Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales in San Francisco

About the Role As a Field CTO (Strategic Pursuits) , you will serve as a strategic bridge between our customers, go-to-market (GTM) teams, and product organization. You will partner closely with Sales, Technical Success, and Product to shape high-impact deals, guide customer architecture decisions, and influence our product roadmap based on real-world adoption and feedback. This is a highly cross-functional, externally facing leadership role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and customer empathy. In this role, you will: Customer & Deal Strategy Partner with Sales, Product and Technical Success teams to support complex, high-value deals as a technical and strategic advisor. Translate customer business needs into scalable technical solutions and architectures. Engage with senior customer stakeholders (CTO/CIO/VP-level) to drive alignment on vision, roadmap, and adoption. Lead technical strategy discussions during key deal stages, including discovery, solution design, and executive presentations. Architecture & Implementation Guidance Guide customers on best practices for deploying and scaling AI-driven solutions in production. Provide architectural oversight across use cases such as LLM applications, integrations, data pipelines, and security. Act as a trusted advisor to ensure long-term success, not just short-term wins. Product & Feedback Loop Bring structured customer insights back to Product and Engineering teams to inform roadmap and prioritization. Identify gaps, opportunities, and emerging patterns from customer deployments. Influence product direction based on real-world usage, scalability needs, and enterprise requirements. GTM Strategy & Thought Leadership Help shape GTM strategies by identifying repeatable patterns across industries and customer segments. Develop scalable frameworks, reference architectures, and playbooks for broader field teams. Represent the company externally through customer en

About the Role OpenAI is seeking a senior individual contributor to help shape and execute some of our most complex and high-impact commercial opportunities. As AI becomes increasingly important to how organizations operate, the ability to translate sophisticated products and commercial structures into clear, compelling customer narratives is a strategic advantage. In this role, you will serve as an embedded strategic partner to AMER account teams, with a particular focus on high-value, complex, and first-of-kind deals. You will work directly with sellers and cross-functional partners to lead the overall deal strategy, structuring, value narrative, negotiations, and business cases that bring business terms to contractual closure. You will also translate insights and patterns from individual deals into practical frameworks, tools, and resources that improve the quality and consistency of deal execution across the field. This role partners closely with Sales, Pricing, Deal Desk, Strategy, Revenue Operations, Finance, Product, and Legal to help OpenAI move quickly, strengthen proposal quality, and navigate complex commercial opportunities effectively. This role will report to the Americas Deal Strategy Leader. In this role, you will: Partner directly with AMER account teams on complex, high-value, and strategic opportunities, from initial deal strategy through customer proposal, negotiation, and deal closure. Develop deal strategies that bring together customer priorities, commercial considerations, competitive positioning, and OpenAI’s broader business objectives. Create executive- and CFO-ready proposals, ROI analyses, value narratives, and business cases for highly complex and/or first-of-kind deals. Support critical customer and executive conversations by presenting recommendations, business cases, and the rationale behind proposed commercial approaches. Build and maintain practical ROI frameworks, calculators, proposal templates, and value narratives that account

Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role At SoFi, we're building AI capabilities that fundamentally change how our teams operate, innovate, and serve our members. We're looking for a Senior Director, AI Enterprise Transformation to lead enterprise-wide AI adoption by partnering with technology and business leaders to identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact AI initiatives. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role for someone who combines deep technical understanding of modern AI technologies with exceptional executive influence and change leadership. You will work across Engineering, Product, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Corporate IT, Operations, and business functions to accelerate AI adoption, establish best practices, and drive measurable business outcomes. Success in this role requires someone who can translate emerging AI capabilities into scalable enterprise solutions while inspiring teams across SoFi to embrace new ways of working. You will serve as both a strategic advisor and transformation leader, helping shape SoFi's AI roadmap and ensuring AI investments deliver meaningful impact across the company. What You'll Do Lead enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives that improve operational efficiency, employee productivity and growth for SoFi. Partner with executive leadership to develop and execute SoFi's AI tr

