Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team. Responsibilities: Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition including web crawling, data ingestion, and search. Collaborate with other sub-teams, such as Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure smooth data flow and system operability. Work closely with the legal team to handle any compliance or data privacy-related matters. Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data. Architect and implement algorithms for data indexing and search capabilities. Build and maintain backend services for data storage, including work with key-value databases and synchronization. Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks. Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights into system performance. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in software development. Experience with large web crawlers a plus Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing. Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies. Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an
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About Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. Working across the full model and systems stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical constraints of real-world systems to improve people’s lives. About Role We are looking for an Operations Program Manager - Robotics Data Acquisition to own the day-to-day operating rhythm in our data collection facilities. You will work closely with operators, technicians, program managers, and engineers to keep rigs ready, campaigns moving, issues resolved, and performance improving. This is a hands-on operations role that requires you to be comfortable spending time on the floor, working through ambiguity, and using data to make the operation more reliable and efficient. This role is based in San Francisco, CA and requires in-person presence 5 days a week. In this role you will: Coordinate daily operations readiness across workstations, operators, materials. Track core operating metrics including utilization, cycle time, throughput, downtime, operator productivity, and data quality. Identify bottlenecks through workflow analysis, time studies, and capacity modeling, then drive practical fixes. Execute the rollout of new hardware, sensors, tools, and process changes with Engineering, Operations, Facilities, Supply Chain, and Safety. Identify equipment readiness issues and coordinate with technical support to keep workstations, and test equipment calibrated, configured, maintained, and ready for rollouts and evaluations. Lead root cause analysis for recurring operational issues and follow through on corrective actions. Provide operation input to create and maintain SOPs, work instructions, training materials, and process controls. Identify and flag resource constraints and manage issue escala
What you’ll do Act as the in-house electrical lead for Midjourney Medical: own the electrical architecture of the scanner and the technical direction for all board-level design. Own complex board design end-to-end: architecture, schematic capture, layout (high-speed digital, analog/mixed-signal, power), DFM/DFT, fabrication and assembly vendor management, bring-up, and revision control. Write firmware for embedded targets (MCU/SoC): drivers, real-time control loops, safety-relevant logic, bootloaders, and field update paths. Audit and update HDL (FPGA) code for high-throughput data acquisition, timing/synchronization, triggering, and pre-processing of ultrasound and sensor data streams. Define electrical interfaces and data contracts with software, recon/ML and mechanical teams: timing budgets, clocking/sync, signal integrity, connectors/harnessing, and failure modes. Establish electrical engineering rigor: design reviews, schematic/layout review checklists, bring-up procedures, test fixtures, and documentation suitable for a regulated medical device program (DHF, traceability, change control). Mentor and grow the electrical function; select and manage external design partners where leverage is high. What we’re looking for Deep experience designing complex boards from blank page to stable revision, including high-speed digital and analog/mixed-signal domains. Strong schematic and layout skills (Altium/KiCad or equivalent) with real signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI/EMC instincts. Solid embedded firmware background in C/C++ (and Python for tooling): peripherals, DMA, interrupts, real-time constraints, and debugging on hardware. Practical HDL experience (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog) for data acquisition, timing, and streaming interfaces. Track record of owning bring-up and debug on real hardware: scopes, logic analyzers, and disciplined root-cause analysis. Technical leadership: clear trade-offs, strong written documentation, and the ability to set
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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team The Fraud Partnerships Pod is responsible for overseeing all traditional business development and partnerships for the Anti-Fraud Product Area (PA) at Plaid, focusing primarily on our product partnerships and data acquisition (supply side) efforts. The team supports all products under the Fraud Product Area's purview: IDV, Monitor, Layer, and Protect. About the Role You will have an opportunity to lead the strategy and execution of our supply side and "data in" efforts for our Fraud product area across four products (Plaid IDV, Monitor, Layer, and Protect). You will own all critical data partner relationship management with key stakeholders and be expected to grow them over time. You will be the internal quarterback driving alignment with key major internal stakeholders at Plaid, including Finance, BizOps, Commercial, Legal, and Risk. What You'll Do Spend the majority of your time working hand in hand with product leadership as well as other cross-functional leaders to operationalize our data partners for all fraud products at Plaid. Help our data science and research teams define the source data ecosystem for IDV and Protect according to our 3-year strategy. Help e
