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Lead Software Engineer 2 in United Kingdom

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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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 Shape how the world’s most sophisticated enterprises succeed with AI. As vice president, customer success, EMEA, you’ll lead the region’s customer success organization and partner directly with C-suite executives at Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies to deliver measurable transformation—not proofs of concept, but lasting operational change. You’ll own retention and growth, scale a world-class team, and define how enterprises measure success in the agentic era. You’ll be a key member of WRITER’s EMEA leadership team and an active voice in the global CS leadership group, shaping strategy, structure, and culture across regions. This is a builder’s role with global reach - reporting to our COO and working closely with the CEO and CRO to drive WRITER’s next stage of growth. This is a hybrid role based out of our London hub. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you’ll do Drive industry leading growth and retention by owning ambitious NRR and GRR goals, tying every expansion to quantifiab

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📍 London, UK, United Kingdom· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. The International Revenue Operations team is the operational engine behind Vanta's global GTM expansion. This team designs and executes the processes, systems, and operational rhythms that enable our sales, customer success, account management, and partner teams in EMEA and APAC to scale efficiently and hit ambitious revenue targets. They own forecasting accuracy, territory planning, pipeline health, compensation administration, and cross-functional collaboration across the international GTM org. The team's work directly drives revenue predictability, operational efficiency, and GTM excellence as Vanta expands globally, with the international market being one of our fastest-growing parts of the business. As the Director of International Revenue Operations, you will have a front row seat to building and scaling this massively impactful area of our business. What you’ll do as a Director, International Operations at Vanta: Build and lead a team of 4 revenue operations professionals supporting Vanta's international GTM organisation across pre-sales and post-sales functions Own the operating rhythm for EMEA and APAC revenue teams, including forecasting, pipeline inspection, territory management, and quarterly business reviews Partner closely with international sales leadership to drive forecast accuracy, identify pipeline gaps, and remove friction in the sales process Design and implement scalable processes for lead routing, opportunity management, comp administration, and performance tracking across multiple regions Collaborate with global RevOps leadership, Business Systems, and GTM Analytics to ensure consistency while adapting f

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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£110K – £370K/yr

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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: We are looking for world-class research scientists and research engineers to build cutting-edge multilingual AI to serve the world! At Cohere, we care deeply about building technologies that are broadly accessible and useful, regardless of language. As a Member of Technical Staff on the Multilingual team, you'll be at the forefront of advancing language models that serve the world. You’ll push the boundaries of what's possible in natural language processing. This isn't just a technical role—it's an opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research that will define the next generation of AI. Key Responsibilities: Lead the design and implementation of scalable solutions to improve multilingual LLM performance across a wide variety of skills – if we need it to make a great multilingual model, you can build it! Is perfect for someone passionate about languages and AI, with a keen eye for detail and strong technical skills. Offers the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge language technology, making a global impact. Requires a self-starter who can work independently and deliver results efficiently. Publish resea

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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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! About North: North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications. Why This Role? This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how enterprises harness the power of AI in real-world applications. As a bridge between our core North product and our clients’ engineering teams, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex problems and securely integrating AI into critical sectors such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications. Our esteemed clients include industry leaders like RBC, Dell, and LG CNS. We are seeking engineers who deeply care about customers and want to work at the cutting edge of Agentic AI. In this role, you will: Lead end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments, including planning, configuration, testing, and rollout. Partner with enterprise IT teams t

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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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! About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Deployment Engineering team in EMEA. This isn't a typical management role — we need someone who leads from the front, gets their hands dirty, and drives impact. You'll manage a team of Forward Deployed Engineers who are on the front lines of deploying Cohere's North platform into customer environments. You should be ready to be a force to be reckoned with. Location: UK (can be remote but based in UK) What You'll Do Lead and mentor a team of Forward Deployed Engineers across EMEA Drive end-to-end deployment of North in private cloud and on-premises environments Take ownership of customer success from technical implementation through delivery Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales to shape how we deliver AI to enterprises Mentor your team on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and enterprise-grade deployments Optimize performance for OpenSearch, databases, and other K8s services Define scaling guidelines for GPU and CPU compute resources Build processes & technology that scales — we're growing fast. What We're Looking For 5+ years of experience

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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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? We're seeking an experienced Program Manager to join Cohere's customer-facing Program Management team, with a focus on UK public sector and defence accounts. This is a highly specialised role requiring an individual who understands technical program delivery, the technical complexity of frontier AI models and the unique requirements of government and defence organisations. You will be the critical bridge between our cutting-edge AI capabilities and the specific needs of UK Government and defence organisations. You'll navigate complex procurement processes, stringent security requirements, data sovereignty concerns, and regulatory compliance while ensuring our customers successfully deploy and scale our AI solutions. In this role, you'll collaborate with our Strategic Customer team, Applied ML (AML) Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), Platform, Product, and Go-to-Market teams, serving as the technical program lead and trusted advisor for our most sensitive and high-impact government engagements. Location: UK Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance preferred; candidates with Active Secret cleara

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📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About PostHog Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools. PostHog is the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously. We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort . We've since shipped more than a dozen products , including: PostHog Code , the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase. A built-in data warehouse , so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights. PostHog AI , an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries. We are: Product-led . More than 450,000 organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit. Default alive . Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on. Well-funded. We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey. We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible . Things we care about Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook . Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions. Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions . Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed. Shipping fast: Why not n

