Head of Corporate Development

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Finance multiplies Plaid's potential. We turn insight into action, capital into momentum, and discipline into the kind of growth that compounds for the long run. Plaid's Corporate Development function drives inorganic growth, evaluating and executing M&A and investment opportunities that extend Plaid's product, technology, and market position. As Head of Corporate Development you will report directly to the CFO and serve as Plaid's primary architect for build-vs-buy decisions. Beyond executing deals, you will be a key voice in shaping Plaid's strategic direction, using market and competitive insights to inform where the company invests, builds, or acquires next. You'll partner closely with the Executive team, Product, Engineering, Legal, and Corporate Finance to source, evaluate, and close deals that accelerate Plaid's strategy. Responsibilities M&A & Investment Strategy. Build and own a proactive pipeline of acquisition and investment opportunities aligned to Plaid's strategic priorities. Maintain an up-to-date view of the competitive and startup landscape to identify targets before they're formally for sale. Outbound Relationship Building. Build and nurture a network

GAQ125R25 As Head of Corporate Engineering, you will be responsible for Enterprise engineering and operations globally. You will be responsible for building and managing a highly technical enterprise engineering team, developing first principled-based strategies, and enabling strong enterprise security. Key responsibilities include engineering, securing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, Identity and Access Management, Endpoints, Collaboration tools, and ensuring compliance with SOX, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP compliance. The Head of Corporate Engineering will work closely with R&D on managing engineering tools like Jira, Confluence, and GitHub, driving efficient adoption and integration. Strong technical and influencing leadership principles coupled with the ability to manage a complex, scaling, and fast-moving enterprise environment are essential. This role reports directly to the Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Responsibilities: In this influential role, you will be responsible for: Securing the Enterprise: Working closely with Enterprise Security organization to harden and secure our cloud environments, secret management, collaboration tools, endpoints, SaaS environments, IAM tools, and more. Success measured in continuous improvement of our enterprise security hardening standards Building and Scaling our Cloud Infrastructure : Your team will be responsible for establishing and implementing enterprise cloud infrastructure including establishing Infrastructure Provisioning, SRE services, 24/7 on-call support, Infra as Code, observability, and more. In addition, you will be responsible for managing cloud budgets, vendor management, and establishing cost optimization initiatives. Success is measured in increased developer velocity while securing & scaling the cloud infrastructure Engineering Tooling : Partner closely with R&D teams to establish policies, configurations, run-books, SLAs, hardening, scalability and availability of engineer

About the role OpenAI is building a world-class global mobility and immigration program—agile, compliant, technology-enabled, and designed to help exceptional people work where they can have the greatest impact. In this role, you will lead high-impact strategic initiatives, including U.S. permanent residence strategy, M&A, organizational change, and global expansion. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a builder who can translate legal and operational complexity into clear, practical solutions. Reporting to the Head of Global Mobility & Immigration, you will partner with the broader team and lead through expertise and influence across Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, business teams, and external counsel to turn emerging business needs into scalable programs, policies, and durable controls. What you'll do Set the roadmap, principles, governance, and operating model for priority global mobility and immigration initiatives. Lead the U.S. permanent residence strategy, including PERM planning, controls, communications, compliance and continuous improvement. Own immigration and mobility workstreams for M&A, divestitures, restructurings, entity changes, and new-market entry—from diligence through integration. Lead global expansion strategy, ensuring work authorization, business travel, and compliance in rapidly growing international jurisdictions. Build reusable playbooks, decision frameworks, risk assessments, and change-management plans. Partner with Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, and business leaders to identify implications early and drive sound decisions. Establish dashboards and program-health measures covering compliance, cycle time, quality, cost, vendor performance, and employee experience. Manage external counsel and vendor partners through clear service levels, quality standards, budgets, and outcomes. Use systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve case handling, documentati

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI. What is The Role Elastic is expanding the Ecosystem Architects team focused on the most consequential AI providers in the AI Ecosystem — OpenAI and Anthropic. We are looking for a builder, an architect who will own the technical strategy and relationships with both. In this hands-on individual contributor role you'd be driving the co-build strategy through deeper integrations with both ecosystems, influencing Elastic Product strategy, building the prototypes, and shaping the GTM content that would help customers bring frontier intelligence to unstructured data. As the AI Ecosystem Architect you will build, manage and own the technical relationships end-to-end — bringing both technical depth and the credibility that comes from having built things yourself. "The deep integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic are at the center of how Elastic thinks Frontier AI will shape enterprises when brought to unstructured enterprise data. Elasticsearch is purpose-built to solve the retrieval problem for AI agents, and the person in this role will influence the most consequential decisions in how Elastic technology integrates with these ecosystems." — Global VP, Head of Business & Corporate Development, Elastic What You Will Be Doing You will drive technical integration, shape product strategy, and co-create the go-to-market content that helps customers put th

About the Role As Head of Finance - Data Centers, you will be the finance leader for OpenAI’s self-built data center efforts. You will partner with teams across infrastructure, real estate, energy, construction, procurement, and finance to turn proposed sites into sound investment decisions and funded projects. This role spans the full development lifecycle: evaluating opportunities, building investment cases, forecasting capital needs, managing construction budgets, and helping determine how projects should be financed. You will give leadership a clear view of project economics, funding requirements, and risks as we build data center capacity at scale. In this role, you will: Lead financial evaluation of proposed data center and related power infrastructure projects, including site economics, development costs, capacity phasing, lifecycle costs, and key risks. Build and own project-level models and capital expenditure forecasts that connect construction schedules, power delivery, equipment procurement, contingencies, and funding needs. Establish capital budgets and financial controls for active builds. Track commitments, actual spending, change orders, and forecasts to completion; identify cost or schedule risks early. Partner with development, engineering, energy, construction, and procurement leaders on decisions that affect cost, timing, and long-term performance. Work with Treasury, Corporate Finance, Tax, and Legal to evaluate financing options, including project or construction debt, leases, joint ventures, and other partnership structures where appropriate. Prepare investment recommendations and capital approval materials for senior leadership, translating complex project details into clear choices and tradeoffs. Build a consistent portfolio view of project costs, cash requirements, milestones, and financial performance. Partner with Accounting and operations teams through project completion and handoff. You might thrive in this role if you have: Prior exper

About the Role As Head of First Party Chip Finance, you will be the finance leader for OpenAI’s custom silicon efforts. You will partner with teams across chip design, engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, and finance to turn technical roadmaps into sound investment decisions and financially disciplined execution. This role spans the full chip development lifecycle: evaluating design and roadmap choices, building investment cases, forecasting development and production costs, and supporting manufacturing and deployment at scale. You will give leadership a clear view of program economics, funding requirements, and risks as we build first-party compute capabilities. In this role, you will: Lead financial evaluation of custom silicon programs, including development investment, production economics, deployment assumptions, and expected returns. Assess first-party chips against alternative compute options. Build and own program-level models and multiyear forecasts that connect engineering milestones, development spending, manufacturing volumes, supplier commitments, and cash requirements. Partner closely with chip-design and engineering leaders on technical decisions that affect performance, power consumption, cost, and time to deployment. Translate complex design tradeoffs into clear financial recommendations. Develop a detailed view of chip and system costs, including wafers, manufacturing yields, packaging, memory, testing, and integration. Identify opportunities to improve economics as programs move from development into production. Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement on supplier strategy and commercial negotiations, including capacity reservations, volume commitments, prepayments, and contractual risk. Work with Treasury, Corporate Finance, Accounting, Tax, and Legal to evaluate financing and payment structures, manage financial exposure, and support program execution. Support commercial deployment and pricing decisions through analysis of unit economics,