About the Role OpenAI's ads platform is experiencing rapid global scale. As the Lead Data Scientist for SMB Ads Growth, you will architect the analytics function end-to-end—driving strategy across targeting, funnel optimization, and performance forecasting. You will work directly with the SMB Ads Marketing team and your insights will be the primary catalyst for high-stakes decisions across marketing, product, and sales engineering. What You'll Do Full-Funnel Analytics Establish the foundational growth metrics and North Star KPIs for the SMB Ads ecosystem, optimizing the journey from lead acquisition to long-term retention. Diagnose funnel friction points through advanced behavioral analysis and quantify the incremental revenue impact of proposed optimizations. Partner cross-functionally to transform complex data findings into actionable, high-priority roadmaps for product and marketing stakeholders. Targeting, Segmentation & Propensity Modeling Engineer sophisticated propensity models and look-alike frameworks to identify and capture high-LTV SMB advertisers. Own the lifecycle of target list construction, including advanced data enrichment, multi-dimensional prioritization, and granular performance tracking. Develop robust segmentation architectures that power hyper-personalized outreach across paid, partnership, and outsourced (BPO) channels. Synthesize market signals to refine our value proposition, ensuring OpenAI remains a key platform for SMB business growth. Campaign Analytics & Measurement Design and implement rigorous multi-touch attribution and incrementality frameworks to evaluate channel efficacy. Lead the experimental roadmap: formulate hypotheses, execute A/B and multivariate tests, and communicate results to executive leadership. Automate business-critical reporting and dashboards to provide real-time visibility during weekly operating reviews. Forecasting & Planning Build high-fidelity revenue and advertiser growth models to project perfor
About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role OpenAI is seeking a Real Estate Lead to own land acquisition strategy and site-control execution for our next-generation data center portfolio across the U.S. This role sits at the front end of infrastructure delivery, translating market intelligence, broker/developer relationships, and commercial judgment into credible shovel-ready positions that meet OpenAI’s power, land, permitting, and expansion requirements. The Real Estate Lead will not operate as a traditional transactional real estate function. The scope is to help shape where OpenAI can build, secure the right land positions early, structure defensible commercial terms, and coordinate the legal, technical, and development work required to move opportunities from sourced lead to controlled site and ultimately to readiness handoff. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role also owns market prioritization and portfolio-level acquisition strategy across target geographies, and is expected to run multiple negotiations in parallel while translating site-control work into executive-ready acquisition recommendations. Key Responsibilities Own market prioritization and portfolio acquisition strategy across target geographies, including scenario analysis for speed, scale, expansion potential, and risk-adjusted economics. Proactively source and evaluate land parcels at scale to support long-term data center growth across priority markets. Build and manage a national pipeline of
Job Description: Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement About the Role We are hiring a Data Scientist to lead measurement, experimentation, and decision science for B2B marketing demand generation. You will help us understand which marketing investments create incremental demand, qualified pipeline, and revenue and how to scale them efficiently. Our mandate is to build a rigorous, full-funnel view of how B2B marketing creates demand and moves prospects from awareness and engagement to qualified opportunities, closed-won revenue, and expansion. You will shape how we measure marketing impact and influence across channels, campaigns, audiences, and account segments. In this role, you will partner closely with B2B Marketing, Demand Generation, Growth, Sales, RevOps, Finance to connect marketing activity to qualified pipeline, customer acquisition, and efficient revenue growth. What You’ll Do Define north-star, leading, and guardrail metrics for B2B demand generation, including account engagement, qualified leads and opportunities, sourced and influenced pipeline, conversion rates, pipeline velocity, and incremental ARR. Design and execute measurement and experimentation strategies across channels and campaigns, using randomized tests, audience or geographic holdouts, lift studies, quasi-experimental methods, and other causal approaches suited to long B2B sales cycles. Analyze channel, audience, campaign, creative, content, landing-page, and account-segment performance to identify the drivers of qualified demand, funnel conversion, pipeline quality, and incremental revenue. Partner with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, Finance, Product, and Engineering to improve instrumentation, campaign taxonomy, CRM data quality, lead-to-account matching, and the operating cadence for acting on measurement insights. Build AI-native measurement and decision-support workflows, using LLMs and agents to synthesize campaign performance, surface growth opportunities, and h
From $160K/yr
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 Growth Marketing team sits at the intersection of marketing, data, and technology, driving scalable acquisition and measurable business impact across Airbnb. Our work is critical to driving the company’s top line growth. We are looking for a highly strategic and technically savvy Growth Marketing Lead to own Host SEM, the supply side of our Paid Search program. You will be a channel expert, thought partner, and trusted advisor to leaders and business partners across Product, Data Science, Engineering, Supply, FP&A, Brand, and Creative teams to shape strategy and exceed ambitious KPI goals. The Difference You Will Make: You will lead end-to-end strategy and execution of Airbnb's Global Host SEM program, driving efficient host acquisition and long-term supply growth. You'll lead large-scale SEM investments across major search platforms, identify new growth opportunities, design and scale experimentation to inform investment decisions, and optimize performance to maximize business impact and ROI. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally to drive scalable solutions, influence roadmaps, and communicate data-driven recommendations to senior leadership that shape key business decisions. A Typical Day: Lead Airbnb's global Host SEM program across major search platforms (Google, Bing, and emerging channels) to drive efficient host acquisition and long-term supply growth. Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for Host SEM, aligning investment strategy and budget allocation with global and regional business priorities. Design, execute, and scale experiments across bi
