About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting, Accounting Policy, and Financial Reporting organization partners across Finance to assess complex corporate matters and develop well-supported U.S. GAAP conclusions. The team supports non-routine business activities requiring thoughtful technical judgment, scalable accounting policies, financial statement disclosures, processes, and controls. About the Role You will partner closely with Technical Accounting, Financial Reporting and Controllership to translate complex accounting conclusions into scalable operational procedures. You will build processes for non-standard transactions, including warrants, equity-method investments, debt and equity securities, non-controlling interests, hypothetical liquidation at book value allocations, business combinations, and other complex financing, investment, and capital arrangements. You will advise stakeholders across Corporate Accounting, Financial Reporting, Treasury, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, FP&A, Equity, Internal Controls, valuation specialists, and external auditors. You will help resolve complex accounting questions, align leaders on material judgments and risks, and translate conclusions into audit-ready memoranda, close entries, disclosures, processes, and controls. This is a highly visible role for an accounting professional who can turn technical conclusions into practical execution, support non-routine transactions through recurring close processes, and strengthen operational accounting across Finance. In this role, you will: Own operational accounting for complex financing, investment, equity, and capital arrangements, including classification, measurement, presentation, disclosure, and recurring close processes. In partnership with technical accounting, lead day-one and recurring accounting for non-standard transactions, including fair-value measurements, eq
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About The Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About The Role OpenAI seeks a Director, Technical Accounting, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships to set the technical revenue accounting strategy for the company's largest, most complex, and highest-risk commercial arrangements. This leader will personally assess novel fact patterns, establish and defend the accounting position, and shape deal structures before execution across enterprise contracts, strategic partnerships, API and consumption-based offerings, credits and incentives, revenue share, multi-party arrangements, and emerging product monetization models. This role will be the senior technical accounting partner to Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, Business Development, Deal Desk, Billing, Financial Reporting, Internal Controls, and external auditors. The core mandate is technical judgment: independently synthesize the full contractual and economic substance, identify alternatives and second-order implications, resolve ambiguity under ASC 606 and related U.S. GAAP, and communicate a clear recommendation to executives and auditors. Operational know-how is essential to translate conclusions into billing, close, disclosures, systems, and controls, but process ownership is not the center of the role. In This Role, You Will Partner closely with Revenue Accounting, Sales, Product, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, Business Development, Deal Desk, Billing, Financial Reporting, and external auditors. Identify non-standard revenue arrangements early and evaluate them under ASC 606. Advise on thoughtful deal structurin
Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere is in a unique and exciting position to grow our G&A team globally! We are expanding our Talent Team and are looking for a creative, high-performing G&A talent partner who is eager to take on a new challenge as we are in the early stages of building the Talent Acquisition function. In this role, you will master a new domain of recruiting, recruit world-class talent, and influence the scaling of a high-growth Canadian tech company. If you consider yourself resilient, collaborative, influential, and a lifelong learner, we’d love to hear from you! What You’ll Do As an intermediate Talent Partner for Cohere, you will: Own the full lifecycle recruitment process, attracting and recruiting top talent for G&A (Legal, Finance, Marketing, People, etc.) at Cohere. Make sure our candidates have a world-class recruiting experience with us. Work with hiring managers and leaders to create effective recruiting strategies. Keep us up-to-date with talent market and industry insights so we can make informed decisions. Keep track of recruiting funnels in Ashby our ATS, and update the progress regularly. Find creati
Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere is seeking an Indirect Tax Sr. Associate / Tax Manager to manage global indirect tax compliance, strategy, and reporting, focusing on VAT/GST and sales tax in Canada, the U.S., and other key markets. You’ll manage tax audits, optimize processes, collaborate cross-functionally, drive process and efficiency initiatives, and implement strategies to minimize liabilities while ensuring compliance. Key Responsibilities Manage end-to-end indirect tax compliance, including filings, registrations, and remittances for global VAT/GST, and US sales and use tax Streamline tax workflows, leverage tax automation tools and AI, and enhance data governance to improve efficiency Develop and implement indirect tax strategies aligned with Cohere’s business growth, product offerings (e.g., SaaS, AI services, Sovereign AI), and international expansion. Manage responses to tax audits and inquiries from authorities. Identify and mitigate tax risks, ensuring alignment with global tax regulations and internal policies Address digital services taxes and electronic services implications. Partner with Finance, Legal, and Product teams t
