🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role Are you passionate about ensuring the highest quality for cutting-edge generative AI applications? As a software quality engineer at WRITER, you'll play a critical role in shaping the reliability, performance, and trustworthiness of our AI-powered work orchestration platform. You’ll be at the forefront of defining and implementing rigorous quality strategies for our enterprise-grade LLMs and AI agents, directly impacting how hundreds of global companies unlock transformational value through AI. This is a unique chance to dive deep into the unique challenges of AI quality assurance and make a tangible difference in a rapidly evolving field. This is a hybrid role based out of our London, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City hubs. You will report directly to the director of engineering. 🦸🏻♀️ What you'll do Define and implement comprehensive quality assurance strategies and test plans for our AI agents and LLM-powered applications, ensuring exceptional prod
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🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role Are you passionate about ensuring the highest quality for cutting-edge generative AI applications? As a software quality engineer at WRITER, you'll play a critical role in shaping the reliability, performance, and trustworthiness of our AI-powered work orchestration platform. You’ll be at the forefront of defining and implementing rigorous quality strategies for our enterprise-grade LLMs and AI agents, directly impacting how hundreds of global companies unlock transformational value through AI. This is a unique chance to dive deep into the unique challenges of AI quality assurance and make a tangible difference in a rapidly evolving field. This is a hybrid role based out of our London, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City hubs. You will report directly to the director of engineering. 🦸🏻♀️ What you'll do Define and implement comprehensive quality assurance strategies and test plans for our AI agents and LLM-powered applications, ensuring exceptional prod
About THG Ingenuity THG Ingenuity is a fully integrated digital commerce ecosystem, designed to power brands without limits. Our global end-to-end tech platform is comprised of three products: THG Commerce, THG Studios, THG Fulfilment. Each represents a single, unified solution, overcoming challenges and taking brands direct-to-consumer. Our client portfolio includes globally recognised brands such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, Elemis, Homebase, and Proctor & Gamble. Database Platform Manager Company: THG Ingenuity Location: Manchester (Head Office) Reports to: Director of Data Role Overview We are looking for a strong technical leader to run our database platform. Our estate runs on Google Cloud Platform following a recent migration to self-managed services, and there is a real opportunity here to shape the next phase. How we consolidate and modernise the estate, where managed and cloud-native services earn their place, which new technologies are worth adopting, and how the platform scales with the business are all live questions. You will lead the thinking on them and work with stakeholders across the business to agree and deliver the roadmap. You will lead our DBA team, who own every database across the group regardless of the application running on it and who run the platform as a 24/7 service. You will work hand in hand with our Data Reliability Engineering team, whose Principal Engineer is your peer and whose focus is automation, fleet reliability and SLOs. This role is weighted toward hands-on technical depth. You should be as credible in a design review or an incident bridge as you are in a planning session with senior stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Technical direction The technical roadmap for the estate. We want someone genuinely interested in emerging database technologies who evaluates them on merit and can articulate the pros and c
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: This role is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of WPP’s Service Management re-platform programme, replacing the current platform with a modern, AI-enabled service management capability. You will be accountable for the planning, coordination, governance, and execution of a large-scale platform transformation, ensuring all workstreams are delivered in a controlled, structured, and timely manner. Working under the Director of Service Delivery, you will coordinate cross-functional teams and strategic implementation partners, driving delivery across technology, process, data, integrations, and organisational change while ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, budget, and business outcomes. This role requires a highly experienced programme delivery leader who can establish strong governance, manage complex dependencies, mitigate risk, and successfully deliver one of WPP’s most significant Service Management transformation programmes. What you'll be doing: Programme & Project Delivery Lead the end-to-end delivery plan
