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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their organization. The team comprises Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals who collaborate to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Government Sales team has a unique mission to help national security customers understand the transformative impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their critical missions. This role combines technical understanding, strategic vision, partnership management, and value-driven strategy specifically tailored to Defense and Intelligence Community customers. You’ll drive key opportunities through the entire defense sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers within the Defense and Intelligence Communities advance their national security missions through AI. This role is based in Washington DC. 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'll: Manage a focused set of key U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community accounts, developing and executing comprehensive account plans Lead Defense and Intelligence customers through their AI adoption journey, from consideration to successful deployment Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex defense customer programs and projects Own and manage a National Security Community consumption revenue target Oversee revenue forecasting and reporting Analyze key Defense and I

About the role As a Deployment Strategist, you'll work as part of a driven and creative team of Forward Deployed Engineers, Go to Market professionals, Product Engineers and other Strategists to deploy ElevenAgents, our enterprise AI platform, against the challenging problems our customers face. Your mission is to synthesize disconnected streams of thought into a cohesive understanding of what the most important problem is, what the existing workflows are, what the product needs, what users are motivated by, and where the impact could be. No two days are the same, but as a Deployment Strategist you can expect to: Meet with strategic customers to deeply understand their AI transformation goals and locate their biggest pain points, particularly around customer-facing and operational workflows powered by AI agents. Own flagship deals end-to-end — from identifying the right use case to structuring commercial terms (including outcome-based pricing, license fees, and implementation arrangements) and driving them to close. Embed yourself deeply inside strategic customers: act as a trusted partner with a provisioned account, spend meaningful time onsite, and own delivery outcomes as if you were part of their team. Identify high-impact use cases through close engagement with customer problems and workflows, and collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers to bring them to life. Guide customers on best practices for deploying our products (e.g. ElevenAgents); including agent design, agent orchestration, production readiness to maximize adoption and impact. Scope out potential applications in new industries and expand our AI solutions across different sectors globally. Present the results of our work and proposals for future work to audiences ranging from technical teams to C-suite executives. Collaborate with our Research teams to feed field insights back into ElevenLabs' platform and models, helping shape the roadmap. Build and deliver compelling demos of ElevenAgent

We're looking for a senior technical consultant who thrives across the full arc of a complex technical engagement, from pre-sales scoping and architecture through hands-on delivery and handoff. As the sole Technical Services presence in EMEA, you'll work with our most strategic enterprise customers to design and implement custom solutions on the Asana platform, partnering closely with Account Executives, Solutions Consultants, and Customer Success Managers to move deals forward and deliver with excellence. You'll write code, shape architecture, and engage directly with IT and business leaders, bringing the same rigor, standards, and craft that define Technical Services globally to every engagement you run in the region. In the pre-sales motion, you'll partner with AEs and SEs to assess technical feasibility, define scope, and shape deal strategy for complex enterprise opportunities. In the post-sales motion, you'll own delivery end-to-end, designing and building scalable solutions using the Asana platform and third-party APIs, advising customer engineering teams on integration architecture, and helping customers unlock new value through AI-powered workflows, data migrations, and custom automation. You'll work alongside Implementation Managers to coordinate delivery, align on project milestones, and ensure a seamless customer experience from kickoff through close. You'll operate as a high-trust extension of the global Technical Services team, bringing a sharp customer-centric perspective from EMEA back to the central practice and contributing to how we evolve GTM offerings, delivery frameworks, tooling, and the Asana developer platform. A core part of this role is establishing consistent, globally-aligned ways of working across EMEA, applying the same playbooks, delivery standards, and engagement practices that define Technical Services everywhere. This role is based in our Dublin office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday,

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Lyft Business organization builds the platform that lets organizations move the people they depend on employees, clients, and customers. From the foundational mechanics of a company funding and provisioning a ride to the tailored workflows that get an employee to a client meeting or home after a late shift, we sweat the small stuff to make Lyft the transportation solution businesses build their programs on. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Lyft Business Team, you will act as a critical technical leader, taking holistic ownership of complex systems that span the rider experience, the administrator experience, and the enterprise integrations behind them — defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment, and driving engineering excellence to improve how organizations move their people. Responsibilities: Shape the long-term architecture for systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issues root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of s

