About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team partners closely with customers to help them move from experimentation to production with OpenAI’s technologies. We act as trusted technical advisors, working across customer strategy, architecture, deployment, and adoption to help organizations realize meaningful impact from frontier AI. The Startups segment serves fast-moving, high-growth companies that are often building new products, workflows, and businesses directly on top of AI. These customers move quickly, operate with high ambiguity, and expect practical, creative, and technically rigorous partnership. About the Role We are looking for an Applied AI Engineering Manager, Startups to lead and scale the Startups Applied AI Engineering motion. This team helps high-growth startups move quickly from experimentation to production, unlock meaningful usage, and build durable technical partnerships with OpenAI. This leader will operate in a high-velocity customer segment where founders, CTOs, and technical teams expect speed, judgment, and hands-on problem-solving. They will balance team leadership, technical depth, customer prioritization, and cross-functional influence across Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and broader go-to-market teams. In this role, you will define how OpenAI supports startup customers at scale: identifying where deep technical engagement can unlock outsized impact, building repeatable deployment mechanisms, and ensuring the team can serve a broad and dynamic customer base without losing quality or strategic focus. In this role, you will: Craft and continuously refine the strategic vision and operating model for the Startups Applied AI Engineering team, aligning it with OpenAI’s broader company objectives and the evolving needs of high-growth startup customers. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing technical ICs supporting startup customers across AI-native, developer-led, and product-led companies. Help startups move from early e
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We believe that achieving our goal requires effective engagement with public policy stakeholders and the broader community impacted by AI. Accordingly, our Global Affairs team builds authentic, collaborative relationships with public officials and the broader AI policymaking community to inform and support our shared work in these domains. We ensure that insights from policymakers inform our work and - in collaboration with our colleagues and external stakeholders - seek to further regulation, industry standards, and safe and beneficial development of AI tools. About the Role As a US Congressional Lead on the Global Affairs team, you will help develop strategies and advance OpenAI’s engagement with the U.S. Congress, including developing and managing relationships with House and Senate lawmakers and staff. You will support OpenAI’s U.S. Global Affairs team in meetings, briefings, hearings and other engagements with Congress. You will also facilitate collaboration with civil society and industry partners relevant to Congressional engagement and in alignment with OpenAI’s mission. OpenAI releases industry-leading research and tools. You will face new challenges as the impact of cutting edge generative AI technologies continues to be explored and as the needs of the organization evolve. Day-to-day work may encompass anything from helping to shape strategic initiatives and policy documents to preparing our leaders for engagements with government officials or representing OpenAI in private and public forums. We are looking for a self-directed and creative individual with Capitol Hill experience, experience managing private sector and civil society relationships, plus an understanding of AI-related legislative and regulatory issues and processes. This role is based in Washington, DC and may require frequent travel to participate in meetings and events with k
About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping customers turn frontier AI capabilities into real products, workflows, and business impact. We act as trusted technical partners across solution design, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and adoption, working alongside customers to build and scale effective AI applications with OpenAI’s technologies. The Codex Applied AI Engineering team focuses on helping organizations transform how software is built with AI. We partner directly with engineering teams and technical leaders to integrate Codex into their software development lifecycle — from identifying high-impact use cases and designing AI-enabled workflows to implementation, evaluation, and scaled adoption. Our work helps ensure AI-powered software development is effective, reliable, secure, and deeply integrated into how engineering organizations operate. About the Role We are seeking an experienced technical leader to join as Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex) , leading a team of Applied AI Engineers responsible for driving successful Codex adoption across strategic customers. Your team will work hands-on with customer engineering organizations to design and build AI-enabled development workflows, solve complex implementation challenges, and establish scalable patterns for AI-powered software development. As a manager, you will shape how these technical engagements operate at scale — setting strategy, coaching engineers, determining where the team can have the greatest impact, and ensuring consistently strong execution across customers. You will serve as both a people leader and senior technical advisor, partnering closely with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering to translate customer needs and real-world usage into better technical approaches, reusable patterns, and product insights. Success in this role will be measured by meaningful and sustained Codex adoption, successful customer outcomes, and the creation of repeat
