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 entering its next phase of growth, with a marketing organization that spans developer audiences, product-led growth, and enterprise go-to-market motions. To support this scale, we are building a modern marketing infrastructure that combines: world-class marketing operations a scalable martech ecosystem lifecycle automation and customer data infrastructure high-impact creative production The Head of Marketing Operations & Production will lead the team responsible for powering this system, and reports directly to the Head of GTM Operations. This role will partner closely with Marketing leadership, Sales and Customer Success Operations, GTM Systems, and Postman’s GTM Strategy and Business Intelligence teams to ensure marketing programs translate into measurable revenue impact. What You’ll Do Marketing Technology & Infrastructure Define and own Postman’s marketing technology ecosystem . You will: Develop and implement the roadmap for Postman’s martech stack, including automation platforms, enrichment tools, campaign systems, and lifecycle infrastructure Ensure reliable and scalable integration between
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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Marketing at Brex The Marketing team tells the Brex story, determines messaging and positioning, and translates our products and features into tangible customer benefits. Our marketers are responsible for acquiring and growing customers and have a deep understanding of both the business and our customers. We’re a highly cross-functional team and partner most closely with the Product, Sales, and Design teams to show our prospects and customers how we can help them reach their full potential.What you’ll do What You'll Do As a Product Marketing Lead at Brex, you'll drive end-to-end storytelling for Brex products and customers. You'll lead product launches and go-to-market strategies — defining narratives, shaping positioning, creating cross-channel campaigns, and aligning the customer journey to convert pipeline and grow adoption. You're a maker who shapes the strategy and builds the work: landing pages, creative campaigns, videos, pitch
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re looking for a high-performing strategic finance professional to join our growing GTM Finance team. Our business grows with our customers' usage, which makes the finance function highly strategic at Baseten: growth, pricing, margin, and capacity decisions are business model decisions. You'll sit at the center of them, partnering directly with GTM leadership and reporting into a finance team with a seat at the table for the calls that shape the company's trajectory. This role is ideal for someone with 3 to 7 years of experience across strategic finance, investing, and/or investment banking who wants broad exposure to company-building inside a fast-scaling AI infrastructure company. Experience at a usage-based software company is a plus. RESPONSIBILITIES Own financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes for the GTM org Build and maintain financial models across revenue, S&M spend, headcount, and strategic bets Analyze the metrics that define a usage-based business – ARR, gross margin, consumption trends, retention, and GTM efficiency Partner with GTM leaders to set targets, evaluate growth initiatives, shape pricing, and design sales compensation Help prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses Improve financial reporting, dashboards, and operational rigor so our infrastructure scales as fast as our revenue Work cross-functionally to turn ambiguous business questions int
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We're looking for a Finance Systems Lead to own and evolve the systems that support Baseten's finance operations, including ERP, planning tools, and the broader finance and adjacent systems stack, spanning HRIS/payroll, CPQ, and commissions, as we implement, integrate, and automate across them. As Baseten scales, so does the number of systems finance depends on and touches, from the ERP to planning to compensation and quote to cash tooling. This role exists to bring a dedicated owner to that stack, someone who can lead implementations (partnering with contractors or vendor CSMs for hands-on technical configuration where needed), keep systems integrated and clean as we grow, and find automation opportunities that save the team time. This is a highly cross-functional role. You will partner with Accounting, FP&A, People, Sales and Revenue Operations, Legal, and IT to understand how each team uses its systems, and design integrations and workflows that serve the business without creating more manual work. RESPONSIBILITIES Core Finance Systems Own finance systems strategy, configuration, and roadmap, partnering with contractors or vendor CSMs on hands-on technical configuration as needed Lead the implementation and ongoing administration of our finance systems and tools Own finance system integrations end to end, ensuring clean data flow between ERP, planning, billing, and other systems, partnering with contrac
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. ROLE We’re looking for a high-performing strategic finance professional to join our growing GTM Finance team. Our business grows with our customers' usage, which makes the finance function highly strategic at Baseten: growth, pricing, margin, and capacity decisions are business model decisions. You'll sit at the center of them, partnering directly with GTM leadership and reporting into a finance team with a seat at the table for the calls that shape the company's trajectory. This role is ideal for someone with 3 to 7 years of experience across strategic finance, investing, and/or investment banking who wants broad exposure to company-building inside a fast-scaling AI infrastructure company. Experience at a usage-based software company is a plus. RESPONSIBILITIES Own financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes for the GTM org Build and maintain financial models across revenue, S&M spend, headcount, and strategic bets Analyze the metrics that define a usage-based business – ARR, gross margin, consumption trends, retention, and GTM efficiency Partner with GTM leaders to set targets, evaluate growth initiatives, shape pricing, and design sales compensation Help prepare board materials, investor updates, and fundraising analyses Improve financial reporting, dashboards, and operational rigor so our infrastructure scales as fast as our revenue Work cross-functionally to turn ambiguous business questions into
