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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

Strategic Commercial Account Executive About This Role This is one of the most critical positions at Sigma. The success of our business depends on bringing in the right customers, at the right stage of their growth, and this role focuses on the Mid Market accounts at the center of that effort. The right candidate will have the rare ability to open doors at the highest levels, navigate complex organizations, and drive deals that change the trajectory of both our customers’ businesses and ours. Sigma is growing at over 80% year over year, and this role is an opportunity to be at the forefront of that momentum. You’ll work directly with some of the best leaders in the industry, learning how to build relationships, influence decisions, and close transformative deals. If you succeed here, you won’t just have a great job—you’ll have a career-defining experience where you will earn your sales MBA. This role is based in San Francisco and is critical to the success of our business. It is not a remote position—you will be in the office four days a week, working side by side with some of the best in the industry. This is not just about being present; it’s about being immersed in a fast-moving environment where decisions are made, deals are won, and careers are built. Our office culture is passionate, collaborative, and rewarding. Travel: Travel is expected locally to the Bay Area and to the west coast 25% of the time. We encourage and do not limit in person meetings with prospects, customers, and partners. Who You Are: A high-impact, forward-thinking professional eager to drive innovation and shape the future of data-driven business strategy. A self-starter who thrives at a fast pace and takes ownership of big initiatives. Proven track record of multi-threading & navigating complex deal cycles with large ASP A strategic thinker who understands how data fuels transformation, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Runs value b

Sr. Content Marketing Manager Location: San Francisco, CA · In-office 4 days/week Team: Strategic Marketing Reports to: Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing About the role Sigma produces a lot of content — blog, video, product launches, thought leadership — and this role is the editorial backbone that makes all of it sharper, faster, and on brand. You'll run the Sigma blog end-to-end, raise the quality bar on everything that ships, and build the systems and internal bench that let us scale content without losing voice or accuracy. This is a senior, hands-on editorial role for someone who edits with both technical judgment and taste. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with PMs and engineers to keep content accurate, coach employees and contractors to produce great work, and bring new thinking to how Sigma earns awareness. You'll join an established content team and won't have to do it all yourself — a Content Producer partners with you on publication and operations. This role reports to the Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing, with room to grow into people management as Sigma's content team scales. What you'll own Editorial standards and editing Edit a high volume of blog posts, balancing technical nuance with taste. You're comfortable editing in the data, analytics, apps, or AI space — you don't need to know everything, but you know what you don't know, flag it, and lean on PMs and engineers to keep content accurate and clear. Keep Sigma's content on brand across every channel and format. Reinforce the standards that contribute to great content: Clear positioning, high-quality imagery, and connected messages across multiple content pieces. Blog and AEO operations Run the Sigma blog end to end: calendar, editorial standards, and publication. Manage the AEO content calendar and the relationship with Sigma's AEO contractor, ensuring 5 AEO blogs are edited, SME-reviewed, and published each week. The team's Content Producer supports publication, with you s

Come join our legal team to work on the most exciting legal, policy, and operational issues at the leading edge of AI. We're seeking strong product lawyers with specialized expertise in intellectual property law. As product counsel, you will advise on all legal aspects of product development, launch, and operations - including regulatory compliance, user terms, and risk management - while bringing deep expertise in your specialized legal area. The ideal candidate will have deep subject matter expertise in intellectual property law, a technology background, and a demonstrable history of providing practical product counsel to solve complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with cross-functional teams. This role reoprts to the Associate General Counsel, IP & Product. You will: Strategic Product Advice: Lead IP strategy for product development, embedding IP protection into the full product lifecycle from conception to commercialization, while also advising on related product and regulatory matters in collaboration with the broader legal team. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Research, Product, Engineering, Operations, Communications, and Marketing teams to mitigate IP risks in product development, data licensing, and open-source governance. IP Counsel: Support management of Scale's worldwide IP portfolio including patents and trademarks; assist with patent prosecution and trademark registration and enforcement. Risk Mitigation: Advise on third-party, synthetic, and open-source data and models, ensuring compliance with licensing requirements; design open-source governance policies. Agreements: Support drafting and negotiation of commercial agreement provisions involving intellectual property. Specialized Expertise: Provide counsel on machine learning, robotics, and other technical areas, with ability to engage effectively with technical teams on complex engineering and product issues. Training: Develop and deliver IP and data licensing trainin

