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. Role Description We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to serve as a key partner to Plaid’s Engineering and Product organization. This person will own product-level revenue and gross margin forecasting, as well as the analytical frameworks that guide how Plaid deploys capital and allocates resources across these areas. As the Strategic Finance Lead, Product & Engineering, you will lead the finance partnership for a set of critical product areas, working directly with the relevant Product and Engineering leaders. Responsibilities Product-Level Forecasting . Own revenue and gross margin forecasts for your product areas, balancing bottom-up builds with top-down sanity checks to arrive at the most robust point of view. Resource Allocation & Capacity Planning. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders on headcount planning, roadmap-based capacity forecasting, and OpEx discipline, surfacing and supporting the resolution of trade-offs. Performance Visibility . Own the recurring reporting cadence for your product areas, including KPI tracking, variance analysis, and the early identification of risks and opportunities. Cross-Functional Partnership . Serve as the primary finance partner to Produc
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About Taskrabbit: Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world. Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed! We are not able to provide visa sponsorship (including H-1B, OPT, or other employment-based visas) for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. About the Role: Taskrabbit is looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to join our FP&A team — someone who combines sharp financial instincts with the interpersonal skills to influence a fast-moving organization. In this role, you'll partner with business leaders across the company to understand performance, evaluate investments, and help shape our path to sustainable growth and increased profitability. You'll need to be technically excellent — superb modeling skills and comfort getting deep in the data details are baseline expectations. But what will set you apart is your ability to build genuine partnerships with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, translate complex analysis into clear
About the Team OpenAI Finance helps ensure the organization is positioned for long-term success as we pursue our mission. The Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team enables OpenAI to scale responsibly, securely, and at speed by helping teams choose the right external partners, structure strong commercial agreements, and build resilient supplier ecosystems. We work at the intersection of innovation and execution, partnering closely with leaders across the company to turn rapidly evolving needs into scalable, compliant, and economically sound solutions. Professional services are a critical source of specialized expertise, capacity, and operational leverage across OpenAI. Our work spans consulting and advisory services, finance and accounting, legal, people and talent, managed services, and other enterprise capabilities. Done well, sourcing becomes a source of trust and momentum—helping teams move faster with the right partners, clearer outcomes, stronger economics, and appropriate safeguards. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Lead to own and execute OpenAI’s category strategy for Professional Services. This is an experienced individual-contributor role for a high-velocity, hands-on sourcing operator who can set category priorities, own complex work end to end, exercise sound judgment, influence senior stakeholders, and build scalable category mechanisms in a rapidly growing organization. You will turn incomplete information, shifting priorities, and unclear decision paths into practical next steps and disciplined execution. You will manage a broad portfolio of services engagements—from strategic advisory relationships and enterprise programs to high-volume statements of work. Partnering directly with leaders across Finance, Accounting, Legal, People, Extended Workforce, and business teams, you will set category priorities and translate needs into clear sourcing strategies, executable engagement models, and measurable outcomes. You will operate inde
About the Team At OpenAI, our User Safety & Risk Operations (USRO) team helps protect our products and users from abuse, fraud, safety risks, and other forms of misuse. We operate at the front line of real-world safety and risk management, translating user and operational signals into timely decisions, effective interventions, and improvements to our systems. This role sits on a new team within USRO focused on building operational capacity for new, ambiguous, or fast-moving areas of work. The team helps define what needs to be built, creates the operating model to support it, and works with partner teams to make the work scalable and durable over time. As a Strategic Operations Lead, you will focus on large, cross-functional initiatives that require clear thinking, technical fluency, strong execution, and the ability to bring structure to undefined problems. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Operations Lead to drive new and existing strategic operating builds across User Safety & Risk Operations. This is a senior IC role for someone who can turn broad, undefined priorities into clear operating models, launch plans, requirements, stakeholder alignment, documentation, reporting, and execution rhythms. This role will often support initiatives where OpenAI is developing new products or partnerships and the operating model is still being defined. These programs have a direct user safety and risk nexus because new deployment models can change what signals OpenAI can see, who owns response decisions, and how user-impacting risks are detected, escalated, and resolved. You will clarify what OpenAI owns, what partner teams own, what signals we can reliably monitor, how issues should be escalated, and how the workflow should evolve from launch support into a durable operating model. The right person is highly strategic and deeply practical. They can move from executive-level framing to detailed workflow design, stakeholder management, SOPs, launch readiness, ri
