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About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Austin, US New York, US San Francisco, US About the Role Cloudflare's Developer Platform (Workers, Pages, R2, D1, Durable Objects, AI, and more) is how the next generation of builders ships to the global Internet. Events are one of the most powerful levers we have to reach developers where they are — and to create the moments that turn curiosity into conviction. We're looking for a Director of Developer Events to own the end-to

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Roblox is currently at a critical inflection point in its financial evolution. We recently achieved a significant payout milestone to our Creator community in 2025. To successfully build upon this momentum year over year while controlling our costs, a world-class payments and wallets ecosystem is essential to ensure frictionless transactions across the platform for our Users and Creators. This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a 0-to-1 buildout of a new payments division. If successful, you will transition Roblox from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model, utilizing AI-driven approach to optimize significant transaction cost. Beyond cost savings, you will spearhead the transformation of our creator payouts, building a product designed to empower the livelihood of millions of developers through instant, transparent, and global financial access. You Will Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, etc) and financial institutions. Establish formal business relationships where none currently exist, securing advantageous commercial

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Economy ML team sits at the center of this mission. We build ML and AI systems that power personalization, search, pricing, recommendations, and virtual item intelligence across Roblox Economy surfaces, including Avatar Marketplace, Payments, Developer Monetization and Subscriptions. As Roblox continues to invest deeply in AI and ML, this organization also plays a key role in advancing next-generation AI capabilities across the company through close partnership with Discovery, Foundation AI, Engine, Creator and product engineering teams. Our work spans both product impact and foundational ML innovation at Roblox scale. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead and scale Economy ML. This leader will define the strategy, organization, and execution model for a fast-growing ML organization spanning recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, search, content intelligence, and Generative AI applications. Why Roblox for ML/AI AI/ML is a top company priority , with strong executive support and long-term investment. Massive real-world scale: Millions of users, creators, and economic interactions every day. Unique technical challenges: Recommendations, pricing, fraud, search, and conte

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As the Director of MENA Public Policy you will develop and implement an engagement strategy with key policymakers, stakeholders, and opinion leaders across MENA. The successful candidate will oversee critical issues including, but not limited to, gaming, child safety, artificial intelligence, privacy, and consumer protection. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, driven to develop and execute creative strategies that advance Roblox’s business and priorities within the region. This position is based in Dubai and reports directly to the Head of Public Policy, Europe and MENA. The Director of MENA Public Policy will play a critical part in shaping Roblox's future in the country by establishing and executing effective public policy strategies. This role is instrumental in ensuring compliance, addressing policy issues, and fostering strong relationships with external partners, ultimately contributing to a safer and more engaging environment for Roblox's global community of developers and creators. You Will Maintain and build relationships with regional policymakers and political figures Identify, monitor, and analyze policy issues affecting Roblox in MENA Develop and execute policy

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Why Roblox Studio? Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D experiences built by creators around the world. It serves everyone from first-time developers to large professional studios, combining a powerful real-time engine with a deeply expressive toolchain. As creation on Roblox grows more sophisticated, Studio must continue evolving as a world-class development environment for interactive 3D experiences. That requires deep investment in the technical systems that underpin the IDE experience from scripting, debugging, architecture, and core IDE capabilities including performance. We are looking for a leader who can raise the bar on these foundational systems and help shape the future of Studio as a high-quality, extensible, and performant creation environment. Familiarity with creator tools is important, and experience with AI-assisted creation is a plus. The Role We are seeking a Director of Engineering for Studio Systems to lead a critical area of Roblox Studio’s technical foundation. In this role, you will be accountable for the architecture, execution, and long-term evolution of core systems that power Studio’s IDE and developer workflows. This includes area

