-end ideation to execution through data-driven insights. Partner with our cross-functional teams to expand and elevate our offering. To retain, optimize, and grow SMBs, this role

About the Team The New Verticals Finance & Strategy team supports DoorDash’s expansion into categories beyond restaurants, which is a critical growth driver for the overall company. We enable our businesses to grow faster while becoming more profitable. We do this by creating quarterly and annual plans, holding our stakeholders accountable to goals, and providing strategic insights on our business to understand past trends and identify the best path forward. About the Role We're hiring a Senior Associate to help lead the day-to-day financial reporting and closing processes for our New Verticals business. In this role, you'll own recurring reporting cycles, including monthly close, weekly business reviews, and cross-team planning processes, partnering closely with Accounting, Data Engineering, and business teams to keep our financial reporting accurate and on time every cycle. This is a highly detail-oriented, execution-focused role: you'll spend most of your time working directly in the numbers, with real opportunities to build automation and process improvements along the way. You will report into a Manager on our New Verticals Finance team in our Finance & Strategy organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own the monthly close and weekly reporting process for New Verticals, ensuring our financial data ties out accurately and on time every cycle. Build and maintain financial models and reporting tools that the broader Finance team relies on every week. Partner with Accounting, Data Engineering , and cross-functional business teams to investigate and resolve reporting discrepancies before they affect business decisions. Help modernize recurring reporting processes, including opportunities to use AI-powered tools to increase efficiency. Play a foundational role on a growing team, with room to take on more scope as you build expertise in the business. We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in FP&A, cor

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate even better. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role As Senior Manager, Sales planning and strategy at DoorDash, you will play a pivotal role in executing against top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. You will be responsible for leading a team of sales planners and analysts. Your team’s responsibilities will range from strategic (designing incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational/tactical (designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will bring a strategic mindset and deliver critical insights using analytical and technical support to the successful administration of sales incentive programs globally while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. Reporting to the Director of Sales Strategy and Planning, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to provide valuable insights and recommendations. This role will report to the Vice President of Revenue Operations within the Sales Strategy and Operations organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Lead a high-performing team of sales planners and analysts to to own the development, implementation and administration of new and existing sales incentive structures for our SMB Post Sales team. Cross-functional Collaboration : Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, O