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 Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support OpenAI’s long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest-impact outcomes.  Within Strategic Finance, the B2B team focuses on the financial performance of our products and GTM functions, ensuring tight alignment between financial objectives and company strategy. We partner with leaders across Product, GTM, Research, Partnerships, and Operations to: Drive operational planning, financial forecasting, and performance management. Provide decision-quality insights on product and financial performance to inform strategic resource allocation. Build the “0→1” financial foundations required to scale and accelerate growth. About the Role We are hiring a senior leader in B2B Strategic Finance to build and scale a new pillar within our finance organization. This is a highly visible role that reports into the Head of B2B Strategic Finance and supports some of our most critical executive stakeholders, including our COO, CFO, and CRO, among others on the B2B Leadership Team. This role is ideally based in our San Francisco HQ, but we are open to NYC and Seattle. 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: Drive B2B finance scale and rigor Build and scale core financial infrastructure across the B2B business, including forecasting methodology, variance management, and performance narratives that drive accountability and decision-making velocity. Lead consolidated planning across revenue, gross margin (including compute), and opex for annual budget, forecasts, regular business reviews, and long-range planning. Establish durable management reporting: KPI definitions, dashboards, month-end/quarter-end deliverables, and exec-ready readouts. Partner with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems/Data to evolve processes and contro
Become a part of our caring community The Senior Portfolio Enablement Lead is a strategic portfolio transformation role responsible for shaping and enabling Humana's portfolio operations, Agile Release Train (ART) design, and Ways of Working across the portfolio. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior executives (SVPs, VPs, and portfolio leaders), the role translates transformation strategy into scalable execution by diagnosing portfolio delivery challenges, guiding organizational design, and improving alignment, flow, and value delivery. As a Senior Portfolio Enablement Lead, you will: Partner with portfolio and organization leadership to develop and enable portfolio, aligned to enterprise portfolio operations to achieve portfolio initiatives their outcomes. Perform quantitative and qualitative assessments, including stakeholder analysis and change impact assessments, to develop data-driven change strategies for key stakeholder groups. Build and manage portfolio transformation roadmaps to drive executive buy-in and sponsor engagement across technology and business/product leadership and leadership to drive understanding and adoption of key changes Develop Release Train Engineers to our Humana Ways of Working and enterprise tooling subject matter experts for Agile Release Trains and Scrum Teams Measure effectiveness of change interventions through defined metrics and continuously evolve plans to optimize adoption outcomes Regularly report activity status to organizational, portfolio and transformation leadership; proactively escalate and help resolve risks and issues Partners with leaders to align all continuous improvement goals and objectives Partner with Release Train Engineers in the portfolio to monitor activity level of continuous improvement, adoption of Humana Ways of Working, risks patterns
About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI compute infrastructure ecosystem. The InfraDev team is central to this mission, setting the strategy and executing the roadmap to scale our supercomputing footprint globally. From site planning to system integration, this team operates at the intersection of commercial, technical, and operational excellence, partnering with leaders across OpenAI and the industry. About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager who is ready to take on global-scale challenges in AI compute supply and manufacturing — an opportunity to shape the future of supercomputing. As part of the Infrastructure Strategy & Delivery organization supporting Industrial Compute, OpenAI’s next-generation supercomputing platform, you will lead sourcing and strategic supplier engagements for compute infrastructure at hyperscale. This role will drive commercial strategy and supplier accountability across server platforms, accelerators, rack systems, and associated thermal & power delivery components. This is not traditional procurement — it is foundational work enabling OpenAI to deploy compute faster and more efficiently than anyone in the world, while building deeply-integrated partnerships with the global compute supply chain. Key Responsibilities Develop and execute sourcing strategies for the next generation of AI compute infrastructure in partnership with engineering and program leadership. Stay at the leading edge of industry and supply-chain trends to inform category strategy and long-range planning. Initiate, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements across OEM/ODM/JDMs for accelerators, GPUs/CPUs, server platforms, rack systems, liquid-cooling components, PSUs, and supporting mechanical/electrical subsystems. Secure capacity and optionality across a rapidly scaling compute supply chain while mitigating risk and ensuring manufacturing readiness. Partner cross-funct
