About the Team The Corporate Development team sits at the intersection of OpenAI’s strategy and the global AI ecosystem. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and business leaders, we analyze markets, technologies, and companies to identify opportunities that accelerate OpenAI’s mission and long-term strategy. Bringing together expertise in strategy, M&A, and integration, the team leads the end-to-end process of sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and integrating acquisitions and other strategic transactions. About the Role The Corporate Development Deal Lead will own high-priority M&A and strategic transaction work from early evaluation through diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and close. This person will translate strategic priorities and market insight into actionable deal opportunities, build the business case for transactions, and drive cross-functional alignment with senior stakeholders. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who can combine strategic judgment, financial rigor, founder relationship-building, and crisp execution. The ideal candidate can lead complex transactions, partner well with executive stakeholders, and help build the AI-native systems, tools, and operating practices that allow Corp Dev to scale. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead end-to-end execution of corporate development transactions (e.g., acquisitions and strategic investments), including sourcing, diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation, and closing. Track and interpret key trends across AI, technology, and adjacent industries, translating the competitive and startup landscape into clear, high-impact insights for OpenAI’s leadership. Proactively source acquisition and other opportunities by building deep relationships across the venture, startup, and incubator ecosystem. Partner closely wi
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Datadog is seeking a highly motivated Senior Corporate Development Lead to drive our AI product strategy, build strong relationships across the founder and VC ecosystem, and support high-impact initiatives including acquisitions, venture investments, and startup partnerships. You will be part of a small, high-visibility team that reports directly to Datadog's Founder/CEO. The ideal candidate is passionate about AI and developer tools, comfortable rolling up their sleeves, and excited to operate in a fluid, technically demanding environment. You will support evaluations, source promising AI startups, collaborate closely with internal product and engineering leaders, and help position Datadog as the preferred partner for the next generation of founders. This role is ideal for someone who is hungry for increased responsibility, operates with authenticity and creativity, and prioritizes the company's interests. 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: Support Datadog's AI product strategy by analyzing emerging technologies, market opportunities, and competitive dynamics. Source high-potential AI startups for acquisition, investment, or partnership, and build a strong presence across the founder and VC ecosystem through meetups, conferences, and events. Drive workstreams across diligence, valuation, financial modeling, strategic assessment, and internal recommendations. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evaluate build/buy/partner opportunities aligned with Datadog's AI roadmap. Support negotiation processes, including term sheets and partnership structures, and collaborate on integration planning with cross-functional partners after deals close. Help attract early-stage AI companies into Datadog's startup program. Wh
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As a Mid-Market Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we’d love to meet you! 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: Partner with the sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Assist with technical discovery on key accounts and opportunities Deliver tailored product and technical presentations with potential clients Help clients evaluate the platform and assist when they run into roadblocks. Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. This entails communicating datadog’s value throughout an evaluation and working with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Someone with a minimum of 1.5 years experience in a Sales Engineering role Previous Observability experience Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communicati
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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 Community You Will Join: The Airbnb Hotels organization, which includes HotelTonight, is a fun, entrepreneurial, start-up team where you can have outsized impact. Simplicity is at the core of our products. We pride ourselves on delivering the smoothest and most intuitive hotel booking experience. For hotels, we make it easy to drive incremental bookings so they can focus on the craft of hosting. We aspire to facilitate hotel discovery and serendipity at scale, benefitting guests and hotel partners. The Difference You Will Make: As a Market Manager, your role will entail ensuring the health and expansion of our supply in San Diego and Palm Springs. This will involve managing Hotels and acquiring high-quality inventory. Your focus will be to enhance Airbnb's market presence in your