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We're looking for a Business Process Manager to serve as the connective tissue between our Renewals and Customer Success teams and the Enterprise Technology organization. This is a cross-functional, high-visibility role for someone who thrives at the intersection of operations, strategy, and technology — someone who can walk the floor with a CSM in the morning, then translate what they heard into a crisp business requirements document by afternoon. This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Serve as the translation layer between the field and technical teams - embed with Renewals, Customer Success, and adjacent teams to develop a ground-level understanding of how work actually gets done Surface pain points, bottlenecks, and unmet needs through structured discovery: interviews, process shadowing, workflow audits, and data analysis. Translate field insights into clear, actionable business requirements that the Enterprise Technology team can execute against Own the process improvement lifecycle - Map current-state workflows and identify gaps between how tools are used and how they could be used. Prioritize improvement opportunities based on business impact, effort, and strategic alignment Track adoption and outcomes post-launch; close the feedback loop with stakeholders Drive cross-functional alignment

Asana is seeking an experienced IT Systems Engineer (Identity) to join our growing IT Team and support the critical systems that keep IT moving forward. The ideal candidate will be focused on increasing IT efficiency through automation, and improving the end-user experience. Based in our Vancouver office, you will be primarily responsible for the support and implementation of our internal and cloud based IT identity infrastructure and applications. As an Identity Engineer, you will support and implement our internal and cloud-based IT identity infrastructure and applications to increase efficiency through automation. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the end-user experience while maintaining a crisp and detail-oriented focus on our identity systems. By leveraging your passion for technology and automation, you will play a critical role in scaling Asana's global IT operations. This role is based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Drive efficiency by implementing automated SSO on-boarding and off-boarding processes. Empower the organization through expert administration and support of Google Workspace, Slack, and Asana. Design and deliver security policies in partnership with the Security team to protect our global user base. Scale IT services by identifying and executing on high-impact automation opportunities. Standardize and automate routine IT tasks to improve overall system reliability. Resolve complex technical escalations with a focus on building long-term preventative solutions. Foster a robust IT environment by collaborating with Support and Security teams

About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Application Engineer primarily focusing on Salesforce.com and integrations with other systems in our stack. The engineer will work with various stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver solutions to scale our business. The overall goal and opportunity is to bring architectural and engineering maturity to our business systems. The role sits in the growth engineering function within the business systems engineering team. What You’ll Do Design, develop, test and deploy applications on Salesforce Platform Design, develop, and implement integrations within GTM systems and with products utilizing Python-based applications Design, develop, and maintain solutions on Ipaas (Homegrown, Workato, Clay, etc) Drive decisions on architecture patterns, tool usage, and designs required for the solution to scale both in terms of speed and scale. Hands-on developing applications, frameworks utilising Apex, LWC, Flows within SFDC Write and communicate technical specifications, including architecture diagrams, data mod

About Us At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale. With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world. Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater. About the role We are seeking our second IT Engineer to join our growing team in San Francisco. Our team laid the foundation for IT at LangChain, and this role is critical to helping us mature and scale that foundation as the company grows. You'll bring deep technical expertise to our fleet management and SaaS administration, with room to shape how we manage our fleet, identity, SaaS stack, and the automation that runs the business. The ideal candidate brings startup experience, thrives in ambiguity, loves a good problem, and is excited to build scalable systems that support our global team. What You'll Do Infrastructure & Automation Build and maintain our IT infrastructu

What is JetZero ? Today’s aircraft contribute around 4% of global CO2 emissions, equivalent to the emissions of 200 million cars. This is only going to increase: Air travel is forecasted to double by 2050, while meaningful efficiency gains using current airplanes have hit a wall. JetZero is developing a b lended - wing body (BWB) aircraft . It uses up to 50% less fuel and will be built to accommodate zero-emission hydrogen propulsion. JetZero is the inevitable solution to sustainable air travel. The JetZero Team We are experienced aerospace professionals and engineers, excited about the future. That future will only be possible if we share our vision and what it means to people’s lives: carbon-free flight that ' i s better for both passengers and airlines around the world . What is JetZero? Today’s aircraft contribute around 4% of global CO2 emissions, equivalent to the emissions of 200 million cars. This is only going to increase: Air travel is forecasted to double by 2050, while meaningful efficiency gains using current airplanes have hit a wall. JetZero is developing a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. It uses 50% less fuel and can accommodate zero-emission hydrogen propulsion. JetZero is the inevitable solution to sustainable air travel. The JetZero team We are experienced aerospace professionals and engineers, excited about the future. That future will only be possible if we share our vision and what it means to people’s lives: carbon-free flight that is better for both passengers and carriers. As an Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, testing, and integrating the electrical power generation and distribution systems for JetZero's demonstrator aircraft. You will collaborate closely with systems engineering teams, labs, and technicians to ensure the electrical power system meets all aircraft power requirements and regulatory compliance standards. JetZero is a place for people who are a