About the role OpenAI is building a world-class global mobility and immigration program—agile, compliant, technology-enabled, and designed to help exceptional people work where they can have the greatest impact. In this role, you will lead high-impact strategic initiatives, including U.S. permanent residence strategy, M&A, organizational change, and global expansion. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a builder who can translate legal and operational complexity into clear, practical solutions. Reporting to the Head of Global Mobility & Immigration, you will partner with the broader team and lead through expertise and influence across Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, business teams, and external counsel to turn emerging business needs into scalable programs, policies, and durable controls. What you'll do Set the roadmap, principles, governance, and operating model for priority global mobility and immigration initiatives. Lead the U.S. permanent residence strategy, including PERM planning, controls, communications, compliance and continuous improvement. Own immigration and mobility workstreams for M&A, divestitures, restructurings, entity changes, and new-market entry—from diligence through integration. Lead global expansion strategy, ensuring work authorization, business travel, and compliance in rapidly growing international jurisdictions. Build reusable playbooks, decision frameworks, risk assessments, and change-management plans. Partner with Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, and business leaders to identify implications early and drive sound decisions. Establish dashboards and program-health measures covering compliance, cycle time, quality, cost, vendor performance, and employee experience. Manage external counsel and vendor partners through clear service levels, quality standards, budgets, and outcomes. Use systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve case handling, documentati
From $10K/yr
About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Enterprise is growing faster than any other part of the business, and the deals we close in the next twelve months do not just move a number. They shape where Ramp goes next. This is the marketing role at the center of that motion. As an Enterprise Marketing Manager, you will design and run high-impact campaigns for our most strategic accounts: the plays that open CFO doors, re-engage buying committees that have gone cold, and create bespoke moments that turn a stalled deal into a win. You will treat each account as its own market, building deeply customized programs that accelerate complex, multi-year enterprise commitments. In your first year, you will build the Marketing playbook for how Ramp wins strategic accounts, run campaigns you will be proud to put your name on, and influence pipeline directly. You will report to the Enterprise & Strategic ABM Lead and sit directly inside the sales process, working directly with senior GTM leadership on Ramp's most strategic and impactful accounts. What You'll Do Run high-impact named-ac
$120K – $170K/yr
Executive Recruiter Description - Executive Recruiter About the Role HP’s People Organization is seeking an experienced Executive Recruiter to join our Global Executive Recruiting Team. In this role, you will serve as a strategic talent advisor to senior leaders, delivering high‑impact executive hiring solutions that strengthen leadership capability across the organization. You will own executive searches end‑to‑end, lead proactive talent strategies, and deliver a best‑in‑class candidate experience while operating with discretion, influence, and strong business acumen. Key Responsibilities Lead full‑cycle executive searches for Director through Vice President‑level roles Partner with senior business and People leaders to define hiring strategies, success profiles, and long‑term talent needs Proactively build and maintain executive‑level talent pipelines for current and future roles Source, assess, and engage senior talent across operations, finance, technology, and general management functions Act as a trusted advisor to executives, providing insight on talent markets, competitive intelligence, and hiring best practices Drive consistent, scalable recruiting processes while balancing quality, speed, and candidate experience Champion inclusive and diverse executive hiring practices Manage multiple concurrent searches in a fast‑paced, matrixed environment Select and manage executive search firms to deliver strong outcomes and value Experience & Qualifications Proven in‑house executive recruiting experience supporting senior‑level and leadership hires. Experience in Supply Chain, Planning & Operations, Infrastructure or Procurement is of particular interest Demonstrated experience building deep, trusted partne
As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will proactively drive new product attachment and effective strong relationships across our largest and most strategic customers. You’ll advocate for the customer internally and focus on a positive customer experience. Interactions are rooted in relationship-management, first and foremost, while also advocating for growth opportunities. Enterprise Customer Success Managers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer's unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. 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: Act as a strategic partner to customers, orchestrating cross-functional internal teams and engaging executive, technical, and business stakeholders to understand customer goals and translate them into a clear, deliverable Datadog value narrative. Proactively build and maintain executive relationships to deliver clear, outcome-driven value stories that connect Datadog technical use cases to measurable business results. Lead QBRs and strategic reviews as a forum to demonstrate impact, align on priorities, and define next-step initiatives. Analyze adoption and usage trends to quantify value delivered, extract insights from large datasets, identify gaps, and drive financially grounded commercial recommendations and strategic opportunities. Position Datadog as a critical observability platform that enables reliability, efficiency, and informed decision-making. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers Collaborate cross-functionally with AEs, SEs, TAM, Product, Support, Enablemen and other technical teams to ensure consistent value delivery and messaging. Who You Are: Customer-centric with 3+ years in a Customer Success
