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Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at upwork.com and follow on LinkedIn , Facebook , Instagram , TikTok , and X ; and learn more about Lifted at go-lifted.com and follow on LinkedIn . We are seeking a Senior Director of Corporate Development who is passionate about M&A, investments and shaping the long-term strategy of a category-defining company. This senior role will help set, influence and implement inorganic growth opportunities through creative idea generation and disciplined execution, lead and manage the full deal lifecycle—identifying, evaluating and structuring M&A and investments as well as integrating acquisitions—and partner closely with the executive team to ensure each transaction can unlock innovation, accelerate growth and drive long-term shareholder value. This role

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 users expect and deserve a modern, standardized and coherent user experience across all platforms we support (mobile, desktop, console, VR, web, etc.). The role of Director of Product, Consumer Frontend is to up-level Roblox UI both directly, with a Core UI team, and, indirectly, through capabilities provided by our Design Systems team. Your goal is to measurably raise the quality of our UI/UX across all surfaces, and unlock greater UI/UX capabilities for the company from a centralized, platform position. You’ll report to the Senior Director of Product for Apps. This role is based at HQ (no remote option open). You will: Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Consumer Frontend team which consists of Core UI and Luau architecture and Design System with tooling teams. Be the leader for common UI paradigms in the Roblox Consumer Application, providing thought leadership on Roblox UI for both end users and Creators. Invest heavily in relationship building and stakeholder management in order to drive UI standardization and design system adoption. Help define what success looks like for your teams and measure their progress towards it. Personally PM critical project

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity As Senior Director of Enterprise Sales, you will lead one of Postman’s most critical growth engines. You will be responsible for setting enterprise sales strategy, scaling and developing senior sales leaders and Enterprise Account Executives, and delivering predictable, durable revenue growth across large, complex organizations. This role is designed for a proven second-line sales leader who can operate at both a strategic and operational level—aligning executive vision with frontline execution while partnering closely with Product, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own Enterprise revenue outcomes, consistently delivering against quarterly and annual bookings targets. Lead, mentor, and develop Directors, Managers, and senior Enterprise sellers, building a deep leadership bench. Define and evolve Enterprise sales strategy, including segmentation, coverage models, account allocation, and capacity planning. Establish operating rigor across forecasting, pipeline inspection, deal reviews, and execution cadence. Drive excellence in

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity As Senior Director of Enterprise Sales, you will lead one of Postman’s most critical growth engines. You will be responsible for setting enterprise sales strategy, scaling and developing senior sales leaders and Enterprise Account Executives, and delivering predictable, durable revenue growth across large, complex organizations. This role is designed for a proven second-line sales leader who can operate at both a strategic and operational level—aligning executive vision with frontline execution while partnering closely with Product, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success. Location: This is a fully remote role. What You’ll Do Own Enterprise revenue outcomes, consistently delivering against quarterly and annual bookings targets. Lead, mentor, and develop Directors, Managers, and senior Enterprise sellers, building a deep leadership bench. Define and evolve Enterprise sales strategy, including segmentation, coverage models, account allocation, and capacity planning. Establish operating rigor across forecasting, pipeline inspection, deal reviews, and execution cadence. Driv

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. Why this role is on the menu Instacart’s product and technology partnerships — spanning logistics, retail technology, and enterprise products — are a core lever for how we build and grow. But as our ambitions scale into new product areas and international markets, the function needs more than experienced deal-makers. It needs a senior leader who can set the multi-year vision, personally own the most consequential relationships, and shape how Instacart decides what to build versus buy versus partner. Without this person, we risk reactive partnership decisions, misalignment between partnerships and product strategy, and missed first-mover opportunities in markets where speed matters. We’re hiring a Director of Product Partnerships to lead the team and function at the highest level — influencing build-buy-partner tradeoffs with senior leadership, taking first-of-a-kin

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. Why this role is on the menu Instacart’s product and technology partnerships — spanning logistics, retail technology, and enterprise products — are a core lever for how we build and grow. But as our ambitions scale into new product areas and international markets, the function needs more than experienced deal-makers. It needs a senior leader who can set the multi-year vision, personally own the most consequential relationships, and shape how Instacart decides what to build versus buy versus partner. Without this person, we risk reactive partnership decisions, misalignment between partnerships and product strategy, and missed first-mover opportunities in markets where speed matters. We’re hiring a Director of Product Partnerships to lead the team and function at the highest level — influencing build-buy-partner tradeoffs with senior leadership, taking first-of-a-kin

