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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

About The Role & Team The North America Field Marketing team is responsible for driving regional growth by creating marketing strategies that generate pipeline, accelerate opportunities, and strengthen customer relationships. As the Senior Field Marketing Manager, East Region , you will own the field marketing strategy across one of Amplitude's most important territories, partnering closely with Sales leadership to identify opportunities, influence regional priorities, and deliver programs that create measurable business impact. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who enjoys thinking strategically while remaining hands-on in execution. You'll combine data, creativity, and strong business partnership to develop innovative campaigns, events, executive experiences, and account-based programs that help our teams engage prospects and customers throughout the buyer journey. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy building from the ground up, and love collaborating across Sales and Marketing to solve problems creatively, we'd love to meet you. As a Sr. Field Marketing Manager, you will: Be the “CMO” of Amplitude’s East Region - owning the marketing strategy end to end; developing regional programs that generate pipeline, accelerate opportunities, and support revenue growth. Partner closely with regional Sales leaders to understand business priorities, identify whitespace opportunities, and build creative marketing plans tailored to the needs of the territory. Develop and execute a mix of first-party events, executive experiences, third-party sponsorships, webinars, and account-based marketing initiatives that create meaningful customer engagement. Measure program performance through pipeline, influence, ROI, and engagement metrics, using insights to continuously optimize future investments and regional strategy. Collaborate across Marketing, SDRs, Partner Marketing, Product Marketing, Customer Success, Communications, and Revenue teams to delive

Weekly office requirement: 3 days per week Employment type: permanent Seniority level: mid-senior/director level Salary Range :$120,000 to $130,000k DOE. and commission plan At GWI we’re always looking for extraordinary people who thrive on making an extraordinary impact. Right now we’re looking for an Account Director to play a key role in our Enterprise team in New York. If that’s you, and making a difference gets you out of bed in the morning, keep reading. It could be the start of something, well, extraordinary. Sounds great, what will I be doing? 🤔 As our Account Director, you’ll: own GWI’s relationship with some of the top network agencies in the world, such as WPP, Stagwell, and Havas. Our ideal candidate will excel at relationship-driven opportunities, have proven sales experience with market research tools and data, and come with their own network of well-earned industry contacts. A few things you’ll be responsible for: 👉 Own the entire revenue cycle with existing Tier 1 agency accounts – everything from renewal to upsell and expansion 👉 Identify new business opportunities within the account structure and execute well-planned, creative strategies to achieve both short-term and long-term commercial growth goals 👉 Enthusiastically present GWI product offerings with your own personal conviction and style 👉Collaborate well within a team-oriented environment - bring fresh thinking and new ideas to your team and senior leaders at GWI. It’s also fun; shaking things up is what working for GWI is all about. You’ll need to be flexible, comfortable with continuous change, and working in a high-tempo environment. What do I need to bring with me? 🧳 You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the core skills this role requires. You don't have to tick all the boxes right away; the important thing is that you’re willing to learn. Here’s what the team will be looking for in you: Technical 👉 Bring demonstrated experience selling

About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the team: The Customer Operations team is at the heart of Forma.ai's mission. This team has a direct impact on the growth of Forma.ai. They are results-driven and solutions-minded. The Customer Operations team works closely with our customers, helping them to understand and take advantage of all the features Forma.ai offers and ensuring that they get the most value from the platform. What you'll be doing: Reporting to the Senior Manager of Customer Operations, the Incentive Compensation Associate (known internally as Customer Operations Associate) will be contributing in the following areas: Own the ongoing operations for a portfolio of customers (i.e., rule building, process execution, reporting and dashboarding, and product support) Create automated reporting (financial, sales performance, incentive compensation) for customers to support process automation and improve business visibility Support design projects including analysis, financial modelling, project planning, customer workshops, and presentation/recommendation of findings Identify potential opportunities for process improvement in client processes (e.g., process execution, data validation, dashboard updates). Explore new techniques, working models to improve design and improve processes. Implement new Forma.ai platform features within your customer portfolio to support continuous improvement and automation Build strong working relationships with key customer stakeholders, ens

