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 seeking a Staff Design Program Manager for the Global Growth organization. Design Foundations is the infrastructure layer of Lyft's design organization — the systems, standards, and processes that every product team depends on. This role sits at the center of that work, owning program management across Product Design, UXR, Content Design, and AI tooling. Design Program Managers are strategic partners with design leads, leading and driving the design work forward everyday. You will work across teams to shepherd and manage the delivery of design and customer experiences to completion. You’re a strong strategic thinker, you can execute the small tasks well, and you take a creative approach to operational challenges. You’re savvy at connecting the dots, and being a trusted partner to cross functional peers at Lyft. You’ll be a leader within the design organization and an advocate for the Design+ team and the design process. Responsibilities: Own roadmap and execution for projects end-to-end Drive program management for the Global Growth design team Shape and document workflows and processes that make the team faster and more effective Partner with design, engineering, marketing, legal, and product to scope work, set timelines, and manage delivery Build and maintain visibility into project health, team utilization, and priorities for design leadership Lead planning and prioritization across cross-functional teams — balancing competing inputs without losing sight of the goal Facilitate design reviews, retros, and planning sessions Bring AI fluency to program management work — use tools like Figma, Jira, and AI assistants to accelerate your own workflow, and help the team adopt new tools effectively Experience: 7+ years in design program management, product design, or a relevant design industry role
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About The Team: To help achieve our mission, we are looking for a Recruiting Coordinator to join our team. AI is rapidly changing the world, and Scale is growing to meet that rapid demand. Recruiting Coordinators who join today will help schedule and coordinate interviews, provide exceptional candidate experience, and help develop strategies that will scale alongside the new challenges we’re facing. Many of our greatest challenges are yet to be solved, and we're looking to hire a Recruiting Coordinator who is excited to tackle them. About the Role: We are looking for a talented Recruiting Coordinator on a 6 Month Contract (with possibility of extension or conversion given further business need). This is a hybrid role (3 days per week in office) based in our San Francisco or New York City office to join our team and participate in the hiring process from beginning to end. You’ll be directly working with our hiring partners, recruiters and candidates to create a personal and creative recruiting experience! You will: Schedule, coordinate, and confirm candidate interviews, handling cancellations and reschedules promptly across multiple time zones Collaborate and communicate effectively with recruiters, hiring managers, and business leaders to ensure smooth interview processes Create a welcoming and high-touch candidate experience for both virtual and in-person interviews Support Recruiting Operations on initiatives related to improving coordination workflows, candidate experience and interviewer experience Ideally you have: 1-2 years of relevant experience; scheduling high volume (100+ interview events a week) and tech industry experience are a plus Familiarity with Greenhouse, ModernLoop, or similar ATS/scheduling tools A highly organized and process-driven approach to work, ensuring SLAs are met and work is completed efficiently and accurately A curious and proactive mindset, leveraging AI tools and technology to identify opportunities for process improve
About the Team DoorDash for Business is how companies feed their people. We build the products that let a company run a recurring team lunch, give every employee a meal budget, cater an event or meeting and manage all of it through a single corporate account - across every brand and every market DoorDash operates in. About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in DoorDash for Business. Our domain runs from the moment an order is placed to everything a company needs to administer it: high-complexity ordering for catering, recurring team meals, and group orders; the admin portal, identity, and member management that companies run their account on; budgets and policy enforcement; and the expense and travel integrations that connect us to our customers' finance systems. You'll own a pod of 8-10 engineers with a critical charter inside that domain, real revenue attached to it, and close partnership with Product, Design, and Sales Strategy & Operations. You must be located in the Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own a business-critical charter end to end - set technical direction, define the roadmap with your PM and Business counterparts, and be accountable for what ships and how well it runs. Build and grow a team - Hire, level up, and retain engineers; set the bar for what good looks like on your pod; give people work that stretches them. Work on a genuinely global product - Your charter serves the US alongside EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with partner pods in India, Helsinki, and Brazil. You'll help decide what's built once globally versus what needs regional variation and build the partnerships across time zones to make that stick Take on real architectural weight - Consolidating onto one global stack means untangling parallel implementations, drawing clean service-ownership lines, and making migration calls with production tr
