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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Our Industrial Compute organization develops and deploys large-scale AI campuses designed to support the next generation of frontier model training and inference workloads. The Hardware Operations team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and lifecycle health of OpenAI’s compute infrastructure. We partner closely with Data Center Operations, Fleet Health Engineering, Manufacturing, Network Infrastructure, Capacity Planning, and our infrastructure partners to maintain world-class operational performance across rapidly expanding AI environments. As we scale globally, we are building the operational frameworks, reliability standards, and sustaining engineering practices required to support thousands of GPUs and servers across multiple campuses. About the Role We are seeking a Datacenter Hardware Technician Lead to serve as the senior on-site technical authority for hardware reliability and fleet health at one of OpenAI’s flagship AI campuses. This role operates at the intersection of hardware operations, sustaining engineering, and fleet reliability. You will partner closely with Cloud Service Provider operations teams, OpenAI fleet-health engineers, hardware engineering teams, and OEM vendors to identify, diagnose, and resolve hardware issues affecting production systems. Beyond day-to-day operational support, you will drive root cause investigations, reliability improvement initiatives, lifecycle management programs, and operational readiness efforts. You will help establish hardware maintenance standards, operational procedures, and best practices that scale across future OpenAI infrastructure deployments. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on datacenter hardware expertise with strong troubleshooting, failure analysis, and cross-functional leadership skills. Candidates must be able to sit onsite at our

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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 Infrastructure team is central to this mission, setting the core strategy and implementing the vision. From site selection to deployment to operations, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational domains, interacting with experts and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. We design and operate mission-critical facilities that support cutting-edge AI workloads at scale. About the Role We are seeking a Facilities Operations Lead to support the commissioning, deployment, and long-term operation of our next-generation AI data centers. This role bridges the interface between data center construction and hardware landing, ensuring seamless integration of mission-critical infrastructure with hardware deployment timelines. You will define and execute commissioning plans, support infrastructure bring-up, and take ownership of operations and maintenance for cutting-edge, large-scale, AI data centers. You will collaborate closely with design, construction, and hardware teams to define repeatable processes for new data center builds and lead hands-on operations to uphold the performance and reliability of our deployed infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Define and execute sequences of operations, commissioning steps, and bring-up processes for mission-critical data center facilities. Interface with the design and hardware teams to define deployment procedures tailored to each data center and hardware configuration. Oversee installation, commissioning, and operational readiness of large-scale data center campuses. Manage monitoring, maintenance, and quality control of the data center infrastructure, including high-performance liquid cooling systems. Develop on-site operations staffing strategy. Develop and enforce procedures for planed and unplanned downtime and SLAs for critical

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Support team is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from individual customers to early-stage startups and established global enterprises. Given OpenAI’s breakneck shipping cadence and growth – and the expectation that it will only accelerate – our ability to architect automation systems and agentic workflows for scale is central to our ability to maintain exceptional support quality in the face of AGI. About the Role We are seeking a Support Operations Lead who combines operational leadership, systems thinking, vendor management, and hands-on execution. You’ll own service health, automation programs, partner and vendor management. In addition to delivering high-quality service, you’ll identify opportunities to reduce manual work, experiment with tools and help operationalize AI across support at scale. This is not a traditional support operations lead role. We’re looking for someone to help us define the future of support, who thrive at the intersection of team/project management, systems building, data science/engineering, and with deep craft experience in the support operations space. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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 and evolve organizational design for our frontline operations across partner and vendor management, coaching teams to expand automation and deliver measurable capacity gains. Lead multi-site partner management, including commercial ownership, capacity planning and workfor

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Growth Platforms team builds the systems and operating foundations that help OpenAI grow responsibly. We partner across the product portfolio to connect customer signals, identity and consent, campaign workflows, measurement, and product experiences into an AI-enabled growth engine. Our work helps teams launch, learn, and scale with a high bar for data quality, privacy, reliability, and customer trust. About the Role We’re looking for an experienced marketing technology and operations leader to drive cross-functional work at the intersection of growth, measurement, data, and automation. Your mission will be to turn fragmented tools, signals, and workflows into reliable, measurable, AI-enabled capabilities that teams can use safely at scale. You’ll work across Growth, Marketing Operations, Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Revenue Operations, as well as external advertising platforms, measurement providers, and implementation partners. You’ll translate business requirements and privacy constraints into data contracts, integration designs, rollout plans, and reliable first-party data systems. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who brings structure to ambiguity and moves from event schemas, APIs, and data quality assurance to operating cadences, partner enablement, and executive updates. This role is based in San Francisco or New York City with a hybrid office expectation. In this role, you will: Own the operating model for Growth’s marketing technology stack across identity, consent, audiences, activation, measurement, and experimentation. Own and operate the complete paid-media tracking and measurement system, including website pixels, server-to-server conversion events, mobile measurement integrations, identity and consent controls, attribution methods, and timely signal delivery to advertising platforms. Design and implement event schemas, data mappings, APIs, and integrations; valid