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our AI Platform organization. This group builds the foundational systems powering every AI experience across Asana. In this role, you will lead four key teams through their engineering managers: Context (search, retrieval, and knowledge extraction across the Asana Work Graph), LLM Foundations (model serving, inference infrastructure, provider strategy, and evaluation systems), and AI Efficiency (our center of excellence for cost, quality, and performance standards across all AI workloads). Collaborating with engineering managers and senior technical leaders, you will drive the end-to-end strategy, execution, and architecture that define how humans and AI work together at Asana to build trusted, reliable, high-value product workflows for enterprise customers worldwide. Your mission is to make Asana’s AI platform the most reliable, economical, and performant foundation in the industry for agentic enterprise software, giving Asana the leverage to ship AI products faster than anyone else. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Drive Strategy & Execution Across the AI Teammates Pillar: Lead the multi-year vision and technical strategy for Asana’s AI platform, covering retrieval and agent context, model serving and inference, model portfolio strategy, and evaluation systems. Optimize AI Infrastructure Costs: Own cost-per-execution as a primary engineering metric, managing model selection, routing, open-weight versus frontier trade-offs, inference optimization, caching, and prompt efficiency to protect product margins at scale.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead and scale Asana’s flagship AI Teammates Pillar within our Core/AI Organization. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, AI & AWM, you will oversee an engineering area encompassing four key teams: AI Teammates Platform (AITP), AI Teammates Experience (AITX), AI Chat Experience, and Agent Orchestration. In this role, you will lead engineering managers and senior technical leaders to drive the end-to-end strategy, execution, and architecture that define how humans and AI collaborate in Asana, turning frontier LLM capabilities into trusted, reliable, high-value product workflows for enterprise customers worldwide. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Drive Strategy & Execution Across the AI Teammates Pillar: Lead, set direction, and align goals/metrics across four core engineering teams (Platform, Experience, Chat, and Agent Orchestration) to execute on Asana’s flagship AI vision while balancing business, customer, and technical needs. Architect Enterprise-Grade AI Platforms & Systems: Own the end-to-end technical strategy across model rollouts, eval infrastructure, tool orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and proactivity engines—enabling Asana to operate reliable agentic systems for top-tier enterprise customers. Define Next-Generation Human-AI Collaboration: Lead product and platform engineering teams delivering full-screen and docked chat surfaces, discovery/onboarding flows, in-product explainability, human-in-the-loop workflows, and ROI/governance experiences for admini

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic vision and execution for Pinterest’s core and ads serving platforms, overseeing the infrastructure that enables high-scale, low-latency delivery of content and ads across all Pinterest surfaces. They will define the multi-year architecture to ensure our serving systems are reliable, performant, and cost-efficient while enabling rapid innovation for product and ML teams. What you’ll do: Set the long-term technical and operational vision for the Core and Ads Serving Platform, aligning infrastructure investme

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart's Enterprise Solutions team partners with North America's largest grocery and retail chains to power their digital commerce through StorefrontPro, the Enterprise API (Fulfillment and Ads), CarrotAds, and adjacent software products. We're seeking a Director, Customer Success to lead the commercial Retailer Success organization — accountable for post-live growth, retention, and expansion across the enterprise software portfolio. In this highly visible role, you will lead a team of senior managers, Account Growth Managers (AGMs), and L7 Principal Growth Strategists who serve as the strategic and commercial face of Instacart to retailer executives. You'll own the outcomes that matter: net revenue retention (NRR), gross revenue retention (GRR), expansion GTV, adoption velocity, and CSAT. You'll partner closely with Business Development on commercial l

Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Corporate Accounting team at Robinhood is responsible for managing the month-end close process, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial statements for all our stakeholders. As the Director of Accounting, you will play a key leadership role in the Corporate Accounting team, and will be responsible for overseeing monthly and quarterly close processes, timely and accurately preparing the financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. We are looking for a well-rounded individual who has demonstrated the ability to build and lead teams and manage general ledger functions in a high-growth, dynamic, and fast-paced environment. You will also oversee projects involving system implementations and automation projects that will help Robinhood scale as we grow. This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA, office with in-person attendance expected 5 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. What you’ll do Lead full month-end close and consolidation process

