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Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. We are looking for a Business Development Representative (BDR) to play a critical role in our sales organization, generate new business opportunities, and qualify leads for the sales team. As a key contributor to our growing organization, you'll have the unique opportunity to help build and shape our sales processes, strategies, and tactics from the ground up. This is a remote role but candidates currently located in Texas or Colorado need only apply. What you will do: Generate leads and build relationships by nurturing prospects and finding new potential sales outlets; cold calls, LinkedIn and email outreach. Develop and maintain a pipeline of potential customers and opportunities that ensure lead quality and quantity while qualifying and prioritizing inbound leads. Conduct research on target accounts and industries to better understand their cybersecurity challenges and needs. Collaborate with the sales team to develop and execute account-based sales strategies. Occasional attendance to industry & networking events in assigned region. Use CRM software tools to track leads, opportunities, and activities. Manage time effectively, meet personal goals, and work effectively with members of the assigned territory. What you should bring to

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications. As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business. What you’ll do As a technology business manager, you will be instrumental in identifying, developing, and implementing strategies that align with our business goals. Specifically, you will: Collaborate with senior management to identify opportunities for innovation and growth within the Technology organization. Develop and implement strategic plans that promote innovative solutions and business practices. Develop processes to systematically report on the impact of strategic initiatives. Conduct market and vendor research and analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive insights. Manage and oversee projects from conception to execution, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines. Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creative thinking and collaboration across teams. Monitor and report on the progress of innovation initiatives, providing insights and recommendations for improvement. Build and maintain relationships with key stakehold

About the company OpenAI’s mission is to build and ensure that safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings together the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals to accomplish this. About the role We are looking for a Sales Engineering leader to be responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the OpenAI sales process ensuring developers and enterprises maximize benefit, value, and adoption from our highly-capable models and technology. We are looking for a technical leader who represents the voice of the customer, aligning our customer-facing technical teams around a unified and exceptional experience across the customer lifecycle. You will be crucial to the success of our GTM strategy and will have a significant influence in shaping the direction of our technology and those who adopt it. Your responsibilities will encompass overseeing all technical aspects of the sales process for our Digital Natives segment. This includes not only the pre-sales activities but also at times the post-sales technical support ensuring a cohesive and outstanding experience for our clients. Your teams of Solutions Engineers will rely on your leadership to guide them in delivering exceptional service and technical expertise. You will work closely with Sales, Customer Engagement, Security, and Product teams. In this role, you will: Help craft and continuously refine the strategic vision for OpenAI's Solutions Engineering function, aligning it with broader company objectives and the evolving needs of our diverse clientele. Lead and mentor a multifaceted team through the entire sales cycle, fostering an environment that promotes seamless customer engagement, maximum adoption, and scalability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including GTM, Product, Engineering, and Research, ensuring synergy and cohesion in our customer engagement strategies. Act as the escalation technical contact for key clients

Lead complex client engagements and become a trusted workplace adviser who turns ambitious client goals into exceptional outcomes. As a project manager at Gallup, you'll create structure and momentum across client engagements while building the expertise, relationships and commercial acumen that strengthen your impact as a strategic partner. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on orchestrating complex projects, working directly with clients and taking on account leadership and advisory responsibilities. If you're energised by bringing order to complexity, building trusted relationships and helping clients solve business challenges, you'll thrive in this role. What You’ll Do Design and manage delivery structures that create clarity, accountability and predictable outcomes across complex client engagements Develop integrated project plans, coordinate resources and manage dependencies, milestones and timelines throughout the project life cycle Take ownership of client accounts, balancing delivery excellence with strategic advisory and account growth responsibilities Establish governance processes, decision-making frameworks and communication plans that align stakeholders and support successful delivery Monitor project health, scope, budget and commercial considerations while proactively identifying and mitigating risks Orchestrate collaboration across consulting, research and operational teams to maintain execution momentum and outstanding client experiences Build trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders, fostering confidence and alignment throughout project delivery Who We Want Operational architects who bring order to complexity, anticipate challenges and create systems that enable successful execution Trusted advisers who build credibility quickly, communicate with confidence and develop deep relationships with clients and colleagues Strategic thinkers who connect project details to broader business objectives, apply sound judgement amid ambiguity

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. Synthesia is moving from a single product to a multi-product platform, and research is about to become one of the pillars that determines whether we get that transition right. You'd be joining as our first full-time UX researcher, working directly with product, design, and engineering on the bets that will define what Synthesia looks like over the next few years, including a new real-time, agentic product where we're figuring out an entirely new modality as we build it. This is a Senior IC role. You'll own research end-to-end and shape how the function itself takes form. Why now We've validated the appetite for research. Persona and jobs mapping shaped the first version of our newest product, and there's a strong pull from PMs, designers, and leadership for more. What we don't have yet is a full-time researcher who can operate across the whole product portfolio. The next six months contain some of the highest-stakes decisions we'll make: how the assistant experience should evolve, what drives adoption of the new product, and how we activate users in their earliest moments. Research should be shaping the direction on all three. What you'll be doing Running a combination of strategic and tactical qualitative resea