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building and scaling the infrastructure required to support frontier AI. The Infrastructure Strategic Sourcing team connects technical and project requirements to supplier readiness, contracting, purchasing, equipment delivery, and portfolio-level risk visibility across owner-furnished contractor-installed equipment (OFCI), data center networking, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and related infrastructure. The team partners across Pre-Construction, Design, Construction, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Network Engineering, Hardware and Rack Delivery, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Legal, Finance, Accounts Payable, Logistics, and external suppliers. We build the operating mechanisms that keep sourcing decisions, purchase execution, long-lead equipment, network and fiber dependencies, rack readiness, and delivery commitments aligned to infrastructure schedules. About the Role We are seeking an Infrastructure Sourcing Operations Lead to own procurement operations across pre-construction, design, construction, and sourcing through purchase order issuance, while maintaining visibility through invoice resolution, production, logistics, delivery, installation, and readiness. The portfolio includes electrical and mechanical OFCI, networking equipment, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and other infrastructure required to bring capacity online. In this role, you will set priorities, make or escalate decisions that affect cost, supplier relationships, contractual position, and delivery schedules, and define the standards used by execution support for queue management, documentation, tracker maintenance, and recurring reporting. Success requires sound commercial and program judgment, operational rigor, systems thinking, and the ability to turn incomplete information across vendors, tools, and project teams into clear decisions, accountable

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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$230K – $260K/yr

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Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role Notion is accelerating investment in Partner and Consultant motions with the goal to scale growth meaningfully over the next several years. This role will lead strategy and execution across both self-service and sales-assisted business models, diving deep to support each motion while also working alongside business partners to drive program unification through mechanisms such as tiering, processes, systems, and incentive models. As Strategy & Operations Manager, you'll support Partner growth strategy design, translate strategies into annual investment plans, clear priorities and cross-functional dependencies, and help drive execution with velocity and rigor. You'll build and own core operating processes and frameworks — such as capacity and revenue models, reporting and KPI reviews — partnering with RevOps, Business Technology, Data, Finance, Product, and Go to Market teams to develop a strong operational foundation for the Partner program. Ultimately, you'll help our Partner Leadership team build programs that transform end user experience, accelerate Notion adoption, and drive ARR growth at scale. We’re looking f

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In support of that mission, the ChatGPT Ads team is building advertising products that help businesses reach customers in useful, trusted, and responsible ways. The Ads Strategy, Planning, and Operations team is responsible for building the operating foundation for OpenAI's advertising business: GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, planning, forecasting, business rhythms, sales programs, incentives, and scalable execution across advertisers, agencies, partners, resellers, and internal teams. This team sits at the intersection of Sales, Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, and Customer Success. About the role We’re looking for a Sales Strategy & Operations Lead to help build the GTM operating system for ChatGPT Ads. This person will work across sales strategy, planning, systems, segmentation, forecasting, operating rhythm, sales programs, and commercial execution to help the Ads business scale with clarity, speed, and control. This role is for someone who can move between strategy and execution: able to define operating models, build analytical frameworks, run cross-functional planning processes, improve GTM systems and data quality, and program manage high-priority sales initiatives. The ideal candidate has meaningful experience in digital advertising, media, adtech, marketplace, or platform businesses and understands the complexity of scaling sales motions across direct sales, agencies, partners, resellers, outsourced channels, and self-serve. In this role, you’ll: Help build the operating foundation for ChatGPT Ads across GTM systems, segmentation, coverage, forecasting, sales planning, and business reviews. Partner with Sales, Ads Ops, Product, Engineering, Strategic Finance, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and Data teams to translate strategy into execution. Develop objective frameworks for ac

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The International Strategy & Operations team supports the growth and management of OpenAI’s business outside the United States. We work across products, markets, and functions to ensure our technology reaches and benefits users and customers around the world. Our team is responsible for being the glue between global and regional teams—bringing together market performance, local context, and cross-functional priorities to create a clear plan for winning in international markets. We advocate for the regional leaders closest to our users and customers, while giving company leadership the ground truth and structured recommendations needed to make the right decisions and tradeoffs. About the Role We are looking for a world-class, scrappy, and dynamic strategy and operations leader who spikes in analytical thinking, business judgment, executive communication, and operational execution. You will work closely with global leadership, regional general managers, and cross-functional partners to identify growth opportunities, build operating plans, and drive high-priority initiatives from conception through execution. You will be expected to operate at all altitudes—from translating complex market dynamics into clear recommendations for senior executives to working directly with product, growth, data science, and go-to-market teams to unblock execution. Success in this role requires the ability to bring structure to ambiguity, turn data into actionable insights, influence without authority, and drive meaningful business outcomes across a fast-moving and increasingly global organization. In this role, you will: Build the operating plan. Translate strategic priorities into clear goals, workstreams, owners, milestones, and decisions. Identify cross-functional dependencies early and ensure teams remain aligned on execution. Drive market growth initiatives. Work with product, growth, marketing, data science, and regional teams to identify and execute opportunities