About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a Lifecycle Lead to build the company-wide owned-channel capability that helps teams reach users with relevant, timely, and trustworthy experiences. This senior, hands-on leader will set the lifecycle strategy, partner with Engineering to build the orchestration and deployment platform, and establish the operating model that allows teams across the company to launch and improve evergreen programs safely at scale. You will sit at the intersection of platform, product, and campaign strategy. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics on the underlying systems, and with Product Marketing Managers and other client teams to design journeys that help new, active, and returning users reach value and build durable habits. In this role, you will: Partner with product to set the company-wide vision, roadmap, and operating model for lifecycle and owned-channel engagement. Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Analytics to shape the tooling and infrastructure for identity, audiences, eligibility, consent, triggers, orchestration, decisioning, frequency, experimentation, localization, quality assurance, and observability. Define scalable deployment workflows—including self-service and centrally supported paths, intake, templates, approvals, governance, service levels, and incident response—so teams across the company can launch safely and efficiently. Partner with Product Marketing Managers and other client teams to translate audience, product, and business goals into evergreen journey stra
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the Role We're looking for an AI-native product growth lead to own Replit's entire paid acquisition and lifecycle marketing engine as the single DRI. This is an IC role for someone who builds systems, not just campaigns. Someone who uses AI and automation aggressively to do what traditionally requires an entire team. You don't need an engineering background. You need the instinct to build: when you see a repetitive task, you reach for Replit or an API before you reach for a spreadsheet. You'll have data science and data engineering partners for infrastructure and modeling, and brand marketing will set creative direction. Your job is to turn that direction into a closed-loop optimization system: a self-improving system that turns performance data into better creative, optimizes spend across channels in near-real-time, and compounds every insight so nothing learned is ever lost. Each cycle, the system gets smarter. That's the engine you'll build and own. The ideal candidate has deep channel expertise across paid search, paid social, and lifecycle, but their real edge is building AI-powered workflows that scale creative production, automate measurement, and compound institutional knowledge. You Will Own full-funnel performance marketing across paid search & social, ASO, and lifecycle Build a self-improving creative engine: AI-driven ad generation, testing, and iteration that scales without scaling headcount Maintain a persistent knowledge layer so every experiment, result, and creative insight compounds automatically into the next cycle Own conversion signal quality end-to-end: right events, right audiences, right attribution, partnering with DE on the infrastructure Run a structured experimentation program wher
$300K – $350K/yr
CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We are seeking a technical, data-driven Product Management leader to own CLEAR's Marketing Technology platform. This role is responsible for the systems, data, and measurement capabilities that power member acquisition from first touch through enrollment. You will own CLEAR's MarTech ecosystem, including attribution and tracking, audience data infrastructure, CRM and lifecycle marketing platforms, and the integrations that connect marketing signals to actionable insights. Partnering closely with Marketing, Engineering, and Data teams, you'll ensure CLEAR has the tools and intelligence needed to scale growth across paid, organic, and partner channels. What You'll Do: Own the vision, roadmap, and performance of CLEAR's MarTech ecosystem, including CRM, audience activation, tracking, attribution, and marketing data infrastructure. Build best-in-class measurement capabilities across paid, organic, and partner channels, creating a trusted source of truth for acquisition performance. Partner with Marketing to improve audience targeting, lifecycle messaging, SEO/SEM performance, and channel optimization. Drive strategy for audience segmentation, activation, suppression, and first-party data utilization using platforms such as Snowflake and Hightouch. Own the digital enrollment experience, ensuring it is optimized for conversion, personalization, and growth. Define success metrics, manage vendor relationships, and prioritize investments that maximize marketing effectiveness and ROI. What We're Looking For: 8+ years of Product Management experie
From $104K/yr
