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📍 California, California, United States· Full-time
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Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about APIs, partnerships, ecosystems, collaboration, and developer success. As the Sr. Engineering Manager for Ecosystems & Integration, you’ll build and lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding the team to build scalable, reliable, high-performance features that power the future of our Ecosystem. You’ll work closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to drive the vision and execution of the product roadmap that will empower developers + partners to create rich, integrated experiences that will help teams create, collaborate, manage, and scale their APIs and solutions. This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and a passion for delivering exceptional developer experiences. You will define our technical strategy to achieve our ecosystem goals, including how extensibility, integration frameworks and public APIs work at Postman, how integrations look, fe

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📍 California, San Diego, United States
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$176.6K – $294.3K/yr

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ROLE SUMMARY As an AI-enabled strategic scientific leader, you will partner with Oncology Research Leadership to integrate AI-driven strategies that will drive data-informed decision-making across our Oncology Research pipeline. As the AI Portfolio Lead, you will bridge cutting-edge AI/advanced analytics with deep Oncology R&D expertise to guide our portfolio strategy. Working as an individual contributor reporting into the Head, Portfolio Strategy and Program Management, you will analyze and continuously assess Oncology Research projects using AI-driven insights (predictive models, scenario simulations, competitive intelligence) and propose actionable strategies to Oncology Research Leadership. This role is science-focused and spans across discovery and preclinical stage programs, ensuring that our project teams pursue the most promising scientific approaches and mechanisms of action. Your work will directly inform pipeline prioritization and resource allocation decisions, enhancing the quality and objectivity of governance deliberations with robust data. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Portfolio Analysis and Insights: Continuously analyze the oncology Research portfolio (ESD through Preclinical) using advanced AI/ML tools and analytics to evaluate each program’s scientific strength, probability of success, and strategic portfolio fit per disease area strategies. Strategy Recommendation: Develop and propose data-driven portfolio strategies (at both project and portfolio levels) to senior leaders and Research governance committee. Use scenario analysis and predictive modeling to highlight optimal project prioritization, pipeline balance, and resource allocation scenarios. AI-Enabled Decision Support: Integrate AI-derived insights (e.g. machine learning predictions, knowl

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📍 California, San Diego, United States· Hybrid
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$82.5K – $123.7K/yr

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What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. Position Title: Senior Financial Analyst, R&D Finance Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid) Reports To: Associate Director, Finance – R&D FLSA Status: Exempt Position Summary: The R&D Finance Business Partner provides finance support for a complex portfolio of R&D functions, programs, strategic initiatives, and R&D leadership team members. The role works with R&D and Finance leadership to translate technical and operational activity into clear financial insight, improve forecast accuracy, evaluate investment trade-offs, and support resource decisions across operating expense, headcount, and capital investment. This position operates as an individual contributor in a matrixed environment with limited day-to-day direction. Success requires strong financial rigor, sound business judgment, clear communication, and the ability to build trusted partnerships while maintaining appropriate financial challenge and discipline. *This is a full-time role, Monday through Friday, with an expectation of 2–3 in-office days per week and additional on-site presence as

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📍 California, California, United States· Full-time
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Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity (Summer 2026 AI Internship - Applications Open Now) We're seeking an AI Engineer Intern to work alongside our AI team on large-scale AI and Agentic systems from data pipeline to production deployment. This role is scoped for someone with foundational experience who wants to deepen it: you'll own discrete pieces of real systems under the mentorship of senior engineers, not shadow work or isolated coursework-style projects. What You'll Do You’ll work directly with the AI team, taking responsibility for well-scoped pieces of real systems, with mentorship from senior engineers. Benchmarks & Evaluation Contribute to APIFlow-Bench , our open-source benchmark for real API-development work: design and review benchmark tasks and their mock API environments, extend the evaluation harness and task-generation pipeline in Python, and help maintain the public multi-model leaderboard with statistical confidence intervals. Help build a new action-level AI safety benchmark: instead of grading what a model says, it scores what an agent actually does inside a simulated enterprise API environment. You’ll work on scenari

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📍 California, Santa Clara, United States
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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Job Title Senior Medical Writer / Senior Project Manager, Clinical Evaluation Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution. Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Oppor

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📍 California, United States of America, United States
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$80K – $110K/yr

