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Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . We're hiring a Senior Associate to join the Business Development team. This team is responsible for sourcing, executing, and scaling critical partnerships across Coinbase's core products, business lines, and global ecosystem. You'll autonomously own a portfolio of high-impact partner relationships, lead complex deal execution from first conversation through launch, and work directly with product and business leaders to bring new partnerships to life as company priorities and market opportunities evolve. What you'll do: Own and manage a portfolio of partnerships end-to-end, driving execution against commitments, resolving blockers, and ensuring partners deliver on agreed milestones and KPIs. Shape partnership strategy by identifying where new relationships can unlock growth, co-creating commercial frameworks alongside Product, Engineering, and Business leaders. Source, structure, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, independently managing the full deal lifecycle from initial outreach through close. Track partnership performance metrics, flag risks to senior stakeholders, and drive cross-functional resolution across legal, compliance, product, marketing, and finance. Lead partnership launches by coordinating cross-functional workflows and ensuring operational readiness from contract signing through go-live. Required Skills and Experience: 5+ years in strategic,

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 Finance and Strategy Data Science builds the forecasting models, data infrastructure, and analytics tools at the core of how Stripe measures and plans its business. The team owns everything from hierarchical time series and agentic forecasting tools that predict payment volumes and revenue margins, to the governed metrics platform that feeds company-wide dashboards and executive reporting. We partner closely with Finance and Strategy, GTM, and Product stakeholders to directly inform financial decisions across Stripe's entire business. The team combines technical depth, strategic thinking, and executive partnership that develops both technical and business expertise. What you’ll do Data Science Managers at Stripe are responsible for the success of their team. You'll be deeply involved in the modeling and design processes as well as coaching, mentoring, and leading the team. You'll have a deep understanding of how to drive efficient data science teams and you'll have a strong user-focus. You'll be working with data scientists, analysts, and engineers on creating technical solutions and communicating effectively across teams and senior leadership. Responsibilities Drive the roadmap and priorities for your team, and work with many Stripe leaders across the company to enhance our ability to be data-driven. Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as engineering, analytics, operations, finance, and marketing. Lead and manage proc

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 Finance and Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe's core functional leaders. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe's bottom line financials. We work cross-functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help steward Stripe's resource investments to improve the durability of our long term financial performance. What you'll do We're looking for a Finance and Strategy Partner to join our growing team. You'll help with forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for various departments accurately and in a timely manner and deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems with business partners, financial colleagues, and engineers. Responsibilities Partner closely with business leaders to support and influence key strategic and business decisions, serving as their financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g., foundational investments or business model shifts) Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g., budget, forecast, monthly reviews, and long-range plans) Build and own models for in-depth analyses, ensuring their quality, timeliness, and accuracy Define metrics, leading indicators, and reporting dashboards in partnership with cross-functional teams such as Data Science Drive contin

About the Team OpenAI’s Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team creates and operates the spaces, programs, and services that enable employees to do their best work. The team’s work spans real estate, workplace operations, design and construction, workplace experience, food programs, employee services, analytics, and global programs. As OpenAI’s presence in India grows, REW is building flexible, scalable, AI-native, people-centered workplaces that combine a consistent employee experience with strong operational and financial discipline and thoughtful adaptation to each location. Workplace & Location The location for this role is Mumbai . The role requires to be onsite 5 days per week, with regular travel among Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bangalore. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Senior Workplace Operations Manager to set the operational direction, define the workplace operating model, and lead workplace operations and employee experience across OpenAI’s locations in India, including but not limited to Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bangalore. This hands-on, country-level role combines strategic planning, senior stakeholder partnership, and day-to-day execution in a fast-changing environment. As OpenAI’s senior workplace operations owner in India, you will translate business and employee needs into a scalable, AI-native operating model and define the standards, priorities, and service outcomes that support the country’s growth. You will remain accountable for delivery through integrated facilities-management partners, contractors, and specialist vendors, while partnering closely with India business leaders, regional REW leadership, and colleagues across REW, Workplace Experience, Leasing, Design & Construction, Food, Corporate Security, IT, Finance, People, and Procurement. This is a senior individual-contributor role reporting to the Head of Workplace, JAPAC. You’ll be responsible for: Set and own the country-wide workplace operating model, service qualit

