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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We are seeking a Director of Events to lead the planning and delivery of NVIDIA's most significant and high-profile events. You will act as a strategic collaborator throughout the company — partnering with business units, product teams, marketing, communications, and executive leadership. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers! We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you! What you'll be doing: Own and drive the overall strategy for assigned flagship events — defining goals, structure, and success metrics in partnership with senior leadership. Work across NVIDIA's business units, product teams, marketing, and communications organizations to align events with company priorities and ensure cross-functional agreement and implementation. Function as the chief strategic and operational authority — guiding and managing teams through every workstream stage, from idea development to on-site delivery and subsequent event evaluation. Drive the creative and experiential vision in close partnership with creative, content, and brand teams. Manage large, complex budgets — tracking costs, forecasting, and driving financial accountability across a multi-million dollar event portfolio. Serve as the primary executive point of contact, providing leadership with regular updates, critical issues, and strategic recommendations. Lead all vendor, agency, and venue relationships — holding external partners accountable to the highest standards of quality and delivery. Develop and manage master event timelines, ensuring all workstreams stay on track and interdependencies are clearly mapped. What we need to see: 12+ overall years of ev
From $70K/yr
The MongoDB Communications team is looking for a strategic and versatile communications professional to serve as our Product Communications Manager. This role is the connective tissue for product storytelling at MongoDB — surfacing the narratives, wins, and momentum happening across the business and turning them into external stories that build credibility with builders, customers, and the media. Reporting to the Product Communications Lead, you'll work in close partnership with Product Marketing and act as a conduit for cross-functional product storytelling, pulling threads from teams across the business — including Partner Marketing, Customer Marketing, Strategic Events, and Builder Relations — into a cohesive narrative. This is a hands-on role spanning story mining, executive thought leadership, and media relations, with scope across MongoDB's full product portfolio. This role is based in the U.S., with hybrid or remote options available. Occasional travel will be required. Position Expectations Own story mining across the business: proactively surface product narratives — customer wins, feature milestones, roadmap moments, and engineering deep-dives — worth pitching to media and other external audiences Build and execute an executive thought leadership program for product leaders, securing bylines, speaking opportunities, and other platforms that position MongoDB's product vision and technical point of view Manage day-to-day media relations for product-related stories: cultivate reporter relationships, lead briefings, respond to inbound press inquiries, and pitch proactively Serve as the connective tissue between Comms and Product Marketing, translating product roadmaps and positioning into external-facing narratives Partner cross-functionally with Partner Marketing, Customer Marketing, Strategic Events, and Builder Relations to identify and integrate storytelling opportunities across the business Rethink the PR playbook for the AI era: know how to win with buil
NVIDIA is looking for a hands-on Solutions Architect Manager to lead a team of GPU, networking & software solution architects and engineers. Do you want to build and lead a group that designs, debugs, and deploys new AI hardware and software technologies into production in customer data centers? As part of the NVIDIA SA organization, you will drive people and technical leadership for end-to-end solutions deployments at some of NVIDIA's most strategic technology customers, while directly contributing to designs and deep-dive debugging and shaping our product roadmap with customer feedback. What you will be doing: Recruit & manage a team of solutions architects, system/network and software engineers focused on large-scale GPU and AI networking deployments. Set priorities, allocate resources, mentor, and ensure high-quality customer delivery across multiple concurrent projects - while remaining directly involved in key technical reviews, design decisions, and critical debug efforts. Provide deep subject-matter expertise in advanced GPU and network systems and serve as the senior technical point of contact for strategic customers. Personally lead and guide complex compute/network configuration and performance debugging, working side-by-side with your team to deliver performant, reliable clusters. Guide your team as they lead network / compute / software architecture discussions, and support server, network, and cluster bring-up, including on-site data center work where needed. Systematically collect and synthesize customer-specific requirements across your portfolio. Partner with GPU/Network Systems Engineering, Product Management, and Sales to influence roadmap priorities and packaging of reference designs and solutions. Demonstrate SME in advanced GPU & network systems and be a trusted technical advisor to NVIDIA's strategic customers. Bring customer-sp