We are seeking a visionary Answer Engine Optimization Lead to spearhead our Large Language Model (LLM) and AI platform visibility strategy (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity). Reporting into the Director of Marketing Acquisition, this role will be responsible for expanding our brand authority, maximizing developer mindshare, and driving new customer acquisition by optimizing MongoDB’s presence within LLM and answer engine responses. If you thrive at the intersection of technical content architecture, structured data, community advocacy, and AI-era discovery—and you want to lead a team on the front lines of defining the next wave of search experience optimization—this is a critical leadership role designed to accelerate target audience awareness and Product-Led Growth (PLG). This role will be based remotely in the United States. Key Responsibilities Define & Execute AEO Strategy: Design and own MongoDB’s global LLM visibility growth initiatives. Develop and execute strategies focused on increasing the citation share, sentiment, and accuracy of MongoDB across various technical developer audiences and agentic AI models Team Leadership: Oversee and scale a high-performing team of SEO, AEO, and content optimization professionals, fostering a culture of rapid experimentation in the AI search space Technical Information Architecture: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Documentation teams to optimize MongoDB’s digital footprint for LLM crawlers. Impose best practices for structured data, schema markup, knowledge graphs, and API/documentation accessibility to facilitate flawless RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) ingestion UGC Response & Community Advocacy: Coordinate a multi-team framework (including Developer Relations and Support) to ensure timely, high-quality, and LLM-friendly insights are present on critical developer watering holes (e.g., Reddit, Stack Overflow, GitHub, Wikipedia). Leverage "build in public" tactics to organicall
About the Team OpenAI is building the next generation of advertising for an AI-powered world. As AI changes how people discover information, explore possibilities, and make decisions, we believe this presents a huge opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses to connect with customers in new ways. The SMB Ads Marketing team is building this opportunity from the ground up. We define how businesses discover OpenAI’s advertising platform, become successful advertisers, and grow their investment over time. Working closely with Product, Ads Engineering, Data Science, and Sales, we combine customer insight, rigorous experimentation, and fast execution to turn early opportunities into scalable growth. About the Role The SMB Innovation Sales & Strategy Lead will identify, incubate and scale new revenue opportunities across OpenAI’s SMB Ads business. This foundational role combines strategic thinking, analytical rigor and hands-on execution to develop differentiated customer propositions, validate product opportunities and launch new go-to-market programs. Working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and Data Science, this person will lead initiatives from opportunity assessment through customer discovery, commercial pilots and transition to scale. The remit includes industry-specific opportunities, differentiated customer engagement models and innovative approaches across self-serve, sales-assisted and partner-led channels. The lead will also partner with SMB leadership and the Strategy & Operations team to inform the overall SMB strategy, contributing customer segmentation, commercial insights and evidence from incubation programs to broader planning and investment decisions. In This Role, You Will Identify untapped opportunities across SMB segments, industries, and channels. Build business cases and launch pilots to validate customer demand and commercial potential. Design new acquisition, activation, and expansion programs, including industry-speci
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the Role Search is being rebuilt in real time. Millions of people now start with a question to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity, and the answer they get decides which products they try. When someone asks how to build an app, a website, or a tool for their business, Replit needs to be the answer. We're hiring an AEO/GEO/SEO Lead to own how Replit gets discovered, across AI-generated answers and traditional search. This is a zero-to-one role. You'll define the strategy, then execute it yourself with AI-leveraged production, agency partners, and cross-functional teams behind you. You'll work daily with our Web, Growth, Brand, Content, Product, Engineering, and Analytics teams. The fastest-growing AI-native companies have already turned AI answers into a primary acquisition channel. Your mandate is to do the same for Replit: grow AI referral traffic into one of our largest sources of new builders, keep our traditional search presence compounding, and make Replit the platform AI assistants recommend when anyone wants to build software. Replit moves fast. We ship continuously, experiment relentlessly, and aim to make every builder more productive and creative. We're looking for someone who thrives in that environment: part strategist, part operator, part scientist of a channel that changes every month. What You'll Do Own the AEO/GEO Strategy Define where Replit must show up across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, for which prompts and buyer intents, and build the playbook to win those answers. Set targets, sequence the roadmap, and defend the strategy with data. Win Citations Across the Open Web LLMs cite what they trust: Reddit threads, YouTube videos, high-authority publications, co
From $216.2K/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Roblox is building the future of human connection through play. As a Senior Growth Marketing Manager, you will play a critical role in scaling Roblox's global growth engine, helping millions of users discover, engage with, and return to Roblox. This role sits at the intersection of marketing, product, data science, and engineering. You will lead high-impact growth initiatives spanning user acquisition, lifecycle marketing, personalization, creator growth, and product-led growth. You will be responsible for identifying new growth opportunities, designing and executing experiments, influencing product strategy, and scaling programs that drive measurable business impact. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who combines analytical rigor, strong growth instincts, operational excellence, and the ability to influence across teams. You will report to the Head of Growth Marketing. You will: Own and Scale Growth Programs Lead end-to-end growth initiatives across user acquisition, reactivation, paid influencer, and product-led growth programs. Manage and optimize multimillion-dollar marketing investments across ad platforms including but not limited to Google, YouTube, Meta, TikTo
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