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Business Marketing at OpenAI helps companies understand, adopt, and realize value from intelligence at work. We believe our own marketing organization should demonstrate what changes when intelligence becomes part of the work: fewer manual handoffs, faster learning, better use of customer and product signals, and more capacity for ambitious thinking. Marketing Technology works across Marketing, go-to-market, Data, Engineering, IT, Security, and Product to define the systems, agents, data, workflows, and operating model that power modern marketing at OpenAI. The team has an opportunity to rethink marketing operations alongside the people building the models, products, and infrastructure shaping the future of AI. About the Role We are hiring a Head of Marketing Operations & Technology to build the most AI-enabled marketing operations organization in the world. You will own the systems, infrastructure, data, and workflows that help Marketing operate with greater intelligence, speed, and impact. You will set the function’s strategy, decide what to build or buy, and develop new capabilities where existing solutions fall short. This role sits at the intersection of marketing, technology, data, and AI. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Sales, Growth, and Revenue Operations while building a team of technical operators and builders who can turn ambitious ideas into dependable systems. We welcome varied backgrounds—from marketing operations leaders who have expanded the function’s traditional boundaries to founders and builders of AI-native products, growth infrastructure, or internal platforms. What matters most is a deep understanding of marketing, strong technical instincts, and the ambition to imagine a fundamentally better way of working. In this role, you will: Define the vision, strategy, and operating model for Marketing Operations & Technology, including how AI should reshape the function. Build and lead a team spanning market

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building and operating the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of AI. Infrastructure Operations works across facilities, hardware, network operations, incident management, data center engineering, delivery teams, and external partners to bring capacity online safely, understand its operational state, and improve it over time. As OpenAI's data center portfolio grows across first-party and partner-delivered capacity, the organization needs clear goals, trusted data, repeatable processes, and systems that make ownership, risk, readiness, and performance visible. This role will help build the operating mechanisms that allow Infrastructure Operations to scale with rigor. About the Role We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to own the systems, data, reporting, governance, and program-management backbone for Infrastructure Operations. Reporting to the Delivery & Operations Lead, you will translate strategy into executable goals and operating cadences, turn operational needs into software and data solutions, and create the mechanisms that keep a rapidly evolving organization aligned and accountable. This role will also own the current 1P+3P delivery-tracking layer within Operations: milestones, delivery timelines, quantity forecasts, risks, decisions, and executive reporting. You will partner closely with 1P Delivery Program Management, Compute TPMs, Data Center Engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations leaders to ensure that delivery information becomes complete, usable input for readiness, handover, and ongoing operations. You will own program health and the operating system around it: the goals, data definitions, workflows, reporting, decision paths, and follow-through that help functional DRIs execute. The ideal candidate is comfortable in ambiguity, technically fluent enough to implement real systems, and relentless about converting scattered information into durable mechan

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The OpenAI Audit Team is on a mission to build the future of internal audit from the ground up. Our ambition will be powered by a high-energy, technically exceptional team with the judgment, intellectual curiosity, and creativity to harness the latest advances in AI and design a truly next-generation audit function. As AI reshapes how work is performed across the enterprise, Internal Audit will use AI, automation, and data analytics to identify and assess the most significant and emerging risks across the business, including technology, cybersecurity, finance, compliance, operations, and data. We will build trusted partnerships at every level—from the Board of Directors and senior leadership to the teams delivering on OpenAI’s mission every day. We will operate as both an independent assurance provider and a trusted advisor, bringing an objective and pragmatic perspective to critical decisions. By engaging closely with management while preserving our independence, we will help the business innovate responsibly, move with confidence, and manage risk without creating unnecessary barriers. About the Role As the Finance & Operations Audit Leader, you will help shape the strategy, methodology, technology, and culture of a new audit function. You will lead complex audits, forensic and investigative reviews, and advisory work across financial reporting, accounting, finance, and business operations, while addressing related compliance risks. You will advise leaders on practical ways to strengthen governance, execution, accountability, and risk management. You are an experienced, hands-on professional who combines deep finance and accounting knowledge with strong audit, risk, and business judgment. Your work will span across finance & accounting areas including treasury, tax, revenue, financial planning, business operations, and enterprise governance, with opportunities to apply forensic accounting techniques to complex transactions, anomalies, and pot

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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$342K – $445K/yr

