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About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them move from experimentation to production with OpenAI’s technologies. We act as trusted technical advisors, working across customer strategy, architecture, deployment, and adoption to help organizations realize meaningful impact from frontier AI. The Startups segment serves fast-moving, high-growth companies that are often building new products, workflows, and businesses directly on top of AI. These customers move quickly, operate with high ambiguity, and expect practical, creative, and technically rigorous partnership. About the Role We are looking for an Applied AI Engineering Manager, Startups to lead and scale the Startups Applied AI Engineering motion. This team helps high-growth startups move quickly from experimentation to production, unlock meaningful usage, and build durable technical partnerships with OpenAI. This leader will operate in a high-velocity customer segment where founders, CTOs, and technical teams expect speed, judgment, and hands-on problem-solving. They will balance team leadership, technical depth, customer prioritization, and cross-functional influence across Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and broader go-to-market teams. In this role, you will define how OpenAI supports startup customers at scale: identifying where deep technical engagement can unlock outsized impact, building repeatable deployment mechanisms, and ensuring the team can serve a broad and dynamic customer base without losing quality or strategic focus. In this role, you will: Craft and continuously refine the strategic vision and operating model for the Startups Applied AI Engineering team, aligning it with OpenAI’s broader company objectives and the evolving needs of high-growth startup customers. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing technical ICs supporting startup customers across AI-native, developer-led, and product-led companies. Help startups move from early e

About the Team Like every team at OpenAI, the Marketing team contributes to our broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence With that aim in mind, we are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI’s products and platform amongst our core audiences. 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, Research, Comms, and Design teams to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. Our focus extends beyond just promoting product features; we aim to provide valuable insights and resources that help our users make the most out of AI technologies. About the Role As a Product Marketing Manager for Partner Marketing on the Hardware team, you will help shape the partnership strategy for a new product ecosystem and bring that ecosystem to market with the right partners, programs, and commercial motions. This role calls for a strategic, relationship-oriented marketer who can identify high-potential partners, understand their priorities, and turn shared opportunities into durable, high-impact go-to-market plans. You will work closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Integrated Marketing, Sales, Comms, Finance, Legal, and partner-facing teams to define how first-, second-, and third-party partners participate in our hardware ecosystem. You will lead the marketing and commercial aspects of partnerships, support joint launches, and ensure partner needs are understood internally while OpenAI’s product, brand, and customer experience standards are represented externally. This role reports into the VP of Product Marketing, Hardware, and offers a unique opportunity to build the partner marketing foundation for a new category of AI-powered devices. In this role, you will: Help craft and implement th

About the Team The Integrated Marketing team sits at the center of product, brand, creative, media, research, and GTM work. We partner closely with PMM, Product, Developer Relations, Design, Comms, and agency teams to shape launches and campaigns that are clear, distinctive, and grounded in real audience insight. This is a growing function, so the team needs people who can both raise the quality of the work and build the operating model around it: bringing strong judgment, high agency, and trusted partnership to complex, visible moments. About the Role OpenAI business launches move quickly and often involve new products, model capabilities, or research that can change how businesses operate. We’re looking for an integrated marketing manager to help shape those launches from early strategy through execution. You’ll develop a point of view on the audience, positioning, creative direction, and channels, and help turn complex product and research advances into campaigns that connect with customers. You’ll partner across Product, Product Marketing, Research, Brand, Creative, Communications, Growth, and Sales, along with external agencies. The right person understands technology, has strong strategic and creative instincts, and knows how to bring together the right people and ideas to produce work that is clear, credible, and effective. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with three days a week in the office. In this role, you will: Develop integrated marketing strategies for business product launches, new capabilities, model releases, and research moments. Partner with Product, Product Marketing, and Research to understand what’s changing, identify the right audiences, and shape positioning and launch narratives. Lead campaigns that bring launches to life across creative, communications, customer marketing, developer marketing, growth, sales, and paid, owned, and earned channels. Identify customer stories, product demonstrations, and creative concepts that make

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Partners & Alliances Team The Global Alliance Team is part of Okta’s Revenue Organization. We manage the largest and most complex relationships across Cloud Providers, ISVs, Resellers, Distributors, Delivery Partners and Systems Integrators with a laser focus on driving sales, adoption and deployments of Okta’s software. We are looking for an experienced, well-connected, and ideally multilingual Alliance Manager to join the team. This role is a critical builder position with a strategic mindset, focused on scaling our regional footprint with AWS and Google alongside key ISV partners across APJ excluding ANZ. The Opportunity The Cloud & ISV Alliances Manager is responsible for owning and leading the strategic engagement, co-sell motion, and partnership between Okta, AWS, and our core ISV ecosystem (including partners like Zscaler and CrowdStrike ). Reporting into the AVP of Cloud and ISV, you will act as the primary focal point for all AWS and strategic ISV-related program engagements within your designated territories. You will drive deep collaboration between internal stakeholders, partner teams, and clients, ensuring clear and measurable execution plans are in place to achieve agreed revenue goals. The role demands active in-market presence and close alignment with Okta’s regional leadership, sales, and technical teams to unlock joint go-to-market strategies. What you’ll be doing Drive Revenue Growth: Lead and expand the Okta/AWS and ISV relat