From $300K/yr
Datadog is looking for a Senior Director of Product Marketing to lead product marketing across Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), and Developer Tools. You will lead the teams responsible for defining how these products compete, go to market, and grow. As a second-line leader, you will turn product strategy, competitive intelligence, market dynamics, customer needs, and product maturity into focused, full-funnel marketing strategies. This is an opportunity to own Product Marketing for three of Datadog’s fastest-growing product areas while helping define a new category we are entering. 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: Lead and develop the Product Marketing organizations responsible for APM, DEM, and Developer Tools, coaching people managers and building high-performing teams capable of scaling with the business. Own portfolio-level product marketing strategy across three distinct businesses, using market, customer, competitive, funnel, and financial insights to identify growth levers, prioritize investments, and establish clear strategies to win. Partner with C-level executives and senior Product, Sales, and Marketing leaders to shape major product narratives, influence go-to-market priorities, and align product positioning with Datadog’s broader platform strategy. Set the go-to-market direction for each product line, determining the right mix of launches, campaigns, content, customer programs, sales enablement, and other marketing tactics based on product maturity, audience, business objectives, and performance data. Build a deep understanding of complex technical products, customers, and markets so you can challenge assumptions, strengthen positioning, guide teams through technical narratives, an
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 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 the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem to accelerate customer success, enable responsible enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. We work cross-functionally across Sales, Solutions, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Customer Success to translate strategic partnerships into measurable outcomes for customers. Global consulting and advisory partners are essential to helping enterprises move from AI strategy to production deployment. PwC brings global reach, deep industry and functional expertise, technology and transformation capabilities, and longstanding relationships with complex and regulated enterprises. This role will lead OpenAI’s global partnership with PwC and create the strategy, operating model, and field motions needed to turn that relationship into repeatable customer and commercial impact. This role is based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, PwC to serve as the single accountable owner of OpenAI’s strategic relationship with PwC globally. You will define the partnership thesis and joint business plan, build executive alignment, activate PwC’s industry, advisory, technology, sales, and delivery organizations, and develop repeatable go-to-market motions that accelerate enterprise AI adoption. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role. You will move fluidly between senior executive engagement, joint account and opportunity strategy, solution and delivery alignment, field enablement, governance, and day-to-day execution. Success requires a strong understanding of how a large, matrixed professional-services organization operates, commercial discipline, technical fluency, and the ability to align teams without relying on formal authority. The ideal candidate has led a high-impact global alliance with
Coder is looking for a Senior Staff Product Manager to lead our product management function and raise the bar for how we build. You will develop PMs, strengthen product execution, and help turn strategy into measurable outcomes for customers and teams. You will manage a small team of product managers while partnering closely with Engineering, Design, GTM, and executive leadership. You will coach people, improve systems, and keep product decisions grounded in real customer evidence. What you’ll do here Coach and develop product managers at every stage, helping strong executors grow into strategic leaders. Set a high bar for product discovery, planning, execution, and measurement. Partner with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to align priorities and deliver outcomes. Create clarity around product priorities, tradeoffs, and investment decisions. Build a culture of ownership, accountability, authority, and autonomy across the product organization. Lead customer discovery and ensure product decisions are grounded in objective evidence, not assumptions. Improve how the product organization operates, including planning, roadmap development, product reviews, and decision-making frameworks. Serve as a senior product leader and trusted partner to executive leadership. What we’re looking for Significant product management experience, including experience leading or managing product managers. A strong track record of coaching and developing PM talent. Excellent customer discovery and validation skills, including interviews that uncover objective insights and real customer needs. Sound judgment and pragmatism. You know when to optimize for outcomes, when to improve process, and how to balance strategy with execution. A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to build those qualities across a team. Clear communication skills and the ability to influence across functions, levels, and priorities. Experience operating in fast-moving
