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About the Team The People Technology team builds and operates the systems that support how OpenAI hires, develops, and supports its people. The team brings together People Systems and People Innovation Labs, a product engineering group focused on rethinking how we find and retain exceptional talent and help employees do their best work. People Systems owns the company’s core people-technology ecosystem, including platforms such as Workday and Ashby. People Innovation Labs builds new employee and People Team experiences on top of that foundation, including OpenHouse, our internal employee hub, and AI-powered products and automations. Together, we are working toward a model in which our enterprise systems provide reliable data, controls, and core business logic, while employees and managers can complete more of their work through simple, integrated, and AI-native experiences. About the Role We are looking for a People Systems Lead to manage the People Systems team and shape how our core systems evolve. You will be responsible for the reliability and effectiveness of our current environment while helping us move beyond the constraints of traditional enterprise software. This includes stabilizing and improving platforms such as Workday and Ashby, designing the integrations that connect them to the broader technology ecosystem, and partnering with People Innovation Labs to surface workflows through OpenHouse, Slack, and AI-powered experiences. This role requires someone who is comfortable moving between strategy, technical design, and team leadership. You should understand People systems deeply, be able to work through integration and architecture decisions with engineers, and translate complex organizational needs into scalable solutions. You will also manage vendor relationships, develop the People Systems team, and drive alignment across People, Engineering, Finance, Security, Legal, and other partners. This role could be a fit for someone who has grown up in People S

About OpenAI OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We build models and products that help people learn, create, and solve problems—and we work to do so safely and responsibly. About the Team OpenAI’s products are talked about by people, not just press and pundits. More than 900 million people use our tools each week, learning from one other and passing along what works. Their stories shape our reputation and encourage others to try our products. Our community team builds direct relationships & channels with people who use our tech then amplifies their stories and use cases so peers can learn from them and channels their insights to our product and research teams. About the Role We are seeking an exceptional Technical Community Program Manager to help manage and scale a high-signal community of advanced ChatGPT Pro users. This is a hands-on, technically fluent role at the intersection of community-building, product enablement, user research, product education, and editorial storytelling. You do not need to be a full-time software engineer, but you should be comfortable understanding technical workflows, asking sharp technical questions, using the latest AI tools, and helping advanced users explain what they are building. You will report to the Head of Pro Subscriber Community and will be based in New York City. In this role, you will: Run and grow a high-signal community Help manage and deepen engagement with the ChatGPT Pro cohort of advanced users across disciplines Design and execute high-touch community programming, including product demos, office hours, show-and-tell sessions, peer-learning formats, and in-person events Build repeatable systems for onboarding, engagement, retention, and member communications Build deep relationships with exceptional users Identify, recruit, and onboard new individuals doing high-impact work with ChatGPT and Codex Conduct in-depth interviews and maintain ongoing r

About the team Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could scale to an extreme level of severity. Our work involves: Measurement. Monitoring and predicting the evolving capabilities of frontier AI systems. Mitigation. Keeping misuse safeguards, alignment tools, and security measures on track to adequately address extreme threats that might arise in the future. Coordination. Setting mitigation targets by maintaining OpenAI’s preparedness framework , and partnering with other staff to achieve these targets. This is urgent, fast-paced work that has far-reaching implications for the company and for society. About the role The stakes of securing OpenAI increases as our internal coding and research becomes increasingly driven by autonomous AI agents. Compromising these agents could allow a cyber threat actor to compromise many other parts of the company. In this role, you would lead Preparedness work defending the security of our internal AI agents against insiders, Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), or powerful AI agents. We’re looking for a strong hands-on technical executor with experience working directly with advanced cyber threat actors. In this role, you will: Develop and maintain threat models via which advanced attackers could compromise our coding assistants and automated security systems. Identify security investments that are especially critical to make in advance; for example, prioritizing by implementation lead-times, costs, and benefit. Partner with Security, Infrastructure, Research, Legal, and Preparedness to align on implementation plans and tradeoffs. Lead technical execution directly when needed, including prototyping controls, writing and reviewing software, and coordinating engineers across teams. Work with penetration testers to close gaps in defenses. You might thrive in this role if you: Are an exceptional hands-on technical executor. Have worked with advanced

Are you looking for an opportunity to help solve one of today's biggest business challenges? AI is changing the pace of business, and organizations everywhere are struggling to help their workforce, partners, and customers keep up. At Litmos, we're building the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build human capability faster—and we're looking for people who are passionate about making a meaningful impact for customers while growing alongside a collaborative, people-first team. Litmos is the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build capability faster, adapt at the speed business changes, and scale learning to anyone, anywhere. Combining an intuitive platform, AI-powered capabilities, trusted content, expert services, and a broad ecosystem of integrations, Litmos helps organizations accelerate workforce productivity, improve customer adoption and retention, enable high-performing partners, and reduce organizational risk through continuous learning. Organizations such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Graco, Sabre, and Russell Mineral Equipment trust Litmos to accelerate learning across their workforce, partners, and customers. Today, more than 11K customers with 30 million learners across 150 countries and 37 languages use Litmos to build the capabilities their organizations need to succeed. Backed by Francisco Partners, one of the world's leading technology investment firms, we're investing in the future of learning—and the people who are building it. Learn more at www.litmos.com . Location: India (Pune / Hybrid) Type: Full-time Reports To: VP Engineering The Role This is a pivotal leadership role for someone who started their career as an engineer and has grown into an inspiring, delivery-focused leader. You will build, grow, and lead our India engineering team from the ground up — hiring great people, establishing strong engineering culture, and ensuring the India team&n