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. We're looking for a Japan Growth Lead to establish and scale Replit's commercial presence in Japan. This is a high-impact, externally-facing role that sits at the intersection of enterprise business development, channel sales, and market strategy. You'll own how Replit shows up in the Japanese market, building partnerships with enterprise and government customers, activating reseller and channel partner networks, and representing Replit at major industry events and conferences. This role is ideal for someone who has deep roots in Japan's business landscape, understands how to navigate enterprise and public-sector sales cycles in Japan, and knows how to build trust with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. What You'll Do Enterprise & Government Partnerships Own end-to-end partnership development with enterprise accounts, government agencies, and public sector institutions in Japan Identify, prospect, and close strategic partnerships with large Japanese enterprises across technology, finance, manufacturing, retail, and more Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder procurement processes typical of Japanese enterprise and government accounts Build long-term relationships with key decision-makers, executives, and procurement leads Channel & Reseller Activation Identify, recruit, and activate resellers, system integrators, and channel partners who can distribute Replit's products in Japan Develop enablement programs, co-selling motions, and joint go-to-market strategies with channel partners Negotiate partnership agreements, reseller terms, and co-marketing arrangements Monitor partner performance and iterate on programs to maximize channel revenue Education (EDU) Partnerships Build partnerships with Japanese un

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. As a GTM & G+A Sourcer , you won't just be filling seats; you will be the primary architect of the talent pipeline that builds the future of our business, operations, and growth teams. We are seeking a Fixed Term Full Time employee for a 6 - 12 month term . The Mission At Replit, we don’t look for average talent; we look for "10x" builders and creators. Your mission is to find the needles in the haystack—high-impact professionals across Go-to-Market (Sales, Marketing, Growth) and G+A (Finance, People, Ops) who are product-minded and excited by the challenge of democratizing coding. Key Responsibilities Strategic Pipeline Building: Identify and engage top-tier talent for GTM functions and G+A roles. Creative Outreach: Utilize AI tools to streamline workflows while crafting highly personalized, compelling outreach that resonates with the Replit ethos. Deep Research: Map out talent across LinkedIn, X (Twitter), competitive startups, and niche professional communities to uncover "undiscovered" talent. Full Lifecycle Partnership: Collaborate closely with Recruiters and Business Leads to calibrate profiles and refine search strategies in real-time. Data-Driven Iteration: Track conversion rates and leverage data to pivot sourcing strategies as needed. Who You Are Experience: 3+ years of sourcing experience with a focus on GTM or G+A roles, ideally within a high-growth startup environment. Business Acumen: You understand the AI/SaaS landscape and know what excellence looks like in non-technical candidates within our specific culture. Persistence: You possess a "hunter" mentality and enjoy the challenge of identifying talent for highly specific, specialized roles. High Agency: You are self-directed, comfortable operating wi

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. At Okta, our Customer Experience Center hosts the leadership of our most valued prospects, customers, and partners to understand their strategic priorities and align on how Okta serves as a strategic partner in driving their overall business success. Our Executive Briefings are the face of Okta – showcasing our vision, product innovation, and culture while building lasting strategic partnerships. We are looking for an experienced Executive Briefing Program Manager to drive the strategy and end-to-end execution of executive briefings at our flagship HQ center in San Francisco. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with direct exposure to executive leadership across Okta and our enterprise customer portfolio. Key Responsibilities Strategic Ownership: Own the briefing strategy for our flagship San Francisco center, measuring success and regularly reporting out ROI and pipeline impact to executive stakeholders. Briefing Execution: Lead high-touch briefing engagements from initial request to post-briefing follow-up, ensuring an exceptional, white-glove experience. GTM & Account Team Partnership: Collaborate with Enterprise Sales, Customer Success, and Solutions Engineers to define briefing objectives, customize agendas, build prep materials, and facilitate pre-briefing alignment and post-brief ing debriefs. Executive Speaker Management: Source, prep, and manage internal discussion leaders (VP+ and C-Suite); continuously cultivate and enable

