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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $126K/yr

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Our Database Experience (DBX) Team A great MongoDB experience starts with great tools. The Database Experience team builds the libraries and tools that developers use day-to-day working with MongoDB. Our mission is to increase developer adoption, satisfaction and retention by providing a reliable, enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users. Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well. For this role, we're looking for someone who will enjoy designing, writing, and supporting open source libraries for the Python ecosystem developers that use MongoDB. This is an opportunity to make a major impact at MongoDB as Python is one of the most popular runtimes for MongoDB users, and our driver has over 3 million daily pypi downloads. You might be right for this role if you... Have substantial experience writing high-quality software in Python Have extensive knowledge in Python tools and frameworks, scientific python and web development frameworks Have practical experience with AI/ML frameworks and technologies in Python, including large language models and agentic tools are a plus Have an interest in learning and staying up-to-date with Python ecosystem trends and best practices and incorporating them into your work Can make pragmatic design decisions, balancing tradeoffs such as usability, maintainability and delivery time Want to, or already do, participate in open source software development and communities, both online via e.g. GitHub and optionally through conferences and speaking engagements Communicate well, internally and externally, both verbally and in writing Enjoy collaborating with teammates, and mentoring junior engineers and interns Are self-motivated, organized, and have strong time management skills You'll be on the team responsible for... Developing and supporting the MongoDB Python drivers and subsidiary libraries ( PyMongo , Django Mon

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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $62.4K/yr

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To help facilitate a seamless and inspiring interview experience for our candidates, we’re looking for an upbeat and hardworking Candidate Experience Coordinator to join our team! This person will be tasked with a heavy load of interview scheduling, but will also be given the opportunity to work closely on projects with the Recruiting Team. This opportunity will expose you to the fast-paced world of enterprise software and presents an outstanding opportunity to develop your career. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based ion the West Coast for our remote working model. Responsibilities Partner with a team of Recruiters to schedule phone, video, and in-person interviews Own candidate experience; ensuring timely communication throughout the interview process Using our Applicant Tracking Systems (Greenhouse) to move candidates through the interview process and keep in close touch with your candidates to guide them through their upcoming interviews Arrange travel and accommodation for out of town candidates Greet candidates, make them feel welcome, and ensure on-site interviews run smoothly (when onsite interviews are occurring) Assist with operational responsibilities including: job requisition creation, offer letter generation, and kicking off background checks Support the Recruiting team with projects on an ad-hoc basis Requirements Outstanding organizational skills; superb attention to detail You have at least 1 year of experience as a recruiting coordinator, admin, or intern You have had experience scheduling interviews and/or calendaring Ability to be a team player; adept at working with multiple people at any given time You are creative and process-driven; you’re constantly looking for ways to make things work more efficiently You’re a people person and like building relationships You did your homework on MongoDB, and recognize the outstanding things that are happening here and want in Previous experience working in

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: MarTech Data Science Measurement empowers Airbnb to optimize marketing ROI by generating data-driven recommendations. We lead the way in defining and advancing best practices for measuring and optimizing marketing impact. We collaborate with Marketing, Finance, and Engineering to provide actionable recommendations and tools based on effective, timely, and granular measurements. Our team’s tenets are: Actionable: Deliver insights that drive confident business decisions. Impactful: Prioritize projects based on their expected value to Airbnb. Balanced: Adapt methods to business questions and data realities, acknowledging limitations. Rigorous: Maintain methodological integrity and quantify the sensitivity of findings. Innovative: Invest in advancing measurement science and developing new methods. Influential: Share learnings across Airbnb and the broader data science community. The Difference You Will Make: We are seeking an experienced (Contract) Sr. Data Scientist for a 24 month contract with deep expertise in marketing measurement, with a particular focus on Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and geo-based causal inference. The ideal candidate brings strong statistical intuition and hands-on modeling experience to quantify the incremental impact of Airbnb's marketing investments across channels and geographies. They are fluent in Python, comfortable working with Bayesian frameworks, and can translate complex measurement findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders. A Typical Day: Marketing Mix Modeling: Design, build, and maintain MMM models that est

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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $191K/yr