Opportunity ThermalWorks is seeking a high-caliber, full-time Technical Documentation Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will bridge first-principles thermodynamic concepts with the practical realities of our hardware to address the escalating cooling demands of modern, mission-critical data center applications. Rather than physical prototype deployment, this position focuses on the documentation lifecycle. Theoretical refrigeration knowledge is strictly essential, as you will be translating complex engineering designs and system behaviors into highly accurate support documents, manuals, and operational sequences for our product lines. Thermal Works values efficiency and strives to maintain smooth operations. Our primary focus is on providing an integrated cooling system for data centers and commercial buildings that dramatically reduces the energy demand, water consumption and cost of cooling. It transforms the economics and eco-metrics of commercial cooling with zero water solutions that outperform air- and water-cooled systems in any climate. Thermal Works solutions are sustainable and cutting-edge. For that reason, we are highly selective about the people we bring on board because our work depends on it. Change and progress happen quickly, and we must be able to trust one another to be honest, communicative, reliable, and self-motivated. We seek ultra-creatives and superstar performers with a sense of humility and a hunger to make a positive impact in the world. We offer flexibility and endless growth opportunities to those who can harness their skills and talents and identify how and where to use them to add value. Thermal Works is one of several “inspired infrastructure” companies that work collaboratively under our parent company, Endeavour Energy, LLC. At the heart of this ecosystem is a diverse group of bright, passionate, dedicated people, working together to make a real difference for people and the planet. Thermal Works is looking for someone t

The following description is not intended as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Management retains the discretion of adding or changing the duties of the position at any time. Pasadena, CA (Onsite) Full-time Salary: 90K to 110K About the Role We are seeking a Business Systems Analyst with strong project delivery experience to lead enterprise system initiatives across CRM, ERP, and operational platforms. This role is best suited for someone who can bridge business and technical teams and has hands-on experience driving system implementations from design to go-live. You will work closely with stakeholders across Sales, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, and Supply Chain to deliver scalable system solutions that improve business efficiency. What You Will Do Project & Delivery Ownership Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise systems projects (requirements → design → implementation → go-live → support) Manage project scope, timeline, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication Drive cross-functional alignment across business teams, IT, and external vendors Proactively identify blockers and drive resolution Business Analysis & Process Improvement Gather and translate business requirements into: Functional specifications Process flows User stories Analyze and optimize end-to-end business processes across systems Support solution design with a focus on scalability and operational efficiency Systems & Technical Collaboration Partner with engineering and data teams on: System integrations Data flows Process automation Support platforms such as: Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM SAP ERP Other enterprise and operational systems Understand system architecture at a conceptual level (APIs, integrations, data models) Implementation & Adoption Support system testing (UAT), training, and go-live readiness Drive user adoption and change management Monitor post-launch

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; Seattle, WA or London, UK About the Department Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within Cloudflare. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make Cloudflare a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. Cloudflare’s edge and network make it possible to solve prob

About Backblaze Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals. But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. Backblaze is seeking a highly analytical, systems-oriented Cluster & Systems Capacity Engineer to drive the planning, forecasting, deployment, and optimization of hardware infrastructure across our global cloud storage platform. About the Role: This role ensures that Backblaze’s storage clusters, compute systems, and network infrastructure scale reliably, cost-efficiently, and ahead of demand. You will build and maintain predictive models, ensure consistent supply and demand alignment, and partner cross-functionally to inform strategic investment and deployment decisions. . This is a high-impact role within Cloud Operations, directly contributing to service availability, durability, performance, margin optimization, and long-term platform scalability. Key Responsibilities: Capacity Planning & Forecasting Develop and maintain short, medium, and long-term capacity demand and hardware deployment forecasts across storage, compute, and network domains within the platform Build predictive models that translate business demand signals into in

Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. About the Role This position is part of the Business Systems Product team supporting the CIO organization. The goal of the Business Systems team is to create and deliver meaningful, large-scale technology programs that increase the ROI of Verkada’s business systems and technology and improve the overall value and performance of the organization. We make systems/processes more efficient, reduce manual, low-value work, and enable the company to run better, make better decisions, and ultimately be more profitable. What You'll Do Partner with leaders across: FLOPS (Finance, Legal, Operations, People and Supply Chain) and other key functions to address key business challenges – with a primary focus on systems, data pipelines and infrastructure, and large-scale Security and IT initiatives Implement best-practice solutions, including process