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Partners & Alliances Team The Global Alliance Team is part of Okta’s Revenue Organization. We manage the largest and most complex relationships across Cloud Providers, ISVs, Resellers, Distributors, Delivery Partners and Systems Integrators with a laser focus on driving sales, adoption and deployments of Okta’s software. We are looking for an experienced, well-connected, and ideally multilingual Alliance Manager to join the team. This role is a critical builder position with a strategic mindset, focused on scaling our regional footprint with AWS alongside key ISV partners across WEMEA, Benelux, and the Nordics . The Opportunity The Cloud & ISV Alliances Manager is responsible for owning and leading the strategic engagement, co-sell motion, and partnership between Okta, AWS, and our core ISV ecosystem (including partners like Zscaler and CrowdStrike ). Reporting into the AVP of Cloud and ISV, you will act as the primary focal point for all AWS and strategic ISV-related program engagements within your designated territories. You will drive deep collaboration between internal stakeholders, partner teams, and clients, ensuring clear and measurable execution plans are in place to achieve agreed revenue goals. The role demands active in-market presence and close alignment with Okta’s regional leadership, sales, and technical teams to unlock joint go-to-market strategies. What you’ll be doing Drive Revenue Growth: Lead and expand the Okta/AWS and ISV r

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 Stripe EMEA Marketing team is a dynamic and rapidly growing group dedicated to transforming customers into enthusiastic advocates for Stripe. Collaborating closely with sales, we focus on accelerating the path to purchase and enhancing product adoption among our user base. Our regional marketing efforts involve crafting and executing tailored marketing plans that resonate with local audiences, as well as spearheading our most significant conferences and sponsorships that drive go-to-market success and business growth. Join us and be part of a culture that celebrates teamwork, innovates boldly, and makes a meaningful impact. What you’ll do We’re looking for a strategic, results-oriented marketing leader to drive our marketing engine for SMB and Mid-Market segments across EMEA, with an emphasis on Ideal Customer Profiles. This segment represents a massive portion of Europe’s economic fabric and is a critical driver of our ambitions in the region. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, and cross-functional influence. You'll translate global priorities into locally resonant programs, ensuring that audiences in the SMB and Mid-Market space have high-quality, insight-driven experiences throughout their lifecycle, from early exploration to long-term partnership. The ideal candidate is data-driven, has an unbridled passion for working hand-in-hand with regional sales

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 build and lead our business with independent software vendors, from native AI companies building in our programs to technology companies taking new products to market with OpenAI’s models and products. You will help partners build, launch, and grow differentiated products while working closely with our sales and product organizations. About the Role You are a senior partnerships leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of building consequential ISV relationships. You can establish durable executive partnerships, lead complex product and commercial negotiations, and move fluently from market strategy to integration, launch, adoption, and growth. You are highly commercial, technically fluent, and comfortable operating where there is no playbook. In this role, you will: Define OpenAI’s ISV partnership strategy, priorities, segmentation, and business goals. Recruit and manage a portfolio of high-impact software partners across horizontal and vertical applications. Structure and negotiate partnerships spanning product integration, model adoption, commercial terms, distribution, and joint go-to-market. Develop joint business plans and executive governance with strategic partners. Help partners move from initial build to launch, customer adoption, expansion, and scaled consumption. Create repeatable co-build, co-sell, co-market, and marketplace motions. Serve as the voice of ISVs internally, shaping product requirements, developer experience, economics, and partner programs. Track partner pipeline, launches, adoption, consumption, customer impact, and ecosystem growth. Establish the team structure and operating model needed to scale the ISV business. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience in technology partnerships, business development, platform ecosystems, or enterprise softw

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Partner Marketing at Vanta drives revenue growth and market expansion through high-impact cloud, technology and ecosystem partnerships. Our team builds and invests in joint campaigns, co-marketing initiatives, and MDF programs to generate pipeline, accelerate deals, and deepen partner relationships. As we scale, repeatable programs, partner-ready plays, and data-driven insights are critical to maximizing the impact of our partner investments. As the Senior Manager, Partner Marketing Programs at Vanta, you will build, scale and execute the foundational engine behind our global partner marketing strategy. This is a highly visible, highly cross functional role working closely with partner product marketing, partner enablement, partner marketing, partner sales, systems and finance. You will champion three critical focus areas to propel our partnership strategy forward: Orchestrate high-impact partner communications and community engagement —including product launches, enablement webinars, and an active partner community—designed to keep partners fully enabled, deeply engaged, and continuously choosing Vanta. Maximize Market Development Fund (MDF) Impact and ROI —strategically allocating, tracking, and optimizing investments to turn MDF into a high-yield engine for measurable pipeline expansion across our entire partner ecosystem. Scale partner pipegen programs by transforming Vanta's campaign calendar and product roadmap into robust, partner-ready packages, campaign kits, and sales plays that drive joint pipeline. Reporting to the Head of Global Strategic Partner Marketing, you will empower our partner network to grow and scale wit