About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Globalization Excellence (GE) Zinnov's Globalization Excellence practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers end-to-end, from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run. In GE, you don't work in silos. You own complex, end-to-end client journeys, work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT/outsourcing models, and influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies. This is where strategy meets execution, and talent plays a defining role. About The Role The GE practice is building a dedicated Thought Leadership & Research function, modelled on the internal think tanks of the world's leading consulting firms. As Research Lead, you are the intellectual engine of this function. You won't be rotating across client engagements. You w

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing. Responsibilities Develop and optimize unit processes to meet the yield and quality requirements of advanced NAND products. Quantify benefits of innovative process and/or equipment solutions to enable early experimentation and adoption for process margin improvement Prioritize within Singapore based manufacturing Wet Etch team on the key technology issues that need R&D breakthroughs. Integrate and troubleshoot processes as part of cross-functional teams driving yield and quality improvement Participate with Advanced Node peers on technology choices for the upcoming nodes and able to translate future technology device needs into clear process requirements Identify disruptive processes early on and work with manufacturing to identify viable path forward Process development will include performing fundamental research, hardware evaluations, as well as testing processes for novel applications and generating intellectual property relevant to Micron. Initiate and manage experiments to widen process margins as well as to test out manufacturability of next node solutions Identify process simplification opportunities and drive cross functional teams in implementation Incorporate best known manufacturing methods into ea

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI. Accordingly, our Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work in these domains. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and - in collaboration with our colleagues and external stakeholders - support the development of regulation, industry standards, and safe and beneficial development of AI tools. About the Role As the EU Policy & Partnerships Manager, you will develop strategies, shape OpenAI’s approach to priority EU policy issues, and drive campaigns as part of our European team. You will also develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders across the Brussels policy ecosystem, including policymakers, regulators, civil society groups, industry associations, researchers and experts, seeking to advance policies and partnerships that align with OpenAI’s mission. OpenAI releases industry-leading research and tools. You will face new challenges as the impact of cutting-edge generative AI technologies continues to be explored and as the needs of the organization evolve. Day-to-day work may encompass anything from helping to shape strategic initiatives and developing policy positions to preparing our leaders for engagements with EU officials or representing OpenAI in private and public forums. We are looking for a self-directed and creative individual with deep EU policy expertise, experience managing relationships across the Brussels policy ecosystem, sound judgment, and a sophisticated understanding of AI and AI-related legislative and regulatory issues and processes. The ideal candidate will be able to move between strategic policy development and practical delivery,

About the team The Applied AI Engineer - Digital Natives team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of frontier AI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. As an Applied AI Engineer in the Digital Native segment, you’ll help large and highly sophisticated companies transform their business through custom AI solutions applications such as customer service, automated content generation, contextual search, personalization, and other novel use cases leveraging OpenAI’s newest, most exciting models and latest capabilities. About the role We are looking for a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with our customers and ensure they achieve tangible business value with frontier AI. You will pair with senior customer leaders to establish AI strategic roadmaps and identify the highest value applications. You’ll then partner with their engineering and product teams to move from prototype through production. You’ll take a holistic view of their needs and design an enterprise architecture using OpenAI APIs and other services to maximize customer value. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product. This role is based in our SF or Seattle office. 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: Deeply embedded with our most sophisticated and technical platform customers, serving as their technical thought partner in ideating and building novel applications on our APIs. Proactively provide guidance to our customers on how to maximize business impact from their applications, accelerating their time to value. Experiment and prototype solutions with and for your customers. Forge and manage relat

About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping developers and enterprises safely and effectively deploy OpenAI technologies in production. We act as trusted technical advisors and thought partners for customers, working side by side with their teams to identify high-value use cases, design practical architectures, and move from prototype to durable deployment. Cybersecurity is one of the most urgent domains where AI can help. Security teams are under pressure to reason across code, logs, infrastructure, tickets, alerts, and vulnerability data faster than ever. As frontier models become more capable, organizations need deep technical guidance on how to evaluate, validate, and safely deploy AI systems in security-critical workflows. About the Role We are looking for a Cybersecurity Applied AI Engineer to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, application security leaders, SOC teams, security engineering teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes. This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move fluidly between executive strategy, practitioner-level cyber depth, and hands-on solution design. You will help customers evaluate and deploy workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC and incident response workflows, detection engineering, cloud security, GRC automation, and security validation. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns, reusable field assets, and product feedback. This role is based in our Dublin Office. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workf