We are looking for a Recruiting Sourcer to play a key role in the continued growth and success of Datadog by finding exceptional talent. The Recruiting Sourcer will partner closely with Recruiters to develop creative and tailored strategies to engage passive candidates. You will be the first point of contact for new candidates in the hiring process, playing a critical role in identifying great candidates and telling the Datadog story. 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: Generate and maintain active and passive candidate pipeline for complex, hard-to-fill positions using various sources such as: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Sourcing Campaigns, Google X Ray searching, previous event attendee lists, etc.. Amplify and champion job openings internally and work with our employee base to find hidden talent in their networks. Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans and track progress throughout the search to be shared with stakeholders Use your own research to get creative on where to find talent that otherwise might stay off the radar including diverse talent Map out the talent market, keeping a pulse of talent flow, market attrition, and which companies employ the talent we are after Specialize in event/project management, messaging analysis, creative prospecting, and stakeholder engagement Who You Are: An established Recruiter or Sourcer with 3+ years of experience working for a search firm or in-house recruiting team for high volume recruiting An individual with a high sense of urgency, strong communication skills and detail-oriented Tenacious and passionate about sourcing and engaging candidates Able to work independently and simultaneously on multiple roles An individual with a proven track record of engaging ta
We are looking for a Recruiting Sourcer to play a key role in the continued growth and success of Datadog by finding exceptional talent. The Recruiting Sourcer will partner closely with Recruiters to develop creative and tailored strategies to engage passive candidates. You will be the first point of contact for new candidates in the hiring process, playing a critical role in identifying great candidates and telling the Datadog story. 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: Generate and maintain active and passive candidate pipeline for complex, hard-to-fill positions using various sources such as: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Sourcing Campaigns, Google X Ray searching, previous event attendee lists, etc.. Amplify and champion job openings internally and work with our employee base to find hidden talent in their networks. Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans and track progress throughout the search to be shared with stakeholders Use your own research to get creative on where to find talent that otherwise might stay off the radar including diverse talent Map out the talent market, keeping a pulse of talent flow, market attrition, and which companies employ the talent we are after Specialize in event/project management, messaging analysis, creative prospecting, and stakeholder engagement Who You Are: An established Recruiter or Sourcer with 3+ years of experience working for a search firm or in-house recruiting team for high volume recruiting An individual with a high sense of urgency, strong communication skills and detail-oriented Tenacious and passionate about sourcing and engaging candidates Able to work independently and simultaneously on multiple roles An individual with a proven track record of engaging ta
About the Team OpenAI's Go-To-Market team helps organizations understand, adopt, and scale the use of advanced AI across their businesses. Our team brings together Sales, Solutions, Customer Success, Marketing, Partnerships, and other cross-functional leaders to support customers in deploying AI responsibly and delivering meaningful business outcomes. About the Role As an Account Director focused on Media, you will lead relationships with a select portfolio of the largest and most strategically important media, entertainment, publishing, streaming, and digital content companies. You will help these organizations apply OpenAI's technology to transform content creation, audience engagement, advertising, personalization, customer experience, employee productivity, and new AI-powered products and services. This role combines deep enterprise sales experience, executive relationship management, media industry knowledge, and technical fluency. You will work across complex, highly matrixed organizations to identify strategic opportunities, build alignment with senior decision-makers, and lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenAI's products. You will own the full customer lifecycle, from strategic account planning and opportunity development through negotiation, deployment, consumption growth, and long-term expansion. In close partnership with Solutions, Product, Engineering, Research, and other internal teams, you will help shape OpenAI's media go-to-market strategy and establish durable relationships with some of the industry's most influential companies. In this role, you will: Manage a small portfolio of large, strategic media accounts and develop comprehensive, multiyear account plans. Build and maintain executive relationships with C-level and senior business leaders across technology, digital, editorial, content, advertising, audience development, product, data, and AI. Lead complex, enterprise-wide sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders, business units, procureme
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. As a GTM & G+A Sourcer , you won't just be filling seats; you will be the primary architect of the talent pipeline that builds the future of our business, operations, and growth teams. We are seeking a Fixed Term Full Time employee for a 6 - 12 month term . The Mission At Replit, we don’t look for average talent; we look for "10x" builders and creators. Your mission is to find the needles in the haystack—high-impact professionals across Go-to-Market (Sales, Marketing, Growth) and G+A (Finance, People, Ops) who are product-minded and excited by the challenge of democratizing coding. Key Responsibilities Strategic Pipeline Building: Identify and engage top-tier talent for GTM functions and G+A roles. Creative Outreach: Utilize AI tools to streamline workflows while crafting highly personalized, compelling outreach that resonates with the Replit ethos. Deep Research: Map out talent across LinkedIn, X (Twitter), competitive startups, and niche professional communities to uncover "undiscovered" talent. Full Lifecycle Partnership: Collaborate closely with Recruiters and Business Leads to calibrate profiles and refine search strategies in real-time. Data-Driven Iteration: Track conversion rates and leverage data to pivot sourcing strategies as needed. Who You Are Experience: 3+ years of sourcing experience with a focus on GTM or G+A roles, ideally within a high-growth startup environment. Business Acumen: You understand the AI/SaaS landscape and know what excellence looks like in non-technical candidates within our specific culture. Persistence: You possess a "hunter" mentality and enjoy the challenge of identifying talent for highly specific, specialized roles. High Agency: You are self-directed, comfortable operating wi