About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Hardware Finance Manager, Consolidations & Systems to own the consolidated financial reporting, forecasting cadence, and financial systems across our hardware organizations (Io and Robotics). This role sits at the intersection of Hardware Finance, central FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems, and is responsible for ensuring leadership has a single, accurate, and timely financial view of the hardware business. This role will serve as the embedded owner of the hardware financial backbone, with end-to-end responsibility for consolidated P&L reporting, forecasting and variance analysis, and the systems and processes that enable scalable, decision-ready insights. You will help ensure hardware financials are consistent, auditable, and fit for executive and board-level decision-making as the organization scales in size, complexity, and capital intensity. We have a strong preference for candidates who can be based in our San Francisco HQ. 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 oversee multiple areas of responsibility: Own end-to-end consolidated financial reporting for all hardware organizations (Io and Robotics), delivering a single, integrated P&L view across R&D, Product, Revenue, COGS, and OpEx. Establish and run the hardware financial operating cadence, including monthly close, forecasting, reforecasting, and variance analysis, ensuring consistency and accountability across teams. Serve as a key finance partner to Hardware Finance leads, central FP&A, and Accounting, aligning bottoms-up plans with accounting actuals and enterprise reporting requirements. Build and maintain consoli
About the Team The Cooperative AI team is scaling to devices and embedded operations and user experiences. Our model-powered scaled workforce and knowledge system are moving on to the edge and powering our devices and edge experiences. By leveraging OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models and technologies, in production and in the lab, we develop systems that reason and work autonomously with customers and with our workforce responsible for operational work. We carry real workloads for critical systems across finance, sales, customer support, integrity, product insights, internal operations, and now devices to drive insights into product and industry. We partner closely with internal teams and external customers globally, operating in a hyper-fast feedback loop where many of our users are just a few steps away. This proximity allows us to iterate quickly, validate impact in real time, and accelerate industry impacting learnings and systems builds. We are a highly multidisciplinary, self-contained team focused on transforming the workplace via smart systems, knowledge, scalable and reliable primitives that apply world-class AI capabilities across domains. Our mission is to learn fast and transform how humans collaborate with AI at scale. About the Role We are looking for a Technical Lead Manager to lead a team of engineers building AI-native embedded experiences and operations-forward systems. In this role, you will perform both hands-on technical leadership and small team management. You will drive business outcomes, architecture and technical strategy for complex systems, contribute directly to implementation, and help grow a high-performing team. You will work closely with internal stakeholders to understand operational challenges, identify high-leverage opportunities for automation, and deliver solutions that create measurable impact. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys moving between technical design, coding, mentoring engineers, and working directly with users t
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Datadog is seeking a strategic, visionary, and results-oriented Senior Director, Growth Marketing – Organic Growth (SEO/GEO/PLG) to lead our organic acquisition strategy across traditional search engines and emerging AI/LLM platforms. This leader will own the vision, strategy, and operating model responsible for driving measurable growth in organic traffic and inbound pipeline through content programs, off-page authority, and AI/LLM discoverability initiatives. In this role, you will lead a team of organic growth specialists, while partnering closely with Website Experience, Product Marketing, and Engineering teams. You will define Datadog's long-term organic growth strategy, establish investment priorities, and ensure the organization is positioned to win across an increasingly complex discovery ecosystem. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Own Datadog’s content-led SEO/GEO/PLG strategy, defining the topics, formats, and ecosystems that drive measurable growth in traffic and pipeline Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team Identify and prioritize high-impact content opportunities across product areas and influence cross-functional teams to bring that content to life Map and optimize Datadog’s presence across the full ecosystem of LLM-ingested content (e.g., YouTube, Reddit, review sites) to improve AI-driven discoverability Design and execute a comprehensive off-page strategy, including link acquisition, digital PR, and authority-building initiatives Partner closely with the Website Experience team, who owns technical SEO, to ensure content is effectively surfaced, indexed, and performant Create and contribute to high-impact content (e.g., flagship pieces, new formats, or experimental channels), setting the standard for qualit
About the Team OpenAI Consumer Devices is building the next generation of products that bring powerful AI into people’s everyday lives. Guided by OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, our team combines world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care deeply about creating useful, intuitive, and responsible technology. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside exceptional people on ambitious, zero-to-one challenges at the intersection of hardware, software, and AI. This is a chance to help define an entirely new category of products—and shape how people experience AI in the future. The Systems Integration team is critical in this mission, turning complex hardware-software development into reliable product signals. We build the shared infrastructure, tooling, and lab environments that let teams test quickly, understand failures, and ship with confidence. About the Role As a Systems Integration Manager , you will lead the team responsible for device validation infrastructure, test automation, developer tooling, and lab operations. This is a player-coach leadership role: you’ll set technical and operational direction, build and develop a team of engineers and lab operations professionals, and stay close to the architecture and hardest systems problems. You will partner closely with device software, OS, firmware, hardware, reliability, QA, and release infrastructure teams to define validation strategy, improve release readiness, and ensure our test environments and quality signals scale with the product. Because this is a new category of devices, you’ll have the rare opportunity to build the validation foundation early—shaping the systems, standards, and operating model that will support products from prototype through launch. We’re looking for a leader who combines strong technical judgment with people leadership, operational rigor, and experience building reliable systems for complex hardware-software products. This role is b