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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Difference You will Make: The Senior Marketing Manager, France, Benelux & EMEA will report to the Senior Marketing Lead, France & Benelux. They will support them to develop strategic plans and execute, implement, and track marketing programs to drive profitable growth for the region. They will also act as a thought partner, sounding board, and consultant to the Regional Marketing Director, EMEA regarding the regional business, marketing planning, and operations by tapping into their deep understanding of the business, consumer and market. With strategic, creative, operational and emotional effectiveness, this person will define business challenges and strategies to drive growth, nurture a high-performing in-house marketing team, manage agency partners, and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including regional business leadership, PR, media, product, performance marketing and customer experience, to deliver actionable, locally relevant, growth-oriented marketing plans that realize the business and brand ambitions. Responsibilities Build and maintain a deep understanding of the French and Benelux consumer, the competitive set and the local travel landscape. Interpret research, and bring those insights to bear on local plans and global strategy. Develop growth plans for current and prospective guests and hosts in each market, addressing the distinct demand and supply priorities of the region. Collaborate across functions to build an integrated roadmap that delivers on the strategy. Local programs leadership: Identify and lead local campaign opportunities and execution in France for
Position Overview: As an Enterprise Account Director with Diligent, you'll be at the forefront of driving revenue growth, deepening customer engagement, and shaping the future of how businesses utilise our cutting-edge solutions. Success in this role means introducing new clients to our platform. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role that demands strategic vision, proactive relationship-building, and relentless pursuit of excellence. You’ll be responsible for everything from engaging prospects and managing a robust pipeline to delivering accurate forecasts and closing deals. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategist, you’ll lead account planning, orchestrate internal collaboration, and leverage expertise to elevate customer success and revenue growth. We’re looking for a commercially sound sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets, a natural collaborator, and someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. If you’re driven to create value, embody a customer-first ethos, and deliver innovative solutions, this is the role for you. Key Responsibilities: Proactively build a deep knowledge of and expertise in Diligent’s products, solutions, strategy and business priorities. Responsible for prospecting new business within the FSBI territory for complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Adopts a ‘solutions’ selling approach, understanding customer needs and developing solutions through the lens of the Diligent One Platform. Build deep relationships with prospects during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honouring commitments and connecting the customer to internal commercial stakeholders to foster product growth. Develop and execute on account plans to ensure revenue targets, quota and customer business needs are met and collaborates with key stakeholders to drive integrated joint account wins for mutual business growth. Leads the coordination of Sales stakeholders to prioritise actions for multiple assign
About The Role The Director, Strategic Alliances, EMEA will be responsible for defining and executing Diligent's partnerships strategy across the EMEA region as a senior individual contributor. This role will focus on identifying, structuring, and closing high-impact strategic partner-led deals that accelerate customer acquisition, expand Diligent's enterprise footprint, and drive revenue growth through partner resell and co-sell motions — with a particular focus on advisory and consulting firms (Big 4 and Tier 2) and large resellers/channel partners. This senior leader will develop deep insight into regional market dynamics and build the foundational partner ecosystem across advisory/consulting firms, resellers, and channel partners at the pace needed to match Diligent's rapid growth. This is fundamentally a builder's role — the person in this seat will need to build and own the region and its relationships largely from the ground up. This role requires close collaboration with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams. Success will be measured by partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue, new logo acquisition, expansion of product usage through partners, and the establishment of scalable partnership models that can be operationalized as the business grows. Responsibilities Partnership Strategy & Execution Execute the EMEA partner strategy in alignment with Diligent's global objectives and regional go-to-market plans. Identify, prioritize, and secure strategic partnerships across advisory/consulting firms (Big 4 and Tier 2) Develop partner value propositions, commercial frameworks, and engagement models tailored to EMEA market needs. Establish repeatable partnership structures, playbooks, and success metrics that can scale over time as the region and partner base grow. Channel & Revenue Impact Drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced p