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 is looking for a Director, Head of Product Marketing to build, lead, and elevate our global PMM function from the ground up. Reporting directly to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), your mandate is to establish Product Marketing as a proactive, high-velocity marketing engine and strategic driver. In this role, you will define the core value proposition of Twitch’s product ecosystem for creators and viewers alike. You will act as the crucial connective tissue between Marketing and teams across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Commerce and the broader Go-To-Market teams. You understand that the best marketing on a platform feels like a feature, not a bug. You’ll build systems that move beyond one-off "launch day hype,” anchoring your strategy in continuous lifecycle adoption and creator unit economics. You’ll ensure that our community understands the deep why behind our tools before the what even ships. You can work in San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; New York, NY; or Seattle, WA. You Will: Architect the Global PMM Discipline: Lead, coach, and scale a world-class team of product marketers, establishing operational rigor, written strategy briefs and clear accountability loops that prioritize high-impact bets over busywork. Define the Value Tra
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! The Role We're looking for our founding AI Data Product Manager to own Snorkel's Agentic Data and RL Environments roadmap. In this role, you'll lead the product strategy for a variety of data types (e.g. Agentic Coding, Computer Use). You will shape the roadmap for the datasets Snorkel invests in by understanding the market, incorporating frontier lab needs and collaborating with researchers at Snorkel and our academic partners. This role is highly cross-functional, sitting between Research, GTM and Operations. As a founding member for this role, you will be in charge of setting up the frameworks to build the roadmap, gather data from relevant sources, and share the roadmap with both internal and external stakeholders. What You'll Do Own the "data as a product" roadmap for Snorkel's Agentic and RL Environment focus areas, working x-functionally with research, academic partners, and GTM to define the skills and capabilities for our datasets Shape new "data" product areas and work with academic partners and research leaders to build Snorkel's competitive edge in the market Collaborate cross-functionally to help shape the roadmap and data strategy and influence bu
JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way . Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. ****This role must be on site in either San Francisco, Chicago or NYC**** The Opportunity The Global Account Director is accountable for developing and implementing an account plan which will delight our clients and ensure a healthy long-term relationship. This executive leader anticipates client needs and delivers to exceed the key performance indicators within the contract and builds financial plans while striving to maximize revenue and profitability. The Account Director builds and sustains high-performing teams which not only deliver operational excellence but keep employees engaged and thriving. In conjunction with the Work Dynamics leadership team, the Account Director understands the firm's strategy and goals and can translate those into business opportunities. This is the top leadership role on the account. Primary Responsibilities: Exceeding Client Expectations Create an account plan which ensures alignment of objectives, drives results and helps to secure a future with no-bid contract renewals Drive account growth by articulating our value proposition and ensuring expansion of services provided across Integrated Facility Management (IFM), Property and Development Services (PDS), lease administration, and subtenant management Establish outstanding relationships with k
$179K – $252K/yr
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’s System Software team enables on-device experiences to take full advantage of our hardware capabilities.Our team collaborates with internal and external partners to develop unique solutions using cutting edge hardware, sensors, algorithms, and interaction models. If you enjoy solving complex, interdisciplinary problems with a world-class team, we'd love to hear from you! What You Might Do Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing embedded software team in a startup environment Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex hardware/software integration issues Communicate technical vision, risks, and progress clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders Own system-level strategy, architecture, and technical direction across multiple products Drive execution of low-level driver and framework software development in C and C++ across multiple devices and operating systems Oversee integration between hardware and software, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams Guide performance, power, and thermal optimization efforts Balance hands-on technical invol
From $897.6K/yr