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We're at the forefront of the data revolution, building the world's greatest data, applications, and AI platform. Our culture empowers everyone at Snowflake to innovate, create work with lasting impact, and thrive in a collaborative and value-driven environment. Snowflake is looking for a Director of Partner Marketing, EMEA to shape and lead our partner marketing strategy across the region. This leader will serve as the critical connective tissue between Global Partner Marketing and EMEA Sales, Alliances and Marketing, translating global strategy and programs into focused regional execution, while bringing EMEA priorities and insights back into our global approach. This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines strategic judgment, operational rigor and cultural excellence. You will focus our resources on the partners and opportunities that matter most, ensure partner motions are deeply integrated into our core GTM priorities, and build a team and culture known for focus, accountability, collaboration and impact. What You'll Do Set the EMEA partner marketing strategy and priorities, aligning closely with Global Partner Marketing while determining where and how to activate across strategic cloud partners, GSIs, ISVs and other priority ecosystem relationships in the

Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are You're an experienced operations leader with a proven ability to scale payments and fraud functions in high-growth, regulated environments. You combine deep subject matter expertise with strong business acumen, balancing risk management with operational speed and customer experience. You lead with rigor and judgment, stay relentlessly focused on the customer, and build high-performing teams and systems that scale with the business. Your Success Profile As the Director of Payments and Fraud Operations, you will lead two critical teams accountable for the accurate and timely movement of customer funds and the protection of Justworks from financial and fraud-related risk. You will set the strategic direction for both functions, ensuring customer funds move reliably at scale and that Justworks remains fully compliant with AML industry standards. You will elevate Payments and Fraud Operations as strategic functions that enable revenue growth, strengthen customer trust, and support faster payment products without increasing financial exposure. What You Will Work On Lead and Develop the Payments and Fraud Operations Teams Build, develop

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. Snowflake is growing fast and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We're passionate about our people, our customers, our values and our culture! We're also looking for people with a growth mindset and the pragmatic insight to solve for today while building for the future. And as a Snowflake employee, you will be accountable for supporting and enabling diversity and belonging. Are you ready to define how the world thinks about data and AI? We're looking for a seasoned product marketing leader to own the go-to-market strategy for Snowflake's platform — the foundation of the AI Data Cloud. This is a high-visibility role spanning governance, security, compute and more where your work shapes how the world's largest enterprises evaluate, trust, and expand on Snowflake. As the Director of Product Marketing for Platform, you will lead an established team of product marketers responsible for messaging, positioning, competitive strategy, and go-to-market execution across Snowflake's

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Director, Marketing Operations The Director of Global Marketing Operations will lead Snowflake’s global strategy, platforms, and teams that power a modern, scalable, AI-forward marketing organization. This role emphasizes scalable process design, intelligent automation, and cohesive platform architecture to deliver high-volume, world-class campaigns and stakeholder services across regions. This role requires a strong perspective on investment strategy and timing, balancing foundational system evolution with ongoing campaign execution to deliver near-term impact while building for long-term growth. The Mops Director will lead and develop a high-performing global organization and partners closely with Marketing, Sales, Finance, IT, and external agencies to ensure Snowflake’s demand engine is efficient, compliant, and built to scale. YOU’RE A GREAT FIT IF YOU: Have 10+ years of experience in marketing operations, including 5+ years leading teams in high-growth B2B software environments Are AI-forward, with experience applying automation, AI, and workflow orchestration to standardize processes and reduce manual effort Have deep expertise in top-of-funnel strategy, lead lifecycle management, and conversion optimization tied directly to pipeline impact Have managed agency and con