Position Overview: As an Account Director with Diligent, you'll be at the forefront of driving revenue growth, deepening customer engagement, and shaping the future of how businesses utilise our cutting-edge solutions. Success in this role means expanding product adoption among current customers and introducing new clients to our platform. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role that demands strategic vision, proactive relationship-building, and relentless pursuit of excellence. You’ll be responsible for everything from engaging prospects and managing a robust pipeline to delivering accurate forecasts and closing deals. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategist, you’ll lead account planning, orchestrate internal collaboration, and leverage expertise to elevate customer success and revenue growth. We’re looking for a commercially sound sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets, a natural collaborator, and someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. If you’re driven to create value, embody a customer-first ethos, and deliver innovative solutions, this is the role for you. Key Responsibilities: Proactively build a deep knowledge of and expertise in Diligent’s products, solutions, strategy and business priorities. Responsible for prospecting new and existing business within the designated vertical / territory for complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Adopts a ‘solutions’ selling approach, understanding customer needs and developing solutions through the lens of the Diligent One Platform. Build deep relationships with prospects and customers during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honouring commitments and connecting the customer to internal commercial stakeholders to foster product growth. Develop and execute on account plans to ensure revenue targets, quota and customer business needs are met and collaborates with key stakeholders to drive integrated joint account wins for mutual business growth
Position Overview: As an Account Director with Diligent, you'll be at the forefront of driving revenue growth, deepening customer engagement, and shaping the future of how businesses utilise our cutting-edge solutions. Success in this role means expanding product adoption among current customers and introducing new clients to our platform. This is a high-impact, individual contributor role that demands strategic vision, proactive relationship-building, and relentless pursuit of excellence. You’ll be responsible for everything from engaging prospects and managing a robust pipeline to delivering accurate forecasts and closing deals. Acting as a trusted advisor and strategist, you’ll lead account planning, orchestrate internal collaboration, and leverage expertise to elevate customer success and revenue growth. We’re looking for a commercially sound sales professional with a track record of exceeding targets, a natural collaborator, and someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. If you’re driven to create value, embody a customer-first ethos, and deliver innovative solutions, this is the role for you. This role operates on a hybrid model, with 50% office-based work required (periodic travel to partner offices will be required). This role is open to candidates based in London. Regrettably we are unable to provide visa sponsorship, so you must be eligible to work in the UK. Key Responsibilities: Proactively build a deep knowledge of and expertise in Diligent’s products, solutions, strategy and business priorities. Responsible for prospecting new and existing business within the designated vertical / territory for complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Adopts a ‘solutions’ selling approach, understanding customer needs and developing solutions through the lens of the Diligent One Platform. Build deep relationships with prospects and customers during interactions by being customer-focused and consistently honouring commitments and connecting th
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! Role Overview Cohere has a strong AI narrative, the most deployable product, and a CEO who co-authored the foundational paper of modern AI. The company is positioned to become the transatlantic leader in sovereign AI for enterprise and government, and needs a storytelling engine to deliver that story at scale. This role sits within the team that is building that engine. In this cross functional role, you will stand up our PR and Communications function in the EMEA region. You'll partner with the global Corporate Communications team to create regional plans that fuel our growth among governments and enterprises in the most highly-regulated industries. You’ll work with cross functional teams to ensure regional messaging is culturally relevant and effective for customers, partners, and employees in each region. This is a rare opportunity to build a comprehensive EMEA communications function at a fast-growing company in the most dynamic space in technology. This is a role for someone who likes to take big swings – and have fun doing it – where no job is too big or too small. Key Responsibilities Build a PR and Communications functio
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We’re looking for a Director, Multi-Vertical (CPG, Tech, Auto, Travel, Telco, Ents, QSR, FinServe, Govt), UK to lead our monetisation efforts across the vertical. Reporting to the UK Managing Director, you'll be responsible for building this multi-vertical business in one of EMEA’s largest markets. You will be working closely with cross-functional partners to drive business results for our clients while delivering growth. You will be managing a team of senior sellers and be part of the UK Senior Leadership Team. You will be representing Pinterest externally and be our voice in the industry on relevant topics. This is a full-time position based in the UK, and our office is in London. What you’ll do: Lead our sales strategy and execution for the multi-vertical business in the UK Develop market and competitive assessments to identify and drive new
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We’re looking for a Director, Retail, UK to lead our monetisation efforts for the vertical. Reporting to the UK Managing Director, you'll be responsible for building Pinterest’s Retail business in one of EMEA’s largest markets. You will be working closely with cross-functional partners to drive business results for our clients while delivering growth. You will be managing a team of senior sellers and be part of the UK Senior Leadership Team. You will be representing Pinterest externally and be our voice in the industry on relevant topics. This is a full-time position based in the UK and our office is in London. What you’ll do: Lead our sales strategy and execution for Retail in the UK Develop market and competitive assessments to identify and drive new opportunities for Pinterest in the UK Build on established relationships and dev
