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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . tvScientific by Pinterest is the Performance TV platform built for advertisers who want to drive measurable business outcomes. We combine media buying, optimization, measurement and attribution in one platform to make CTV a more accountable, effective performance channel. We’re looking for a Lead Ads Product Marketing Manager to oversee go-to-market strategy for tvScientific’s integration into Pinterest Ads Manager. You’ll turn complex product capabilities and performance insights into clear customer value, compelling narratives and launch programs that drive adoption. What you’ll do: Set and execute the go-to-market strategy for CTV capabilities in Pinterest Ads Manager, shaping positioning, messaging, launch planning, enablement and adoption across Product, Sales, Marketing and Pinterest Ads teams. Translate technical product capabiliti

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? We're building the foundational infrastructure that will define how the world thinks about and deploys AI, and we want the sharpest, most curious people to help us do it. As a Lead Data Scientist on our Analytics and Data Insights team, you'll tackle problems that don't have textbook answers yet; shaping go-to-market strategy for technology that's still being invented, designing the experiments that prove or kill our biggest bets, and helping enterprises understand what foundational AI actually means for their bottom line. You'll own the full analytical lifecycle, from framing the right questions and building the models, to leading a team that delivers answers leadership can act on. As a Lead Data Scientist, you will: Drive the mission forward. Own the science: design and lead experimentation programs including A/B tests, multi-armed bandits, causal inference studies, that directly map to product and go-to-market decisions. Build predictive models that matter: develop and deploy models for forecasting, segmentation, propensity scoring, and opportunity sizing across Cohere's core business lines. Lead and grow a tea

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? Are you energized by leading the design of high-performance, scalable and reliable machine learning systems? Do you want to set technical direction and help shape the next generation of AI platforms powering advanced NLP applications? We are looking for a Lead Member of Technical Staff to join the Model Serving team at Cohere. The team is responsible for developing, deploying, and operating the AI platform delivering Cohere's large language models through easy to use API endpoints. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across multiple teams, driving the architecture and strategy for deploying optimized NLP models to production in low latency, high throughput, and high availability environments. You will serve as a key point of contact for customers, leading the design of customized deployments to meet their specific needs, and mentoring engineers to raise the technical bar across the team. You may be a good fit if you have: 8+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale, with a track record of technical leadership Demonstrated experience leading the architecture

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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 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 are looking for a hands-on lead to build and run OpenAI's Incidents & Escalations function within User Operations. This is a player-coach role with a meaningful hands-on operating component. You will set the operating model and also step into active incidents and urgent escalations when needed, coordinating with on-call teams, driving clear ownership, supporting communications, and ensuring issues move through resolution and post-incident closure. During active incidents, you will coordinate with the relevant on-call teams and cross-functional responders across Engineering, Infrastructure, Support Delivery, Product, and Go-To-Market. You will help keep teams aligned, maintain timelines, clarify ownership, escalate when needed, and ensure internal, executive, customer-facing, and external communications are accurate and timely, including status page updates when required. For escalations, you will build and run the processes for tracking, triaging, mitigating, and resolving critical customer and user issues. After incidents and escalations, you will own the follow-through: retrospectives, root cause identification, action item tracking, trend analysis, and process improvements that reduce repeat issues over time. You will also help define the long-term operating model for incidents and escalations across Support D

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives. About the Role We are seeking a Lead Robotics Safety Engineer to define and lead the product safety strategy for our robotics program. You will work closely with leadership, engineering, research, legal, and policy teams to ensure safety is integrated into our products from the earliest stages of development through deployment. This role combines product safety, regulatory strategy, systems engineering, and risk management. You will help shape how we think about safety across robotic platforms, influence product architecture and development decisions, and ensure our systems are designed to meet both current and emerging regulatory expectations. You will serve as a subject matter expert on robotics safety standards, regulatory frameworks, and safety engineering practices while helping establish the long-term safety strategy for our products and organization. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. This role will be expected to be in office 4 days per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will Define and lead the product safety strategy for robotic systems across the development lifecycle. Monitor and influence emerging regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and policy developments relevant to robotics and autonomous systems. Partner with engineering teams to translate safety requirements into product architecture, design decisions, and engineering requirements. Develop and maintain system-level hazard analyses, risk assessments, and safety cases for robotic products. Establish safety requirements, verification strat

