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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Web team brings OpenAI’s brand, mission, and products to life online. We work across brand design, marketing, communications, and engineering to create clear, accessible web experiences for a global audience. This role is dedicated to Business Marketing, helping organizations understand how OpenAI’s products can support their work. We combine thoughtful storytelling, strong visual craft, and intuitive user experiences to make complex ideas approachable and useful. About the Role We’re looking for a hands-on Web Designer to create exceptional experiences for business audiences on OpenAI.com . You’ll help people understand our products, explore their relevance to their organizations, and find the right next step. As an individual contributor, you’ll own projects from early exploration through launch, working closely with engineers, brand designers, marketers, and writers. You’ll bring strong visual judgment and UX thinking to the work, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints while contributing to a cohesive experience across the site. This role is based in New York, NY. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Own design from concept through implementation, developing information architecture, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity responsive designs. Translate complex product capabilities and business use cases into clear stories and compelling web experiences. Design product, solution, and campaign experiences that help business audiences discover, evaluate, and take action. Partner with engineers, brand designers, marketers, and writers to shape ideas, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and ship polished work. Evolve and apply our web design system, creating reusable patterns that support both consistency and expressive storytelling. Stay involved through implementation and design QA, paying close attention to accessibil

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The Product Explorations team is a small, high-ownership product exploration group focused on turning new model capabilities into impactful user experiences. We operate across Applied and Research, working closely with product, engineering, design, and research partners to identify promising opportunities, prototype quickly, validate ideas, and determine which efforts should scale into larger product investments. Our objective is broad: discover and build experiences that can meaningfully improve user engagement, product impact, and revenue across OpenAI’s products. We move quickly, follow strong product signals, and take ideas from early exploration to meaningful user impact. About the Role We are looking for product-minded full stack engineers to join the Product Explorations team and drive high-impact, net-new product explorations. In this role, you will independently identify promising opportunities, move quickly from idea to prototype, and work across teams to validate and launch new experiences. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, use strong product intuition, and make thoughtful decisions in ambiguous environments. You may work on a new ChatGPT experience one week, explore a new model capability the next, and partner with Research or Applied teams to turn the strongest ideas into scalable products. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building from scratch, iterating quickly, and working on projects where the path forward is not always obvious. In this role, you will: Identify and pursue high-leverage product and technical opportunities across OpenAI’s products Move quickly from idea to prototype, validation, launch, and iteration Build full stack product experiences that unlock value from new model capabilities Work closely with Research, Applied, product, design, data science, and engineering partners Use user feedback, product signals, and experimentation to determine which ideas should scale Drive alignment across t

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customer’s adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. 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 early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We are looking for a Support Program Manager to join our Support Delivery team. This role is an exciting opportunity to help define and implement foundational support practices that will scale with OpenAI’s growth. You will lead efforts to establish new operational frameworks, driving process alignment with various internal teams, and leading tooling and automation projects. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact in shaping customer experience while collaborating across multiple teams. We’re looking for people who thrive at the intersection of project management, systems building, data science/data engineering/software engineering, team enablement, and customer advocacy – and enjoy working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and follows a hybrid work model of 3 days in-office per week. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Lead support delivery programs for Tier 3 frontline delivery for our most strategic customers, including productivity and workflow improvements, team operations, and knowledge management for the Support Delivery team Partner with Support Delivery and cross-functional leadership to define the experience, stand up the program, manage pilots and rollout, and ensure premium operations and playbooks st

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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The OpenAI for Government AI Architect team partners with public sector organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with government agencies, public institutions, and partner organizations serving the government to identify where AI can advance critical missions, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Global Affairs, and specialist delivery teams to help public sector customers adopt advanced AI responsibly and effectively. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will shape each customer's AI strategy and guide their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable mission impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate mission priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value. The Account Director leads the overall account strategy and relationship, while you lead the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production impact. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong public sector fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. This r

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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. 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 early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re looking for dedicated, experienced, and deeply curious individuals to help solve some of the most complex challenges faced by our customers while building the future of post-AGI support alongside us. In this role, you’ll work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in one of the fastest-moving environments in technology. As AI adoption rapidly accelerates, the work you do will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI’s platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale. Beyond resolving technical issues, you’ll help define what world-class support looks like in an AGI-driven future. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technology to transform how support operates at scale. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. As employees in this role with work with many customers based on the East Coast, regularly weekday hours will commence at 6am Pacific. To comply with a U.S. government contract, applicants for this position must be U.

