Strategic Partner Manager in San Francisco

#Team Nextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors Nextdoor's Client Partner team is a diverse, driven, and strategic group of sales professionals focused on connecting brands with our community of neighbors through our growing portfolio of advertising solutions. The team culture mirrors our broader business, relying on trusted relationships, collaboration, and a shared commitment to delivering value for both advertisers and neighbors. We're a purpose-driven company looking for curious, customer-focused sales professionals who are passionate about helping businesses grow, solving complex marketing challenges, and building a culture of belonging. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment. We value people who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work—not simply to automate tasks, but to improve decision making, deepen customer insights, and enhance execution. We look for candidates who combine AI curiosity with strong human judgment and accountability for the final outcome. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make As a Client Partner, you'll play a critical role in driving growth across Nextdoor's San Francisco and greater West Coast markets. You'll own a strategic territory across the regio

About Prophecy Prophecy is building the next generation AI-powered data prep and analysis platform. Our platform enables business analysts and data teams to transform raw data into reliable, production-ready datasets and insights faster, using modern data infrastructure and AI-driven capabilities. We work with leading enterprises to simplify how organizations prepare, analyze, and operationalize data, while maintaining strong governance, security, and operational control. Our mission is to make it dramatically easier for organizations to turn complex data into trusted insights that drive decisions. About the Roles We are looking for a Director of Strategic Partnerships who can do both: drive revenue through Prophecy's partner ecosystem, and build an effective partner program. This is an early-stage, high-ownership motion, the playbook is still being written, and you'll have real influence over how we engage partners, what good looks like for partner-sourced pipeline, and how we build durable co-sell relationships with Snowflake, Databricks, GCP field and partner teams. You will sit at the intersection of sales, partnerships, and strategy, owning partner performance while building the programs and processes that scale it. You'll work directly with our AEs and SEs to bring partners into deals at the right moments, and you'll serve as the primary point of contact for our strategic cloud and ecosystem partners. What You’ll Own Partner Revenue & Pipeline Own and exceed partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue targets on a quarterly basis Proactively generate pipeline through Snowflake, Databricks, and GCP field AEs and PDMs — building the relationships that produce qualified, sourced opportunities Drive joint account mapping and target account activation against Prophecy's ICP: enterprises running Alteryx on Snowflake or Databricks Activate co-sell motions through marketplace programs (GCP Marketplace, Snowflake Partner Network, Databricks

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

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

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

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 the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last-mile logistics in the long term. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We're looking for an experienced technical operator to lead live testing, deployment, and operational validation of cutting-edge autonomous technologies. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and operations, helping ensure new capabilities are safely deployed, thoroughly evaluated, and translated into actionable engineering feedback. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and oversee live testing across transport, deployment, and safety validation. Partner closely with hardware, software, and business operations teams to validate new product capabilities while providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members. Conduct and document complex tests for autonomous technologies, evaluating robot behavior, identifying issues, and validating new features and requirements. Provide actionable technical feedback to engineering teams based on test outcomes. Exercise technical judgment during live testing by evaluating robot behavior, assessing operational risk, distinguishing expected behavior from product defects, and determining when engineering escalation or additional validation is required. Develop and implement testing processes, protocols, and checklists that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of new products. Utilize internal tools to analyze logs, investigate issues, document findings, and track issues through resolution. Mentor junior team members in structured debugging and documentation practices. Conduct detailed analyses and generate comprehensive reports that identify trends, summarize findings, and provide strategic recommendations to engineering and operations partners. We’re excited about you because… 2+ years of exper

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 & Team As an AI analytics company, Amplitude partners with AI native startups to help them move faster from insight to product market fit and from product market fit to scale. Startups are a critical driver of our ecosystem and growth strategy. Our mission is to create new pathways for founders to discover Amplitude and adopt it early in their growth journey. We are looking for a strategic, ecosystem-driven leader to run and evolve Amplitude’s Global Startup and Venture Program. This person will shape how we engage founders, partner with VCs and incubators, and position Amplitude as the platform of choice for AI native startups worldwide. You will become an indispensable resource for founders navigating product market fit and growth, and a trusted partner across the AI startup ecosystem. As a Global Startup and Venture Program Lead,

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Strategic Pursuits team is a new group within Stripe’s Enterprise Platform Sales organization, built to win Stripe’s most complex and high-impact opportunities. This team focuses on multi-year, transformative sales cycles with the world’s largest software platforms and enterprises—companies that have the potential to fundamentally shift Stripe’s presence in new industries and markets. Strategic Pursuits is responsible for identifying, shaping, and closing Stripe’s most significant platform partnerships. These are long, intricate engagements requiring deep collaboration across executive, product, and engineering teams and the ability to influence strategic priorities on both sides of the table. The team’s work often extends well beyond payments, helping partners co-develop entirely new business models and revenue streams powered by Stripe’s financial infrastructure stack, including Connect, Billing, Payments, and Banking as a Service. What you’ll do As an Account Executive, Strategic Pursuits , you will lead the end-to-end pursuit of Stripe’s largest and most complex platform opportunities. You’ll act as both strategist and dealleader—identifying transformative prospects, crafting multi-year engagement plans, and orchestrating resources across Stripe to bring highly tailored solutions to market. This is a senior, cross-functional sales role that combines strategic vision