designated region through collaboration with other teams, leveraging your expertise on the local market. With a deep understanding of Airbnb's mission and values, you will oversee all aspects of supply acquisition and market success. This includes developing acquisition strategies, generating and converting Hotel leads, and managing relationships with strategic partners, including the creation of new partnerships. You will also be tasked with developing and refining scalable, localized supply management strategies for both established, competitive markets and emerging, untapped markets, aiming to secure our long-term success in these regions. A Typical Day: Build, manage and expand partner relationships within your territory, aiming to surpass quarterly sales targets with Hotels. Conduct regular optimization calls and b
From $213K/yr
Datadog is seeking a highly motivated Senior Corporate Development Lead to drive our AI product strategy, build strong relationships across the founder and VC ecosystem, and support high-impact initiatives including acquisitions, venture investments, and startup partnerships. You will be part of a small, high-visibility team that reports directly to Datadog’s Founder/CEO. The ideal candidate is passionate about AI and developer tools, comfortable rolling up their sleeves, and excited to operate in a fluid, technically demanding environment. You will support evaluations, source promising AI startups, collaborate closely with internal product and engineering leaders, and help position Datadog as the preferred partner for the next generation of founders. This role is ideal for someone who is hungry for increased responsibility, operates with authenticity and creativity, and prioritizes the company’s interests. 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: Support Datadog’s AI product strategy by analyzing emerging technologies, market opportunities, and competitive dynamics. Source high-potential AI startups for acquisition, investment, or partnership, and build a strong presence across the founder and VC ecosystem. Attend meetups, conferences, and ecosystem events to expand Datadog’s visibility and pipeline opportunities. Drive workstreams across diligence, valuation, financial modeling, strategic assessment, and internal recommendations. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evaluate build/buy/partner opportunities aligned with Datadog’s AI roadmap. Support negotiation processes, including term sheets and partnership structures. Collaborate on integration planning with cross-functional partners after acquisitions or strategic de
This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Summary: Baxter is committed to driving connectivity for patients, clinicians, and customers across healthcare settings. Baxter’s Connected Care Group focuses on two critical areas: (1) Digital Products , delivering connected devices and software to customers, and (2) Digital Platforms , facilitating software development across Baxter’s medical devices with a unified architecture to accelerate customer-focused solutions. The portfolio includes key offerings that drive revenue and advance Baxter’s mission to save and sustain lives while shaping the future of healthcare. The Director of Marketing, Connected Care Group serves as the marketing leader for Baxter's Connected Care portfolio, responsible for shaping portfolio growth strategy, customer adoption, market expansion, and commercial performance across Digital Products and Digital Platforms. In partnership with Product Management, Sales, and other cross-functional teams, this leader translates market opportunities, customer insights, and competitive dynamics
Your challenge As a Sales Engineer, you apply your project experience and industry knowledge to devise engaging industry-specific demos and proofs of concept. You support the Business Development team as an industry advisor during the sales process and work with the Delivery Advisory team on advisory assignments for your industry. You are responsible for: Understanding and researching the competitive differentiators and unique selling points of our targeted industry solutions. Developing, fine-tuning, and managing our unique selling points and storylines for a range of products in one or more of our core industries . Showcasing your solution and industry knowledge at commercial conferences through networking and product demonstrations. Developing a set of industry-specific product demos based on your understanding of their key differentiators. Sharing input and feedback from prospects, customers, and the market at large with the Standard Demo team. Expanding the functionalities of the standard demo in coordination with the Standard Demo team. Engaging and convincing prospects and customers by presenting demos and starting the conversation. Translating customer-specific requirements into high level solution designs in close collaboration with customers and our internal competence centers. Documenting the proposed solution’s scope and project approach. Supporting the advisory team in advisory assignments within your industry. Assisting in the formulation of RFx responses with solution and industry expertise and providing marketing support. Acting as a trusted advisor towards our prospects and customers. About you Essential talents and qualifications: A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Programming, Supply Chain, or similar. 3-5 years of experience in supporting sales cycles. In-depth knowledge of supply chain planning processes and solutions. Advanced industry knowledge. Experience in B2B sales, ideally in enterprise soft