About the Team The HR Business Partner (HRBP) team at OpenAI helps shape how our organization operates and performs. We work alongside senior leaders and their teams to design effective organizations, strengthen leadership capabilities, and help people do their best work. Our expertise spans leadership coaching, organizational design, talent strategy, employee relations, and change management. Our work is grounded in a deep understanding of OpenAI’s Contributions & Impact (C&I) culture and the needs of teams working at the frontier of AI and hardware. We operate with urgency, empathy, and sound judgment. We value sincerity over polish, collaboration over ego, and a relentless focus on meaningful impact. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to support OpenAI’s Consumer Device's team. This is an opportunity to partner closely with leaders and teams doing highly ambitious, multidisciplinary work. You’ll serve as a trusted advisor as the organization builds, collaborates, and evolves—helping create the conditions for people and teams to perform at their best. The role combines strategic advising with hands-on partnership. You’ll help leaders think through organizational questions, coach managers through complex situations, strengthen people practices, and make thoughtful trade-offs that balance the needs of our people, teams, and mission. This is an individual contributor role. Come build with us. Your Key Responsibilities Shape high-performing, resilient teams: Partner with leaders on organizational design, talent planning, and ways of working that support strong performance and sustainable teams. Advise with context and judgment: Develop a deep understanding of the organization and provide thoughtful guidance on people, leadership, and organizational matters. Collaborate across OpenAI: Work closely with fellow HRBPs, People centers of excellence, and cross-functional partners to create a cohesive employee experience rooted in hum

About the Team The Agent Enablement team works across engineering, product, design, and research to bring our technology to the world. We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, and platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, supported by rigorous insights into how people use our products. About the Role We are looking for experienced full-stack engineers to join our new Agent Enablement team. Our goal is to design and grow an open ecosystem of agent-enabled sites and services. This is a wide-ranging role: you’ll build new user and agent identity protocols, user experiences to control and observe agents across web, desktop, and mobile, and much more. We will rely on you to drive our technical decisions while also steering our product and partnership direction, optimizing for both short-term impact and long-term success of the ecosystem. We value engineers who are impact-driven, autonomous, and adept at removing barriers to forward progress. In this role, you will: Design the primitives and protocols for an open agent ecosystem, enabling our users’ agents to make the best use of sites and services across the internet. Build a next-generation user experience to observe and control agents, across web, desktop, and mobile. Evolve our approach to token consumption across subscriptions and API customers. Execute on fast-paced projects in collaboration with research, design, data science and other product engineering teams. Work closely with our strategic customers and partners to grow the ecosystem. You might thrive in this role if you: Have strong full-stack engineering skills and experience shipping customer-facing products from concept to production. You’re comfortable working across frontend, backend, APIs, data models, and product desig

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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Plaid’s Partnerships team develops strategic relationships with technology platforms and other ecosystem partners that expand the reach and impact of Plaid’s products. This role will focus on data and product partnerships that power Plaid’s Credit products and insights. Plaid’s Credit team is building the future of lending by making cash flow data as widely used and trusted as traditional credit data. Our mission is to expand access to more affordable credit by giving lenders real-time financial insights that improve risk assessment and decision-making at scale. In this role, you will build and manage the external data partnerships that power Plaid’s Credit products. The partner ecosystem is broad and includes traditional credit data providers, alternative data providers, financial infrastructure companies, and other sources of differentiated data and insights. You will work closely with Product and Engineering to understand where new data can improve existing products or unlock entirely new capabilities. You will identify and prioritize partners, develop creative commercial structures, and negotiate complex agreements that balance product, economic, and strategic considerations.