About the Team Merchant Analytics helps DoorDash make better product, business, and go-to-market decisions through high-quality analytics, predictive modeling, experimentation, and strategic thought partnership. We work across some of DoorDash’s most important merchant and marketplace priorities, building the measurement, insights, and decision frameworks that improve outcomes for merchants and drive company impact. About the Role We’re hiring two Data Science Managers, each to lead a pod within Merchant Analytics and help shape high-priority product and business decisions. In this role, you will lead a team of data scientists, partner closely with Strategy & Operations, Product, Engineering, and business leaders, and turn ambiguous questions into clear recommendations that influence roadmap and plan outcomes. Success in this role means building a high-performing team, raising the quality and speed of decision-making, and ensuring analytics work is tightly connected to measurable business impact. You will report into Director, Data Science on our Merchant Analytics team in our Analytics organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and develop a team of data scientists responsible for high-impact analytics, predictive modeling, and decision support tied to DoorDash’s most important product, business, and GTM priorities. Partner closely with Strategy & Operations, Product, Engineering, and business leaders to shape decisions, influence roadmaps, and improve plan-critical metrics. Define success metrics, build measurement frameworks and predictive models, and use experimentation and analysis to connect product and operational levers to business outcomes. Build a high-performing pod that balances analytical rigor, strong prioritization, and clear storytelling in a fast-moving environment. Scale reusable analytics frameworks, tools, models, and best practices that make the broader organization more effective over time. We’re excited

About the Role At DoorDash we are redefining what it means to be a designer. We are building towards a team of makers, builders, and doers. Between 2005 and 2015, "web designer" became "product designer" and the scope widened. The same shift is happening now — LLMs are expanding the T again, toward strategy on one end and direct execution on the other. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead this shift across your team: not just practicing build-first design, but multiplying it through the people and systems around you. We're seeking an ambitious and system design minded Staff Product Designer to lead “Meals for Work” within DoorDash for Business , a strategic area at the heart of redefining workplace dining and company perks. You’ll craft transformative consumer and enterprise experiences, from tools that make team lunch ordering effortless to scalable solutions for catering, company paid recurring meals, and grocery benefits. This role offers a unique opportunity to design powerful systems that help workplace admins plan, manage, and operate food programs with confidence, while pioneering new offerings in an evolving market. This position is open for candidates in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City, and will report to the Head of New Bets Design within our Consumer organization. You will work in a hybrid model, working from one of our offices 1-2 times a week with the rest working from home. Your primary impact is making the team faster and more autonomous. You build reusable workflows, shared tools, and decision frameworks that let every designer on your team operate at a higher level with less coordination overhead. Your secondary impact is revenue: the speed and quality gains you unlock translate directly into more experiments shipped, faster iteration cycles, and measurable business outcomes across your team and adjacent teams. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Define projects with a clear point of view on what to build,

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As Executive Assistant to the VP of Growth Marketing and the Director, B2B - Growth, Strategy, & Ops, you’ll provide high-level administrative and strategic support to the Growth Marketing leadership team. You’ll manage complex calendars and inboxes, coordinate leadership meetings, track action items, organize team communications and events, and handle travel and expense approvals. Acting as a trusted partner, you’ll help optimize time, streamline processes, and support operational planning across the organization. You’ll also collaborate with the CMO’s EA and cross-functional partners to drive alignment on key projects, milestones, and company events. This is a full time role based in our San Francisco Hub. What you’ll do at Figma: Provide direct support to our VP of Growth Marketing and our Director, B2B - Growth, Strategy, & Ops and the Growth Marketing team by attending leadership meetings, tracking agendas, capturing action items and following up on progress, heavy calendar management, inbox management, organizing all hands, team-wide communications, booking travel, partnering with the CMO’s EA, etc Act as the delegate for the VP & Director, signing off expenses, PO approval, and various other tooling as needed with careful attention to internal policy Be a strategic partner to the VP & Director and their leadership team with a focus on team cohesion, operations, and planning Identify areas to optimize VP & Director’s time and make recommendations in regard to time manag

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. With Lyft Business, sales isn't a script you follow. It's a problem you solve in real time. As Business Associate for Lyft Business, you'll drive growth and expansion within your existing book of business in a market where transportation touches nearly every part of daily life. Success here isn't just about closing deals; it's about the judgment to identify where your time has the biggest return, and the strategic thinking to advise each client like a trusted partner as you grow their business with us. This job rewards people who think critically about where to focus their energy. Priorities will evolve, systems are still maturing, and you won't always have a playbook for every situation, but you'll have the experience and confidence to navigate ambiguity and make an impact as we figure it out. The people who thrive here are the ones who are resourceful, hard to rattle, and genuinely motivated by finding the right product fit for a client, especially when a conversation gets complex or unexpected. You'll focus on expanding and deepening relationships with small and mid-sized businesses, becoming a Lyft product expert who can efficiently resolve common support issues and guide clients through solutions that fit their needs. In this hybrid role, you will balance inbound and outbound outreach, but with a sharper eye toward prioritization: identifying key decision makers and influencers within your top accounts, and focusing your energy where it will drive the most growth. You're the hunter and the farmer, now with the experience to know which fields are worth tending. You'll be part of a driven, tight-knit sales team that's laser-focused on winning and growing business. We're looking for people who know how to apply critical thinking and strong judgment around ROI, work well with cross-functional partne