Your challenge As a Sales Engineer, you apply your project experience and industry knowledge to devise engaging industry-specific demos and proofs of concept. You support the Business Development team as an industry advisor during the sales process and work with the Delivery Advisory team on advisory assignments for your industry. You are responsible for: Understanding and researching the competitive differentiators and unique selling points of our targeted industry solutions. Developing, fine-tuning, and managing our unique selling points and storylines for a range of products in one or more of our core industries . Showcasing your solution and industry knowledge at commercial conferences through networking and product demonstrations. Developing a set of industry-specific product demos based on your understanding of their key differentiators. Sharing input and feedback from prospects, customers, and the market at large with the Standard Demo team. Expanding the functionalities of the standard demo in coordination with the Standard Demo team. Engaging and convincing prospects and customers by presenting demos and starting the conversation. Translating customer-specific requirements into high level solution designs in close collaboration with customers and our internal competence centers. Documenting the proposed solution’s scope and project approach. Supporting the advisory team in advisory assignments within your industry. Assisting in the formulation of RFx responses with solution and industry expertise and providing marketing support. Acting as a trusted advisor towards our prospects and customers. About you Essential talents and qualifications: A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Programming, Supply Chain, or similar. 3-5 years of experience in supporting sales cycles. In-depth knowledge of supply chain planning processes and solutions. Advanced industry knowledge. Experience in B2B sales, ideally in enterprise soft
Are you ready to be part of an ambitious team driving digital transformation at NVIDIA? As a Sr. Staff Business Systems Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in crafting intuitive, high-impact experiences that support our core business functions. This outstanding opportunity offers the chance to collaborate with global partners and influence decisions that determine our competitive edge! What you’ll be doing: Design and scale AI-powered workflows, agentic experiences, and internal products that simplify work, surface relevant context, and enable employees to complete tasks more effectively across enterprise tools. Drive internal go-to-market and adoption strategies for digital and AI capabilities, including persona-based value propositions, enablement, communications, feedback loops, and outcome measurement. Apply a product mindset to develop intuitive, simple, and high-impact experiences, starting with the user problem and connecting solutions to meaningful business outcomes. Collaborate with global partners, architects, engineers, and business leaders to define product vision, prioritize capabilities, and develop world-class systems that support NVIDIA’s core business functions. Use data, user feedback, and qualitative insights to identify opportunities and make informed decisions, leveraging strong storytelling skills to build alignment and influence priorities. Build trusted relationships with collaborators at all levels; facilitate productive discussions, navigate ambiguity, and negotiate trade-offs across user needs, technical constraints, timelines, and business value. Champion employee experience and user-centric development by continuously gathering feedback and measuring adoption, usability, satisfaction, and business impact to evolve solutions after launch. What we need to see : Bachelor’
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. Finance Organization | Global Commissions Team Snowflake’s Finance Organization is seeking a Sales Commissions Manager to join our Global Commissions Team. In this role, you will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure our sales compensation programs are fair, motivating, and align with our GTM and Company strategies. We are looking for an individual with a proven track record of operational excellence that thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Key Responsibilities As a Sales Commissions Manager at Snowflake, you will: Partner with internal teams to develop competitive compensation structures that align with go-to-market and revenue goals as well as effectively balance budget constraints. Drive continuous improvement, make recommendations for changes to processes and workflows, and execute on those changes. Lead coordination with various teams to ensure commission deliverables are met. Effectively manage multiple projects and competing priorities. Lead analysis of anomalies and plan effectiveness to provide meaningful and accurate insights to senior leadership. Influences the decision-making process and final outcome by providing detailed analysis, models and recommendations. Troubleshoot and resolve commission issues in a timely manner. Requirements Our idea