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Senior Manager, Customer Success. About the job At Twilio, we believe the best customer interactions are grounded in real-time customer data. Our unified Customer Engagement Platform combines market-leading communications channels (Messaging, Voice, Video) with powerful Customer Data Platform (CDP) capabilities. This allows organizations to break down data silos, understand their audience through unified profiles, and orchestrate intelligent, highly personalized customer experiences at scale. The Customer Success Management team at Twilio is the central touchpoint for our strategic customers, orchestrating the post-sales customer lifecycle in partnership with Professional Services, Sales, Product, and Support. The team manages executive customer relationships, drives platform adoption, and guides organizations on leveraging customer data to unlock the full power of Twilio’s ecosystem. Fundamentally, the CSM team ensures

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Communications team supports that mission by explaining our technology, our values, and how we safely build powerful AI. We help business leaders see what AI can make possible for their organizations, show how customers use OpenAI’s products, and explain how AI is changing the way people work. About the Role We are looking for a senior product communications leader to own OpenAI’s B2B product story across business, trade, and nontraditional media. You will lead B2B communications for major product and platform moments, translate technical capabilities into clear business value, and build a sustained editorial program grounded in customer proof. Your work will help business leaders understand the problems our products solve and the outcomes they can enable using frontier intelligence. This is an exceptionally fast-paced, hands-on role that spans every altitude of communications. You will move from setting strategic positioning and shaping executive narratives to writing launch materials, developing media pitches, and delivering the details that make a story land. Working closely with Product, Research, Marketing, Sales, and our central Product Communications team, you will identify buyer needs, substantiate our claims, and carry a clear, consistent B2B story into the market. This role reports to the Head of Business Communications. In this role, you will: Set the positioning for OpenAI’s business products, connecting new capabilities to customer needs, the work they enable, and the evidence behind our claims. Lead business storytelling for priority launches across Codex, ChatGPT Work, API and developer capabilities, agents, and other enterprise products, in partnership with central Product Communications and product owners. Build a sustained editorial program between launches, using customer stories, explainers, and executive perspectives to show how our pr

About the Team DoorDash Digital Ordering is DoorDash’s leading SaaS business unit, offering a suite of products across online ordering, branded websites and mobile apps, loyalty solutions, and more that enable restaurants to reach customers and grow their revenue through their own first-party channels. The business is one of the fastest-growing segments within DoorDash, and yet is only scratching the surface of a generational opportunity to better serve hundreds of thousands of merchants across the Americas to help them grow their business and improve working lives in one of the country’s biggest industry sectors. Strategy & Operations sits at the center of that opportunity. The team partners with Product to set the strategy and vision for every offering in the suite, across our SMB and enterprise merchants. We decide what to build, where to invest, and how to bring it to market, and we learn by putting products in front of merchants and running the experiments that show us what moves their business. As part of this team, the Associate Manager will take end-to-end ownership of a set of products and lead the cross-functional effort to grow them. Your work will be instrumental to helping transition DoorDash from a consumer marketplace to an industry-leading B2B SaaS company. About the Role As an Associate Manager on the Digital Ordering Strategy & Operations team, you will own a set of products within our first-party suite from end to end. You will set the strategy and priorities for those products in partnership with Product, be accountable for their growth, and lead the Product, Engineering, Analytics, Implementation, Sales, and Marketing partners who bring them to market. This role is ideal for a strategic operator who can move fast and wear many hats, equal parts analyst, builder, operator, and cross-functional leader. You will own zero-to-one experiments alongside products already operating at scale, help shape the roadmap with Product, and work directly

About the Team The OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic, mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how governments achieve their missions. Our team works to empower public servants with secure, commercial and specialized national-security models that address government's mission needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide the highest degree of reliability and safety. As part of the OpenAI for Government team you will work with U.S. intelligence community and international public sector customers, helping to accelerate adoption through hands‑on support, tailored training, and early insights—so civil servants can spend less time on red tape and more on meaningful work. If you're passionate about responsibly deploying frontier AI to uplift public institutions and transform how government works, we want you on our team. About the Role Our OpenAI for Government team has a unique mission to help government 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 government customers. As a Capture Manager, you’ll identify and drive key opportunities through the government sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll collaborate closely with industry partners, potential customers, policy makers, and internal experts to help government customers advance their missions through AI. This role is based in Washington, DC. In this role, you will: Pipeline Development : Partner with O4G GTM teams to identify, build, and maintain a multi-year pipeline of strategic opportunities. Capture Management : Lead the full capture lifecycle — from opportunity identification and qualification through win strategy, teaming, proposal, and award. Content Development : Write and edit proposal sections, weaving together inputs from subject matter experts into cohesive