About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role As an Account Director focused on Life Sciences, you will own executive-level relationships with leading life sciences organizations, including global pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device companies, and contract research organizations. You’ll help these companies safely and effectively deploy OpenAI’s technology to transform R&D productivity, automate documentation, enhance regulatory workflows, and personalize patient and provider engagement. This role blends scientific literacy, technical depth, business acumen, and relationship-driven enterprise sales. You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and healthcare-focused solution strategists to design secure, compliant, and high-impact AI deployments. This role is based in London. In this role, you’ll: Manage a focused portfolio of large pharmaceutical and life sciences accounts, developing long-term strategic account plans Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles spanning R&D, medical, regulatory, and commercial functions Partner with solutions and research engineering to design pilots that demonstrate measurable business and scientific impact Collaborate with compliance, privacy, and security teams to ensure responsible deployment of AI in regulated environments Own a revenue and consumption target; manage forecasts and pipeline reporting Monitor
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Employee Relations Director Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview: Mastercard is looking for an experienced Employee Relations professional to join its Global Employee Relations team. Working closely with the People Business Partners, employment law, compliance and business stakeholders, the desired candidate will develop and leverage ER best practices and processes to support our culture of decency and fairness consistent with Mastercard values and local laws. The role will be based in London, Angel Lane on a hybrid work schedule (3 days per week in office). All About the Role • Provide expert advice to People Business Partners, managers and employees about comp
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. Senior Director, Programme Management Location: London Reporting to: Global Senior Director, Strategic Programmes Why We Are Hiring: WPP’s Data & Technology Solutions (DTS) is WPP’s global data products and technology team. We partner with our agencies and clients to create data-driven solutions and technology products that power marketing transformation. At the heart of this is WPP Open , our AI-powered marketing platform that brings together people, data, tools and AI to help deliver better outcomes for clients. We're looking for a Senior Director, Programme Management to join our Strategic Programmes team and help deliver some of DTS's most important initiatives. This is an opportunity to work across a wide range of programmes, bringing together teams, stakeholders and capabilities from across the business to deliver meaningful change. You'll play a key role in turning priorities into action, helping teams stay aligned, navigate challenges and deliver successful outcomes. You'll enjoy building relationships and bringing clarity to complex
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: As part of WPPs Elevate28 strategy, we are accelerating a major Finance Technology transformation to simplify, modernise and standardise the platforms, data and processes that underpin G lobal F inance. This portfolio is critical to statutory reporting, management reporting, forecasting, planning, control, performance management , compliance, and executive decision-making. The Global Programme Director - Finance Technology will shape, govern and drive WPP’s global Finance Technology transformation portfolio. This senior enterprise leadership role turns a complex, multi-year agenda into a coherent roadmap that simplifies the finance technology estate, strengthens control and resilience, and enables faster, more trusted business insight. The role spans Finance ERP standardisation, consolidation platform replacement, enterprise performance management, revenue forecasting, analytics, finance data foundations and operating model change. It will work across Group Finance, Enterprise Technology, agencies, markets, regions and deliver
We’re looking for an Account Intelligence & Outbound Specialist to help us create meaningful outbound engagement and pipeline opportunities across priority global strategic accounts. You’ll use Talkwalker insights, market signals, account research and hands-on outbound to build commercially relevant, account specific-outbound that creates movement in the accounts that matter most by identifying the right people, moments and messages to activate complex enterprise accounts working alongside two Global Strategic Account Managers. You will be reporting to the Director, Outbound Strategy. Please note that the role may include 10% of travel to events; other Hootsuite offices, etc. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Conduct deep research across priority global strategic accounts to understand their business context, market environment, brand activity, audience sentiment, competitive landscape and relevant commercial signals. Leverage Talkwalker insights, social listening, news, campaign activity, reputation signals and account history to identify timely and relevant reasons to engage prospective customers. Identify and map complex buying groups, decision-makers, influencers and stakeholders across global strategic accounts, including marketing, communications, social media, insights, customer care, digital, analytics, procurement, legal, security, Data Privacy, regional teams and executive leadership. Design and execute insight-led, account-specific outbound strategies across email, phone, LinkedIn and other relevant channels, using commercial relevance rather than generic product messaging. Develop high-value account intelligence assets including signal summaries, one-page account memos, Talkwalker insight snapshots, competitor views, pre-mortems, executive questions and buying-group maps to support strategic account activation. Act as a strategic partner to Global Strategic & Principal Account Executives by jointly prioritizing accounts, align on account strategy, and deter