About the Team The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term trajectory. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous data science and economic modeling. As part of our expanding Data Science function, we’re building a best-in-class Forecasting capability to drive real-time, data-driven decision-making across user growth, revenue, compute infrastructure, and more. We are developing scalable forecasting infrastructure to help us understand and anticipate business dynamics in an increasingly complex, usage-based world. Our models are foundational to planning, pricing, operational efficiency, and growth strategy - supporting key investment decisions and unlocking OpenAI’s full potential. About the Role We’re looking for a senior Machine Learning Data Scientist to lead our forecasting initiatives. You’ll be one of the founding members of the Forecasting pillar within Strategic Finance Data Science, responsible for building and scaling robust, interpretable, and production-ready forecasting systems. Your models will power critical business decisions by predicting core metrics such as DAU/WAU, revenue, LTV, compute consumption, and profitability. This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring technical excellence, strong product intuition, and business acumen. You’ll collaborate with product managers, researchers, engineers, and finance leaders to operationalize forecasting insights, influence company-wide strategy, and build foundational forecasting capabilities at OpenAI. 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 statistical and machine learning models to solve forecasting needs across product, finance, infrastructure, and GTM domains. Own the end-to-end modeling lifecycle , including scoping, feature engineerin
We’re looking for a strategic operator to help advance OpenAI’s life sciences capabilities and translate them into meaningful scientific and commercial impact. Working closely with research teams and external partners, you’ll identify opportunities to improve AI models, products, and supporting infrastructure, and lead partnerships and strategic initiatives that bring these capabilities into real scientific workflows. This role combines partnership development, strategic judgment, and hands-on execution. You’ll help determine where OpenAI can make the greatest contribution, identify the expertise and resources needed, and bring together the right partners to move from an idea to demonstrated impact. In this role, you will: Shape capability priorities. Work with research and cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize new life sciences capabilities, balancing scientific value, technical feasibility, and commercial potential. Build and execute partnerships. Develop data, research, and commercial partnerships with biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical organizations, and other participants in the life sciences ecosystem. Translate capabilities into real-world applications. Partner with external organizations to apply OpenAI’s technology in scientific workflows, evaluate its usefulness, and use those learnings to inform further development. Structure effective collaborations. Work with legal, finance, research, and other teams to define partnership scope, align incentives, and navigate data access, intellectual property, commercial terms, and governance. Lead strategic initiatives. Identify and own projects that advance scientific capabilities and create long-term value for OpenAI, including licensing, joint development, and new applications of AI. Drive operational execution. Establish clear objectives, milestones, and ownership; coordinate resources; and resolve obstacles across internal teams and external partners. Expand access to expertise. Identify gaps in
About the Role We are seeking a senior Treasury Markets leader to build and lead OpenAI's investment management, FX, interest rate risk management, and debt markets capabilities. This role will own corporate liquidity investment strategy, global currency risk, rate exposure, and the design of market-risk programs across rates, FX, liquidity, counterparty, and other Treasury exposures. The ideal candidate combines CFA-level investment discipline, hands-on derivatives and capital markets execution, strong tax and accounting fluency, and exceptional executive communication. They should be able to translate complex market, hedge, liquidity, capital structure, credit market, rating agency, tax, accounting, risk, and governance topics into crisp executive-ready recommendations, decision memos, and Board-level materials. In this role, your responsibility will include: Investment Management Own investment strategy for corporate cash and liquidity portfolios, balancing capital preservation, liquidity, yield, diversification, counterparty risk, accounting, tax, and regulatory considerations. Lead portfolio construction, investment policy governance, risk monitoring, performance reporting, manager/counterparty oversight, and compliance for corporate investment portfolios. Maintain market intelligence on rates, credit, liquidity markets, fixed income products, external manager performance, and emerging portfolio risks. FX & Cash Flow Hedging Design and operate FX balance sheet and cash flow hedging programs that align exposure management, hedge objectives, accounting treatment, tax considerations, controls, and business needs. Manage FX and derivatives activity across global operations, including exposure analytics, hedge strategy, trade execution, counterparty management, effectiveness tracking, and reporting. Partner deeply with Accounting, Tax, FP&A, Legal, and business leaders to improve exposure visibility and ensure hedge programs are operationally controlled and