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. Plaid’s Product team builds the network that powers the future of financial services. Our mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone through open finance. Product Managers at Plaid are curious, customer-obsessed, and move quickly to deliver value. They take ownership, sweat the details, and make sound decisions with imperfect information. As a Product Manager on the AI Foundations team, you will drive Plaid’s AI strategy by building the data and intelligence layer that powers smarter financial experiences. You will work across engineering, data science, and research to develop scalable AI systems—from core embeddings and representation learning to applied model integrations that enhance developer and consumer outcomes. This role is for an experienced PM who thrives at the intersection of AI and platform products. You are technically fluent, strategic, and execution-oriented. You enjoy turning advanced machine-learning capabilities into reliable, trusted infrastructure that scales across Plaid’s ecosystem. Responsibilities AI Platform Vision: Define the strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Plaid’s core AI and data foundation, enabling smarter, more adaptive financial products across th
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. Plaid’s Consumer team owns all of Plaid’s consumer facing surfaces. This includes Link, Plaid’s flagship product, which has been used by over half of all US adults to share their information safely and securely with financial applications. Link drives the vast majority of Plaid’s revenue. We’re also working on some exciting, 0-1 consumer initiatives. Both areas are top business priorities. As part of Plaid’s first Consumer team, you will lead product development and execution within a startup-like environment at Plaid. Responsibilities Define an ambitious vision / roadmap, sign up for quarterly / half year goals, and partner with the cross-functional team to hit them Drive prioritization and execution (build, measure, iterate) Identify opportunities through consumer feedback and staying close to our data / dashboards Partner with cross-functional team (design, research, data science, legal, and compliance) to do all of the above Qualifications You have successfully launched large consumer facing features driving meaningful outcomes at B2C companies You start with the consumer problem and have held a high bar for consumer experience You naturally gravitate towards using data to make strategic decisio
$131.3K – $175K/yr
At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections. Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology. The role you’ll play At Mindbody, product marketing is the heartbeat of how our innovation meets the world. As Product Marketing Lead, you'll translate powerful product capabilities into crisp, compelling stories that resonate with business owners and fuel adoption across the experience economy. From gym owners to enterprise brands, our customers rely on Mindbody to help them run and grow their wellness businesses. Your work will ensure they understand—and love—what we’re building for them. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for a storyteller who’s strategic, collaborative, and fluent in both insight and execution. You’ll: Lead go-to-market for strategic launches, owning positioning, messaging, content, and rollout strategy from end to end Develop engaging, scalable content tailored to business owners and decision-makers Craft and manage customer-facing comms across in-product messaging, emails, release notes, and more Equip Sales and Success teams with assets, training, and narratives that win trust and drive growth Use qualitative and quantitative research to shape messaging, validate decisions, and uncover new opportunities Analyze data to guide strategy, test hyp
$60K – $240K/yr
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is seeking an experienced sales professional to join our team as an Enterprise Account Executive. You will have a history of performance in quota attainment and developing customer accounts within the Higher Education sector. This role will cover Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. and requires you to be in market. You will report directly to our Regional Director, Enterprise - SLED. You will leverage your expertise in enterprise software sales and deep understanding of the higher education landscape to build strong relationships with key decision-makers, including CIOs, CTOs, provosts, and other senior administrators. This role requires a strategic approach to sales, a consultative selling style, and the ability to navigate complex procurement processes. You Will: Navigate complex Higher Education and School District procurement processes and cycles Identify and engage key stakeholders at colleges and universities, including executive leadership, IT, academic, and administrative teams Expectations for customer travel will be based on opportunities with a key customer, preferred at least 1x per quarter Understand and respond to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Quotes (RFQs) Build and maintain strong relationships with CIOs, IT Directors, Procurement Officers, and other key stakeholders Apply industry knowledge and research Travel onsite to key customers for executive presentations, user group presentations, and industry specific events Tailor sales pr
Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role As a Staff Credit Policy Analyst for Home Loans will lead the design, governance, and continuous evolution of SoFi’s credit policy framework across Conforming, Government (FHA/VA/USDA), Closed-End Seconds (CES), and Portfolio products. This leader will own the strategic direction and operational oversight of credit policy development, ensuring all underwriting criteria are risk-aligned, investor-compliant, and digitally executable. You will serve as a key partner to Risk, Capital Markets, Product, and Operations—driving clarity, consistency, and scalability across all credit decisioning processes. In this role, you will provide strategic oversight of policy research, system automation, and audit readiness while fostering innovation in digital underwriting and credit enablement. What You’ll Do Credit Policy Leadership & Strategy Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of SoFi’s home lending credit policies, ensuring they align with enterprise risk appetite, investor standards, and business objectives. Define and manage the credit policy governance framework, including approval processes, documentation standards, and version control practices. Partner with senior leadership to identify emerging credit risk trends and recommend proactive policy adjustments. Oversee the roadmap for credit automation and deci
From $92K/yr
We are hiring a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager to lead positioning and messaging and to grow adoption of MongoDB Search and Vector Search as foundational components of our platform – the retrieval layer powering the next generation of grounded AI applications and agents. This is a high-impact role for a marketer who thinks like a builder. As developers architect increasingly sophisticated systems – RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, multi-modal search experiences – retrieval has moved from an implementation detail to a core design decision. You’ll join a high-performing, globally distributed team and partner closely with Marketing, Builder Relations, Product Management, Engineering, Partners, and Sales to develop, measure, and achieve cross-functional goals. The role requires technical depth in information retrieval — lexical and vector search, hybrid approaches, embeddings, re-ranking, agentic retrieval loops, and the tradeoffs that matter in production systems — paired with the product marketing instincts to turn that depth into crisp, differentiated messaging for distinct user and buyer personas. Hands-on experience building or shipping AI-enabled products is a strong advantage. Individuals with prior experience in technical sales, developer relations, or technical marketing are encouraged to apply. This person is a voracious consumer of AI research and pays close attention to shifting patterns in application architectures and development, including agentic systems. This individual is confident in communicating with technical practitioners and non-technical decision makers in one-to-few and one-to-many engagements for internal and external audiences. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in the US for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Drive Strategy & Execution: Act as a strategic partner for high-impact initiatives that align with MongoDB’s long-term business goals in collaboration with Marketing, Developer Relations, Product
The MongoDB Query Team is seeking a Senior Staff Product Manager to provide division-wide, product leadership for our fast, modular distributed query engine and flexible query system. As the most senior product management contributor, you will shape the multi-year strategy, product architecture, and market trajectory for the entire Query business unit. You will be the primary product authority on the most complex trade-offs, anticipating systemic risks and cutting through structural friction that blocks multiple teams and initiatives. This role requires collaboration with distinguished engineers to rigorously debate strategy and pressure-test assumptions and advise executive leadership on options that balance long-term monetization, strategy, and business outcomes. And, where relevant, owns the pricing and monetization strategy for the product line. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. Responsibilities Product Vision and Roadmap: Spearhead strategic unity across multiple product areas over a multi-year horizon to drive a coherent product experience Business Leadership: Originate and de-risk the division’s most consequential strategic bets, owning rigorous business cases and advising leadership on multi-year economic outcomes Customer Advocacy: Engage with strategically significant customers at the senior level (e.g., advisory boards and executive briefings) to surface cross-portfolio opportunities and inform the roadmap PM Excellence: Elevate the global standard of product management by mentoring Staff and Senior PMs and pioneering new data-driven playbooks across the organization. Create frameworks and standards for customer and market research that others use for conducting high-quality customer and market research Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: Partner with Directors and VPs to shape investment allocation and sequencing across the query, developer experiences, and core database p
About the team The AI Deployment Engineering team is responsible for helping developers and enterprises safely and effectively deploy OpenAI technologies in production. We act as trusted technical advisors and thought partners for customers, working side by side with their teams to identify high-value use cases, design practical architectures, and move from prototype to durable deployment. Cybersecurity is one of the most urgent domains where AI can help. Security teams are under pressure to reason across code, logs, infrastructure, tickets, alerts, and vulnerability data faster than ever. As frontier models become more capable, organizations need deep technical guidance on how to evaluate, validate, and safely deploy AI systems in security-critical workflows. About the role We are looking for a Cyber AI Deployment Engineer to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, application security leaders, SOC teams, security engineering teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes. This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move fluidly between executive strategy, practitioner-level cyber depth, and hands-on solution design. You will help customers evaluate and deploy workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC and incident response workflows, detection engineering, cloud security, GRC automation, and security validation. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns, reusable field assets, and product feedback. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity work
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