FEQ327R691 As a Data Engineering and Warehousing Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will lead the advanced technical strategy for your customers — owning complex architecture discussions, driving platform adoption, and serving as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects. You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to position Databricks as the foundation of your customers’ data and AI strategy. You are further developing a technical specialization and are recognized within the Field Engineering team for depth in the specific domain. This position can be remote. The Impact You Will Have Own the end-to-end technical strategy for your accounts, from discovery through production deployment and consumption growth Lead complex architecture discussions — designing scalable, production-grade solutions spanning data engineering and real-time analytics Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors Drive technical wins in competitive scenarios by demonstrating Databricks’ differentiation through custom-built solutions Develop and declare an emerging technical specialization (archetype) — becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain Orchestrate cross-functional resources (DSAs, SAs, Partners) to deliver comprehensive solutions for complex customer needs Influence product direction by providing structured feedback on customer requirements and competitive gaps What We Look For 6+ years in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on technical role in the following areas: Data and Software Engineering: Deep hands-on experience with Apache Spark™ ecosystem (Spark Core, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming), message queues (e.g., Kafka), batch ingestion, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex Spark workloads Data Applications Engineering: Experience building or supporting data-driven use cases, predictive analytics pipelines, or customer analytics

About Us OpenFX is on a mission to move money as freely as data, unrestricted by time zones, banking hours, or legacy systems. We are building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of cross-border payment systems for institutions. The team's execution has been exceptional, and we're scaling at a remarkable pace. Our stellar early team comes with experience in companies like J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, FalconX, Paypal, Affirm, Polygon, Kraken, Nium & others. We’re backed by Accel, Lightspeed, NfX and other top-tier investors. Role Overview We're seeking an exceptional Americas Legal Counsel to serve as a strategic partner and legal advisor across our business, with a particular focus on financial products and partnerships. This role combines the intellectual challenge of navigating cutting-edge financial technology with the opportunity to shape legal strategy in the early stages at a high-growth company. You'll work on some of the most complex and interesting problems at the intersection of cross-border payments, cryptocurrency, foreign exchange and technology—providing pragmatic, business-oriented counsel that enables rapid growth while managing risk effectively. The ideal candidate is a team player who is energized by a high-growth environment and translating complex legal requirements and legal ambiguity into clear, actionable strategies. You move quickly with sound judgment, and excel as a trusted senior advisor to product, engineering, compliance, and business teams. Key Responsibilities: Product Legal Advise product and engineering teams on the legal and regulatory aspects of product design, development, and launch, with a particular focus on payment and banking products Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear guidance that helps teams build compliant products while growing rapidly Regulatory & Licensing Strategy Partner closely with business teams and compliance to develop and execute licensing and market entry strategies

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 Abuse Research team is dedicated to proactively hunting for emerging abuse vectors and studying complex attacker behaviors. Rather than just reacting to alerts, the team maps complete abuse paths across Stripe products and external systems to validate novel findings and explain the underlying product conditions that enable fraud. By building continuous abuse tests with agentic testing and related systems, they translate their deep research into actionable threat advisories, strategic control recommendations, and regression scenarios that fortify Stripe’s defenses. What you’ll do You will lead the Abuse Research Group (ARG)—a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers focused on proactively identifying and mitigating threats to Stripe and our merchants. You will set the research agenda, guiding work across threat actor tracking, hands-on fraud investigations, merchant ecosystem defense, and the detection pipelines that turn findings into production enforcement. You will scale the team through hiring, coaching, and talent development, while serving as a technical advisor on complex investigations. You will also own ARG's relationships with key partners—including Risk, Trust & Safety, Fraud Platform, and Security Engineering. Lead, develop, and retain a team of threat intelligence analysts, fraud researchers, and detection engineers who thrive at the intersection of adversarial research an

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 Procurement team provides services to the businesses that are the backbone for Stripe. Stripe's newly revamped broader Procurement organization consists of Third Party Risk, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Deal Management, Procurement Enablement, AP and T&E. To facilitate supplier deals with Strategic Sourcing and the business, we created a new Supplier Deal Management (SDM) team in 2022. This instrumental function builds an efficient supplier contracting process, reduces friction for business leaders, works in partnership with TPRM and Legal to minimize risk, and increases the velocity at which Stripe can engage key suppliers. SDM's mission is to drive agreements efficiently via appropriate channels, bringing structure to the overall contracting process in partnership with stakeholders while providing a customized and guided user experience and effectively managing value and risk for Stripe. What you'll do We're looking for a Supplier Deal Management Specialist to join our growing team. This individual will help us improve the user experience by processing and reviewing supplier contracting requests according to the following steps: Intake FAQ—Answer initial questions and educate DRIs on the overall risk assessment and supplier contracting process Contract Preparation—Conduct initial review of contractual terms (or assemble appropriate Stripe templates) and prepare agreements for legal review according to defined guidelines Partner wit