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented US Payroll Specialist to oversee our end-to-end multi-state payroll operations. In this role, you will ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll processing for all US-based employees while managing internal payroll initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strategic problem-solver with deep expertise in US labor laws, taxation, and ADP+Workday payroll systems. You will: Full-Cycle Payroll Processing: Oversee the accurate and timely processing of multi-state bi-weekly and semi-monthly payrolls for over a thousand exempt and non-exempt employees across most of the USA. Compliance & Taxation: Ensure strict adherence to federal, state, and local tax laws, as well as FLSA regulations. Monitor regulatory changes and update internal systems accordingly. Year-End Processing: Manage year-end payroll activities, including W-2 and W-2c generation, fringe benefit reporting, and annual tax reconciliations. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with HR to ensure accurate data flow for onboarding, offboarding, benefits deductions, and compensation changes. Ability to work with Accounting to ensure accurate general ledger mapping, month-end close procedures, and payroll account reconciliations. System Administration & Optimization: Act as the primary subject matter expert for our payroll system (e.g., Workday, ADP). Identify bottlenecks, recommend process improvements, and lead system upgrades or implementations. Issue Resolution, Continuous Improvement & Auditing: Conduct regular audits of payroll data to identify and resolve discrepancies. Serve as the ultimate point of continuous improvement with AI and other methodologies to ensure Scale’s payroll processes are best in class. Ideally you'd have: 5+ years of payroll experience. Strong organizational skills; the ability to get all priority tasks completed by the end of each day. Confidentiality and integrity. Accuracy under pressure and extreme attention to

We're looking for a Customer Success Manager with a deep understanding of analytics and business intelligence to join our team. This role is critical for ensuring our customers maximize the value they derive from our platform, with a direct focus on improving Net Dollar Retention (NDR) through strategic account management and growth initiatives. This is an in-office role based out of the San Francisco office. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Account Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with decision-makers and influencers within our customer base, with a focus on high-value accounts. Analytics Expertise: Leverage your deep understanding of analytics and business intelligence to guide customers in optimizing their use of Sigma Computing's platform. Help them understand their data and gain actionable insights. NDR Growth: Develop and implement strategies aimed at maximizing NDR. This includes identifying opportunities for upselling and cross-selling, as well as reducing churn through proactive engagement and solution-oriented support. Customer Advocacy: Serve as the bridge between our customers and our product team. Advocate for features, enhancements, and integrations that will drive customer satisfaction and retention. Success Plans: Collaborate with customers to develop and execute success plans that align Sigma Computing's capabilities with the customer's business goals and objectives. Educational Initiatives: Design and deliver training sessions, webinars, and workshops to increase product knowledge, adoption, and engagement among our user base. Required Skills / Experience: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field. 4+ years of experience in a customer success, account management, or consultative role within the SaaS, analytics, or business intelligence industry. Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to solve complex problems using data. Excellent communication and interpersona

At Scale, we develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. Scale’s product marketing team is responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness and engagement for Scale’s offerings amongst our core audiences. We take a data-driven approach to understand our customers’ needs and challenges, ensuring that their voices are reflected in product development and messaging. We partner closely with product, engineering, research, sales, comms, and the broader marketing team to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. We aim to provide valuable insights and resources that help our customers execute on their AI transformation journey. This role will focus on developing and optimizing vertical-specific messaging and content for Scale’s applications business to ensure our messaging resonates with core buyers across verticals. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You will: Develop clear, compelling messaging for enterprise offerings tailored to key personas within target verticals Create marketing assets, including slide decks, videos, blog posts, and one-pagers, that effectively communicate our value propositions to vertical leaders and support our sales team’s pursuits Lead positioning and sales enablement efforts to drive awareness and engagement for Scale’s offerings. Drive cross-functional marketing programs around target verticals, in conjunction with product, engineering, sales, and growth marketing to create a cohesive customer experience and contribute to pipeline targets Collaborate with field marketing and events teams to develop vertical-specific event strategies, content, and experiences that drive engagement within customer and target accounts Drive customer marketing efforts, creating both strategy and tactics to maximize the value Scale and customers get from our shared success, including case studies, testimonials, visual assets and event particip

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