About the Team As one of DoorDash's core operations teams, Customer Experience ensures that when issues arise across the platform, there is a reliable and effective support system in place. Our team designs, manages, and continuously improves DoorDash's global support network, with the goal of delivering a high-quality and consistent customer experience. This role sits within the Safety Customer Experience team, focused on the most critical and high-risk incidents on the platform. The team owns some of the most sensitive customer interactions at DoorDash, where thoughtful operational and product decisions directly improve customer trust and platform safety. About the Role You'll operate at the intersection of Product, Operations, and Customer Experience to improve how DoorDash prevents, identifies, and responds to the most critical safety incidents on the platform. You'll partner closely with Product, Policy, Analytics, and Operations to design scalable solutions that deliver accurate, timely support during customers' highest-stakes moments. This role requires a detail-oriented operator who can navigate complex problem spaces, design scalable processes, and execute with precision in a fast-paced environment. You’ll be expected to take ownership of ambiguous, high-stakes problems and translate them into structured, actionable solutions. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Drive Safety Strategy – Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and execute initiatives that improve how DoorDash prevents, identifies, and responds to safety incidents. Own End-to-End Experience – Design and optimize the full lifecycle of safety incident handling, including reporting, workflows, support execution, and tooling. Drive Data-Driven Decisions – Leverage data and case-level insights to identify root causes, measure performance, and prioritize opportunities to improve the safety customer experience. Influence Cross-Functionally – Collaborate with Product, Engin
From $1.3M/yr
About the Team We help Merchants access the financial products they need to grow and operate their businesses. DoorDash Capital is one of the company's fastest-growing bets, and our team owns the full growth engine from identifying unmet Merchant needs to launching products and scaling them. We obsess over how to deliver more value to Merchants through our platform and our financing partnerships, and we measure ourselves on adoption, revenue, and Merchant outcomes. About the Role You will report to the Director, S&O New Business on our DoorDash Capital team and own the growth of one of our newest bets with a key partner in the financing space. This is a 0-to-1 growth role: you'll take an early product and scale it to maturity by driving adoption, conversion, and revenue. You will have support from product, engineering, sales, and marketing. The ideal candidate is energized by finding growth levers, moving fast, running experiments, and learning from data in a high-velocity environment. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Strategize – Understand the needs of our Merchants, prioritize those needs by impact, and create solutions with cross-functional partners Build – Drive the implementation of new product features and processes for managing Merchant financial products Construct - Navigate in an ambiguous environment and bring structure to undefined opportunities. There won’t be playbooks or templates, instead you will create them. Analyze – Leverage data whenever possible to inform your hypothesis and convince cross functional partners. Influence – Work cross-functionally with our Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Development teams to align on a path forward and bring these products to market We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in strategy & operations / product management / investment banking / management consulting / mergers & acquisitions or relate
$170K – $235K/yr
About the Role Sigma Computing is redefining business intelligence by making complex data analysis accessible through a high-performance platform built for the modern data stack. The Compiler Team plays a foundational role in this mission by transforming user-driven spreadsheet interactions into highly optimized SQL queries, enabling seamless exploratory analytics on cloud data warehouses. As a member of the Compiler Team, you will join a group of engineers dedicated to building the core systems and abstractions that power Sigma’s intuitive spreadsheet interface, ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability for all users. What You Will Be Doing Tackle core challenges at the intersection of data modeling, query compilation, and large-scale interactive analytics—making it possible for end-users to query data warehouses efficiently without deep technical knowledge Design, build, and maintain sophisticated compiler infrastructure and intermediate representations that translate spreadsheet operations into optimized query plans Apply advanced optimization strategies to improve performance and accuracy across a wide range of query workloads and data architectures Contribute to both backend (Rust) and key frontend foundations (TypeScript), evolving critical abstractions that enable end-to-end workflow optimizations and new features Debug, analyze, and resolve complex issues, ensuring robustness and maintainability in a rapidly evolving product Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to review designs and code, driving technical best practices and architectural decisions throughout the team and company Qualifications We Need 5+ years experience engineering high-quality software systems Demonstrated success building and maintaining complex infrastructure or core platform services Deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, particularly in compilers, algorithms, SQL Optimization Passion for teamwork, technical ownership, and continually
$150K – $190K/yr
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,
C$36 – C$53/hr