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📍 San Francisco, California, 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 operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role As a Deployment Lead Life Sciences, you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. You will focus on the Life Sciences vertical, partnering with pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organizations, and other data and services providers to deploy next-generation AI capabilities across their drug discovery, development, and operations. You will own delivery end-to-end: embedding with Life Sciences customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in New York. We us

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time
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Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties. At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset. ROLE OVERVIEW The Retail Lead delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights. Home game shifts are considered a core responsibility of the position and may include pre-game, in-game, and post-game operational support. HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes. Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans) Drive sales results by consistent execution of daily operations Support back of house operations; maintain stockroom organization Knowledge of retail operation systems including but not limited to OpSuite5.0 (online inventory manager), POS (point of sales) and CAYAN (credit card machines) Partner with Leadership team when making decisions including but not limited to; revenue targets, per cap and UPT (unit per time) Work with Retail Associates to ensure an exemplary fan experience Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset) Communicate expectations for assignments and projects to Retail Associates Provide training and assistance to Retail Assoc

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time
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Fanatics Commerce is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, operating a vertically integrated platform that designs, manufactures, and delivers officially licensed apparel, jerseys, headwear, and collectibles for major leagues, teams, and events worldwide. With more than 900 e-commerce sites and a global omnichannel presence across digital, in-venue, and retail, Fanatics Commerce reaches fans in over 180 countries and powers official fan experiences for many of the world's most iconic sports properties. At Fanatics, we bring our BOLD Leadership Principles to life every day - building championship teams, obsessing over fans, acting with entrepreneurial speed, and delivering with a determined and relentless mindset. ROLE OVERVIEW The Retail Lead delivers business and fan impact through BOLD leadership and execution excellence, leveraging data, automation, and AI-enabled insights. Home game shifts are considered a core responsibility of the position and may include pre-game, in-game, and post-game operational support. HOW WILL YOU DRIVE IMPACT Success is measured by the ability to deliver results through BOLD capabilities and measurable outcomes. Fan & Customer Impact (Obsessed with Fans) Drive sales results by consistent execution of daily operations Support back of house operations; maintain stockroom organization Knowledge of retail operation systems including but not limited to OpSuite5.0 (online inventory manager), POS (point of sales) and CAYAN (credit card machines) Partner with Leadership team when making decisions including but not limited to; revenue targets, per cap and UPT (unit per time) Work with Retail Associates to ensure an exemplary fan experience Ownership & Execution (Determined & Relentless Mindset) Communicate expectations for assignments and projects to Retail Associates Provide training and assistance to Retail Assoc

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -80.6%
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About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the Role Sentry's blog, newsletter, and content programs need an owner — someone who can walk into ambiguity, decide what needs to exist, and just start making it happen. This is a self-starter role in the truest sense: no one is handing you a content calendar and asking you to fill it in, you're the one building the calendar. You should be quick with a draft and quicker to ship it — bias to action over polished process. You're technically savvy enough to keep up with a developer audience and write about our product credibly (or make an exec sound like they wrote it themselves). And you're proactive: you see the narrative before anyone asks you to go find it. You'll work collaboratively with Growth, Comms, PMM, and DevEx, with real ownership and editorial judgment to know what's worth writing and what isn't. In this role you will Co-lead blog strategy. Partner closely with Growth to run the editorial calendar, and scale the program by focusing on creating thought leadership, customer and employer brand content to create a robust narrative driven editorial program in collaboration with comms, devex and product marketing. Oversee the quality itself. Be the last line of defense on quality and prose — every post should read like it came from the same sharp, confident voice. Track the industry and get us into the conversation. Know what's trending in the developer and infrastructure world before it's obvious, and turn that into content that puts Sentry in the room. Collaborate with Comms and Marketing to push those narratives forward. Content partner for the exec team. Collaborate closely with core execs to support content

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you. How we work High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy. Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you. AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations. Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models. Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location. What we offer Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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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 We're looking for a Procurement Lead to build Baseten's procurement function from the ground up. This is a foundational, high-ownership role for someone who wants to define how a company runs procurement, not inherit an existing process. As the company scales across engineering, GTM, and corporate functions, we need to build purchasing workflows and vendor relationships. This is a rare, critical-moment hire: you'll set the leading-practice processes, systems, and policies that the company runs on as it continues to grow, with the mandate and dedicated focus to build something built to scale. This role exists to make procurement a source of leverage for the business, not friction. Your goal is to build scalable process, take on vendor management and RFP work that today sits informally with individual teams, and free up business owners' time and capacity, all while building the guardrails the company needs as it grows. You'll partner closely with Finance, Legal, Security, Compliance, IT, and business owners across the company, and you'll be judged on whether teams feel supported and unblocked, not slowed down. RESPONSIBILITIES Procurement Strategy and Process Design and implement Baseten's first company-wide procurement process, approval routing, and other workflows Establish procurement policies (spend thresholds, approval authority, competitive bidding requirements) tailored to a high-growth business Design pr