About the Team We are a small and fast-moving partnerships team that shapes and executes OpenAI’s most important collaborations. Your mission is to build and lead our business with independent software vendors, from native AI companies building in our programs to technology companies taking new products to market with OpenAI’s models and products. You will help partners build, launch, and grow differentiated products while working closely with our sales and product organizations. About the Role You are a senior partnerships leader with strong judgment, high ownership, and a track record of building consequential ISV relationships. You can establish durable executive partnerships, lead complex product and commercial negotiations, and move fluently from market strategy to integration, launch, adoption, and growth. You are highly commercial, technically fluent, and comfortable operating where there is no playbook. In this role, you will: Define OpenAI’s ISV partnership strategy, priorities, segmentation, and business goals. Recruit and manage a portfolio of high-impact software partners across horizontal and vertical applications. Structure and negotiate partnerships spanning product integration, model adoption, commercial terms, distribution, and joint go-to-market. Develop joint business plans and executive governance with strategic partners. Help partners move from initial build to launch, customer adoption, expansion, and scaled consumption. Create repeatable co-build, co-sell, co-market, and marketplace motions. Serve as the voice of ISVs internally, shaping product requirements, developer experience, economics, and partner programs. Track partner pipeline, launches, adoption, consumption, customer impact, and ecosystem growth. Establish the team structure and operating model needed to scale the ISV business. You might thrive in this role if you have: 12+ years of experience in technology partnerships, business development, platform ecosystems, or enterprise softw
About the Team The User Operations team (Support) is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role OpenAI’s top-of-funnel is evolving into a signal-driven, data-orchestrated engine powered by AI-native workflows, enriched customer intelligence, and increasingly interconnected systems. We are looking for a Technical Systems Program Manager to help drive the strategy, alignment, prioritization, and execution of these systems across Salesforce and adjacent platforms. This role will partner closely with Engineering, Revenue Operations, Data, and Enterprise Platform teams to operationalize scalable CRM workflows. The ideal candidate combines strong technical fluency, operational systems thinking, and stakeholder leadership with the ability to drive execution across highly cross-functional environments. This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and the team works a hybrid schedule (Monday - Wednesday in office). We will offer relocation assistance if needed. In this role, you will: Own and drive CRM systems initiatives across support Partner with senior business stakeholders and engineering teams to identify operational pain points, define scalable solutions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and execute across Salesforce and adjacent platforms Align cross-functional stakeholders including Revenue Operations, Support Delivery, Risk, Engineering, Data, Legal, and Enterprise Platform teams while driving prioritization and execution Help operationalize AI-native workflows by defining and building s
About the Team The Support team is central to ensuring that our customers' experience with our products is nothing short of exceptional. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role As a Product Engagement Manager on the User Operations team, you will lead a team of Product Engagement Specialists responsible for ensuring smooth, successful product launches across internal and external teams. You’ll be the glue connecting product teams and support operations, equipping teams with the tools and knowledge needed to support new product rollouts. You’ll build scalable feedback loops that capture the voice of the user and translate insights into actionable product improvements, and ensure that frontline teams have the knowledge and skills to deliver accurate, delightful customer interactions at scale. We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of product management, team enablement, and customer advocacy, and who enjoys working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This person will manage the day-to-day work while also helping architect the systems needed to scale it. The successful candidate will be a leader-coach who can lead a small team while continuing to perform individual contributor work. 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. In this role, you will: Lead a team coordinating product launches across internal and external teams, ensuring seamless execution and support readiness. Set the team’s strategy and priorities, translate them into c