From $173K/yr
We are seeking a Head of Executive Search to build and lead a centralized, specialized function responsible for global leadership hiring across sales, marketing, technical solutions, and G&A. This role will bring consistency, rigor, and strategic ownership to Senior Director, VP, and SVP hiring while partnering closely with executive stakeholders to deliver high-impact talent outcomes. You will elevate assessment and decision-making practices, develop proactive executive talent pipelines, and generate market intelligence that informs hiring and organizational strategy. This is a high-visibility opportunity to shape how Datadog attracts, evaluates, and hires senior leadership globally, with potential to expand scope to Director+ and executive-level searches over time. 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: Own end-to-end strategy and execution for Senior Director, VP, and SVP searches, with dotted line to APAC Recruit highly confidential searches end to end, taking on execution responsibilities when needed Build and lead a specialized executive search team, including defining operating rhythms and performance expectations Establish and operationalize a standardized leadership hiring playbook, including executive assessment frameworks, confidentiality protocols, and stakeholder governance Partner directly with C-suite, VP, and SVP stakeholders to drive alignment, calibration, and high-quality hiring decisions Develop proactive, long-term pipelines for critical leadership roles while producing market intelligence to inform talent and organizational strategy Define and execute an agency engagement and executive candidate closing strategy to reduce external spend and deliver a high-touch candidate experience Who You Are: Expe
From $238K/yr
Datadog is looking for a visionary Senior Leader of Sales Engineering (SE) to lead and scale a high-performing team of SE Directors in North America across Enterprise, Majors, and Public Sector accounts. This is a strategic leadership role with regional and global impact. You will define the Sales Engineering strategy for North America and act as a regional voice in global discussions with Product Management, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams—ensuring that customer needs in North America influence Datadog’s global direction. 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 Will Do Executive Leadership & Organizational Growth Recruit, develop, and lead a team 3rd line SE Directors, fostering a culture of technical excellence, customer-centricity, and continuous growth. Define and drive the technical sales strategy across North America, and globally. Set the vision, priorities, and operating model for Sales Engineering, ensuring alignment with Datadog’s business objectives and local market dynamics. Partner with Sales Leadership to align on revenue targets, go-to-market initiatives, and strategic customer engagement across the region. Represent North America Sales Engineering globally, ensuring regional perspectives and requirements are reflected in Datadog’s product roadmap and GTM planning. Customer Partnership & Advocacy Act as a trusted advisor to C-level and senior technical executives, demonstrating how Datadog solves critical observability, performance, and security challenges, especially given the rapid business adoption of AI. Provide executive support for high-stakes opportunities, offering guidance throughout complex sales cycles. Serve as an executive sponsor for strategic customers across North America. Promote value-based technical s
About the Team The Ecosystem AI Deployment Engineering (ADE) team supports strategic partners as they build high-quality technical integrations into ChatGPT and Codex. Our goal is to create products users depend on, drive adoption and retention, and build an ecosystem where partners win when OpenAI wins. About the Role We are looking for an AI Deployment Engineer to help strategic partners design, build, evaluate, submit, launch, and maintain high-utility plugins for ChatGPT and Codex. This is a hands-on, partner-facing product engineering role for someone who can contribute to the platform itself, lead sophisticated partner engagements, and translate ambiguous product needs into production-ready integrations. You will work across partner product and engineering teams and OpenAI's product, engineering, partnerships, legal, policy, design, and go-to-market teams. You will identify the right use cases, prototype and review implementations, run evaluations, debug issues across systems, guide partners through submission and review, and support launch and post-launch iteration. The best person for this role moves fluidly between code, product judgment, project leadership, and clear communication with engineers and executives. This role is a fit for a product minded engineer who wants to stay close to users and partners while still going deep on code, reliability, evaluations, and developer experience. The goal is to help partners ship plugins that are not merely technically functional, but genuinely useful in ChatGPT and Codex. This role is based in our San Francisco office. 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: Own the technical partner journey for priority B2B plugins—from pitch and readiness assessment through architecture, build, evaluation, submission, launch, and ongoing maintenance. Identify strong plugin use cases, define crisp user journeys and expected behaviors, and