Position Overview: We are excited to introduce a newly created Senior HR Business Partner role, partnering directly with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to drive organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and strategic workforce planning across the business. Central to the role is holding senior leaders accountable for their own growth as leaders: coaching them with the same rigor they are expected to apply to their teams, so that as leaders level up, their team’s level up alongside them. You will help drive effective people practices by balancing business priorities with employee experience and will play a key role in evolving Diligent’s HR operating model toward more strategic, AI-enabled ways of working. The ideal candidate is collaborative, business-minded, and solutions-oriented, with strong judgment, communication skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders – while being direct enough to hold them to account. Key Responsibilities Serve as a senior strategic HR partner to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for an assigned business unit or regional pod, leading org design, talent planning, succession planning, and coaching. Develop the people strategy for the business unit or function you support, in partnership with senior leadership, translating business strategy and objectives into a people plan that delivers maximum impact. Lead strategic workforce planning for the business unit — including how work is organised across people and AI agents — and navigating the balance between building AI capability and developing the human skills needed for the future in an AI-first organisation. Partner with the HR Director on implementation and functional roll-out of the broader people strategy. Lead the business unit’s talent and performance cycles, including goal-setting/OKR cadence, SLT-level calibrations, compensation review for the SLT-and-below population, and 9-box grid review. Drive turning workforce, engageme
Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. Over the past year, we've built one of the fastest-growing Enterprise Sales organizations in EMEA. Now we're looking for a hands-on Regional Sales Director to lead our Western Europe business across the UK, Ireland, France, Benelux, and Northern Europe. This isn't a role for someone who wants to manage from behind a dashboard. We're looking for a leader who enjoys being in the field, building pipeline alongside the team, partnering with customers, and helping experienced Enterprise sellers win bigger. Location: London, UK (preferred) What you'll do Lead, coach, and develop a team of Enterprise Account Executives across Western Europe. Own the regional sales strategy and execution to achieve ambitious growth targets. Drive pipeline generation, forecasting, operational excellence, and accurate sales execution. Partner closely with customers, Sales Engineers, Marketing, and Channel teams to accelerate strategic opportunities. Support the team throughout complex enterprise sales cycles, from prospecting to closed deals. Identify new business opportunities and expand Torq's presence across the region. Recruit, hire, and develop top-performing Enterprise sales talent. Represent Torq at customer meetings, executive briefings, and industry events. Foste
Position Overview: The Solutions Sales Director will play an instrumental role in driving revenue growth for Diligent’s solutions across existing and new accounts. This role is focused on candidates with strong expertise in entity management space , either as a practitioner (e.g., company secretary) or someone who has directly used entity management tools in a commercial or operational setting. The Solutions Sales Director is responsible for managing larger, complex accounts with longer sales cycles and driving adoption of the Diligent One Platform. This individual contributor position manages the full sales cycle, from initial prospect/customer meetings through to deal completion, while orchestrating internal expertise to deliver on and grow accounts. Providing coaching, guidance, and support to Sales stakeholders is a key element to enable team members to learn best practices. Success in this role is measured by expanding product usage in existing customers, migrating customers to the Diligent One Platform, and selling to new accounts. Key Responsibilities: Demonstrate and maintain expert-level knowledge of Diligent’s entity and subsidiary management solutions. Prospect and manage new and existing business within the designated territory, focusing on larger, complex accounts with longer sales cycles. Apply a consultative ‘solutions selling’ approach, using deep domain expertise to understand customer needs and position the Diligent One Platform effectively. Leverage industry-focused insights to create long-term competitive advantages for customers. Expand strategic customer relationships and drive growth across multiple areas of the organisation. Gather feedback from customers on needs, products, and features; collaborate with product management and marketing to drive improvements. Develop strategic account plans that generate new business and upsell opportunities, coordinating cross-functional teams to execute plans. Manage the end-to-end sales cycle using
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