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Strategic Initiatives Program Manager (Consumer & Gaming) Description - We are looking for an experienced Strategic Initiatives Program Manager for Consumer & Gaming to lead high-impact, cross-functional programs that drive organizational priorities and accelerate business success. In this role, you will partner with leaders across multiple functions to establish governance, align stakeholders, manage risks, and ensure seamless execution from planning through delivery. The ideal candidate combines strong program management expertise, executive presence, and the ability to influence without authority to successfully navigate ambiguity, drive accountability, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities Leads cross-functional teams across the full lifecycle of strategic programs, ensuring alignment on objectives, milestones, deliverables, and business outcomes. Establishes and maintains program governance, integrated project plans, operating rhythms, reporting mechanisms, and decision-making frameworks to drive successful execution. Manages program risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and change requests, proactively driving resolution and escalation to minimize business impact. Drives stakeholder engagement and executive communications by providing clear program visibility, facilitating decision-making, and ensuring alignment across organizations and leadership levels. Tracks program performance against defined objectives, milestones, and success metrics, ensuring delivery of targeted business outcomes and strategic priorities. Qualifications Four-year degree in Business, Operations, Finance, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Responsibilities: Work directly with leaders across Plaid on the company's most important and least-defined problems, particularly those at the seams of multiple teams or functions Identify unowned, high-leverage opportunities across the business and driving them to clean outcomes Operate across a wide aperture (strategy, GTM, operations, product, etc.) without being boxed into a single lane Lead (directly or indirectly) high performing teams Use AI tools and agents as a default part of how you work — not as an experiment, but as a force multiplier Qualifications: 10+ years of total experience, with meaningful time in consulting as well as direct operating roles (BizOps, Strategy & Ops, Finance, Chief of Staff, etc. A track record of independently identifying problems and driving them to outcomes with limited top-down direction High agency, sense of ownership, and willingness to roll up your sleeves Ability to build relationships at all levels and drive cross-functional teams to action Strong analytical and structured-thinking skills; comfort translating ambiguity into frameworks, plans, and decisions Experience directly managing high-performing teams Familiarity with AI tools and agents to acce

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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is seeking a dynamic, operationally focused leader to join our team to lead the Office of the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). As the right-hand to the CPTO, you will play a key role in running the 650-person team’s operations, driving key initiatives to support our transformation strategy, and forging relationships across Smartsheet to ensure seamless execution and operations. Reporting to the CPTO, this is a high-visibility, high-accountability, and high-velocity role. The successful candidate will use their emotional intelligence and business acumen to inform strategic priorities and collaborate across the organization to accomplish our big, audacious goals. Smartsheet is at a pivotal moment in our history as we transition our value proposition, our GTM operations, and our entire product lineup into the agentic era to solidify our position as the leader in Enterprise. This is a remote eligible position and you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Annual Planning and Transformation Operations: Partner with the CPTO to build the org-wide 3-year strategic plan, focused on product adoption, revenue retention & growth, and customer value delivery aligned to the GTM strategy. Provide lift to Executives where needed on strategic initiatives. Serve as business leader in the annual strategic and financial planning process, connecting the various streams of work occurring across all product functions and partnering

Senior Partner Program Manager - Strategic Initiatives Remote (US) or New York, New York, USA We're looking for an experienced Senior Partner Program Manager to design, launch, and scale strategic initiatives across Datadog's Channels & Alliances organization. In this role, you'll identify opportunities where targeted partner programs can accelerate business outcomes beyond Datadog's standard partner framework and lead those initiatives from concept to execution. This includes driving growth in a specific region, accelerating adoption of a new product, enabling a strategic collaboration with a partner, or creating a new referral or incentive motion. You'll be responsible for turning partner business opportunities into scalable programs. You'll work closely with partner leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate opportunities, align teams, execute, and continuously iterate based on performance. This is a highly visible role that requires strategic thinking, strong execution skills, and the ability to influence across a complex organization. This is an opportunity to join a high-growth cloud software company and help shape the future of Datadog's partner ecosystem. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do Identify opportunities to accelerate partner-driven growth through targeted programs and initiatives that complement Datadog's standard partner framework Design, launch, and scale custom partner programs that support strategic business priorities, including regional growth initiatives, new product adoption, partner incentives, referral motions, and strategic collaboration agreements Partner with stakeholders across Channels & Alliances, Sales, Deal Desk, Legal, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Product, and Enablement teams to bring p