About the Role We're looking for a Head of Competitive Intelligence to build and lead a world-class competitive intelligence function. This person will transform market signals into strategic advantage by developing the frameworks, analysis, and insights that inform our product strategy, go-to-market approach, and executive decision-making. This is not a research role. It's a highly cross-functional strategy role that sits at the intersection of Product, GTM, Research, and Leadership. You'll establish the systems, operating cadence, and analytical rigor that help the company understand where we win, where we're vulnerable, and how the market is evolving. What You'll Do Build and own the company's competitive intelligence strategy and operating model. Develop and maintain comprehensive competitive assessments, including Harvey Ball analyses, feature matrices, product comparisons, pricing analyses, and market landscape reviews. Create executive-ready competitive insights that influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, pricing, and investment decisions. Build best-in-class objection handling and competitive messaging for Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Partnerships. Monitor competitor product launches, model releases, acquisitions, partnerships, pricing changes, funding, and GTM motions, synthesizing complex information into clear strategic recommendations. Establish repeatable processes and tooling for collecting, validating, and distributing competitive intelligence across the company. Partner closely with Product Management to inform roadmap decisions and identify areas of strategic differentiation. Collaborate with Marketing to sharpen positioning and messaging based on competitive dynamics. Support executive leadership with board-ready competitive analyses and market briefings. Build dashboards and reporting that track competitive movements and emerging industry trends. Develop frameworks that evaluate competitors across capabilities, enterprise r
About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem designed to accelerate customer success, enable enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. We work closely across Product, Research, Sales, Legal, Communications, and regional leadership to ensure a cohesive strategy and disciplined execution with our most strategic partners. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, Global McKinsey Alliance to lead and scale OpenAI’s relationship with McKinsey & Company. This role will serve as the single accountable executive owner of the alliance globally. You will define the partnership strategy and operating model, translating executive alignment into scaled commercial and transformation outcomes across regions and industries. You will work closely with McKinsey’s global leadership, industry and functional practices, and technology organizations—including QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey—to develop differentiated enterprise AI offerings, pursue complex transformation opportunities, and help customers move from strategy to production deployment and measurable value. The role carries responsibility for the health, performance, and long-term expansion of the partnership. Success requires senior executive presence, sound judgment, commercial discipline, technical fluency, and the ability to operate effectively across a complex, partner-led organization. In this role, you will: Own the global McKinsey relationship, including alliance strategy, pipeline growth, enterprise impact, deployment scale, and long-term expansion across priority industries. Define and run the partnership’s operating model across executive governance, joint planning, regional execution, opportunity management, resource allocation, and escalation. Serve as OpenAI’s senior executive counterpart to McKinsey’s global leadership and relevant industry, functional, technology, and regional leaders. Develop a differentiated alliance s
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Portuguese speaking Sales Development Representative to come aboard! Our SDRs will work hand in hand with Inside Sales to generate leads and build customer pipelines. This is an entry-level role with a dedicated growth path and the training to be a great technical sales professional. We are looking for self-starters with a passion for technology and people. About our team: The importance of our team is never underestimated. We play a critical role in the growth of our organization. We work in collaboration with sales and marketing to identify target prospects and customers. Our team is responsible for lead nurturing and setting qualified discovery calls that ultimately lead to new business. IN THIS ROLE YOU GET TO: Build revenue pipeline by setting introductory meetings with target influencers and key decision makers Research and build new and existing accounts via adding contacts, outbound calling efforts, and sending strategic email and social campaigns Perform analysis of inbound and outbound prospects’ business and engage with these prospects by phone and/or email Apply your effective communication skills, collaborating directly with customers, sales and cross functional teams Work in a fast-pace environment, taking the in
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