From $90K/yr
As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will proactively drive new product attachment and effective strong relationships across our largest and most strategic customers. You’ll advocate for the customer internally and focus on a positive customer experience. Interactions are rooted in relationship-management, first and foremost, while also advocating for growth opportunities. Enterprise Customer Success Managers follow a well-defined methodology that helps them identify the customer's unique needs and clearly convey the value of the Datadog product. 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: Act as a strategic partner to customers, orchestrating cross-functional internal teams and engaging executive, technical, and business stakeholders to understand customer goals and translate them into a clear, deliverable Datadog value narrative. Proactively build and maintain executive relationships to deliver clear, outcome-driven value stories that connect Datadog technical use cases to measurable business results. Lead QBRs and strategic reviews as a forum to demonstrate impact, align on priorities, and define next-step initiatives. Analyze adoption and usage trends to quantify value delivered, extract insights from large datasets, identify gaps, and drive financially grounded commercial recommendations and strategic opportunities. Position Datadog as a critical observability platform that enables reliability, efficiency, and informed decision-making. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers Collaborate cross-functionally with AEs, SEs, TAM, Product, Support, Enablemen and other technical teams to ensure consistent value delivery and messaging. Who You Are: Customer-centric with 3+ years in a Customer Success
$166.1K – $265.7K/yr
Director, Service Supply Chain Cost Optimization Description - The Director, Service Supply Chain Cost Optimization leads financial and operational management activities focused on cost optimization, business performance, and operational efficiency across a complex services and supply chain environment. This role translates financial and operational insights into strategic priorities, executive decision-making, and measurable business outcomes. The Director drives the modernization of cost management practices through advanced analytics, digital capabilities, and predictive decision support, enabling greater operational effectiveness and financial discipline. Key Responsibilities Lead business and financial planning processes, including forecasting, budgeting, performance reviews, and corrective action planning. Drive cost optimization initiatives and operational efficiency programs across the organization. Establish alignment among cross-functional stakeholders to ensure achievement of business, operational, and financial objectives. Develop and execute strategies that improve operational performance and reduce inefficiencies. Implement process improvements that enhance quality, productivity, and cost effectiveness. Modernize cost management practices through digital tools, advanced analytics, forecasting, and predictive insights. Utilize scenario planning, root-cause analysis, and risk assessment to address complex operational and supply chain challenges. Develop mitigation strategies and lead transformational initiatives that improve efficiency, cost performance, and business predictability. Exercise decision-making authority on key operational and administrative matters within the organization. Ensure effective execution of organizational and business objectives. L
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Senior GTM Strategy & Operations Manager at Vanta, you'll combine hands-on operational ownership with strategic problem solving to help shape the future of our Partner business. The GTM Strategy & Operations team partners with Sales and Channel leadership to design the processes, systems, governance, and insights that enable predictable, scalable revenue growth. We're building the operational infrastructure that helps our go-to-market teams move faster today while positioning the business to scale tomorrow. In this role, you'll start by owning key day-to-day Channel Operations to develop a deep understanding of the business. From there, you'll partner closely with Channel leadership and GTM Operations to identify opportunities, lead cross-functional initiatives, and build scalable solutions that improve the partner experience, simplify how we operate, and support Vanta's long-term growth. What you’ll do as a Senior GTM Strategy & Operations Manager at Vanta: Become the operational backbone for Vanta's Partner business by owning core day-to-day Channel Operations while developing a deep understanding of our GTM motion, systems, and partner ecosystem. Partner closely with Channel leadership, GTM Operations, Business Systems, Finance, and Marketing to evolve Vanta's long-term Channel operating model and operational strategy. Lead high-impact strategic initiatives across the partner ecosystem, including partner programs, deal registration, partner attribution, Rules of Engagement, pricing strategy, territory and account governance, and partner lifecycle management. Design and implement scalable processes, governanc
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