About the Team The Strategic Initiatives & Operations team is in need of a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to streamline our processes, including full safety governance and integration of various safety research and mitigations into our ChatGPT, API, and any frontier models. This role is critical for driving safe deployment of our new models, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders, ranging across research, product, engineering, legal and policy, and ensuring all the risks are effectively and properly monitored, mitigated or resolved. About the Role As a TPM, you will be responsible for critical tasks ranging from tracking safety research progress and risk tables to overseeing the quality of human data campaigns – acting as the connective tissue to enhance the deployment of OpenAI’s safety system. Additionally, you will create and execute a compute roadmap for your team to ensure that our top priorities are resourced while taking advantage of new opportunities to make key safety research discoveries. Your primary focus will be to ensure our models are qualified for safe deployment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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: Manage key risk areas and corresponding stakeholders. Keep track of a stack of existing and future mitigations for every major product and model deployment. Standardize the lifecycle of risk assessment, setting safety bars, consolidating inputs from multiple stakeholders across research, product, engineering, legal and policy, pre-launch safety reviews and post-launch followup. Manage pre-launch safety reviews. Share launch calendars and key safety practices and evaluations with our key parter (i.e. Microsoft). Develop comprehensive documentation for all the safety work, including metrics, evaluations, and progress tracking across multiple teams within OpenAI. Help with publishing and open sourcing safety

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE Everpure is seeking an experienced program manager to lead a high-visibility strategic initiative spanning across the tech ecosystem. Reporting to the Head of Business Operations, India, you will establish and run these programs to deliver local value and global visibility. WHAT YOU'LL DO 1. Build and scale the Everpure’s first Startup Engagement Initiative: Operationalize the initiative by collaborating across VCs and startup incubators Imagine and develop offerings to accelerate growth and adoption and innovate avenues for co-development Collaborate with Everpure’s Corporate VC team to identify partnership, investment, or acquisition opportunities. Lead founder relations, launch events, community programming, and all PR/comms related to these initiatives. 2. Run Customer Collaboration hub Operationalize a platform for global customer connects with Everpure’s product organization Own the engagement, including in-person forums, virtual progress check-ins, platform-topic sessions, roundtables, and targeted use-case deep dives. Drive for high quality results by coordinating structured pre-work with account teams and internal stakeholders to tailor agendas to customer priorities and business context. Manage membership commitments, renewal reviews, program-health reporting, privacy and transcription consent, and other operating controls. WHAT YOU BRING You are a highly self motivated individual with excep

About the role OpenAI is building a world-class global mobility and immigration program—agile, compliant, technology-enabled, and designed to help exceptional people work where they can have the greatest impact. In this role, you will lead high-impact strategic initiatives, including U.S. permanent residence strategy, M&A, organizational change, and global expansion. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a builder who can translate legal and operational complexity into clear, practical solutions. Reporting to the Head of Global Mobility & Immigration, you will partner with the broader team and lead through expertise and influence across Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, business teams, and external counsel to turn emerging business needs into scalable programs, policies, and durable controls. What you'll do Set the roadmap, principles, governance, and operating model for priority global mobility and immigration initiatives. Lead the U.S. permanent residence strategy, including PERM planning, controls, communications, compliance and continuous improvement. Own immigration and mobility workstreams for M&A, divestitures, restructurings, entity changes, and new-market entry—from diligence through integration. Lead global expansion strategy, ensuring work authorization, business travel, and compliance in rapidly growing international jurisdictions. Build reusable playbooks, decision frameworks, risk assessments, and change-management plans. Partner with Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, and business leaders to identify implications early and drive sound decisions. Establish dashboards and program-health measures covering compliance, cycle time, quality, cost, vendor performance, and employee experience. Manage external counsel and vendor partners through clear service levels, quality standards, budgets, and outcomes. Use systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve case handling, documentati