US Consumer Sales - Amazon Project Manager Description - This Project Manager role will work directly with Amazon and this person will be part of the US Consumer Sales organization. This person will specifically focus on the operational side of our business with Amazon and be responsible for all operational chargebacks. If HP does not meet the operational expectations of Amazon, then Amazon can send a chargeback penalty to HP. This project manager will track all penalties and work very closely with internal and external partners to identify and correct the root cause to avoid further penalties. This project manager is responsible for saving a very significant amount of money for HP. The role monitors performance metrics, identifies opportunities for improvement, and ensures alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory compliance. Responsibilities • Work directly with the sales team as well as every category (Print, Supplies, PS, and Peripherals). • Engage with various teams within Amazon to also identify root-causes and corrective actions. • Supports the execution of strategic plans for the improvement and optimization of business processes and capabilities across the organization. • Designs the architecture of key processes and capabilities, ensuring that they are aligned with the overall business architecture and long-term vision. • Collaborates with various departments and business units to ensure that processes and capabilities are integrated seamlessly into the broader organization. • Utilizes data analytics and modeling techniques to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for process improvement, cost reduction, and revenue enhancement. • Monitors performance metrics and KPIs for processes and capabilities and provides insights for improvement. • Utilizes standard project management and quality improvement methodolog

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📍 California, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$157.6K – $203.9K/yr

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description At Gilead, we're creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we've tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer, working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and ensure access to these therapies across the globe. Every member of Gilead's team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we're looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to

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📍 California, Foster City, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$195.7K – $253.2K/yr

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description As an Associate Director, Global Commercial Project Management at Gilead you will report to the Senior Director, Global Commercial Project Management and will serve as the project manager of early Commercialization and Commercialization Teams (eCTs / CTs). This role will lead strategic execution and support governance while coordinating cross-functional teams and initiatives to ensure successful delivery and operational execution of their teams’ priorities. This role will primarily support Gilead’s programs in Liver and Inflammation with the opportunity to support other therapeutic areas as needed. The successful candidate will be dynamic, with excellent project management capabi

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📍 California, Santa Monica, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$143.2K – $185.4K/yr

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We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet. Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Kite and help create more tomorrows. Job Description Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every single day, we seek to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work. Join us in this mission! You will be responsible for supporting Kite’s strategy for representativeness and inclusion in clinical trials in partnership with the multi-year vision for trial equity and optimization. This strategy includes building and nurturing community and advocacy relationships, building awareness internally and externally, driving health literacy, designing diversity into programs and studies, enabling clinical trial patient participation, and improving clinical trial participant outcomes. This role will transform the success of participation and retention of diverse populations that are representative of the global epidemiology of the disease states where we are pursuing treatment, and curative t

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📍 California, Foster City, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$195.7K – $253.2K/yr

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description At Gilead our pursuit of a healthier world for all people has yielded a cure for hepatitis C, revolutionary improvements in HIV treatment and prevention as well as advancements in therapies for viral and inflammatory diseases and certain cancers. We set and achieve bold ambitions in our fight against the world’s most devastating diseases, united in our commitment to confronting the largest public health challenges of our day and improving the lives of patients for generations to come. Making an impact on a global scale

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📍 California, United States
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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging cathe

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📍 California, Foster City, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$136.3K – $176.4K/yr

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description The Manager, Integration Management Office (IMO) and Alliance Operations is responsible for operational excellence, governance, capability development, and continuous improvement supporting Gilead's integration and alliance management activities. This role serves as the operational backbone for both the Integration Management Office and the Alliance Management function, ensuring consistent governance, disciplined execution, effective portfolio oversight, and enterprise-wide knowledge management across M&A acquisitions, divestitures, strategic partnerships, collaborations, and alliance portfolios. The position enables Gilead to execute transactions and partnerships more effective

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📍 California, Foster City, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$157.6K – $203.9K/yr

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description As a Senior Manager, Supplier Strategy and Management, Parenteral Packaging, at Gilead you will own business relationships with assigned suppliers of Parenteral Packaging components used with any Gilead branded product. This includes ownership of the strategy, selection, risk, and performance management of suppliers providing Parenteral Packaging components for development or commercial products. This role is responsible for both the strategic and tactical business management of these supplier relationships. You will have responsibility for indirectly leading and influencing others, bidding, selecting and managing multiple components. This position is based at the Gilead site in Foster City, C

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📍 California, Foster City, United States
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +32.6%

$157.6K – $203.9K/yr

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description As a Senior Manager, Supplier Strategy and Management, Devices at Gilead you will own the business relationships with assigned suppliers of devices and device related components used with any Gilead branded product. This includes ownership of the strategy, selection, risk, and performance management of suppliers providing devices and device related components for development or commercial products. This role is responsible for both the strategic and tactical business management of these supplier relationships. You will have responsibility for indirectly leading and influencing others, bidding, selecting and managing multiple devices and device related components. This position is based at the

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📍 California, Santa Monica, United States
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend +32.6%

$123.9K – $160.4K/yr

We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet. Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Kite and help create more tomorrows. Job Description Key Responsibilities Manage commercial pharmaceutical labeling projects from initiation through implementation. Coordinate labeling activities across Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Packaging Engineering, and external vendors. Lead artwork development, review, approval, and implementation activities. Manage project timelines, risks, priorities, and deliverables to ensure on-time execution. Review and approve artwork proofs, printer proofs, and packaging components for accuracy and compliance. Maintain labeli

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