About the Team The Demo Studio is responsible for translating OpenAI’s most advanced capabilities into tangible, high-impact experiences for customers. We design and deliver the demos, applications, and environments that define how executives understand what is possible with AI. Our work sits at the intersection of product, engineering, design, and go-to-market. We operate as a hybrid of product studio and live production team, building experiences that are both technically credible and narratively compelling. About the Role We’re looking for a Demo Studio Lead to own the end-to-end demo experience for OpenAI’s major events, webinars, and strategic programs. This is a highly cross-functional role focused on translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into clear, compelling, and production-ready experiences. You will own the full demo portfolio for an event or initiative, spanning mainstage moments, breakout experiences, booths, and supporting content. You’ll define the narrative, architect workflows, build high-fidelity demo environments, direct presenters, and ensure flawless execution in live environments. This is not a traditional sales engineering, presentation, or narrowly scoped design role — it requires a combination of product thinking, technical fluency, storytelling, systems design, and operational excellence. A key part of the role is presenting the work directly: delivering live demonstrations to executive, technical, and industry audiences across mainstage, breakout, customer, and recorded settings. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, operates with strong ownership, and is excited about shaping how the world experiences AI firsthand. This is a hybrid role that can be based in either San Francisco or New York. In this role, you will: Own the end-to-end demo experience across OpenAI-hosted summits, webinars, third-party industry events, and strategic executive demonstrations. Translate approved product positioning, real OpenAI capabiliti
About the Team The Startup Growth team is building the systems, programs, and automation that enable OpenAI to win startups at scale. We need to make it dramatically faster and easier to turn high-potential growth ideas into repeatable, measurable GTM motions without bespoke infrastructure for every program. About the Role The GTM Growth Programs Lead will own the shared capabilities that enable Startup GTM to incubate, launch, measure, and scale growth programs. The role will initially own credit and commercial programs while using that work to build reusable infrastructure for a broader portfolio of GTM motions. The goal is not to centralize program ownership: teams closest to startups should continue to identify, incubate, and own growth motions. This role will build the operating system that makes them dramatically better and faster at doing so. 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. In this role, you will: Build the GTM program platform for Startups. Develop shared infrastructure, tooling, and agentic systems that turn growth opportunities into scalable programs, automate work across the program lifecycle, and make each subsequent motion faster to launch. Own credit and commercial programs. Drive credit/commercial strategy and evolution while turning capabilities such as audience selection, eligibility, offer configuration, distribution, and measurement into reusable building blocks. Create a repeatable path from idea to scaled motion. Turn “we need to increase X” into targeted, operationalized, measurable GTM motions. Build leverage throughout the team. Enable ADs, VC Partnerships, and other Startup GTM teams to incubate and own programs independently rather than routing every motion through centralized operations. Develop shared measurement and experimentation frameworks and capabilities. Establish common approaches to sizing, economics, attribution
AI needs a new infrastructure layer. We're building it at Modal. Every era of computing brought new workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support: mainframes, databases, and the cloud. Each time, the company that rebuilt the layer underneath defined the decade. AI is no different, except it touches everything instead of one slice, and the window to build the layer underneath it is open right now. Our customers include category-defining companies like Lovable , Ramp , Cognition, DoorDash, and Suno. They rely on Modal for instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, so it's simple to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We recently raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint Ventures. We've crossed $300M+ ARR and grown fivefold since September. Our team includes creators of popular open-source projects (e.g., Seaborn , Luig i ), academic researchers, international olympiad medalists, and experienced engineering and product leaders with decades of experience. About the Role We're seeking a Revenue Operations Manager with a strong track record, a builder's mindset, and a bias for action to join our in-person team in New York or SF. This is a high-impact, hands-on role. You'll own the entire revenue operations function, from top-of-funnel lead routing through deal close and commission administration. You'll work closely with our Head of Finance & People Ops and sales leadership to build the systems, dashboards, and processes that scale our go-to-market motion. What You'll Do: Own the lead routing process from inbound and partnering with marketing to ensure proper attribution Run effective territory management & strategy for Geo based decisioning Support & strategise every aspect of revenue operations in your territory Own the strategy for capacity forecasting, inputs, throughputs & outputs being the conduit back to finance in
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Compensation team designs, manages, and evolves Plaid’s compensation strategy to attract, retain, and motivate world-class talent. We make sure compensation is fair inside the company and competitive in the market. We work on programs that connect directly to Plaid’s business goals and employee experience — using data and insight to make equitable, well-informed decisions. Our work spans cash and equity program design, annual and mid-year review cycles, benchmarking, and exec comp support. In this role, you will own compensation support for specific client groups and take the lead on cycle operations and comp tooling across the team. You’ll work alongside a sharp team and closely with Plaid’s Head of Total Rewards. You’ll have clear ownership of your domain from day one, with real exposure to equity program mechanics, exec comp, and board-level deliverables. Responsibilities: Own comp support for specific client groups — offers, promos, manager/HRBP questions — with a high bar for speed and accuracy Lead configuration and rollout of annual and mid-year compensation cycles in Workday and comp tooling Manage and maintain Plaid’s comp systems: Compa, Pave, and external survey tools (Compensia, Radf