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Mission Snowflake’s partner ecosystem stands as a formidable growth engine , uniquely positioned at the forefront of the data and AI revolution. Today, thousands of world-class partners are already thriving as they build, co-sell, and innovate within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This vibrant community presents a massive opportunity to amplify our collective success. By evolving toward a unified, high-octane marketing engine and sharpening our collaborative storytelling, we can more effectively showcase the distinct competitive advantages that make Snowflake the winning choice for enterprises worldwide. As Director of Partner Marketing Programs, you will build the system that activates our global partner ecosystem at scale — while shaping the strategic narratives that position Snowflake and its partners as the default choice in the AI data economy. You will operate at two levels simultaneously: System builder: architecting repeatable, global partner marketing programs Storyteller: crafting high-impact joint narratives with our most strategic Data Cloud partners Why This Role Matters The next phase of competition in data + AI will not be won by individual products — it will be won by ecosystems. Snowflake is uniquely positioned with: A rapidly expanding Marketplace Deep p

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. What this job involves - JLL is seeking a Director of Global Occupancy Planning & Management to lead strategic space planning initiatives across APAC, LATAM, and AMER regions. This role provides crucial global leadership in delivering JLL's best practices through Occupancy Planning & Management products, solutions, and tools while partnering closely with client real estate teams to drive tactical and strategic planning aligned with portfolio objectives. What is your day-to-day? Strategic Leadership & Accountability Provide strategic oversight of multiple regions while driving consistency, innovation, and excellence across global real estate portfolios Manage global OP account budget for occupancy planning across APAC, LATAM, and AMER, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency Own and manage strategic multi-regional relationships, serving as executive-level point of contact for key client stakeholders Drive space planning and data management programs to help client achieve real estate and workplace objectives Team Leadership & People Management Lead and manage a global team of occupancy planners across three regions with full accountability for performance outcomes Structure, staff, and manage team with clarity of e

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 . TwoTwenty is Pinterest's innovation lab, building visual-first AI products — assistants, Gen-AI creation tools, and editing experiences — with startup speed at Pinterest scale. We're looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead a team of 10 (7 direct reports across ML engineering, software engineering, data science, and product management), own the technical strategy for TwoTwenty's AI product portfolio, and scale the org from scrappy to enduring without losing what makes it fast. This role reports to the VP of Product Management, Core, and partners closely with Pinterest's Core Product & Engineering, Advanced Technologies Group, and Trust & Safety teams to ship AI features that reach hundreds of millions of Pinners. What you'll do: Drive execution of TwoTwenty's 1–3 year technical strategy across visual AI assistants, gen-AI cre

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta authenticates, authorizes and provisions millions of users a day. The service is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple availability zones and geographically separated regions. The service is designed for high throughput, and 99.999 availability. We're looking for a technical leader to help us to continue to scale the service with great people and reliable, cost-effective and efficient infrastructure, processes and tooling. As the Director of Site Reliability Engineering you will oversee the SRE organization focused on Okta platform, Databases, Edge networking, K8s platform, CI/CD, Observability, FinOps, and automation platform & tooling. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Build and lead a high-caliber India-based SRE organization supporting Okta’s production fleet. Partner with global engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to deliver resilient, scalable, and secure services. Define and execute the India SRE strategy in alignment with global reliability goals. Lead post-incident reviews, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure long-term corrective actions. Participate in incident management, on-call rotations, and blameless RCAs. Implement automation and observability to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency. Drive adoption of modern infrastructure practices: infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and AI within Infrastructure org. H

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role… We are hiring a Director of Sales Operations to own the operating rhythm of our pre-sales engine globally: Sales, Sales Development, and Sales Engineering. This is a player/coach role leading a small team of experienced senior operators while staying hands-on, and our first Sales Operations leadership seat in North America. This role reports to the VP of Revenue Operations. What you’ll be doing… Forecasting and pipeline inspection. Own forecast methodology, accuracy, and variance analysis end to end for Sales and Sales Development; run the weekly commit and pipeline inspection cadence; build the leading indicators (stage conversion, velocity, slippage, aged pipeline) that make the forecast defensible before quarter end, not explained after it. Sales process and policy. Own the pre-sales process architecture: opportunity stages, exit criteria, qualification standards, pipeline hygiene rules, rules of engagement, and the SDR-to-AE handoff, including how conflicts get resolved. Sales Engineering coverage. Own the SE deployment model (SE-to-AE coverage ratios, prioritization of scarce SE time), standardize the technical proof-of-concept and demo process, and build the reporting that shows technical w