About the Job: We're looking for a Senior EMEA Marketing Manager to lead marketing in the region, in close collaboration with Sales, with field activities and events as the core part of the role. This is a senior, individual-contributor position for someone who knows how great regional B2B marketing programs are built — from tactics through hands-on execution — and who's looking to shape and build the approach rather than run a standard playbook. You'll join a growing international marketing team in an essential role for the team and business, reporting to the International Marketing Director. You'll take full ownership of the EMEA field calendar and act as the region's on the ground presence, with the scope to also contribute to broader regional marketing campaigns. In this role, you'll get to innovate and design impactful, memorable experiences that drive real results. Responsibilities: Own the EMEA field calendar end-to-end — from tactics and planning through execution and post-event follow-through, across owned events, third-party conferences, sponsorships, executive roundtables, and partner co-marketing events etc. Lead regional sponsorship approach and vendor management — negotiate sponsorship packages and deliverables, coordinate on assets and work with agencies, partners and vendors. Design differentiated, memorable experiences — go beyond the standard execution model to create formats that genuinely engage audiences and build awareness around the brand. Partner closely with EMEA Sales — work hand-in-hand with Sales and SDR teams on field activities, on-site engagement, and structured post-event follow-up. Act as a confident, credible voice with internal stakeholders to represent Marketing. Own reporting and ROI — track leads, pipeline capture, and spend against your Marketing activities and campaigns, and report results back to leadership. Operate independently — take action and define approach, budget requests, format, and vendors in line with Sales
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. What’s the role? Job Title: CX Apprentice - Onboarding Reports to: Customer Success Director Apprenticeship: Business Administrator Level 3 Duration: 12-18 months, subject to learner progress + End Point Assessment Role Purpose To support the end-to-end onboarding of new clients into the Customer Experience function, coordinating project plans, channel set-up, testing and stakeholder communication so every client goes live smoothly and on time. Key Responsibilities Maintain onboarding project plans and trackers for assigned clients, minute onboarding calls, and produce regular status summaries for internal and client audiences. Support configuration of customer service channels (email, live chat, phone, social and marketplace), including auto-responses, macros, routing rules, SLAs and holiday calendars. Assist with knowledge base/FAQ setup and configure user accounts, roles and permissions. Draft and run UAT test scripts, log and track defects to resolution, and coordinate sign-off with clients. Act as a day-to-day point of contact for onboarding clients, handling first-line escalations and supporting a complete handover to BAU/account management. Coordinate across internal teams (CS Operations, Client Services, Tech, Fulfilment) to keep onboarding on track, raising and chasing internal tickets. Brief the operations team ahead of go-live on volumes, staffing and edge cases, and flag resourcing or capacity risks early. What We Need From You A friendly, organis
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. What’s the role? Job Title: CX Apprentice - Data Reports to: CX Analytics and Performance Director Apprenticeship: Data Analyst Level 4 Duration: 12-18 months, subject to learner progress + End Point Assessment Role Purpose To support the Customer Service department in turning core operational data into clear, actionable insight — covering everything from divisional headcount and budgets through to CS performance metrics, carrier claims and returns — helping the business understand performance and identify where the customer experience can be improved. Key Responsibilities Support core CS operational performance reporting across the department, including divisional headcount, budgets and key performance metrics such as CSAT and APH. Collect, clean and validate data from multiple internal and external sources across CX/CS operations, including carrier claims, returns (e.g. ZigZag), post-dispatch communications and customer contact systems. Build and maintain dashboards and reports (e.g. Power BI) tracking department-wide CS metrics, from workforce and budget data to claims and returns performance. Write and run SQL queries to extract and manipulate data from relational databases in support of departmental reporting. Identify trends and patterns across headcount, budget, claims, returns and delivery data, flagging root causes and opportunities for improvement. Support CS leadership and wider teams with ad hoc analysis to inform decision-making, resourcing
The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work that has historically sat across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo. The Team + The Role Pendo’s Customer Engineering team is the technical backbone of the pre- and post-sales customer motion. The team brings together work across Customer Success, Technical Account Management, and Solutions Engineering into one full-lifecycle technical owner. Customer Engineering helps customers connect technical execution to business outcomes and realize the value of their investment in Pendo. As a Senior Customer Engineer you will own strategic and complex Enterprise accounts across acquisition, implementation, adoption, expansion, and escalation. You will lead technical strategy for complex deployments, resolve ambiguous customer challenges, and partner closely with account teams to drive retention, expansion, and customer value. Your impact will extend beyond your own accounts through playbooks, coaching, repeatable fixes, and workflow improvements that raise the capability of the broader Customer Engineering team. This role is based in our London office. What this looks like day-to-day New customer acquisition and selling: Partner with Account Directors on pre-sales motions for new customer acquisition, product expansion, and growth across lines of business. You identify customer pain, craft and deliver tailored demos, and lead technical evaluations through requirements gathering, success criteria, installation guidance, and hands-on workshops. Quarterly business outcomes: Drive measurable improvement in customer health, retention, expansion,