Are you looking for an opportunity to help solve one of today's biggest business challenges? AI is changing the pace of business, and organizations everywhere are struggling to help their workforce, partners, and customers keep up. At Litmos, we're building the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build human capability faster—and we're looking for people who are passionate about making a meaningful impact for customers while growing alongside a collaborative, people-first team. Litmos is the Learning Acceleration Platform that helps organizations build capability faster, adapt at the speed business changes, and scale learning to anyone, anywhere. Combining an intuitive platform, AI-powered capabilities, trusted content, expert services, and a broad ecosystem of integrations, Litmos helps organizations accelerate workforce productivity, improve customer adoption and retention, enable high-performing partners, and reduce organizational risk through continuous learning. Organizations such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Graco, Sabre, and Russell Mineral Equipment trust Litmos to accelerate learning across their workforce, partners, and customers. Today, more than 11K customers with 30 million learners across 150 countries and 37 languages use Litmos to build the capabilities their organizations need to succeed. Backed by Francisco Partners, one of the world's leading technology investment firms, we're investing in the future of learning—and the people who are building it. Learn more at www.litmos.com . Location: India (Pune / Hybrid) Type: Full-time Reports To: VP Engineering The Role This is a pivotal leadership role for someone who started their career as an engineer and has grown into an inspiring, delivery-focused leader. You will build, grow, and lead our India engineering team from the ground up — hiring great people, establishing strong engineering culture, and ensuring the India team&n

Who We Are Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo. The Role Addepar has just launched an Alternatives Product offering that gives Addepar clients the option to have their Private Funds data extracted, processed, validated, and ingested directly from Private Fund documents for a more automated end-to-end solution for handling Alternatives on the platform. This white-glove solution combines proprietary machine learning technology that automatically extracts data from Private Funds documents and human-in-loop review to validate any documents that fail to pass confidence and data quality checks. As a Senior Lead of the Alternatives Data Operations, you will lead the operations function that is responsible for the human-in-loop review of Private Funds documents, ensuring clients' Alternatives data is processed, validated, and available in Addepar in a timely manner. You will manage a team of Alternatives Data Ops analysts who review Private Fund statements, modify data that has been incorrectly extracted by our machine learning models, and reprocess data within SLAs. In this role, you'll own the operational strategy, team performance, and continuous improvement of the Alternatives Data Ops function—a critical component of Addepar's Alternatives offering success. Your responsibilities will include b

Graphcore Senior Principal AI SoC Validation (Bring-up lead) Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. We are developing the next generation of AI compute, a large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designed to power future high-performance AI systems. As the SoC Validation Lead, you will be responsible for enabling pre-production software to run reliably on new silicon quickly and efficiently, before showing that the silicon meets the highest standards of quality, reliability and functionality, ready for production deployment. You will lead a team delivering post-silicon validation across the full AI SoC, working across silicon, firmware, and platform levels. The role requires a deep technical understanding, strong hands-on debug experience, and the ability to collaborate effectively with hardware, software, and systems engineering teams. Key responsibilities Define and lead post-silicon validation strategy Develop and refine the overall post-silicon validation approach for our AI SoCs, ensuring reliable and timely delivery of validated silicon, architectural correctness, feature robustness, and at-scale system reliability. Drive cross-domain debug and issue resolution Lead investigation and resolution of complex issues spanning silicon, firmware, operating systems, and platform interactions. Ensure that fixes are effective and sustainable. Promote collaboration and shared understanding Work closely with

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. Service Levels is one of New Relic's most commercially critical products — it powers SLO compliance and reliability measurement for thousands of customers. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a senior, high-performing team building the next generation of service level management at scale. You'll lead a team that includes lead-level engineers with deep domain expertise, and your value will come from enabling their best work — not directing it. You'll own delivery, quality, and team health while partnering closely with product and design to ship features that directly impact New Relic's commercial momentum. What you'll do Lead a full-stack engineering team of 6-8 across backend (Java/Spring Boot) and frontend (React/TypeScript) Own end-to-end delivery — sprint planning, execution, quality, and release Set clear expectations, manage performance equitably, and develop engineers at every level Partner with Product Manager and XD to translate requirements into technically sound, deliverable plans Drive architectural discussions and hold the team to engineering excellence standards Identify