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. 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 early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re looking for dedicated, experienced, and deeply curious individuals to help solve some of the most complex challenges faced by our customers while building the future of post-AGI support alongside us. In this role, you’ll work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in one of the fastest-moving environments in technology. As AI adoption rapidly accelerates, the work you do will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI’s platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale. Beyond resolving technical issues, you’ll help define what world-class support looks like in an AGI-driven future. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technology to transform how support operates at scale. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. As employees in this role with work with many customers based on the East Coast, regularly weekday hours will commence at 6am Pacific. To comply with a U.S. government contract, applicants for this position must be U.

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We embed deeply with users to solve high-leverage problems. We move quickly from prototype to deployment and surface patterns that shape the platform. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core development. We work closely with Product, Research, and Go-To-Market (GTM). About the role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to build and deploy AI systems for legal work. You will embed deeply with customers—often working closely with senior legal practitioners—to identify the right first use case, rapidly prototype a solution, and prove measurable value. Early engagements may focus on creating a “hero” workflow that shows how OpenAI’s models can support legal analysis, drafting, research, or real-time work with complex case records. You will own the technical work from discovery and proof of concept through production adoption, while translating customer workflows and constraints into clear product feedback. As the motion matures, you will turn successful deployments into repeatable patterns that can scale across larger accounts and the broader legal market. This role is based in San Francisco or New York City. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% may be required. In this role, you will Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand their workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select the right initial use cases to prove value. Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks t

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -82%
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About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We embed deeply with users to solve high-leverage problems. We move quickly from prototype to deployment and surface patterns that shape the platform. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core development. We work closely with Product, Research, and Go-To-Market (GTM). About the role We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to build and deploy AI systems for legal work. You will embed deeply with customers—often working closely with senior legal practitioners—to identify the right first use case, rapidly prototype a solution, and prove measurable value. Early engagements may focus on creating a “hero” workflow that shows how OpenAI’s models can support legal analysis, drafting, research, or real-time work with complex case records. You will own the technical work from discovery and proof of concept through production adoption, while translating customer workflows and constraints into clear product feedback. As the motion matures, you will turn successful deployments into repeatable patterns that can scale across larger accounts and the broader legal market. This role is based in San Francisco or New York City. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 50% may be required. In this role, you will Embed with law firms and legal teams to understand their workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and select the right initial use cases to prove value. Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks t

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📍 California, United States of America, United States
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$107.4K – $155.7K/yr

Interactive Design Engineer - HPIQ Description - About The Role As a Product Design Engineer at HP IQ, you’ll work at the intersection of creativity, engineering, and design to develop groundbreaking devices that redefine how people interact with technology. You’ll collaborate closely with industrial designers, hardware engineers, and interaction designers to transform ideas into functional prototypes and production-ready designs. From 3D CAD modeling and hands-on prototyping to engineering analysis and design validation, you’ll help solve complex mechanical challenges and drive designs from early concepts toward production. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful engineering work while learning from an experienced, multidisciplinary team and contributing to products that push the boundaries of what’s possible. What You Might Do Design mechanical parts, components, and assemblies for new consumer devices using 3D CAD (NX) Create detailed 2D engineering drawings, define specifications and tolerances, and work closely with overseas vendor partners to ensure accuracy and quality Design and run experiments, applying engineering analysis and test results to guide design decisions Evaluate materials, manufacturing processes, and design tradeoffs to develop robust and scalable solutions Work cross-functionally with hardware, software, industrial design, and other engineering teams to bring concepts from ideation through development Conceptualize, design, and build prototypes that quickly validate ideas Participate in design reviews, clearly communicating design decisions, technical analysis, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences Build, test, troubleshoot, and iterate prototypes to identify issues and improve product performance, reliability, a