About the Team The OpenAI Audit Team is on a mission to build the future of internal audit from the ground up. Our ambition will be powered by a high-energy, technically exceptional team with the judgment, intellectual curiosity, and creativity to harness the latest advances in AI and design a truly next-generation audit function. As AI reshapes how work is performed across the enterprise, Internal Audit will use AI, automation, and data analytics to identify and assess the most significant and emerging risks across the business, including technology, cybersecurity, finance, compliance, operations, and data. We will build trusted partnerships at every level—from the Board of Directors and senior leadership to the teams delivering on OpenAI’s mission every day. We will operate as both an independent assurance provider and a trusted advisor, bringing an objective and pragmatic perspective to critical decisions. By engaging closely with management while preserving our independence, we will help the business innovate responsibly, move with confidence, and manage risk without creating unnecessary barriers. About the Role As the Cybersecurity & Technology Audit Leader, you will help shape the strategy, methodology, technology, and culture of a new audit function. You will lead complex audits and advisory reviews of cybersecurity, technology, data, and AI-related risks while advising leaders on practical ways to strengthen governance, resilience, and risk management. You are an experienced, hands-on professional who combines deep technical expertise with strong business judgment. You can quickly move between executive-level governance questions and detailed technical analysis, use data to identify and assess risk, and form clear, well-supported conclusions in fast-moving or ambiguous situations. You will have meaningful influence over how the function develops, including how we apply AI, automation, and analytics to audit planning, testing, monitoring, and reporting. T
About the Team The Applied team brings OpenAI’s technology to the world through products used by hundreds of millions of people and by developers and businesses building on our APIs. We work across research, engineering, product, policy, safety, and operations to deploy frontier AI systems responsibly and safely. The Trust & Safety Data Engineering team builds the data foundations that help OpenAI understand, detect, investigate, and mitigate abuse and safety risks across our products. We partner with Integrity, Investigations, Safety Systems, Product Policy, Privacy, Data Science, Engineering, and Data Platform to create reliable, privacy-safe datasets and pipelines for fraud and abuse detection, enforcement workflows, safety measurement, ML feature generation, launch readiness, and transparency reporting. About the Role We are hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead and grow the Trust & Safety Data Engineering team. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can set strategy, shape data architecture, align senior stakeholders, coach engineers, and drive execution on high-impact data systems. You will help turn fragmented launch and incident support into durable, reusable, privacy-safe data foundations that Trust & Safety teams can rely on. The systems your team builds will help OpenAI detect risk, investigate abuse, power operational workflows, develop and evaluate safety models, measure interventions, support product launches, and report accurately on platform integrity. In This Role, You Will Lead and grow a high-performing Trust & Safety Data Engineering team. Define the roadmap and technical strategy for Trust & Safety data systems. Build canonical, privacy-safe datasets and pipelines for abuse detection, fraud detection, risk signals, enforcement, scaled review, transparency reporting, and safety monitoring. Create reusable foundations for Trust & Safety model development, including features, labels, training data, backtesting,
About the Team The GTM Data Science team partners with Go-to-Market, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, RevOps, and Strategic Finance to build the shared intelligence layer for OpenAI's B2B business. The team turns product usage, customer behavior, revenue, field activity, and customer feedback into rigorous insight products that help leaders and field teams understand where customers are succeeding, where adoption is blocked, and what actions will accelerate durable growth. We are building systems that make customer intelligence proactive: surfacing risk, expansion potential, product gaps, and repeatable playbooks before they show up as escalations or missed opportunities. About the Role As the Applied Data Science & Insights Lead for GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping how OpenAI measures, understands, and improves customer adoption across our B2B products. You will build AI/ML-powered intelligence products that connect account health, product usage, customer lifecycle, support tier, qualitative sentiment, commercial context, and field actions into a practical operating system for GTM and Technical Success. This role will build the data science foundation for Technical Success: defining the metrics, models, operating insights, and decision systems that help the team scale customer adoption and expansion with rigor. You will also be expected to build and lead a small mighty team over time: setting direction, hiring and developing talent, creating operating cadences, and holding a high bar for technical rigor and business impact. You will lead the development of models, metrics, and decision systems that recommend what GTM and Technical Success teams should do next, explain why, and measure whether those interventions worked. Your work will help customers move from pilots to production, deepen usage across products, identify high-value use cases, reduce churn risk, and create a f
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