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Plaid is looking for customer-facing professionals to manage and grow Plaid’s relationships with high-growth FinTech customers. The right candidate has the ability to grow a customer’s revenue, build strong partnerships with their customers, develop a deep understanding of their priorities, motives and key drivers, and is solutions oriented. Qualifications Demonstrated relationship management and sales experience. Customer empathy and deep desire to see customers succeed. Desire to get technical and the ability to learn the ins and outs of Plaid's APIs. Some familiarity in financial services and technical products; a high degree of intellectual curiosity. Excitement to work in a high-growth, ever-changing environment and to help build processes and tools as needed. Ability to work with all types of people and build long-lasting relationships. Strong Sales experience (negotiation/value-selling). Executive level communication skills - written and verbal. Relationship building (understand how to leverage internal/external executives, product, etc). Retention and Termination-save tactics. Responsibilities Own and manage the overall relationship with your portfolio of customers in our fastest growing cus

About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. At Flexport, we are building the unified Supply Chain Operating System for global trade. While traditional consulting firms deliver slide decks and walk away, Flexport’s Forward Deployed Consultants (FDCs) embed directly on the operational frontline alongside enterprise clients to architect, build, and deploy real-time supply chain solutions. Operating alongside a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are a senior technical subject matter expert sitting at the intersection of Operations Research, data science, supply chain strategy, and executive client delivery. You will embed with Fortune 500 retailers, high-tech manufacturers, and global brand leadership to audit complex logistics networks, identify multi-million-dollar cost leaks, and build executable optimization models that transform client supply chains. You will serve as the solution design lead across a set of Flexport capabilities: Order, booking, and shipment management Transportation planning, consolidation, and exception management Data integrations, workflow automation, and operational analytics You won't just analyze data in a vacuum: you will write Python scripts, design supply chain algorithms, whit

Datadog is seeking a Field Marketing Manager to support and execute high-impact programs across the North Central region in North America. In this role, you’ll collaborate with regional Sales and Marketing teams to drive pipeline generation and deliver engaging in-person and virtual event experiences. You’ll take ownership of regional marketing initiatives, gaining hands-on experience across campaign strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven marketer looking to make an immediate and measurable impact. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Plan and execute field marketing programs, including Datadog Live events, third-party sponsorships, customer panels, workshops, and executive experiences Manage field projects from planning through execution, ensuring on-time, on-brand delivery Own on-site logistics and execution for smaller, high-touch regional events Collaborate with Sales, Demand Generation, Marketing Ops, and other teams to maximize event engagement Track and analyze program results to evaluate pipeline impact and optimize future campaigns Who You Are: 3–5 years of experience in B2B marketing, preferably in the technology industry Creative and results-oriented, with a strong passion for customer-centric event experiences Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines Independent, detail-oriented, and comfortable taking initiative You communicate clearly and effectively in English, both in writing and speaking. Familiarity with Salesforce, Google Suite, and project management tools is a plus Willingness to travel up to 40% Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day o

About the Role We are looking for a senior partner success and learning professional to activate cloud partners to co-sell and deploy customer solutions at scale. This role leads the enablement strategy and execution that equip partner teams to turn joint priorities into measurable customer and business outcomes. As a trusted advisor to strategic partners, you will turn shared business priorities into practical enablement programs that help partner sales, technical, customer success, and leadership teams identify joint opportunities, co-sell effectively, and deploy customer solutions successfully. You will own the partner enablement relationship for an assigned portfolio and work across internal teams to ensure programs are coordinated, scalable, and connected to measurable partner, customer, and business outcomes. This is not a traditional training delivery role or a quota-carrying partner account manager position. It is a consultative, partner-facing role for someone who can shape strategy, build relationships, translate complex AI capabilities into effective learning experiences, lead persuasive enablement sessions, and guide strategic partners toward sustained success. In this role, you will: Own strategic partner enablement and success Serve as the primary enablement and success lead for a portfolio of strategic cloud platforms. Develop a deep understanding of each partner’s business, priorities, audiences, existing learning infrastructure, and strategic relationship with our company. Build partner-specific enablement strategies aligned to shared goals, priorities, and the broader partnership strategy. Establish trusted relationships with partner leaders, alliance teams, enablement stakeholders, sales organizations, technical communities, and post-sales teams. Lead ongoing planning conversations, enablement reviews, stakeholder check-ins, and executive updates that keep partners and internal teams aligned. Identify gaps, risks, opportunities, and emerging partn