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Relevance and Personalization team at Airbnb is responsible for search and recommendation across the entire Airbnb digital platform. Be a leader in the team working on critical, impactful projects with focus on developing end-to-end ranking algorithms and ecosystems for optimizing multiple critical business objectives. The Difference You Will Make: We build cutting-edge AI technologies across the end-to-end search ranking product stack w.r.t. data pipelines, feature and model innovations, serving and experimentation efficiency, leveraging rich signals from various types of data (structured, sequential, image, text, etc) at Airbnb. We collaborate closely with teams across Airbnb to develop the ranking solutions and support a healthy marketplace for hosts and guests to further Airbnb’s mission of creating a world where people can Belong Anywhere. Some past publications from the team can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/airbnb-relevance-publications/home A Typical Day: Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases. Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact. Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-

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📍 United States· Full-time
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Fraud Strategy is responsible for building scaled fraud mitigation systems that prevent fraud and protect the financial ecosystem, while minimizing disruption to good users. The fraud team’s mission is to protect Stripe, our users, and the broader financial ecosystem from actors who abuse Stripe accounts for financial gain. What you’ll do As a Fraud Strategist, you will be responsible for building strategies to mitigate fraud (buyer fraud, seller fraud and account fraud) on new and existing Stripe products. You will enable safer money movement for our users and help Stripe manage fraud risks intelligently. The stakes are high, and you will be up against ever-evolving challenges. You will face some of the most complex and dynamic problems at the company, and the nature of your work will evolve rapidly to combat new and more sophisticated challenges to Stripe's integrity in the financial ecosystem. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations and other Risk Strategy functions to ensure fraud controls are embedded in every Stripe product. Beyond protecting against fraud risk, you'll drive innovation in how Stripe approaches fraud management— staying ahead of emerging fraud trends and pushing the boundaries of what effective, scalable fraud risk management looks like at a global payments company. Responsibilities Monitor portfolio to identify, mitigate and predict risky behavior that could result in loss

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📍 United States· Full-time
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Design team works across most projects at Stripe—from our brand standards to campaigns, events, digital products, and even printed publications. And since Stripe’s main audience is other people who build products, we agonize over and take pride in crafting user-friendly and user-focused experiences. The Brand Design team lays the foundations that help Stripe accelerate. We do this by creating, evolving, and maintaining Stripe’s high-quality, versatile, and forward-looking visual identity design system. We sweat the details. We make it seem effortless. Our team—and our design efforts—are multipliers for Stripe and Stripes. Our focus on principles, systems, and standards makes it easier for all Stripes to get work done—at a high quality bar, while still creating space for evolution and innovation. Collaborating with other teams at Stripe, as well as select external partners, we raise the quality and consistency of interactions with the Stripe brand. Brand Designers at Stripe demonstrate passion for great design and for expanding, evolving, defining, and documenting flexible design systems that achieve bar-raising quality and consistency for the brand at scale. They are user focused, have a strong understanding of the business, and are empathetic and inspiring team leaders. The ideal candidate excels across a variety of styles, crisply articulates design decisions, iterates quickly, and collaborates seamlessly with marketers, producers, lea

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About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role The Community Engagement Lead will be the primary bridge between OpenAI and the communities in Ohio. This role ensures that OpenAI builds strong, trust-based relationships with local stakeholders, communicates proactively about our projects, and integrates community priorities into our development approach. The role spans engagement, communications, and reputation management, and will partner closely with the Economic Development and Environmental leads. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain relationships with local leaders, community organizations, NGOs, and residents. Develop and execute community engagement strategies for new and existing sites. Represent OpenAI in public forums, hearings, and community events. Partner with the Economic Development Lead on incentive compliance and community benefits. Partner with the Environmental Lead on communicating environmental stewardship and sustainability efforts. Develop proactive communications to address concerns, highlight benefits, and reduce risk of opposition. Monitor community sentiment and advise executives on risks and opportunities. Create a community engagement playbook that can scale across geographies. Qualifications 8+ years in community affairs, public engagement, or corporate communications. Proven track record engaging diverse community stakeholders for large infrastructure or technology projects. Strong public speaking and facilitation skills. Ability to manage sensitive political and reputational issues. Experienc