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 Administrative Partner to support our VP, Artificial Intelligence and Software and our VP, HW Systems, Integrity and Productivity, while also providing operational support to the Software teams. In this role, you will act as an Administrative Partner to VP of Artificial Intelligence and Software and VP, HW Systems, Integrity and Productivity by managing priorities, anticipating needs, and executing with precision, while also keeping all operational processes for the AI, Software, HW Systems, Integrity and Productivity teams running smoothly. 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 Perform basic tactical and strategic administrative support tasks for upper executive-level employees of the organization Generates statistical and analytic reports for utilization by the organization for strategic planning in the adminis
From $1.1M/yr
About the Team DoorDash's Protective Services function safeguards executives, their families, and residences through executive protection, residential security, threat management, and secure transportation across a three-brand global enterprise. The team operates 24/7 and is built on the principle that protection starts before an incident, not after. The people who do this work well combine operational discipline with personal composure, take ownership of outcomes rather than tasks, and represent the program in every interaction with the principal population. About the Role The Protective Services Agent provides close protection for DoorDash executives and their families across all operating environments, including corporate headquarters, domestic and international travel, company events, and residential settings. The role requires a trained executive protection professional who develops and implements security plans, conducts advances and risk assessments, coordinates with law enforcement and venue partners, and serves as the principal's primary security presence. Personnel must be capable of managing incidents and serving as first responders on scene. Operations regularly involve extended duty periods, irregular schedules, and short-notice deployments. Potential travel up to 25% of the time. You are excited about this opportunity because you will… Provide close protection across all principal environments. Serve as the primary security presence for executives and their families across headquarters, travel, events, and residential operations. Maintain continuous situational awareness, assess threats in real time, and execute protective protocols effectively and unobtrusively. Plan and execute security operations. Develop and implement comprehensive security plans for executive movements and events, incorporating site surveys, route planning, risk assessments, staffing requirements, screening procedures, and emergency response strategies. Conduct advances for all pr
C$60 – C$80/hr
As a member of our Frontier Tech Consultant team, you will play a critical role in advancing cutting-edge AI innovations by conducting high-impact experiments and ensuring seamless execution at the highest quality standards. Your work will directly contribute to Scale AI’s growth, shaping the future of artificial intelligence. In this role, you will be working on various types of projects, including but not limited to: research experiments, dataset generation, data quality improvements, and in-depth technical analysis. You will tackle complex, technical and operational challenges while collaborating closely with Scale’s ML research scientists and SPM team. The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and results-driven, with strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is proactive in overcoming challenges, and is committed to delivering exceptional outcomes. If you are eager to contribute to the forefront of AI innovation, we encourage you to apply. You will be responsible for: Design and execute research experiments Build and evaluate frontier LLM datasets Develop training and testing material for frontier pipelines Improve quality of existing and new products Ideally you’d have: Strong machine learning knowledge, either by being in the final years of a ML PhD career or having already graduated Strong writing and verbal communication skills An action-oriented mindset that balances creative problem solving with the scrappiness to ultimately deliver results Analytical, planning, and process improvement capability Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment Technical skills including familiarity with Python, GPU, AWS, API, LLM, ML, and SQL Pay: $60-80/hr Commitment: This is a fully remote, US-based part-time (10-20 hours per week), on-going contract position staffed via HireArt. HireArt values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity E
From $184K/yr
Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, ARC (Architecture, Reliability, & Compute) to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will define how the company ships software, establishing the patterns for deploying into complex government and high-security environments, rather than just running Terraform scripts. You will build and maintain internal CLIs/tools that standardize testing, deployment, environment management and are tools that engineering relies on to prevent downstream breakages. You will execute on automated deployment efforts to pay down tech debt, creating fully functional staging/testing environments, and defining the company's standard for safe deployments. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components. Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Prof
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