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

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Data Science team works closely with partners from Design, Product and Engineering across Airbnb’s product portfolio. Our work involves 0-to-1 innovation, applying sophisticated modeling techniques to critical Airbnb problems and finding new ways to leverage science for the good of the Airbnb community. Web prototypers work with Data Scientists to identify key questions during the development of these new solutions and build software prototypes that answer them. The work of DS prototyping covers everything from designing the right data visualization to focused explorations that help solve key design questions to broad explorations that help validate ideas. The Difference You Will Make: This role is focussed on partnering with the Data Science team to develop prototypes that show the potential of new data models targeting critical business and user problems. Step change advances in ML/AI have the potential to transform Airbnb, but doing that well requires not just building the right models, but also creating the right experience -- your work will be critical in enabling us to do that. Sophisticated and impactful models are often complex and hard to understand -- by building effective prototypes you can help close that gap and allow innovation to flourish. Your prototypes will enable leadership to make critical and strategic business decisions by demonstrating technical feasibility, suggesting implementation approaches, enabling user studies, and more. A Typical Day: As a web prototyper, you will create prototypes that enable differentiating and industry-leading produc

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 in a defining moment — from turnaround to international growth, from traditional rideshare to the autonomous future — and how we build, organize, and lead our people will determine how well we get there. As Vice President, People, you will help drive the business forward through the strength of our people strategy, serving as a right hand to our Chief People Officer and a trusted advisor to Lyft's executive leadership team. This is a high-impact role for a seasoned people executive who operates at altitude and on the ground in equal measure, thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments, and is energized by the chance to own some of the most complex and consequential work in the function. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will lead the People Business Partner organization, own workforce planning for the enterprise, and drive the human capital strategy behind Lyft's M&A activity from diligence through integration. You'll partner directly with the executive leadership team, represent the People function in cross-functional forums, and shape the org design, structure and ways of working that will carry Lyft into its next chapter. You'll anticipate challenges, help leaders look around corners, and bring forward-thinking solutions to keep Lyft's workforce agile, engaged, and ready for the future while shaping how the People function itself grows from here. Join us and help shape the future of work at one of the most mission-driven, people-focused companies redefining mobility. Responsibilities: Executive Partnership & People Strategy Partner directly with the Chief People Officer and executive leadership team on the people strategy behind Lyft's most significant business decisions, acting as a trusted advisor and bringing best-in-class practices to enable growth. People Business Par

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 operator to be the Director of Local Markets. As a Strategy & Operations Director, you’ll be responsible for driving marketplace growth in every U.S. market, across a variety of market types. You will report into the Growth and Markets team, leading cross-functional collaboration between DoorDash’s marketing, sales, product, finance, and analytics teams to deliver new products and service level improvements to drive local market growth. You'll have the opportunity to help define new ways to grow locally, incubate 0-1 experiments, scope partnership opportunities, foster relationships with external partners, and execute on a roadmap to grow the marketplace at the local level. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead - From day one you’ll lead a team, helping the team to further develop the muscle of lowest level of detail analyses and execution rigor Business development - Develop relationships with new growth partners and top merchants Influence - Work cross-functionally across the US Marketplace Organization to help craft roadmaps, secure investment, and partner with other organizations to improve the user experience at local level Build – Explore growth opportunities alongside our partners in Product, Marketing, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations teams Analyze – Shape and define our strategy based on quantitative and qualitative data, querying data directly and empowering yourself with AI tooling (Cursor, Claude) Operate – Figure out how to get from A to B–then actually make it happen. Grow – Help the business get 1% better every day. We're excited about you because… You have 10+ years of experience in strategy &

Location - Hybrid This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, Corporate Headquarter office, 3 days in the office, 2 days work from home. About Us Sauce Labs is the world’s largest full-lifecycle, test automation platform, and the company behind Selenium. Trusted by 80% of the world’s top ten largest financial institutions and over 300,000 enterprise users, Sauce Labs provides the only AI platform capable of turning business intent into autonomous testing and quality assurance. With a proprietary dataset of 8.7 billion test runs, Sauce Labs empowers the Fortune 2000 to bridge the gap between AI-driven code generation and enterprise-grade software quality. Learn more at http://saucelabs.com . Release Assurance at the Speed of AI | Meet the new Sauce Labs The Role The Senior GTM Strategy & Planning Analyst will play a key role in supporting go-to-market (GTM) strategy through sales forecasting, churn forecasting, revenue analytics, and capacity planning across the GTM teams. This role will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Finance to align GTM initiatives with company growth objectives and contribute to executive-level insights for board presentations. Responsibilities GTM Board Materials: Support preparation of sales forecasting, churn forecasting, and revenue insight materials for executive and board review, ensuring data accuracy and alignment with company strategy. Executive Reporting: Help develop executive-level reporting materials, including presentations that translate complex data into clear, actionable insights. Forecasting: Build and maintain sales forecasting models in partnership with Sales Leadership, modeling pipeline generation, deal velocity, close rates, and other key metrics. Build predictive models to forecast customer churn, leveraging historical data and customer behavior insights to inform retention and renewal strategies. GTM Capacity Planning: Build and maintain capacity models to help ensure GTM t