About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. The Opportunity Flexport is investing heavily in the next generation of fulfillment—and we’re looking for a Staff Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives who wants to be at the center of that transformation. This is not a traditional program management role. You will be the architect and hands-on builder of tomorrow’s Flexport Fulfillment network: deploying automation, designing processes, building decision tools, and creating the operational standards that define how we scale. You will own initiatives from whiteboard to go-live—and you will own the business case and ROI that justifies every dollar we invest. That means getting into the weeds on automation system design (ASRS, robotics, goods-to-person), building the financial models to size the opportunity, driving implementation on the floor, and tracking realized returns post-launch. You are accountable for the full lifecycle. You’ll sit at the intersection of operations, product, engineering, and technology—working across all functions to identify gaps, design solutions, and bring them to life. We want someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves solving highly technical problems, and isn’t afraid to get hands-on—whe

About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. The Opportunity Flexport is building the future of global fulfillment—and we’re looking for a Staff Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives who wants to be at the center of that transformation. This is not a traditional management role. You will be the architect of tomorrow’s Flexport Fulfillment network: designing processes, building products, and creating the standards that will define how we operate at scale. You’ll sit at the intersection of operations, product, and technology, working across all functions to identify gaps, design solutions, and bring them to life. We want someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves solving highly technical problems, and isn’t afraid to get hands-on—whether it’s building a new workflow in SQL, prototyping a tool, or architecting the next phase of our operating model. If you want to make a lasting impact by building something from the ground up—and have the technical, operational, and strategic chops to do it—this is the role for you. What You’ll Do Architect the Future of Fulfillment Design, standardize, and codify the processes, products, and tools that will power Flexport’s next generation fulfillment network. Define operating mod

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available locations: Austin, TX About the Role The President of Revenue Office partners with leaders across the company to drive the execution of the highest-priority Go-to-Market initiatives. We bring together teams, remove roadblocks, improve alignment, and help turn executive priorities into measurable outcomes. We're looking for a business operator who enjoys solving complex problems, bringing structure to ambiguity, and working across functio

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 Information Security team is growing and looking for a Strategic Program Manager to drive strategic initiatives and engagement across the organization. This is a fast-moving role that will help build and mature security practices and partnerships across the organization, working closely with GRC, Security Operations, Security Engineering, Internal Audit, Legal, People, Product, Sales, and business teams as a trusted security partner. You will work closely with security leadership to design programs, manage portfolios, and drive results that scale with our growing business. If you thrive on taking initiative, finding clarity in ambiguity, and driving impactful programs and relationships, we'd love to hear from you! 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 strategic security programs from planning through execution, coordinating priorities, dependencies, risks, and accountability across security and business teams Partner with teams across Figma to identify and address security risks, align stakeholders, and translate security priorities into practical guidance and action plans Define and track security program metrics, OKRs, risk registers, and reporting that give leadership visibility into program health, priorities, and risk posture Identify and coordinate the remediation of security gaps by partnering with control owners, security specialists, and business stakeholders to drive issues to reso

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Support Programs team is responsible for creating and executing strategies to optimize our users’ experience not only with Support, but with how they experience our Products. Stripe handles over a million support cases per year, and the Support Programs team ensures we address the highest strategic priorities to address problem areas and opportunities to provide an excellent customer experience. What you’ll do As a Strategic Program Manager for Support, you will drive strategic initiatives to improve our users’ experience and our efficiency and effectiveness to serve them. Your focus areas will span user-facing lines of business such as Support, Product, and internally-focused lines of business. You will collaborate closely with Support leadership and other cross-functional leaders to inform decision-making and help shape the direction of our highest priority support initiatives, and will play a crucial role in ensuring that the team is equipped with the resources and tools necessary to deliver exceptional support. Some example strategic programs include: driving the joint Support-Product strategy and operating model, improving the end-to-end experience of priority user groups (such as large platforms, AI start-ups, and Enterprises), and paid support value delivery. If you thrive on owning an expansive and complex topic area, teasing out the highest-impact work to tackle, rallying cross-functional support, and executing against multi