About Stripe Stripe builds financial tools and economic infrastructure for the internet. We’re helping ambitious startups and the world’s most successful companies build products, create new business models, and scale their efforts globally. In pursuit of this mission, the Global Partnerships team develops, executes, and manages partnerships and strategic initiatives that enable Stripe’s product and payments ecosystem. About the team The Strategic Payments Partnerships team develops and manages relationships with payment methods and ecosystem partners that enable Stripe’s product strategy and deliver new capabilities to Stripe users. The team executes high-impact, cross-functional initiatives across new products, geographic expansion, user advocacy, and policy. These partnerships materially affect Stripe and the products used by millions of Stripe users. What you’ll do We’re looking for a Partner Development Manager to own and grow priority payment method partnerships, with a focus on strategic wallets, buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers, and related payment partners. You will manage day-to-day partner relationships and distribution initiatives, lead defined commercial and product initiatives, and work across Stripe to increase payment method adoption and deliver better experiences for users. This role requires sound commercial judgment, a structured approach to execution, and the ability to bring together internal and external stakeholders with different priorities. You will develop deep expertise in your partners and the payment method ecosystem, using that context to identify opportunities, inform Stripe’s decisions, and execute initiatives that support Stripe’s product and business goals. You will: Manage one or more priority payment method partnerships, with a focus on driving joint initiatives and launching new offerings that benefit Stripe users. Manage go-to-market strategy and enablement for defined payment method partners, products, and/or geographies, cr

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. Lyft Healthcare & Community Access is redefining how risk-bearing provider organizations, health plans, and community organizations think about transportation. We partner with healthcare organizations to solve real access challenges — connecting patients, employees, and communities to the care and resources they need. Our work is meaningful, fast-moving, and high-impact. We're looking for a driven, proactive, and curious Account Manager to join our Strategic Partnerships team. You'll manage and grow a portfolio of key healthcare partners, serve as a trusted advisor, and play a central role in expanding Lyft's footprint in one of the most important sectors we serve. Responsibilities: Own relationships across a portfolio of strategic healthcare partners and Home & Community Based Services (HCBS) partners, serving as their primary point of contact and trusted advisor Drive quarterly revenue goals by expanding existing partnerships and identifying new business opportunities within identified segments Partner with engineering and product teams to guide technical integrations, ensuring partners are set up for success and fully leveraging Lyft's API platform capabilities Develop a deep understanding of each partner's business, goals, and challenges — using data to uncover opportunities for growth and operational improvement Build expertise in healthcare transportation to anticipate partner needs and add strategic value beyond day-to-day account management Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across strategy, product, marketing, and legal to deliver for your partners Lead change management efforts and proactively identify ways to improve processes and drive efficiency Maintain accurate forecasts and pipeline management in Salesforce CRM Experience: 4+ years of experience in account management, b

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. Lyft Healthcare & Community Access is redefining how risk-bearing provider organizations, health plans, and community organizations think about transportation. We partner with healthcare organizations to solve real access challenges — connecting patients, employees, and communities to the care and resources they need. Our work is meaningful, fast-moving, and high-impact. We're looking for a driven, proactive, and curious Account Manager to join our Strategic Partnerships team. You'll manage and grow a portfolio of key healthcare partners, serve as a trusted advisor, and play a central role in expanding Lyft's footprint in one of the most important sectors we serve. Responsibilities: Own relationships across a portfolio of strategic healthcare partners and Home & Community Based Services (HCBS) partners, serving as their primary point of contact and trusted advisor Drive quarterly revenue goals by expanding existing partnerships and identifying new business opportunities within identified segments Partner with engineering and product teams to guide technical integrations, ensuring partners are set up for success and fully leveraging Lyft's API platform capabilities Develop a deep understanding of each partner's business, goals, and challenges — using data to uncover opportunities for growth and operational improvement Build expertise in healthcare transportation to anticipate partner needs and add strategic value beyond day-to-day account management Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across strategy, product, marketing, and legal to deliver for your partners Lead change management efforts and proactively identify ways to improve processes and drive efficiency Maintain accurate forecasts and pipeline management in Salesforce CRM Experience: 4+ years of experience in account management, b