About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the team: The Customer Operations team is at the heart of Forma.ai's mission in optimizing incentive compensation plans for all companies . They wo rk directly with our customers in helping them understand and take advantage of all the sales compensation features Forma.ai offers . F rom streamlining administration and management of sales commission to designing your sales compensation plan , o ur Customer Operations team ensur es customers get the most value from our platform in optimizing every dollar spent on sales compensation. What you'll be doing: Reporting to the Senior Manager of Customer Operations, the Incentive Analytics Manager will contribute in the following areas: Develop a strong understanding of the Forma.ai product and platform to establish yourself as a product expert Lead the ongoing operations for a portfolio of customers (i.e., commissions rule building, process execution, reporting and dashboarding, and overall product support) Implement new Forma.ai platform features within your customer portfolio to support continuous improvement and automation Identify potential opportunities for process improvement in client processes (e.g., process execution, data validation, dashboard updates). Explore new techniques, working models to improve design and improve processes Lead design projects, including analysis, financial modelling, project planning, customer workshops, and presentation/recommendation of findings

About the Team The Product Marketing team shapes how customers understand, adopt, and realize value from OpenAI’s technology. We work across Product, Research, Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, and Customer Success to bring customer insight into our product strategy and translate technical capabilities into clear, credible stories and solutions. About the Role AI becomes meaningful when it helps people do the work that matters to them. For a finance team, that might mean understanding complex information faster. For a healthcare provider, it might mean navigating clinical workflows more effectively. For a sales or marketing team, it might mean creating entirely new ways to reach and serve customers. We’re looking for a senior product marketing leader to shape how OpenAI serves the business functions and industries where our technology can make a meaningful difference. You’ll define how our models and products meet the needs of teams such as sales, marketing, and finance, as well as industries including financial services, healthcare, and retail. Working closely with Product, Research, Sales, Solutions, and Partnerships, you’ll identify important customer problems, influence product strategy, and build relationships with the ecosystem partners and data providers needed to bring complete solutions to market. You’ll also build and lead the product marketing team responsible for turning these opportunities into durable customer value. You might thrive in this role if you: Have 12+ years of experience in product marketing, industry marketing, solutions marketing, or enterprise go-to-market, ideally across enterprise software, cloud, data, developer, or AI platforms. Have built and led high-performing teams, mentored senior marketers, and know how to create clarity in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. Understand how different industries and business functions evaluate technology, adopt new tools, and define value. Have shaped positioning and go-to-market strategies for c

About the Team The B2B Marketing team contributes to OpenAI's broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. We are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI's products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand our customers' needs and challenges, ensuring that their voices are reflected in product development and messaging. We then partner closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, Sales, Research, Comms, and Design teams to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. About the Role We're looking for a senior product marketing leader to own the strategy, narrative, and go-to-market direction for ChatGPT Work. This role will help define how professionals, teams, and organizations put AI to work on meaningful tasks, move from questions to completed work, and adopt new ways of working across their business. You will serve as the senior product marketing owner for ChatGPT Work, shaping the category, setting portfolio priorities, and connecting product innovation to customer understanding, adoption, and growth. Your scope will span the Work experience across surfaces, connected tools, and AI-powered workflows, with a clear focus on the needs of professional users, Business customers, and Enterprise organizations. This is a leadership role for someone who can set strategy, make difficult tradeoffs, and stay close enough to the work to shape the messaging, product decisions, launches, and programs that determine whether customers adopt. You will partner with Product, Growth, Sales, Research, Comms, Creative, and adjacent product marketing teams to build a coherent experience from first discovery through sustained team usage. In this role, you will: Own the ChatGPT Work product marketing strategy: Define the audience, market opportunity, positioning, competitive strategy, and go-to-market priorities across professional users, tea

Spaulding Ridge is an advisory and IT implementation firm. We help global organizations get financial clarity into the complex, daily sales, and operational decisions that impact profitable revenue generations, efficient operational performance, and reliable financial management. At Spaulding Ridge, we believe all business is personal. Core to our values is our relationships with our clients, our business partners, our team, and the global community. Our employees dedicate their time to helping our clients transform their business, from strategy through implementation and business transformation. What You Will Do and Learn: The Cybersecurity Operations Analyst will support the Cybersecurity Manager in maintaining and improving Spaulding Ridge's security posture. This entry-level role is ideal for someone looking to develop a career in cybersecurity while gaining hands-on experience across security operations, vulnerability management, identity and access management, cloud security, and compliance. The analyst will assist in monitoring security events, responding to security alerts, supporting security projects, and maintaining security documentation while learning from senior members of the Technology & Security team. Security Operations Monitor and analyze security alerts from SIEM, EDR, Firewall, WAF, IDS/IPS, email security, and cloud security platforms. Conduct and Support threat hunting and detection of tuning activities. Monitors open-source and proprietary threat intelligence feeds daily to research threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Support the investigation and triage of security alerts and incidents under the guidance of the Cybersecurity Manager. Assist with incident response activities, including documentation, evidence collection, and follow-up actions. Help maintain security playbooks and operational procedures. Vulnerability Management Assist with vulnerability scanning across endpoints, servers, and cloud environments.