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Compensation team designs, manages, and evolves Plaid’s compensation strategy to attract, retain, and motivate world-class talent. We make sure compensation is fair inside the company and competitive in the market. We work on programs that connect directly to Plaid’s business goals and employee experience — using data and insight to make equitable, well-informed decisions. Our work spans cash and equity program design, annual and mid-year review cycles, benchmarking, and exec comp support. In this role, you will own compensation support for specific client groups and take the lead on cycle operations and comp tooling across the team. You’ll work alongside a sharp team and closely with Plaid’s Head of Total Rewards. You’ll have clear ownership of your domain from day one, with real exposure to equity program mechanics, exec comp, and board-level deliverables. Responsibilities: Own comp support for specific client groups — offers, promos, manager/HRBP questions — with a high bar for speed and accuracy Lead configuration and rollout of annual and mid-year compensation cycles in Workday and comp tooling Manage and maintain Plaid’s comp systems: Compa, Pave, and external survey tools (Compensia, Radf

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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What you’ll do Own day-to-day operations for the scanner program and scanner builds in the spa: purchasing/procurement, vendor management, receiving, inventory, and logistics. Stand up lightweight production operations as we move from prototypes to repeatable builds: build planning, kitting, work instructions, and readiness checklists. Partner with Quality to ensure the operational system supports compliance: traceability, document control, training records, NCR/CAPA workflows, and audit readiness. Drive cross-functional execution for the physical spa build-out and scanner integration: schedules, dependencies, risk register, and weekly coordination with vendors and internal teams. Own the “integration glue” across facilities + device ops: commissioning plans, acceptance criteria, and operational handoff (runbooks, maintenance, spares, escalation paths). Build and track operational metrics: cost, budget, lead times, vendor performance, build throughput, and reliability of critical subsystems. Audit of import/export documentation, management of contract renewals, regulatory compliance. What we’re looking for Proven operations leadership in hardware/medical/robotics (or similarly complex electromechanical products), including procurement and vendor management. Strong program management instincts: can run schedules, unblock cross-functional dependencies, and keep priorities clear under ambiguity. Comfort operating in quality/regulatory environments and building processes that are rigorous without slowing a small team. High ownership and bias to action: can jump between spreadsheets, docks, and the lab/site to keep the program moving. Useful experience Experience running prototype-to-production transitions (NPI, EVT/DVT/PVT-style builds, CM/EMS collaboration). Facilities / construction operations experience (GC coordination, MEP commissioning, site readiness). Familiarity with inventory systems and procurement tooling (even “simple but disciplined”).

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to build and grow partnerships across the cybersecurity ecosystem. Reporting to the Cybersecurity Partnerships Lead, you will own a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners and help them validate, launch, and scale solutions powered by OpenAI models and platforms. About the Role You are an experienced partnerships operator who combines business development, partner management, technical curiosity, and strong execution. You can manage external relationships while driving detailed cross-functional work across product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. You move with urgency, follow through consistently, and are comfortable managing a portfolio in a fast-changing market. In this role, you will: Source, close and manage a portfolio of cybersecurity technology partners. Identify high-value use cases across security operations, identity, cloud security, application security, threat intelligence, governance, risk, and compliance. Develop partner plans covering integration, launch, enablement, co-marketing, co-sell, and growth. Support partnership structuring and coordinate product, technical, commercial, legal, and security workstreams. Help partners move from concept and technical validation to production launch and scaled customer adoption. Run regular partner reviews, track commitments, resolve blockers, and identify expansion opportunities. Coordinate closely with product, engineering, technical success, sales, marketing, legal, security, and operations. Measure partner pipeline, launches, model adoption, consumption, customer outcomes, and partner health. You might thrive in this role if you have: 8+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, alliances, partner success, or ecosystem roles. Experience in cybersecurity, enterprise software, cloud platforms, o

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