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📍 London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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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, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. As an Enterprise Account Manager on our Account Management team, you'll own and grow a portfolio of Plaid's most strategic customers across the UK and Europe, spanning leading fintechs, banks, and enterprise accounts. This is a growth role: you'll be the trusted advisor your customers call on directly for guidance on how to build and deliver a seamless product experience, and you'll use that relationship to identify and deploy new, innovative use cases across your book. You will own commercial growth end to end, from renewals through to multi-product expansion, working closely with Sales, Product, Solutions Engineering, and Legal to get there. Responsibilities Own and grow a portfolio of Plaid's largest and most strategic UK & European enterprise customers Build deep, trusted-advisor relationships with executive sponsors and day-to-day operators, so customers come to you first for product and strategic guidance Proactively grow the account: identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within the existing book and convert them into deployed use cases Deploy new, innovative use cases across some of the leading fintechs and banks in the UK and Europe Lead commercial conversations including renewals

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📍 United Kingdom· Full-time
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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

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📍 England, United Kingdom; Luxembourg, United Kingdom· Full-time
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We’re looking for a Senior Account Executive, Enterprise Sales to help us develop and close new business with larger enterprise customers within our landmark industries. You will work in a fast paced sales environment selling Hootsuite solutions to prospective customers. This role is a full sales cycle role from opportunity creation to close. You will be responsible for owning your own pipeline and generating outbound opportunities with companies that could benefit from Hootsuite as their social media management partner. This is a hybrid role and is open to applicants located within commuting distance of our London or Luxembourg offices. In this role, you will report to the Director, Enterprise Sales. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Successfully acquire new enterprise customers within our landmark industries in order to achieve and exceed individual quota targets. Develop and execute an industry-specific account growth strategy in order to identify, generate and develop a net new sales pipeline. Take ownership of your quarterly target by crafting and executing a strategy in order to identify, generate and develop net new sales pipeline and achieve/exceed quota targets. Accurately forecast sales activity and revenue attainment. Lead longer end to end sales cycles from value creation to negotiation and closing, and present the value of our solutions to senior and C-suite prospective customers. Lead strategic, high-impact conversations that uncover business priorities, align solutions to executive objectives, and drive long-term partnerships. Manage complex, global evaluations and manage stakeholders in different regions and departments. Proactively and strategically seek out market information and understand the product-market fit in order to effectively develop rapport with customers. As a subject matter expert in Social Media Management and in our customers unique industry, advise and recommend relevant solutions by offering a unique product mix from

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📍 London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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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,

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📍 London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. AI is reshaping how enterprises buy, adopt, and expand work management platforms — and the conversation is moving faster in EMEA than most vendors are equipped to support. Smartsheet is building a market-leading AI narrative anchored in organizational intelligence, agentic workflows, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and this role exists to make that narrative land with EMEA field teams and the enterprise buyers they serve. As a Sr. Product Marketing Manager on the AI GTM Strategy team, you will be the in-region AI product marketing partner for Smartsheet's EMEA sales organization. You will translate the global AI narrative, product roadmap, and enablement infrastructure into regionally activated content, training, and field support — ensuring EMEA account executives, solution engineers, and customer success managers can lead substantive AI conversations that drive pipeline and expansion. This is not a generalist PMM role. You will own the intersection of AI product marketing and regional field activation across EMEA, working at the pace of a rapidly evolving product surface and a field organization that needs to be ahead of the market conversation. The role is hybrid, based at Smartsheet’s corporate offices in London, UK. You will report to our VP, AI Market Strategy. You will own: AI Narrative Activation — EMEA Execute the regional activation of Smartsheet's global AI narrative across EMEA field teams, adapting messaging for market maturity, regulatory context, and competitive dynamics specific to European enterpri

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📍 London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Datadog is seeking a Field Marketing Manager to develop and execute regional field marketing programs that drive pipeline, build brand awareness, and deliver exceptional customer experiences across the region. This is a true field marketing role spanning campaigns, account-based marketing, and events, you'll partner closely with Sales, Demand Gen/ABM, Partner Marketing, and Communications to bring Datadog's go-to-market strategy to life in market. In the initial 6 months, your focus will be on planning and executing a curated slate of first and third-party events and sponsorships across the region. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Develop and execute regional field marketing programs - including campaigns, account-based marketing, and events - that drive pipeline and strengthen Datadog's brand in market Own the marketing pipeline generation outcome from conception to execution to results Evaluate and prioritize third-party sponsorship opportunities based on audience fit, brand visibility, and pipeline potential Partner with Sales, field marketing teams, and Demand Gen/ABM to align target account lists, build pipeline-driving campaigns, and convert event and program engagement into qualified pipeline Collaborate with Communications and Partner Marketing to align messaging and co-marketing opportunities across programs Own on-site logistics and execution for events, ensuring high-touch, on-brand delivery for customers, prospects, and partners Track and report on program and event performance (pipeline influenced, cost-per-lead, attendee quality) and use data to continuously optimize Act as the regional point of contact for field marketing strategy, keeping regional leadership and global marketing ops aligned on status and risks

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📍 London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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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

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📍 London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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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

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