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 You will play a critical role in scaling our revenue by managing complex deals and developing standardized processes that balance speed with control. You'll work at the intersection of finance, sales, and legal teams to ensure our products reach customers to support Anthropic's rapid growth while maintaining the financial discipline and risk management practices essential for a frontier AI company. You'll have the opportunity to build scalable processes from the ground up and directly impact some of our most strategic customer relationships. Responsibilities Financial Analysis : Conduct growth and margin analysis, discount impact assessment, and deal profitability modeling to support data-driven decision making Deal Structure Optimization : Collaborate with sales teams to structure deals that meet customer needs while protecting Anthropic's financial and strategic interests Deal Review and Approval Management : Review and analyze enterprise deals exceeding standard parameters, focusing on pricing structures, contract terms, and financial implications Cross-Functional Coordination : Serve as the primary liaison between sales, finance, legal, and compliance teams throughout the deal lifecycle, ensuring smooth coordination and timely approvals Risk Assessment : Evaluate potential risks in non-standard deal terms and escalate appropriately to senior stakeholders Policy Implementation : Help develop and maintain deal approval policies, pricing guidelines, and exception handling procedures aligned with company objectives Process Development : Create and refine approval workflows, escalation procedures, and standardized templa

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 seeks a highly motivated and results-oriented Commercial Account Executive to drive significant revenue growth within a designated geographic region within the Commercial segment (0-500 employees). You will be responsible for expanding existing customer relationships across the entire portfolio of accounts within your assigned geography. You will develop and execute strategic account plans, drive cross-selling and upselling opportunities, and ensure swift customer adoption of Smartsheet solutions. This role requires a strong understanding of local market dynamics, the ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships, and a proven track record of success in achieving sales targets within a defined geographic territory. You will work on a hybrid basis from Munich, Germany and will be reporting to a Regional Director, DACH Sales. You Will: Build and manage a sales pipeline to meet and exceed software and services sales quotas within your book of business. Manage and close complex sales cycles, including needs analysis, solution design, and contract negotiation, utilizing solution selling and the MEDDICC framework. Develop and execute strategic account plans for a defined set of key accounts in the Commercial segment (0-500 employees). Run high-quality discovery, aligning with customers on business drivers and strategic objectives to create an evaluation plan that has clear timelines and drives urgency. Develop and maintain strong relationships with local channel partners to identify and pursue new oppo

Bloomreach is building the world’s premier agentic platform for personalization .We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the entire customer journey. We're taking autonomous search mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses. We’re making conversational shopping a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey. We're designing the future of autonomous marketing , taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do. And we're building all of that on the intelligence of a single AI engine — Loomi — so that personalization isn't only autonomous…it's also consistent.From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora. Bloomreach builds agentic AI systems for our customers. We also run them ourselves. Our AI SDR program books sales meetings with AI - inbound and outbound, across four regions, in multiple languages. The program needs an owner: someone who sets its direction, drives its results, and proves its ROI. This is a program leadership role, not an engineering one. Two dedicated AI ops experts build and run the platform. You decide what it does, why, and for whom. You should understand AI agents well enough to direct the people building them - your leverage is judgment, but being tech savvy is a must. The team experiments by default: we test new AI tools, run scoped POCs, and keep what works. You'll own the program, its direction, its results, its pipeline number. What you'll own T

JOB ID: FEQ427R344 Location: London, United Kingdom Industry: Banking, Financial Services -Industry (UK&I Enterprise) Recruiter: Dina Hussain The Role As a Sr. Solutions Architect, you are an expert-level technical leader responsible for the organization's most complex customer engagements. You drive consumption strategy, own executive-level relationships, and serve as the definitive technical authority for your accounts. You have declared your archetype—a recognized technical specialization that makes you a force multiplier across your team and region. You operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise, strategic account planning, and executive influence. The Impact You Will Have Drive the technical and consumption strategy for the organization's most complex customer engagements, directly influencing platform adoption and revenue growth. Own senior-level technical relationships — serving as a trusted advisor on enterprise data and AI strategy Lead the most complex architecture engagements: multi-workload platforms, enterprise-wide migrations, real-time systems, and AI/ML at scale Operate as an Expert on the Databricks Platform with a declared archetype — actively mentoring others and driving horizontal impact across your team Develop and execute competitive strategies for your customers, positioning Databricks against incumbent and emerging platforms Orchestrate cross-functional teams (DSAs, SSAs, Partners, Product) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions Coach and develop junior SAs (L3–L5) on technical depth, customer engagement, and use case prioritization Contribute to Field Engineering thought leadership through customer-facing content, workshops, and community engagement What We Look For 8+ years in solutions architecture, principal engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or a senior customer-facing technical role Expert-level coding proficiency — Python, SQL, and ideally Spark/PySp