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord only works at our scale if people feel safe showing up — and building the systems that make that possible is exactly what our Safety engineering org does. We classify content, route reports, make and audit enforcement decisions, and build the tools our operations partners use to handle everything automation doesn't. The work is a mix of deep backend infrastructure, AI-driven automation, and tight collaboration with the people who do nuanced review. As Discord grows into new surfaces like commerce and ads, the platform we build matters more. We're hiring a Director of Engineering to lead Safety Infrastructure Engineering at Discord. The org is roughly 20 engineers across two teams with two EM direct reports. You'll report to the senior Director of Safety and work closely with T&S Operations, Safety ML, Safety Product, Legal, Policy, Security, and Core Tech. What you'll do Lead and grow two engineering teams covering our safety backend: the decision platform, classification systems, content understanding, intake and routing pipelines, and observability Drive the automation roadmap with Safety ML. Decide where AI belongs in the loop, where humans still win, and hold the line on quality, latency, and cost Own the queue routing and internal tooling our ops teams and vendor partners rely on, and partner with T&S Operations on golden sets, QA, appeals, and evals that turn operational signal into better systems Consolidate fragmented systems onto infra and set the bar for engineering quality: on-call, incident response, technical review, and ownership Hire, coach, and grow senior leaders Who you

Role Description Dropbox is looking for a Director of Media to own our total media investment—performance and brand—under a single leader. This leader will build a unified media strategy that brings performance marketing and brand investments together into one investment thesis and one operating model. They will own the media portfolio end-to-end, from upper-funnel brand campaigns through paid search, paid social, programmatic, mobile, and emerging channels, making investment tradeoffs as business priorities evolve. The role also owns how the media organization operates, balancing in-house expertise, agency partnerships, and specialist support to maximize speed, quality, and impact. The ideal candidate has worked on both sides of the industry—building media expertise at an agency before leading media inside a technology or high-growth company. They understand what great agency partnerships look like while also knowing how to build world-class internal capabilities. This role sits at the center of Dropbox's growth strategy, connecting brand, performance marketing, Product Growth, Sales, and Marketing Data Science to drive measurable business outcomes. Responsibilities Unified Media Strategy. Build and own Dropbox's media strategy across brand and performance. Set the annual and quarterly investment thesis, define the channel portfolio, and make the tradeoff decisions on where spend moves and why. Total Budget Ownership. Manage Dropbox's full media investment across paid search, paid social, programmatic, display, video, mobile, affiliate, and brand channels. Own planning, forecasting, pacing, and in-quarter reallocation against efficiency and growth targets. Brand and Performance Integration. Align reach, frequency, creative strategy, and channel mix so brand and performance investment reinforce each other rather than compete. Partner closely with the Brand organization, which owns brand positioning and creative direction, to translate brand strategy into

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 Ads on Twitch aren't like ads anywhere else. They happen live, in front of communities that are actively engaged and they directly fund the creators those communities love. This is a genuinely unsolved probl

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About the Team OpenAI’s Strategic Finance organization provides the financial insight and guidance that support the company’s long-term strategy and ambitious growth. We partner across Product, Partnerships, Engineering, and GTM to allocate resources to the highest-impact opportunities while preserving sustainable unit economics. The Applications Technology Strategic Finance team works closely with Product and Engineering to scale core offerings and bring new products to market. We lead revenue forecasting and performance management across the product portfolio, and partner closely with the Infrastructure Engineering team to forecast infrastructure and compute demand and to manage margin targets and headcount planning with rigor. About the Role We are hiring a Director of Product Finance, Infrastructure and Compute Demand to help drive strategic decision-making across our product organization. This person will serve as the primary finance partner to the AGI Deployment (Applications) Infrastructure Engineering organization and play a critical role in connecting product usage, compute demand, infrastructure costs, and margin outcomes across the portfolio. You will help build the frameworks that translate technical decisions into economic outcomes, shape planning across product and infrastructure teams, and ensure OpenAI is scaling its products with rigor and efficiency. You will also manage a small team, providing mentorship and leadership while remaining hands-on with analysis and execution. This role is ideally based in our San Francisco HQ, but we are open to NYC and Seattle. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary finance partner to the AGI Deployment (Applications) Infrastructure Engineering organization. Own the consolidated compute and infrastructure demand forecast for the products we bring to market, partnering closely with capacity planning and