About the Team OpenAI’s People Experience & Technology (PXT) team owns the core people platform that powers worker, recruiting, contingent, approvals, and lifecycle workflows across the company. PXT is responsible for operating Workday, Ashby, and related people systems as governed, reliable sources of truth, while building the controls, monitoring, documentation, and auditability required to support scale. About the Role We’re hiring an Enterprise Systems Manager, Recruiting Systems to help own and harden OpenAI’s recruiting platform, with a focus on Ashby and its connected workflows. This is a hands-on systems role for someone who can translate recruiting process problems into governed, durable fixes through configuration, workflow design, access controls, documentation, reporting guardrails, and integration partnership. You will work at the boundary of Recruiting, HR Operations, Legal, Compensation, Analytics, IT, and PXT to improve the reliability and control health of recruiting workflows. The right person is comfortable going deep in system design while also driving rollout, adoption, and operational clarity. In this role you will: Own specific recruiting workflow domains in Ashby and adjacent tools, including stages, fields, permissions, approvals, templates, and configuration standards. Partner on high-priority remediation work across start dates, offers, approvals, integrations, auditability, data integrity, and workflow controls. Design and implement governed workflow changes that balance recruiter usability with reporting trust, downstream integration reliability, and control requirements. Establish and maintain guardrails such as required and conditional fields, stage definitions, role-based permissions, approval logic, validation patterns, and change standards. Drive durable fixes for recurring operational issues by identifying root causes and resolving them through configuration, automation, documentation, or process redesign. Partner with PXT, IT,

About Supabase Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We give developers a Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, and real-time subscriptions — all in one platform. We are building the infrastructure layer for the next generation of applications. Corporate IT at Supabase reports into the Security organization. Identity and endpoint hygiene are treated as security controls, not administrative overhead. You will work with a small, senior team with direct access to engineering leadership and a mandate to automate everything. About the Role You will work directly with our IDM/MDM Lead to own the day-to-day operations of our identity and endpoint stack — Okta, Slack, Iru (MDM), and the integrations that tie them together. This role is equal parts identity management and endpoint operations, with a strong expectation that you automate what you repeat and document what you automate. This role provides follow-the-sun IT and identity coverage alongside our IDM/MDM Lead on the West Coast. Fully remote, with a strong preference for candidates based in EST or APAC. What You’ll Own Identity & Access Management Administer Okta day-to-day: user provisioning, group management, SSO application configuration, and MFA policy enforcement. Own joiner-mover-leaver (JML) workflows — ensure access is granted on day one, adjusted on role change, and fully revoked on departure with no manual gaps. Maintain and improve Okta lifecycle automation, reducing manual provisioning toil and closing the window between HR events and access changes. Audit access regularly: identify stale accounts, over-provisioned roles, and orphaned app assignments before they become incidents. Support FIDO2/WebAuthn and YubiKey deployment for privileged access across the organization. Endpoint Management & MDM Administer Iru (formerly Kandji) MDM for macOS fleet: device enrollment, configuration profiles, compliance baselines, and policy enforcement. Ensure all managed endpo

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. Locations Available: Atlanta, US, Austin, US, Denver, US, Seattle, US, Washington DC, US, Lisbon, Portugal About Role We are actively seeking experienced and highly motivated Distributed Systems Engineers to join Cloudflare’s dynamic DATA Organisation. This is a pivotal opportunity to contribute to the future of data at Cloudflare, working on systems that are fundamental to our global operations and customer insights. Our organisation is responsib

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. Locations Available: Atlanta, US, Austin, US, Denver, US, Seattle, US, Washington DC, US, Lisbon, Portugal About Role We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated engineer to join our team and contribute to our analytical database platform. The platform is a critical component of Cloudflare Analytics which provides real-time visibility into the health and performance of Cloudflare customers' online properties. The team builds and maintai

The Role: Scale AI is hiring a highly skilled foundational IT Systems Engineer for our Public Sector IT team to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure that empowers employees to do their best work. You’ll join a creative, fast-moving, solutions-oriented group that architects and implements automation across identity and access management, endpoint management, and our broader SaaS stack. Leveraging Okta Workflows, GCC High/Azure Gov, and your familiarity with federal frameworks (FedRAMP High, IL6, CMMC), you’ll deliver robust, audit-ready systems that meet stringent compliance requirements. The ideal candidate pairs deep IAM best practices and hands-on SaaS administration with a zero-trust mindset, clear documentation, and a genuine drive to make people happy—while protecting system integrity in a fast-paced, high-security environment. You will: Assist with the administration of our tech stack with platforms such as Okta, GCC High, Opal, Slack, Jamf, Jira, and many more Provide escalated assistance to the IT Services and Support team Partner with Security/Compliance on audit artifacts (SSP updates, POA&Ms, control mappings to NIST 800-53/171, CMMC 2.0). Create and update technology documentation for internal IT teams and Scale employees Design and maintain Zero-Trust controls (device posture, network segmentation, Conditional Access) across GCC High/Azure Gov and Okta. Build Okta Workflows and lightweight services (webhooks/queues) to automate joiner–mover–leaver events, access reviews, and deprovisioning. Own change management for IT systems in regulated environments (CAB records, rollback plans, validation evidence). Ideally you'd have: 5+ years of IT systems, infrastructure, and/or engineering experience Experience with integrating with SaaS APIs and SDKs Experience with leveraging Okta or similar identity management systems for authentication and provisioning methods such as SAML, OIDC, and SCIM Scripting experience with Python, Powe