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📍 California, United States of America, United States
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$107.4K – $155.7K/yr

Product Design Engineer - HPIQ Description - About The Role As a Product Design Engineer at HP IQ, you’ll work at the intersection of creativity, engineering, and design to develop groundbreaking devices that redefine how people interact with technology. You’ll collaborate closely with industrial designers, hardware engineers, and interaction designers to transform ideas into functional prototypes and production-ready designs. From 3D CAD modeling and hands-on prototyping to engineering analysis and design validation, you’ll help solve complex mechanical challenges and drive designs from early concepts toward production. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful engineering work while learning from an experienced, multidisciplinary team and contributing to products that push the boundaries of what’s possible. What You Might Do Design mechanical parts, components, and assemblies for new consumer devices using 3D CAD (NX) Create detailed 2D engineering drawings, define specifications and tolerances, and work closely with overseas vendor partners to ensure accuracy and quality Design and run experiments, applying engineering analysis and test results to guide design decisions Evaluate materials, manufacturing processes, and design tradeoffs to develop robust and scalable solutions Work cross-functionally with hardware, software, industrial design, and other engineering teams to bring concepts from ideation through development Conceptualize, design, and build prototypes that quickly validate ideas Participate in design reviews, clearly communicating design decisions, technical analysis, and tradeoffs to both technical and

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📍 California, United States
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$155.6K – $233.4K/yr

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What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. Position Summary: Designs, models, and develops data management systems that integrate laboratory, operation and research data. Designs, builds, improves and maintains high performance and highly scalable data pipelines. Oversees transition of data pipelines to production and commercial settings; develops technology choices and practices that support pipeline maturation. Researches and assesses the viability of new data management and processing technologies. Scope of Responsibilities: Applies subject matter expertise and extensive knowledge of theories, practices, and design matters to lead the application of existing principles and guide the development of new ideas. Provides, guides, and uses professional concepts to resolve critical issues. Works on highly complex assignments that address future concepts where problem solving requires conceptual thinking and an evaluation of enigmatic components. Accountable for results which may impact multiple functions. Enhances formal networks with key decision makers and recognized as a thought le

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📍 Massachusetts, United States
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$162.9K – $271.5K/yr

ROLE SUMMARY: The key strategic focus within the Internal Medicine Research Unit (IMRU) is identifying novel therapies to prevent or treat metabolic diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular disease. Our goal is to build a world-class research team of dedicated scientists committed to developing a deep mechanistic understanding of the metabolic pathways underlying disease pathogenesis. As a senior scientific leader and member of the obesity discovery biology team, this individual will play a significant role in shaping the scientific direction for the obesity therapeutic area and influencing broader IMRU research strategy and portfolio priorities. The individual will help create and drive discovery research strategy across multiple programs, including target ideation, validation, translational biomarker strategy, hypothesis testing, and early clinical development within the IMRU obesity portfolio. The successful candidate will lead through both direct team leadership and influence across multidisciplinary partners, helping align scientific decisions across discovery biology, translational sciences, clinical, computational, and external collaborators. The individual will identify emerging therapeutic opportunities, advance portfolio programs with scientific rigor and urgency, and represent research strategies to internal leadership and the external scientific community. Knowledge and experience in the study of metabolic pathways are essential, and familiarity with the pathophysiology of dysmetabolic states would be advantageous. Strong self-motivation, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead, mentor, and build scientific capability in a highly collaborative environment are essential. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES: Shape and influence the scientific direction for discovery research programs aligned with IMRU therapeutic area and portfolio strategy. Ap