About Appier Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.appier.com . About This Role Appier is looking for a PR Manager to drive corporate communications across Greater China, serving as the strategic voice with media, stakeholders, and partners, and shaping our reputation through storytelling, media relationships, and issue management. Who We're Looking For We're looking for a proactive communicator who crafts compelling AI stories, builds impact across media channels, and thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments. Responsibilities: Own the GCR PR strategy end-to-end, from brand narrative and messaging architecture to campaign execution and performance measurement. Serve as media contact and spokesperson coach, securing high-impact coverage and executive interviews with top-tier business, tech, and trade publications. Craft and oversee corporate announcements, press releases, bylines, and thought leadership content that position Appier's AI expertise and business milestones. Partner cross-functionally with Global Comms, Sales, CSMs, Marketing, Product, and AI Research teams to align regional messaging with company wide priorities. Build and manage a network of journalists, analysts, and industry influencers to drive proactive, always-on media buzz. Track media coverage and translate it into share-of-voice and sentiment metrics, delivering actionable insights that inform PR strategy. Support crisis com

GAQ126R41 About Databricks At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems—and that begins with empowering our own employees with exceptional internal products. The Databricks IT organization is a product-led engineering team building intelligent, AI-powered platforms that simplify how work gets done across the company. For Finance, our vision is to eliminate manual, repetitive work by automating complex business processes, surfacing actionable insights, and orchestrating end-to-end workflows. We are reimagining finance operations so teams spend less time processing transactions, chasing approvals, and resolving exceptions, and more time delivering strategic insights that accelerate the business. We're looking for an SAP Functional SME to own the functional design of our core finance processes on S/4HANA and to shape how AI and agentic automation reimagine them. In this role, you'll be the deep functional authority for your domain—translating how the business actually runs into standard, clean-core S/4HANA solutions, using process intelligence to find what's broken, and defining where AI belongs in a controlled, auditable process . You'll work at the intersection of SAP and AI, bridging Finance and Engineering to deliver a simpler, smarter, more automated experience. The Opportunity SAP will serve as the foundation for Databricks' core finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash. As the SAP Functional SME, you'll own the functional blueprint for those processes—leading discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design, configuring S/4HANA, and defining the requirements for the intelligent, agentic layer that automates routine work and guides users through exceptions and approvals. You'll use process mining and business process intelligence to quantify opportunity and prioritize what to build, and you'll make the call on where AI-driven recommendations belong versus deterministic rules. Your mission is to

GAQ126R44 About Databricks At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems—and that begins with empowering our own employees with exceptional internal products. The Databricks IT organization is a product-led engineering team building intelligent, AI-powered platforms that simplify how work gets done across the company. For Finance, our vision is to eliminate manual, repetitive work by automating complex business processes, surfacing actionable insights, and orchestrating end-to-end workflows. We are reimagining finance operations so teams spend less time processing transactions, chasing approvals, and resolving exceptions, and more time delivering strategic insights that accelerate the business. We're looking for a SAP Developer to build the applications, extensions, and integrations that bring this vision to life. In this role, you'll write clean-core extensions on SAP BTP, build full-stack apps and Fiori experiences, wire up integrations between SAP and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, and help embed AI and agentic capabilities directly into finance workflows. You'll work at the intersection of SAP and AI—shipping software that makes finance operations faster, smarter, and more automated. The Opportunity SAP will serve as the foundation for Databricks' core finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash. As an SAP Developer, you'll be hands-on-keyboard building the layer that makes those processes intelligent: side-by-side extensions on BTP, event-driven integrations into the Lakehouse, and AI-assisted workflows that automate routine work and guide users through exceptions and approvals. You'll build with modern SAP and Databricks AI tooling—combining SAP’s core ERP capabilities with Databricks-native AI, agentic applications, and automation—while keeping the SAP digital core clean, scalable, and upgradable. Your mission is to turn designs into robust, production-grade software that c