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. The Enterprise Partnerships team at Plaid works with some of the most influential enterprise companies, helping bring Plaid’s solutions to market through high-impact partnerships. In this role, you’ll lead the acquisition of new partners and play a meaningful role in expanding a fast-growing, strategically important part of the business. This role is at the center of some of Plaid’s most strategic and complex partnership opportunities. You’ll lead sophisticated, enterprise-scale deals from initial sourcing through execution, navigating long sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, and competitive dynamics along the way. Working closely with cross-functional teams and segment leaders, you’ll turn partner and customer needs into new opportunities—including entirely new motions—and help bring Plaid’s value to life across Payments, Credit, and Identity/Fraud. Responsibilities Lead complex enterprise partnership deals from sourcing through close, managing multi-stakeholder negotiations and driving successful partner adoption. Develop and refine partnership strategies across priority enterprise segments, including new and emerging areas of opportunity. Build and manage a pipeline of strategic partners that ex
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. The Compensation team designs, manages, and evolves Plaid’s compensation strategy to attract, retain, and motivate world-class talent. We make sure compensation is fair inside the company and competitive in the market. We work on programs that connect directly to Plaid’s business goals and employee experience — using data and insight to make equitable, well-informed decisions. Our work spans cash and equity program design, annual and mid-year review cycles, benchmarking, and exec comp support. In this role, you will own compensation support for specific client groups and take the lead on cycle operations and comp tooling across the team. You’ll work alongside a sharp team and closely with Plaid’s Head of Total Rewards. You’ll have clear ownership of your domain from day one, with real exposure to equity program mechanics, exec comp, and board-level deliverables. Responsibilities: Own comp support for specific client groups — offers, promos, manager/HRBP questions — with a high bar for speed and accuracy Lead configuration and rollout of annual and mid-year compensation cycles in Workday and comp tooling Manage and maintain Plaid’s comp systems: Compa, Pave, and external survey tools (Compensia, Radf
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! As the Senior Director of Solutions Architecture for the Americas at Cohere, you will own the US and Canada commercial Solutions Architecture function. You will lead the team that turns enterprise interest in agentic AI into deployed, production systems, and you will be accountable for the technical win in the most competitive AI market in the world. The United States and Canada are our largest commercial opportunity, and this seat owns how we win them. You will take an established, distributed team of strong technical people and raise what it can do — setting the bar and establishing the operating rhythm that lets a team of generalists run consistent, industry-fluent plays at enterprise scale. You will set direction for the function, sit on the Solution Architecture leadership team alongside the regional leaders for EMEA and Asia Pacific, and contribute to company-wide decisions with your peers across Sales, Product and Engineering. In this role, you will: Lead and Scale the Organization: Build, coach and develop a high-performing Solutions Architecture organization across the US and Canada, and grow the senior technical talent
From $113K/yr
As a Security Sales Specialist, you'll partner with Enterprise Account Executives to drive adoption of Datadog’s Security platform across key accounts. This is a high-impact role focused on positioning our Security solutions (Cloud SIEM, Cloud Workload Security, CSPM, and more) into new and existing customers—expanding our footprint and helping customers modernize their security stack in the cloud. 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: Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Datadog Security products across a targeted account patch Collaborate closely with Enterprise AEs to support net new logo acquisition and expansion in strategic accounts Own and drive the security sales cycle from discovery to technical close, working closely with Sales Engineers Evangelize Datadog’s security story to security leaders (CISO, Security Architects, SecOps) Work cross-functionally with Datadog's partner, channel, and alliance teams to drive joint go-to-market motions Co-sell effectively with AEs and partners, contributing to deal strategy, solution alignment, and stakeholder engagement Stay informed on security trends and competitive offerings to differentiate Datadog Who You Are: Proven success selling into security buyers (CISO, SecOps, GRC, etc.) Experience co-selling in a matrixed environment, supporting or partnering with AEs and cross-functional teams Strong understanding of the partner/channel sales model, including how to navigate and influence joint selling motions Familiarity with modern security solutions such as SIEM, CSPM, CWPP, container/Kubernetes security Ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, partners, and customer technical teams Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet al
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