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team Our economics team is continuously working to improve our understanding of an AI-driven economy. About the Role We are seeking a highly technical Economist to join the OpenAI Economic Research team studying the real-world economic impacts of AI. This role is designed for economists with up to 5 years of professional experience post-Ph.D. who are interested in using novel, large-scale datasets to study how AI is reshaping economic systems. We are looking for candidates with deep expertise in at least one core domain relevant to AI’s economic impact, and an interest in contributing to a broader research agenda spanning labor markets, firm behavior, market dynamics, and macroeconomic change. This is an individual contributor role where the candidate will organize and execute on their own data-oriented projects. You will work at the intersection of economic research, data science, and public policy to produce rigorous empirical work that informs decision-makers across the public, industry, and government. Research Areas of Interest We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas: Economic Measurement of AI Impact (e.g., adoption trajectories, labor market transitions, productivity growth, and forecasting/scenario modeling for AI-driven economic change) Macroeconomic Implications of AI (e.g., productivity, technology diffusion, economic growth) AI and the Labor Market (e.g., employment, wages, job search, task-level impacts, skill acquisition) Applicants are not expected to have experience across all domains. We aim to build a team with complementary strengths across these areas. In this role, you will: Design and execute empirical research using large-scale observational or experimental data. Apply causal inference and/or structural modeling techniques to study AI-driven economic change. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research questions into testable frameworks and applic

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team API Multimodal builds the developer-facing products and infrastructure that bring OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time model capabilities into the world. We are responsible for high-scale APIs for image generation, speech transcription, speech generation, and low-latency voice interactions. We partner closely with Research and Inference to bring frontier model capabilities to developers and use customer feedback to improve our models. About the Role As a software engineer on API Multimodal, you will build and operate the products and distributed systems behind OpenAI’s image, audio, and real-time APIs. You will work across model integration, API design, and production infrastructure to turn new research capabilities into reliable developer experiences. This hands-on role combines backend and systems depth with product judgment: you will own projects end to end, partner with Research, Inference, and Safety, and help make multimodal AI useful at scale. Model training experience is not required. In this role, you will: Design, build, and ship developer-facing APIs and backend services that serve frontier models. Architect low-latency streaming, request, session, and model integration systems that make complex multimodal interactions reliable and intuitive at scale. Work directly with Research to bring new model capabilities into production, shape the systems around them, and incorporate feedback from real-world developers and customers. Own the availability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency of the services you build. Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration, while raising the team’s engineering standards. Your background might look something like: 7+ years of professional experience, excluding internships, in backend, infrastructure, platform, or product engineering roles. A track record of designing, building, and operating production backend services, developer-facing APIs, or distributed syste

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📍 United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Power & Land team owns the energy strategy required to secure reliable, scalable, and economically resilient power for OpenAI’s global data center portfolio. About the Role The Power Trading Lead will own commodity hedging strategy and execution across OpenAI’s data center power portfolio. This role will translate large, dynamic electricity and fuel exposures into practical hedging, procurement, and risk-management strategies that protect infrastructure economics while preserving flexibility for growth. This is an individual contributor lead role and does not have direct reports initially. The role will work across power markets, utility tariffs, retail and wholesale supply structures, natural gas and power hedges, renewable and clean firm products, and portfolio risk analytics to support long-term compute growth. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain OpenAI’s commodity hedging strategy across electricity, natural gas, and related energy exposures for data center operations and growth. Quantify portfolio exposure by market, site, load shape, tenor, tariff, and supply structure, and translate that exposure into clear hedging recommendations. Evaluate and execute hedging structures including fixed-price supply, forwards, swaps, options, retail supply products, congestion and basis risk mitigation, and related instruments where appropriate. Partner with utilities, suppliers, traders, banks, consultants, and market counterparties to source competitive products and improve risk-adjusted energy economics. Build decision frameworks for when to hedge, how much to hedge, and which risks to retain across different stages of site development, construction, and operations. Coordinate with finance, treasury, legal, procurement, energy regulatory, sustainability, and site-readiness teams to ensure hedging strategy aligns with broa