Platform Deployment Management Lead Description - Job Summary • This role is responsible for leading the development and success of software products or features. The role formulates strategies and meticulous software plans for organization's platforms and technologies. The role recruits, motivates, mentors, coaches, develops, and retains a high-performing team of product managers and product marketers. Responsibilities • Plays a leadership role and drives the progress of the product management function. • Leads cross-functional teams through agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. • Monitors competitive market to determine client needs for certain product improvements. • Strategically partners with key senior stakeholders to understand needs and priorities. • Recommends product requirements and definitions to align with stakeholder's needs. • Collaborates with the software engineering team on feature ideas and prototypes to bring potential solutions to life. • Advises key stakeholders on the portfolio strategy across all phases of the lifecycle. • Tracks and reports key metrics to drive future product developments. • Collaborates with marketing and sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies, product launch plans, and marketing collateral. • Demonstrates process improvement and project management experience, preferably with the implementation of large projects. Education & Experience Recommended • Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence. • Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in product management, digital or software product development, or a related field.

About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to define and lead the strategy, roadmap, operating model, and growth of OpenAI’s B2B marketplace. You will build the scalable foundation through which customers discover, evaluate, adopt, and manage trusted third-party solutions built on and with OpenAI’s models. About the Role You are a senior marketplace and ecosystem leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of building scaled B2B platforms. You are comfortable moving between product design, commercial strategy, ecosystem development, and operations, and you can create clarity where there is no playbook. You bring the credibility to align senior internal and external stakeholders while moving quickly and executing at a high bar. Key Responsibilities Define the vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for OpenAI’s marketplace. Own marketplace business performance across partner supply, customer demand, adoption, transaction volume, partner success, solution quality, and customer trust. Partner closely with product and engineering to shape discovery, listing, evaluation, procurement, billing, deployment, identity, governance, security, and measurement capabilities. Build a high-quality ecosystem of ISVs, developers, service providers, and other third-party solution partners. Design marketplace commercial models, policies, incentives, and partner economics with finance, legal, security, policy, and operations. Create scalable go-to-market motions across sales, co-sell, private offers, marketing, and customer success. Establish standards for solution quality, safety, compliance, performance, and lifecycle management. Build and lead the marketplace team and operating cadence, aligning cross-functional owners against clear priorities and outcomes. Qualifications 15+ years of experience in marketplaces, platforms, ecosystems, product, partnerships,

The Team + The Role Pendo’s GTM Enablement function builds the playbook, systems, and reinforcement loops that help customer-facing teams perform consistently and measurably. The team partners across Sales, Customer Engineering, Revenue Operations, and GTM AI Operations to translate strategy into field behavior that improves revenue outcomes. As Senior Director, GTM Enablement, you will own the enablement operating system for Pendo’s Revenue organization. You will scale Command of the Message reinforcement, build AI-native practice and certification loops, strengthen role-based onboarding, and connect enablement activity to measurable outcomes like ramp time, attainment distribution, pipeline quality, and retention. This role leads a team across role architecture, technical architecture, GTM readiness, and program management, and partners directly with senior GTM leaders to drive decisions that stick. This is a role based in-office in Raleigh, New York, or San Francisco, or Remote in the United States. What this looks like day-to-day Command of the Message scale: Own the next phase of Pendo’s Command of the Message implementation, including reinforcement, manager accountability, AI-assisted practice loops, and certification cycles. Ensure all ramped Account Executives, Account Directors, and Customer Engineers achieve and maintain CotM fluency through Exec.com certification and continuous reinforcement. Manager enablement: Build manager-specific enablement tracks that make first-line and second-line managers active owners of change. Establish coaching accountability checkpoints, measure manager adoption, and ensure managers can coach the methodology in deal reviews and field interactions. AI-native reinforcement: Design r