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About Mixpanel Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com . About the Team Internal Analysis is the data team at Mixpanel — the team that turns data from every corner of the business into the decisions that shape our product and our growth. They own the full path: from raw data in source systems, through a governed warehouse, to the models, metrics, and insights leaders across the company act on. It's two complementary disciplines under one roof. Our Analytics Engineers own the data end to end — ingesting from source systems, modeling through a medallion architecture on BigQuery, and producing the trusted tables and reporting artifacts the rest of the company runs on. Our Data Scientists build on that foundation, partnering with Product to refine the user experience and with GTM to sharpen how we grow — inspecting signals, running experiments, and surfacing the insights that change what we do next. About the Role You'll lead this team — and help shape Mixpanel's data culture. We're looking for someone who can influence the organization to become more metrics-driven: establishing clear KPIs, helping teams define success upfront, and ensuring analytics and data science are engaged as strategic partners from the start of an initiative, not brought in at the end to validate decisions already made. As we grow the data organization's remit across the company, this role has the scope to establish practices that don't yet exist, KPI ownership, cross-functional operating rhythms, a shared standard for what 'data-driven' means here, and where AI belongs in both how the team works and what the platform delivers. It takes building real trust with cross-functional leaders to
About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments as well as other OpenAI products worldwide. We operate across the full funnel - from awareness and acquisition through activation, retention, and expansion - using a combination of global performance marketing, AI-powered workflows, in-product optimization, insights, experimentation, and creative ops engineering. About the Role We are hiring a B2B Paid Marketing leader to own and scale global acquisition across channels, including Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and emerging channels. This leader will define channel strategy across self-serve and sales-assisted journeys, develop programs for distinct business segments, and own measurable impact from demand creation through customer growth. You will partner closely with Sales, GTM, product marketing, lifecycle, product, engineering, data science, finance, design, and marketing operations to connect paid campaigns to the right buying journeys. This team thrives on rapid iteration, rigorous measurement, and close feedback loops that improve lead and account quality, conversion, pipeline, and long-term customer value. In this role, you will: Own global paid channel strategy across Paid Search, Paid Social, Programmatic, Affiliate, and other channels for B2B audiences, including planning, forecasting, budget pacing, audience design, and performance management. Build and optimize programs across self-serve, product-led, and sales-assisted motions, adapting channel strategy to segment, use case, buyer, and funnel stage. Partner with Sales and GTM teams to align campaigns with revenue priorities, product launches, solution plays, account segments, and regional opportunities. Optimize full-funnel performance from demand capture and qualified leads through activation, pipeline, conversion, expansion, and long-term customer value. Develop B2B audience, offer, and messaging strategies for decision-mak
About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic, global partner ecosystem designed to accelerate customer success, enable enterprise AI adoption, and drive durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. We work closely across Product, Research, Sales, Legal, Communications, and regional leadership to ensure a cohesive strategy and disciplined execution with our most strategic partners. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director, Global McKinsey Alliance to lead and scale OpenAI’s relationship with McKinsey & Company. This role will serve as the single accountable executive owner of the alliance globally. You will define the partnership strategy and operating model, translating executive alignment into scaled commercial and transformation outcomes across regions and industries. You will work closely with McKinsey’s global leadership, industry and functional practices, and technology organizations—including QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey—to develop differentiated enterprise AI offerings, pursue complex transformation opportunities, and help customers move from strategy to production deployment and measurable value. The role carries responsibility for the health, performance, and long-term expansion of the partnership. Success requires senior executive presence, sound judgment, commercial discipline, technical fluency, and the ability to operate effectively across a complex, partner-led organization. In this role, you will: Own the global McKinsey relationship, including alliance strategy, pipeline growth, enterprise impact, deployment scale, and long-term expansion across priority industries. Define and run the partnership’s operating model across executive governance, joint planning, regional execution, opportunity management, resource allocation, and escalation. Serve as OpenAI’s senior executive counterpart to McKinsey’s global leadership and relevant industry, functional, technology, and regional leaders. Develop a differentiated alliance s
🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role Join WRITER's security team as a staff detection and response engineer and help protect the AI infrastructure that's transforming how the world works. You'll build sophisticated detection systems that identify attacks targeting our AI platform, training data, and model deployments while creating automated response capabilities that scale with our explosive growth. This isn't just traditional security work – you're defending cutting-edge AI/AGI systems against adversaries who are evolving their tactics as fast as AI itself advances. This role combines hands-on security engineering with strategic thinking to stay ahead of novel threats that don't exist in textbooks yet. You'll be the operational arm of our security function, translating threat intelligence into real-time detections, coordinating incident response across multiple teams, and hunting for sophisticated attacks across GPU clusters and distributed training environments. If you're excited by the challen
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