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About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role We are seeking a Technical Lead to lead deployment and operations for OpenAI’s Silicon & Systems team. This person will become the Directly-Responsible Individual responsible for bringing OpenAI’s custom silicon and associated systems into data center environments, ensuring successful deployment, bring-up, validation, operational readiness, and ongoing reliability at scale. This role sits at the intersection of silicon, systems, infrastructure, data center operations, and software. You will lead a team focused on taking new hardware platforms from lab validation into production data center deployment. You will be responsible for building the operational processes, technical workflows, tooling, and cross-functional alignment required to deploy and operate custom AI hardware reliably in OpenAI’s supercomputing infrastructure. The ideal candidate is both a strong leader and a deeply technical operator. You should be comfortable staying close to the technical details of hardware bring-up, fleet deployment, debugging, system validation, data center integration, and production operations. This role requires strong execution, excellent cross-functional judgment, and the ability to drive clarity in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. In this role, you will: Lead a team responsible for deployment and operations of OpenAI’s custom silicon and systems in data center environments Own the path from hardware bring-up and validation through production deployment, operati

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Search research team focuses on building the systems that help AI systems find, retrieve, and use information from the world. We aim to make answers more useful and grounded for more than a billion ChatGPT users. About the Role We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead a broad portfolio of research and engineering programs that power search. You’ll partner closely with researchers, engineers, and product leaders to turn ambitious goals into clear plans, resolve dependencies, and move complex technical work forward. This role combines technical depth, product judgment, and hands-on execution. You’ll work across retrieval, indexing, and model improvements, while collaborating with policy, legal, and external data partners. You’ll help teams make informed tradeoffs and build practical ways of working that support a fast-moving research environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. In this role, you will: Lead programs across model training, retrieval, large-scale indexing, and search infrastructure. Translate evolving goals into prioritized workstreams with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource needs. Partner with research, engineering, and product leads to define requirements and make tradeoffs across scope, quality, performance, timelines, and cost. Establish program success metrics and use them to guide priorities and track improvements in coverage, answer quality, responsiveness, and trust. Identify technical and cross-functional risks early, drive blockers to resolution, and communicate progress and decisions clearly to teams and leadership. Coordinate with product, policy, legal, and external partners on data access, use, and presentation, helping teams resolve decisions that span technical and non-technical domains. Manage dependencies with data providers and build repeatable processes that help research and engineering teams execute effectively as the search effort grows. You might thrive in this role if you

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📍 San Francisco, United States· Remote
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About Mixpanel Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com . About the Team The People Operations team owns the systems, processes, and programs that make the employee lifecycle run — from day one through every transition in between. We believe that clean data, simple workflows, and well-designed technology are what let the rest of the People & Talent function do its best work. About the Role We're looking for a People Operations Manager who can look at a messy, ambiguous problem and turn it into a clear plan — then execute it. Day-to-day, you'll own our HR technology stack, lead process transformation across the employee lifecycle, and serve as the go-to partner for Payroll, IT, Legal, and the broader People & Talent team when something needs to be built, fixed, or rethought. You'll work directly with vendors, HRBPs, and leadership to make sure our operations are scalable, compliant, and actually simple to use. In the first year, success means moving us from where we are to where we should be: better-configured systems, documented processes, and a team that trusts what's in our tools. Responsibilities Lead HR operations programs end-to-end — define scope, owners, milestones, risks, and success measures, often starting from an undefined brief. Serve as the primary functional owner for core People technology platforms (e.g., HRIS, ATS, LMS, performance tools), including configuration, upgrades, and feature evaluation. Lead technology deployments, platform conversions, and module rollouts, coordinating across IT, HRIS, and vendor teams. Research and benchmark HR technology trends to build and maintain a People tech roadmap that supports scale. Apply AI and e

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Global Pricing Operations Team The Pricing Operations team works in a cross-functional, fast-paced, and dynamic environment with many moving pieces and evolving business needs. The team partners with Pricing Strategy Managers, Product Managers, Technology, Data & Intelligence, and various GTM teams to ensure Okta is operationally ready to bring new product pricing, buying programs, and strategic monetization initiatives to market. The Pricing Operations Principal Opportunity Okta is seeking a Pricing Operations Principal to lead initiatives that transform Okta's pricing strategy into successful go-to-market execution. A successful person in this role will be a strong collaborator, intensely curious, and supremely organized. They are known for connecting the dots, simplifying complexities, communicating clearly and proactively, and driving highly collaborative efforts to completion, even when the path forward isn't perfectly defined. In this role, you will serve as an operational leader for new pricing launches and a strategic buying-program implementation, establishing the integrated roadmap, operating cadence, decision-making framework, readiness criteria, and stakeholder communications required to bring these initiatives from concept through launch and sustained adoption. You will partner closely with senior cross-functional leaders to make complex tradeoffs, resolve dependencies, and ensure the business is ready to sell, quote,

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