The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role Compute is central to OpenAI’s roadmap and vision. We are seeking an Associate to support financial and strategic work across our compute and infrastructure portfolio. This is a finance generalist role that includes core FP&A responsibilities as well as investment analysis, commercial decision support, and strategic planning. You will own analyses and workstreams, partner closely with technical and finance teams, and help shape decisions about how OpenAI invests in and manages compute. In this role, you will be given direction on the objective and expected to independently structure the problem, work through incomplete information, and deliver a high-quality analysis and recommendation. In this role, you will: Build and maintain financial models across different elements of compute, including GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, data centers, and power Support planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure Perform investment analysis and evaluate commercial decisions and strategic initiatives Prepare high-quality analyses, recommendations, and Exec and Board-facing presentations Support business partners across compute infrastructure, FP&A, and strategic finance Help improve the team’s processes, tools, and ways of working, and identify opportunities for OpenAI to continue leading in compute You might thrive in this role if you have: 3+ years of experience across private/growth equity, investment banking, or strategic finance, or 3+ years in a finance operating role at a high-growth technology company Background in infrastructure, data

About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops silicon and system-level solutions designed for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. The team builds next-generation AI-native silicon and systems while working closely with software, research, and manufacturing partners to co-design hardware tightly integrated with AI models. In addition to delivering systems for OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure, the team develops the tools, methodologies, and strategic partnerships needed to accelerate hardware innovation. About the Role We’re seeking an experienced Hardware Strategic Sourcing Manager to own sourcing strategy and supplier partnerships for fiber and optical interconnect components across OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. Reporting to the Head of Partnerships & Strategic Sourcing, you will lead sourcing across fiber cable assemblies, internal optical harnesses, fiber shuffles, optical backplane assemblies, connectorized and standalone passive optical assemblies, fiber-array units (FAUs), fiber-to-chip and coupling interfaces, detachable connectors, optical routing, and assigned optical packaging, assembly, and test services. You will work closely with electrical engineering, optical engineering, systems engineering, mechanical and packaging engineering, quality, rack integration, data-center deployment,manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, and program management teams to translate demanding bandwidth, signal integrity, reliability, and scale requirements into resilient supplier partnerships and scalable commercial strategies. Your work will directly support the performance, reliability, manufacturability, and scale of the high-speed optical connectivity required for OpenAI’s next-generation AI systems. In this role, you will: Develop and execute a comprehensive sourcing strategy for fiber and optical interconnect components supporting high-bandwidth AI systems and infrastructure. Own sourcing across optical fiber cable assembli

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why This Role: Cohere seeks a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to manage our Professional Services Procurement function. In this role you will be responsible for executing Strategic Sourcing activities across these categories as we continue to grow rapidly. You will collaborate with FP&A, Accounting, Legal, and multiple business stakeholders to support our Procurement operations. This is an opportunity for a hands-on Procurement professional who thrives in a high-growth environment, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and can help implement efficient processes. You’ll be instrumental in building Procurement categories for Professional Services spend and owning their development and optimization. You’ll have the opportunity to establish best practices, drive significant cost savings, and create strategic partnerships with key service providers that support our business growth. Contract Terms: This is a 12-month fixed-term contract position with the potential for conversion to a permanent role based on business needs and performance. Please note that conversion to a permanent position is not automatic and will be subject to a se

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. 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: Own technical revenue accounti

About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Within Finance, the Technical Revenue team partners with Product, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Growth, Legal, Deal Desk, GTM, Strategic Finance, Revenue Accounting, and Finance Systems to enable scalable, audit-ready monetization. We advise on commercial and contract design, establish defensible accounting positions under ASC 606, and translate those conclusions into repeatable processes, systems, controls, and reporting. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Revenue Recognition to lead revenue strategy and technical accounting for OpenAI’s strategic commercial deals. Reporting to the Head of Technical Revenue, you will serve as the primary revenue advisor for large, bespoke, and non-standard deals outside OpenAI’s standard product and service offerings. Your portfolio may include strategic collaborations, cloud marketplaces, platform and distribution deals, licensing and revenue-share models, joint go-to-market initiatives, research collaborations, and other emerging commercial structures. You will engage early in the deal lifecycle to help shape commercially viable, accounting-compliant, and operationally scalable outcomes. You will establish the accounting posture, identify required contract and product terms, define reporting and control requirements, and ensure that deal economics, billing flows, and revenue recognition remain aligned as the business evolves. This role requires strong technical accounting judgment, commercial fluency, executive communication, and the ability to create clarity and ownership in areas where precedent may not yet exist. 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: Own technical revenue account