About the Role We’re looking for a senior Strategic Finance Lead to help shape and execute OpenAI’s financial strategy across some of the company’s most important long-term investments and growth priorities. This high-impact role sits at the intersection of corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, and cross-functional execution. In this role, you will: Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making. Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk. Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams. Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders. Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations. Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields. A strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation. Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly. Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders. A high-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly. Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset

About the Role As a Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A, you will own and drive the monthly forecasting process for the Compute & Infrastructure org by partnering with various stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, Tax and Engineering. You will play a critical role in planning and forecasting the company’s largest and most complex cost center ( Compute & Infrastructure ). You will collaborate cross-functionally to develop long-range infrastructure investment plans, evaluate build vs. buy decisions, and ensure capital is deployed efficiently to support rapid growth. You will also provide strategic financial guidance through scenario modeling, ROI analysis, and performance tracking, enabling leadership to make high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. What You’ll Do Own compute financial planning & Forecasting. Build and manage consolidation models for GPU/CPU capacity, storage, networking, and data center investments. Translate infrastructure roadmaps into short- and long-term financial forecasts (LRP, annual planning) Coordinate closely with Corporate FP&A on timelines and process Present insights on a monthly basis to senior management. Drive infrastructure investment decisions. Evaluate build vs. buy, vendor vs. owned infrastructure, and capacity allocation tradeoffs. Develop frameworks for investment trade-offs to guide executive decision making. Build scalable tooling & reporting. Implement stakeholder-facing dashboards to track compute spend, utilization, and efficiency metrics. Improve visibility into unit economics (e.g., cost per training run, cost per inference, cost per customer). Drive forecasting accuracy & accountability. Lead budget vs. actual analysis for compute and infrastructure spend. Identify key cost drivers (utilization, pricing, efficiency gains) and reduce forecast variance. Support close & financial reporting. Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate classification of infrastructure spend (OpEx vs C

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. Senior Solutions Engineer (Enterprise Pre-Sales) Secure Every Identity, from Human to AI Agent About the Role At Okta, we believe that identity is the foundation of security and digital transformation. As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will be the trusted technical advisor to our largest, most complex enterprise customers and a critical driver of our sales organization. We are looking for a highly strategic Pre-Sales professional whose consultative expertise, emotional intelligence, and enterprise sales acumen are their defining strengths. While technical agility is required, your primary focus will be owning the technical sales cycle by anchoring technical features to positive business outcomes. You will partner closely with Enterprise Account Executives to uncover top-of-mind business challenges—specifically around mitigating risk, reducing costs, and driving operational efficiency. By establishing value-based conversations, you will prove how Okta’s independent, neutral, and end-to-end identity platform can transform their architecture and secure the "Tech Win" on large-scale deals. What You'll Be Doing Master the Discovery Process: Leverage exceptional active listening to dig deep into customer pain points. You will uncover the 'why' behind the initiative, focusing on how Okta's vast pre-built integrations and scalable architecture can solve their most complex, diverse environmental challenges. Navigate Complex Organizations: Translate highly technica

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Plaid is looking for customer-facing professionals to manage and grow Plaid’s relationships with high-growth SMB customers. The right candidate has the ability to grow a customer’s revenue, build strong partnerships with their customers, develop a deep understanding of their priorities, motives and key drivers, and is solutions oriented. You will be the primary point of contact for your customers and will work with them on all stages of integrations, scaling, driving adoption, product expansion, and account management. You will be responsible for working directly with key stakeholders ranging from developers to executives to help them create the applications that will empower businesses and consumers with their financial data. Responsibilities Own the overall relationship with your portfolio of customers in our fastest growing customer segment Build relationships with the C-Suite and Product teams to retain and grow revenue Own revenue targets, which includes identifying and closing new upsell opportunities and leading commercial negotiations for contract renewals Help customers integrate and launch on Plaid Solve complex customer challenges through creative problem solving by working cross-function

What you’ll do Execute weekly system-level exploratory testing across the scanner and supporting software; log and triage issues with clear reproduction steps. Work with engineering to debug root cause and validate fixes. Help maintain the DHF and traceability between user needs, design requirements, tests, and results. Own practical test execution logistics (fixtures, test data, environments, calibration artifacts) and keep things repeatable. Help build the continuous testing strategy: automated tests where feasible, plus structured manual and system tests. Support V&V activities, including coordination with external partners as needed. What we’re looking for Strong hands-on testing instincts for complex electromechanical systems with substantial software. Ability to write clear bug reports and communicate risk/impact. Experience building and maintaining test plans/protocols; comfort operating lab equipment and debugging across layers. Useful experience Experience testing complex systems end-to-end (automation where it pays off, plus hands-on hardware/instrumentation). Medical device or other safety-critical environments and comfort translating risk into practical test coverage.