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team. Responsibilities: Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition including web crawling, data ingestion, and search. Collaborate with other sub-teams, such as Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure smooth data flow and system operability. Work closely with the legal team to handle any compliance or data privacy-related matters. Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data. Architect and implement algorithms for data indexing and search capabilities. Build and maintain backend services for data storage, including work with key-value databases and synchronization. Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks. Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights into system performance. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in software development. Experience with large web crawlers a plus Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing. Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies. Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem. We are dedicated to identifying emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and working with our internal and external partners to implement effective mitigation strategies to protect against misuse. Our efforts contribute to OpenAI's overarching goal of developing AI that benefits humanity. The Strategic Intelligence & Analysis (SIA) team provides safety intelligence for OpenAI’s products by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting real-world abuse, geopolitical risks, and strategic threats. Our work informs safety mitigations, product decisions, and partnerships, ensuring OpenAI’s tools are deployed securely and responsibly across critical sectors. About the Role As a Quantitative Intelligence Analyst , you will focus on discovering novel and emerging risks in complex human–AI systems before they are well-defined, measurable, or widely understood. You will use deep subject matter expertise and quantitative tooling to surface weak, early, and unconventional risk signals. You will build analytic models that explain how harms could emerge and translate ambiguous patterns into structured, data-driven insight. Your work will help identify potential gaps in policy or coverage and operationalize previously unmeasured problems into signals that can support detection, mitigation, and planning downstream. You will develop analytical frameworks that map how new risks form, evolve, and propagate as products change, policies shift, and external events unfold. Your analyses will directly inform strategic risk prioritization and planning across the company, with regular visibility through strategic risk products. This role is based in office (hybrid, 3 days/week). Relocation support is available In this role, you will: Discover and define new quantitative risk signals where no established metrics exist, using subject matter exp

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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By applying to this role, you will be considered for Research Scientist roles across all teams at OpenAI. About the Role As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company. We expect you to: Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research Nice to have: Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team The Intelligence and Investigations team seeks to rapidly identify and mitigate abuse and strategic risks to ensure a safe online ecosystem. We are dedicated to identifying emerging abuse trends, analyzing risks, and working with our internal and external partners to implement effective mitigation strategies to protect against misuse. Our efforts contribute to OpenAI's overarching goal of developing AI that benefits humanity. The Strategic Intelligence & Analysis (SIA) team provides safety intelligence for OpenAI’s products by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting real-world abuse, geopolitical risks, and strategic threats. Our work informs safety mitigations, product decisions, and partnerships, ensuring OpenAI’s tools are deployed securely and responsibly across critical sectors. About the Role As an Agentic Risk Analyst, you will shape OpenAI’s operating picture for current agentic risk across products and platforms. You will bring a strategic, system-level perspective to current risks, connecting individual incidents, technical findings, abuse patterns, and external developments to relevant workstreams, mitigations, owners, dependencies, and residual gaps. You will analyze how risks emerge through autonomy, multi-step task execution, tool use, memory, retrieval, connectors, computer-use capabilities, and multi-agent workflows, with a particular focus on both adversarial misuse and unintended system behavior. By synthesizing signals from investigations, evaluations, red teaming, security reviews, product launches, external research, and real-world incidents, you will maintain a current view of material risks and evolving threat patterns. Your work will help turn complex and often ambiguous signals into coordinated decisions and measurable follow-through across product, safety, security, policy, and governance teams. You will work closely with investigators, engineers, product, policy, safety, and security teams, and measurement and forecasting

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About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Industrial Compute team is central to this mission, setting the core infra strategy and implementing this vision. From site selection to the buildout process, this team sits at the intersection of commercial, technical, strategy, and operations, interacting with teams and executives inside and outside of OpenAI. About the Role The Community Engagement Lead will serve as the primary liaison between OpenAI and the communities where it plans to develop data centers, including Effingham County and the greater Savannah Metropolitan Area. This role ensures that OpenAI builds strong, trust-based relationships with local stakeholders, communicates proactively about our projects, and integrates community priorities into our development approach. The role spans engagement, communications, and reputation management, and will partner closely with the Economic Development and Environmental leads. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain relationships with local leaders, community organizations, NGOs, and residents. Develop and execute community engagement strategies for new and existing sites. Represent OpenAI in public forums, hearings, and community events. Partner with the Economic Development Lead on incentive compliance and community benefits. Partner with the Environmental Lead on communicating environmental stewardship and sustainability efforts. Develop proactive communications to address concerns, highlight benefits, and reduce risk of opposition. Monitor community sentiment and advise executives on risks and opportunities. Create a community engagement playbook that can scale across geographies. Qualifications 8+ years in community affairs, public engagement, or corporate communications. Proven track record engaging diverse community stakeholders for large infrastructure or technology projects. Strong publ

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