At Asana, we’re building agentic work management software to help every organization in the world become more effective in working together and realizing their goals. Our Customer Experience team is committed to helping customers in their post-sales journey to deploy, adopt, and use Asana as both a technology product and a holistic way of working. We strive to help our customers, across geographies, industries, and functions, get off on the right foot, experience the most value out of the tool over time, and ultimately renew & grow their subscription. We are looking for a senior leader for the Head of Digital & Scaled Customer Success. In this role you will lead a team that designs and leads automated, data-driven programs to retain, engage, and grow large groups of smaller-tier customers without relying on one-on-one human management. You will build tech-touch strategies, manage digital engagement tools, and optimize operations to drive low-cost customer lifetime value. This role can either be fully remote depending on which US state you live in, or based in our San Francisco, Chicago, or New York City office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. If based in-office: 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 Define and own scale & digital strategy: Own the scale and digital CS strategy, defining the digital customer journey, determining engagement motions for each stage, and establishing how customers transition as their needs evolve. Design digital success programs: Launch self-serve onboarding, lifecycle communications, and in-product nudges that drive activation and habitual software usage with minimal to no human coverage. Build AI-powered e

Citi is evolving its current commerce offerings and branching into new avenues of growth by offering merchants access to high value cardmembers across Citi’s digital properties and partner placements. By combining Citi’s scale, trusted customer relationships, and real purchase insights, the business delivers advertising that is relevant to customers and drives measurable, incremental impact for advertisers. The Planning Associate supports the development and execution of media plans that align advertiser objectives with Citi’s data and media capabilities. This role contributes to both strategy and execution, helping translate campaign briefs into actionable plans and ensuring campaigns are set up effectively. This individual will work closely with Sales, Ad Operations, Product, and Analytics to help deliver campaigns that meet performance goals. Responsibilities: Support the development of integrated media plans, including audience strategy, budget allocation, channel mix, and timing Use Citi’s first-party data to help define target audiences and improve campaign performance Translate campaign objectives into clear planning recommendations with guidance from senior team members Partner with Sales and Account teams to support pre-sale planning and client presentations Collaborate with Ad Operations, Analytics, and Product to ensure campaigns are feasible and executed correctly Monitor campaign performance and recommend optimizations to improve key metrics (e.g., ROAS, conversion, engagement) Help communicate planning approach, performance expectations, and optimization ideas in internal and client discussions Contribute to developing

About the Team Enterprise Marketing helps the world’s largest organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI. Our Executive Engagement programs bring OpenAI’s products, research, and perspective into the room with senior leaders as they consider how intelligence can be put to work against their most important priorities. These engagements are more than briefings or events. At their best, they help a leadership team understand what is changing, distinguish what is possible now from what is still emerging, and leave with greater clarity about what to do next. About the Role We are looking for an Executive Programs Lead, Americas to build and lead the portfolio through which OpenAI engages its most important customers and executives across the region. You will own the regional strategy, team, and quality bar for Executive Briefings and a broader portfolio of C-suite engagements, recurring executive forums, advisory programs, and proven formats ready to scale. Your mandate is to turn high-stakes customer moments into a durable business capability, one that consistently advances important relationships while preserving the judgment and customization that exceptional executive experiences require. This is a senior people-leadership role for a builder who can set direction, make disciplined portfolio choices, and create the systems and team required to deliver at scale. You will partner closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, Research, Solutions, Customer Success, Events, and OpenAI executives, moving comfortably between long-term design and the critical details of a live engagement. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid model of three days in the office each week and offer relocation assistance. Given the customer-facing nature of the role, regular in-person participation in executive briefings and related preparation is expected and may require additional time onsite. Travel across the Americas and occasional global travel are also expected. In this

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels. About the Role We’re looking for a Marketing Scientist to join OpenAI’s Ads Marketing Science function. Reporting to Marketing Science leadership, you’ll be a senior individual contributor who combines rigorous measurement expertise with strong client judgment and hands-on execution. Your mission is to help OpenAI Ads prove and improve advertisers’ media performance. You’ll work with sales, partners, and clients supporting all forms of measurement including verification, attribution, incrementality, brand, marketing mix modeling (MMM), and scalable advertiser reporting, connecting sound methodology to decisions advertisers can act on. You will partner closely with Sales on key advertising accounts and with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Partnerships, Legal, and Privacy. Initial priorities include advancing incrementality measurement, helping onboard measurement partners to privacy-forward measurement workflows and integrations, and creating reusable programs, tools, agents, skills, and workflows that let sales and clients access high-quality Marketing Science support at scale. This role is based in either San Francisco or New York, and follows a hybrid schedule (Monday-Wednesday). In th