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. As an Executive Sourcer, you play a critical role in identifying and engaging top-tier executive talent across functions. You will identify, engage, and build relationships with senior-level and executive talent across a range of business functions. You’ll partner closely with executive recruiters and leadership stakeholders to define talent profiles, conduct market research, and develop targeted sourcing strategies for leadership hiring initiatives. You will play a key role in shaping executive pipelines, delivering talent insights, and helping drive long-term succession and organizational planning efforts. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact searches while contributing to the evolution of executive sourcing practices and research capabilities across Robinhood! This role is based in our Chicago, IL, Menlo Park, CA, and New York, NY offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 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 Buil

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a SAM Compliance Lead Analyst on the CX Compliance team, you'll investigate AML and fraud-related transaction activity on the blockchain to protect Coinbase customers and maintain regulatory compliance. This team is responsible for executing Coinbase's AML compliance programs, including transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, and investigative due diligence across our global operations. You'll own end-to-end case investigations, from alert triage through SAR filing, and ensure the quality and consistency of compliance outputs in our Luxembourg operations. What you'll do: Investigate AML and fraud-related alerts from transaction monitoring systems, law enforcement referrals, and internal business lines, analyzing blockchain activity and KYC information to assess risk. Document investigative findings in clear written narratives and determine whether activity warrants escalation or Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filing in accordance with regulatory requirements. Execute due diligence research and analysis in support of Coinbase's AML compliance policies, applying BSA/AML, KYC, and OFAC regulatory standards to every case. Maintain detailed case documentation demonstrating compliance with applicable regulations, internal policies, and procedures across the Luxembourg entity. Stay current with industry developments in AML, KYC, and sanctions compliance,

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role We are looking for a threat intel manager to build and run our CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons team within Threat Intelligence. This team detects, investigates, and disrupts attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives threats and for the development of advanced or novel weapons. You will mature this from a promising start into a rigorous program, hiring investigators with real CBRN-E, weaponization, and counterproliferation expertise, sharpening detection beyond broad harm screens into threat-specific capabilities, and personally leading the cases where scientific judgment determines whether we're seeing curiosity, legitimate research, or a genuine weapons-development attempt. The area carries significant engagement with government, biosecurity, and scientific stakeholders. Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays. Key responsibilities Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the CBRN-E & Advanced Weapons mission area; mature it from an emerging function into a rigorous investigative program Hire, manage, and develop a team of investigators with deep domain expertise across biological, chemical, and weapons-development threat areas Personally lead investigations into attempts to use our systems to develop, enhance, or disseminate CBRN-E weapons, or advanced weapons capabilities Evolve detection from broad harm screens toward CBRN-specific signa

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 Technical Accounting and SEC Reporting team is responsible for delivering timely and accurate financial reporting, accounting for complex accounting transactions across a variety of accounting topics in accordance with US GAAP, maintaining accounting policies in key accounting areas, all while partnering with teams across the company. As a member of the team, you'll play a vital role in designing and maintaining scalable procedures, policies and internal controls to ensure compliance with US GAAP and other laws/regulations. The ideal candidate will be a proactive, highly analytical and technical individual who can work independently and prioritize effectively across multiple deliverables. 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: Support preparation of quarterly (10-Q) and annual (10-K) SEC filings, including financial statements, footnotes, MD&A sections, and XBRL tagging Research and draft technical accounting position memos for complex transactions, including equity compensation (ASC 718), business combinations (ASC 805), capitalized software (ASC 350), and leases (ASC 842) Prepare and review monthly equity accounting journal entries (RSUs, PSUs, options) and maintain equity roll forward schedules Contribute to the monthly and quarterly close process, including balance sheet reconciliations and flux analyses Partner cross-functionally with Legal, FP&A, Tax, Stock Administration, and Investor Relatio

Overview: Guidepoint’s Business Development teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all of Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint. Guidepoint is seeking qualified candidates for a role as Business Development Associate on the US Corporate Growth team. This person will report directly to the SVP, Corporate Client Growth as they secure new relationships with our target client base. This is a hybrid position out of our New York City office. What You’ll Do: Develop a working knowledge of industry coverage and the competitive landscape. Partner with management to identify top-tier new business opportunities based on strategic business development criteria and targets. Conduct outbound prospecting to generate leads and lead introductory/exploratory calls with prospects Meet designated sales targets using a strategic and thoughtful process designed to partner with clients and add value to their process Onboard new users effectively Work closely with the client service team to collect feedback on open and closed projects What You Have: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university Broad base knowledge of the sales process from lead generation to relationship management Excellent communicator capable of handling high-profile clients Demonstrated ability to work in a team atmosphere A desire to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment Initiative and ability to handle increasing responsibility over time Excellent written and verbal communication skills AI fluency and experience using AI-enabled tools to support research, organization, prioritization, and written communication Ability to use AI-enabled tools thoughtfully an