About the Job: LaunchDarkly is looking for a VP, EMEA Sales to lead and scale our regional sales organization as we enter a period of high growth and expand across a growing portfolio of products. Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, this leader will own new business and expansion revenue across EMEA. This is a high-impact leadership role for a builder and operator who can turn regional insight into a focused go-to-market strategy, build a repeatable pipeline engine, and create the operating discipline needed for predictable growth. The VP will lead a multi-level sales organization and partner closely with Marketing, SDR/BDR, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Partnerships, Enablement, and Revenue Operations. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the next phase of LaunchDarkly’s growth by bringing our AI Runtime Control capabilities to more customers across EMEA, helping organizations build, deploy, and manage AI-powered applications with greater control and confidence. Responsibilities: Own new business and expansion revenue across EMEA. Set regional go-to-market strategy across segmentation, territories, coverage, capacity, hiring, and resources. Build repeatable pipeline across outbound, inbound, account-based, and partner channels. Establish operating rhythms for pipeline inspection, forecasting, deal progression, performance, and business reviews. Deliver accurate forecasts and visibility into pipeline, deal health, productivity, risks, and opportunities. Lead and develop Sales Directors, Managers, and Account Executives while building a strong management bench. Drive consistent sales methodology, account planning, qualification, and pipeline hygiene. Engage in strategic deals through executive relationships, value selling, negotiation, and deal strategy. Scale land-and-expand across new logo, adoption, cross-sell, and expansion motions. Partner with Solutions Engineering and Customer Success to improve deal quality, adoption, reten
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact. Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Specialist Seller to join the Strategic Pursuits team and lead priority opportunities generated through the joint AWS and OpenAI co-sell motion. You will partner closely with Account Directors, AWS field teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, shape, advance, and close high-value strategic enterprise engagements. This role is ideal for a senior seller with deep experience in enterprise technology, AI, cloud, or complex transformation sales motions. You should be comfortable operating in executive-facing environments, aligning multiple stakeholders, and turning customer priorities into commercially compelling and technically credible opportunities. This role is based in London or Munich. We operate on a hybrid model of 3 days per week in office and offer relocation support. In this role, you will: Lead commercial execution of priority AWS/OpenAI co-sell opportunities across strategic enterprise accounts. Identify and qualify high-potential opportunities focused on GenAI adoption, frontier platform use cases, and enterprise-wide transformation. Partner with AWS and OpenAI field teams to align account strategy, messaging, stakeholder mapping, and execution plans. Develop customer-facing value propositions that connect OpenAI capabilities with business priorities and AWS infrastructure strategies. Drive executive-level engagement including customer me
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: At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP ET’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP ET is undergoing a significant transformation to build the transformation platform that will power the next evolution of WPP. WPP is on a journey to clarify and simplify the operating model between our brands and WPP, modernise and create tech-enabled colleague experiences, and create an open, integrated technology innovation platform across WPP. Along that journey we will ensure WPP ET is a destination for tech talent, modernise our ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. As we continue this journey, a Director of Service Delivery is required to lead the delivery and continuous improvement of core enterprise technology services, ensuring high-quality, reliable and user-focused services across WPP. The role will own service performance, service management, and the service desk, while also leadin
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As Director of Engineering, Security Factory , you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab’s customer-facing security capabilities across our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll help shape how customers detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across modern software workflows by guiding teams that build proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and supporting security foundations. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Sec section , you’ll set the engineering vision and roadmap for a distributed group of nine teams, including engineer
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We're at the forefront of the data revolution, building the world's greatest data, applications, and AI platform. Our culture empowers everyone at Snowflake to innovate, create work with lasting impact, and thrive in a collaborative and value-driven environment. Snowflake is looking for a Director of Partner Marketing, EMEA to shape and lead our partner marketing strategy across the region. This leader will serve as the critical connective tissue between Global Partner Marketing and EMEA Sales, Alliances and Marketing, translating global strategy and programs into focused regional execution, while bringing EMEA priorities and insights back into our global approach. This is a senior leadership role for someone who combines strategic judgment, operational rigor and cultural excellence. You will focus our resources on the partners and opportunities that matter most, ensure partner motions are deeply integrated into our core GTM priorities, and build a team and culture known for focus, accountability, collaboration and impact. What You'll Do Set the EMEA partner marketing strategy and priorities, aligning closely with Global Partner Marketing while determining where and how to activate across strategic cloud partners, GSIs, ISVs and other priority ecosystem relationships in the
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team & role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The team’s mission is to safeguard the financial stability of our trading operations. By independently challenging front-line strategies and validating complex margin models, we ensure the safe and sustainable growth of our derivatives product. As a Derivatives Risk Oversight Lead , you will serve as a key representative of Second Line of Defense for our derivatives trading platform, leading the oversight and continuous enhancement of risk management frameworks across the derivatives product and the Bitstamp Financial Services (BFS) entity. This role is based in our UK office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Bitstamp by Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. What you’ll do Support the Director of Risk in implementing and managing the financial risk management programs for the Bitstamp Financial Services (BFS) Entity and other parts of the Bitstamp group, with particular focus on market, product, counterparty, margin, collateral, and liquidity risks ari
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