About the Role We’re seeking an Associate General Counsel to lead commercial legal strategy and execution for OpenAI’s silicon initiatives and the semiconductor ecosystem that supports our AI infrastructure. This is a senior, highly cross-functional role for a lawyer who can advise business and technical leaders across the semiconductor development, manufacturing, and supply lifecycle. The role will partner closely with silicon engineering, infrastructure, strategic sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, partnerships, IP, policy, regulatory, and trade compliance teams to structure and negotiate strategic arrangements with semiconductor ecosystem partners, technology providers, and critical suppliers. This person will help establish the commercial frameworks needed to protect OpenAI’s technology and support resilient, scalable commercial arrangements. We’re looking for an experienced technology transactions lawyer with meaningful semiconductor industry experience who can translate highly technical and operational issues into practical commercial structures. The ideal candidate combines strong judgment, commercial creativity, and the ability to lead complex, high-value transactions in a fast-moving and complex global ecosystem. 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. This role will: Lead commercial legal strategy and risk management for OpenAI’s silicon and related technology initiatives. Advise senior business, engineering, sourcing, and operational stakeholders on strategic relationships, commercial priorities, and complex transactions. Draft, negotiate, and advise on sophisticated development, manufacturing, supply, licensing, services, and strategic partnership agreements. Structure commercial arrangements that support long-term business and operational requirements. Advise on the commercial and operational issues that arise across the developmen

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE: As a Solution Architect at Baseten you will partner closely with Sales and customers to translate business needs into technical solutions, run technical discovery, and guide repeatable deployments and proofs of value for customers. This role is a great fit for entrepreneurial, customer-facing technical professionals who want a front-row view into how modern companies adopt AI at scale, and who enjoy working across technical discovery, solution design, demos, deployment scoping, and hands-on customer implementations, in close partnership with Sales and Engineering. RESPONSIBILITIES: Partner with Sales on customer discovery calls (most often second calls, occasionally first calls for large accounts). Lead demos and technical scoping to align on success criteria, architecture, and deployment approach. Own benchmarking and repeatable deployments , including: Handling standard deployment patterns and configurations across many modalities – LLMs, embeddings, image and video generation, VoiceAI, etc. Advising on tradeoffs like H100s vs B200s and latency-optimized vs throughput-optimized setups. Driving consistent “playbook” style deployments for common models and use cases. Become a power user of different runtimes such as vllm, sglang, and TRT-LLM and all the common configurations and tradeoffs between them Drive POC and project execution , including: Scoping POCs and keeping stakeholders aligned on timeline, deliv

About the Role The Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer owns mechanical commissioning planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight for the project. This role ensures mechanical systems are installed, inspected, started, balanced, controlled, and tested in a way that supports reliable integrated facility performance. Reports to the Commissioning Project Lead and partners closely with mechanical contractors, equipment vendors, design/engineering teams, the electrical commissioning lead, controls stakeholders, and vendor field/test engineers. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain the mechanical commissioning scope, readiness criteria, inspection strategy, and discipline test execution plan. Review mechanical design packages, specifications, submittals, method statements, controls narratives, sequence assumptions, and testing requirements for commissionability and risk. Coordinate mechanical QA/QC inspections with contractors and vendor field/test engineers, including installation checks, pre-functional readiness, deficiency capture, and closeout tracking. Own mechanical commissioning procedure development and review, including equipment startup, functional testing, controls verification, balancing prerequisites, failure mode validation, and integrated systems testing inputs. Coordinate with equipment vendors on factory/site acceptance requirements, startup support, test prerequisites, documentation packages, and vendor participation during critical tests. Support readiness and execution for cooling, ventilation, hydronic, pumping, heat rejection, controls, and other project-specific mechanical systems. Lead discipline-level review of mechanical test results, deficiencies, corrective actions, retest requirements, trend logs, and acceptance evidence. Maintain mechanical commissioning dashboards and status inputs for the Commissioning Project Lead, including risk items, resource needs, test readiness, and issue aging. Partner with the E