NVIDIA's DGX Cloud (DGXC) powers AI for strategic research and product workloads. The company seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead complex, cross-functional programs powering NVIDIA’s next-generation AI software platforms. In this role, you will drive software initiatives across platform services, cloud infrastructure, and system integration. The focus is on enabling scalable, reliable, and supportable software for AI workloads. You will be responsible for managing high-impact engineering programs within a dynamic, fast-paced roadmap, aligning priorities across teams, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery. This role requires strong technical competence, a proactive approach, and the ability to operate effectively across multiple levels of the organization. This is a software-first TPM role. The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing software initiatives. They also understand the full-stack environment, including infrastructure dependencies, system bring-up, integration readiness, and operational needs to support software across stack layers. What You'll Be Doing: Lead end-to-end execution of software platform initiatives, including planning, execution, delivery, and operationalization. Work together with software, infrastructure, product, and operations teams to ensure alignment on goals, deliverables, achievements, and schedules. Lead cross-functional initiatives encompassing cloud-native services, platform software, system integration, and release delivery. Help connect software roadmap execution to full-stack readiness, including dependencies across infrastructure, bring-up, validation, and downstream operational support. Identify cross-functional dependencies, mitigate risks, and drive resolution of complex technical and programmatic issues. Establish clear success metrics and reporting mechanis

About Bazaarvoice At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products. The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty. Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers. Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It’s official: Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US , Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK! What you’ll be doing Lead, hire and grow a high-calibre team of frontend & backend engineers, and their line managers. Define and implement a roadmap based on critical business need, that delivers the valuable features, scale, and reliability our clients need, as well making systems more resilient and scalable. Drive business-significant and complex initiatives by collaborating across geographically distributed teams and partners Coach and mentor engineers globally in support of their growth and adherence to best practices. Who you are – Requirements for success in this rol

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Observability We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with an eagerness for technology, people, project delivery, and process optimization to lead our Kubernetes Observability team. At New Relic, we love making software that improves the lives of people who make software. The Infrastructure product organization drives New Relic’s customer-facing monitoring experiences, and the Kubernetes ecosystem is at the absolute center of this mission. In this role, your team develops and maintains the critical Kubernetes integrations that give our customers full, real-time observability into the health and performance of their K8s environments. You will lead a high-performing team

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 . We are looking for inquisitive, well-rounded iOS engineers to join our engineering teams. Working closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers, you’ll play an important role in enabling the newest technologies and experiences. You will build robust frameworks & features. You will empower both developers and Pinners alike. You’ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems. Even better, because we covet the kind of courageous thinking that’s required in order for big bets and smart risks to pay off, you’ll be invited to create and drive new initiatives, seeing them from inception through to technical design, implementation, and release. What you’ll do: Build out Pinner-facing frontend features in iOS to power the future of inspiration on Pinterest Contribute to and lead each step of the pro

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! The Interaction Design team is responsible for creating and maintaining the runtime APIs that support rich, high fidelity interactions and animations across our product suite. Our team’s work is critical to ensuring products like Prototyping, Slides, and Smart Animate have the platform needed to empower customers to bring their designs to life in new and exciting ways. The team is also responsible for building new interaction and animation-based features. In this role, you’ll lead the team that enables engineers at Figma to easily develop the next generation of interactive Figma features and products. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you'll do at Figma: Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to improve the platform, features, and runtimes supporting interactive and animated experiences in Figma products like Prototyping and Slides Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers, including staff level engineers Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of solving some of the most complex technical challenges at Figma Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community Figma is committed to building an inclusi

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! Figma's AI Tools team builds the AI-powered workflows, platforms, and tooling that make every engineer at the company more productive. From agentic CI auto-fixing and AI-assisted code review to background cloud agents that turn a Slack message into a pull request, this team owns the systems that are transforming how Figma builds software. The team operates across a three-layer platform stack—sandbox runtime, cloud agents, and workflow orchestration—while shipping and maintaining a growing portfolio of org-wide developer workflows that compound across hundreds of engineers. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you’ll do at Figma: Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and operating Figma's AI developer workflows and the cloud agent platform that powers them Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI Developer Experience, spanning sandbox runtime infrastructure, cloud agent reliability, workflow orchestration, and org-wide agentic workflows Hire and scale the team - establishing team culture, execution cadence, and operational processes from the ground up Drive the reliability, observability, and scalability of our cloud agent platform, ensuring it meets production-grade standards as adoption grows across the engineering organization Partner with product engineering, security, infrastructure, and DevEx teams to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for AI-assisted developer workflows and drive adoption

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! The Payload team is building the future of content infrastructure at Figma. Payload is Figma’s open-source CMS and application framework, enabling developers and organizations to create websites, digital products, internal tools, asset management systems, and content-driven experiences at scale. As Engineering Manager, you'll lead the engineering team responsible for Payload’s evolution as both a thriving open-source platform and a foundational part of Figma’s future. You'll work alongside Payload’s founders and core contributors to scale the team, grow the community, and guide technical investments that strengthen Payload’s position as a leading content platform. You'll help engineers do their best work while partnering across product, design, go-to-market teams, enterprise customers, and the open-source ecosystem to shape the roadmap. Success in this role means balancing the needs of a passionate developer community with opportunities to create seamless integrations and workflows across Figma’s products, unlocking entirely new ways for teams to design, build, and manage digital experiences. If you're excited about open source, developer tools, platform strategy, and building high-performing teams, this role offers the opportunity to influence both a fast-growing product and the future of how content and design come together. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you’ll do at Figma: Lead the engineering team behind all