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $145.6K/yr

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TPMs at Datadog see the problems hiding between teams, engineer away the work that shouldn’t require humans, and drive the company’s most technically complex and consequential bets to completion. About the Role Technical Program Management at Datadog operates at the intersection of engineering depth and organizational reach by driving high priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex and consequential for any single team to own. We partner with engineering on solving deeply technical problems at scale by connecting the people, decisions, and context to move Datadog's most important work forward. We build the systems and automation that make entire classes of program work self-executing. We are in the architecture conversation early, earning trust through technical judgment. We use AI to surface risks earlier, accelerate program execution plans, and find cross-team patterns that would otherwise stay hidden. The faster teams move, the more essential it is to have someone who can operate across them. What we expect These are the expectations we hold for every TPM at Datadog. Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy; knowing how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope and impact of those failures. AI brings more complexity into the picture - the technical bar is higher, not lower. Build the systems that reduce the need for coordination Identify what matters before anyone asks, and automate the rest Engineer program lifecycles end-to-end See what no single team can see and own the solution Drive the company's most technically complex and consequential bets through cross-functional agreement, organizational visibility, and influence Build AI powered automation tools and deploy them at every stage of program execution What you will do See Across: Identify What No Single Team Can See Own large cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering orgs, product, and business functions Proactively surface systemic risks, cross

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Tax and Trade team sits at the center of OpenAI’s global growth, shaping how cutting-edge AI products, partnerships, and infrastructure scale across borders while navigating complex tax, trade, and regulatory regimes. We operate as strategic operators, not just compliance experts, embedding early in product, finance, policy, and infrastructure decisions to manage risk, unlock incentives, and enable OpenAI to grow responsibly and competitively worldwide. About the Role We’re hiring a Tax Director to help shape some of OpenAI’s most important business, product, infrastructure, and financing initiatives. This role will sit at the intersection of tax, finance, technology, and commercial strategy, advising on the investments, products, partnerships, and operating decisions that enable OpenAI to scale. You will serve as a senior tax business partner to Finance, Legal, Infrastructure, Treasury, Accounting, Product, and commercial teams. Your work will span compute and infrastructure investments, structured financings, commercial contracting, product strategy, new business models, and international expansion. This is a broad, highly commercial role for someone who enjoys solving new problems and influencing business decisions. The ideal candidate combines strong tax judgment with financial acumen, intellectual curiosity, and an understanding of transaction economics, contractual risk allocation, and business operations. You will engage early in strategic initiatives, help teams evaluate possibilities, and develop practical structures that support OpenAI’s growth. 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. In this role, you will: Serve as a senior tax business partner across OpenAI, advising on strategic business decisions, product development, commercial models, infrastructure investments, financing initiatives, and international growth. Serve as the lead tax a

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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From $184K/yr

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TPMs at Datadog see the problems hiding between teams, engineer away the work that shouldn’t require humans, and drive the company’s most technically complex and consequential bets to completion. Technical Program Management at Datadog operates at the intersection of engineering depth and organizational reach by driving high priority, cross-functional programs that are too complex and consequential for any single team to own. We partner with engineering on solving deeply technical problems at scale by connecting the people, decisions, and context to move Datadog's most important work forward. We build the systems and automation that make entire classes of program work self-executing. We are in the architecture conversation early, earning trust through technical judgment. We use AI to surface risks earlier, accelerate program execution plans, and find cross-team patterns that would otherwise stay hidden. The faster teams move, the more essential it is to have someone who can operate across them. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What We Expect: These are the expectations we hold for every TPM at Datadog. Technical depth, product domain expertise, and AI systems literacy; knowing how AI solutions work, where they fail, and the scope and impact of those failures. AI brings more complexity into the picture - the technical bar is higher, not lower. Build the systems that reduce the need for coordination Identify what matters before anyone asks, and automate the rest Engineer program lifecycles end-to-end See what no single team can see and own the solution Drive the company's most technically complex and consequential bets through cross-functional agreement, organizational visibility, and influence Build AI powered automation tools and

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