What you’ll do Own and evolve the Quality Management System (QMS) to support a regulated medical device development program, including design controls and DHF maintenance. Establish and enforce requirements traceability: user needs → design requirements → verification/validation artifacts and change control. Define and run the program-level V&V strategy (verification, validation, and test coverage), including test plans, protocols, reports, and acceptance criteria. Drive risk management activities (e.g., DFMEA / PFMEA, hazard analyses) and ensure mitigations are reflected in requirements and verification. Lead document control: reviews, approvals, training, retention, and audit readiness. Partner with engineering to make quality “native” to the dev workflow (automated testing, release gates, software configuration management). Prepare the program for audits and inspections, including hands-on audit leadership. What we’re looking for Senior experience leading quality for complex hardware + software products in a regulated environment. Deep familiarity with design controls, DHF, document control, risk management, and verification planning. Strong systems thinking and the ability to translate ambiguous product intent into testable requirements. Comfortable collaborating directly with multidisciplinary engineering (recon/ML, embedded, mechanical, EE, cloud). Useful experience Regulated product quality leadership (ISO 13485 / 21 CFR 820 or equivalent), including audit readiness and FDA-facing work. eQMS + document control fluency (e.g., Greenlight Guru) that integrates cleanly with modern engineering workflows.
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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
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 Head of Product Marketing will own the end-to-end strategy, operating model, performance bar, and talent development for the Product Marketing function at Plaid. This leader will: Set the PMM Strategy & Operating Model Own and operationalize the PMM structure (Product Areas and Industry)  Finalize and institutionalize the PMM operating model Define clear “PMM does / PMM does not” guardrails Clarify cross-functional engagement norms with Product, GTM, Marketing, Comms Establish KPI frameworks that tie PMM work to measurable business impact Elevate Quality & Narrative Coherence Own Plaid’s central product narrative Raise the messaging and positioning bar across all products Ensure consistent product naming, positioning discipline, and storytelling rigor Drive Business Impact Partner with Product on product-market fit strategy Partner with GTM leadership to increase: Quota attainment Time to close Campaign lift for priority industries  Ensure launch discipline, release alignment, and post-launch optimization Build and Develop a Championship PMM Team Directly manage senior PMM leads Reset expectations where unclear scope exists Upgrade performance management and leveling rigor  Coach s
From $116K/yr
The Technical Solutions (TS) Enablement team empowers Datadog's global post-sales organization—including Support, Customer Success, and Sales Engineering—with the skills, tools, and resources they need to deliver world-class customer outcomes. As a Senior TS Enablement Program Manager supporting Global Support Engineering, you'll own the design and execution of complex, high-visibility enablement programs that drive lasting change across the TS organization. You'll operate with significant autonomy, lead cross-functional initiatives, and serve as a senior voice within the Enablement team—partnering closely with leadership to translate business priorities into measurable enablement impact at scale. 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 the end-to-end strategy and execution for complex, global enablement programs—managing multiple concurrent workstreams across regions, functions, and timelines with limited guidance. Lead cross-functional stakeholder relationships with senior partners across StratOps, Product, TS Leadership, and the People Team—negotiating scope, aligning on priorities, and driving accountability without positional authority. Translate business goals and OKRs into multi-quarter program roadmaps; communicate priorities, trade-offs, and progress to leadership with clarity and a clear point of view. Design and implement comprehensive metrics frameworks to measure change adoption and program effectiveness; pull and analyze Salesforce and LMS data to track performance against KPIs; present findings to senior stakeholders and iterate for lasting impact. Build and deliver executive-ready materials that tell a compelling business story—translating complex data, program updates, and regional insights into structured narratives with cle
From $193K/yr
We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your opportunity New Relic is seeking a Director for the Americas Marketing team. This role reports to the VP Global Field Marketing. As leader of Field Marketing for Americas, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our regional marketing strategy. Your leadership will drive the expansion of New Relic’s presence in the dynamic and rapidly evolving Americas observability software market. We are seeking an individual with a proven track record in driving pipeline and demand generation across both owned field events and third party conferences, executive engagement programs, partner marketing, customer marketing and account-based marketing. You’ll have a passion for technology, and a commitment to exceeding goals, surpassing industry standards and running a best-in-class regional marketing organisation. You have rich experience in managing field marketing teams, in B2B enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) and account based marketing (ABM) and solution led selling, as well as a good understanding of Salesforce CRM and Marketo Marketing Automation platforms. What you'll do Be the centre of excellence for a team of geographically dispersed field marketing managers to ensure the team receives the professional development, skill based training, and enablement of the GTM plan to be a best-in-class organization. Gain a comprehensive understanding of New Relic's product, market position, personas, competition, and market trends for adapting and optimizing the amer
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 Senior Compensation Analyst, you will play a key role in shaping SoFi Technologies’ global compensation strategy and programs to attract, retain, and motivate top talent globally. This role will lead our global job architecture, compensation structures, market benchmarking, and broad-based compensation modeling. You will use expert knowledge, market data, trends, technology, and financial analysis to develop compensation frameworks that are competitive, scalable, and aligned with our compensation philosophy. You will be responsible for developing our annual cash and equity guidelines, modeling program budgets, and partnering with Finance on monthly stock-based compensation forecasting and analysis. You will also support the executive compensation function, working closely with the Executive Compensation Lead on Compensation Committee materials, executive compensation programs, and related disclosures. What you’ll do: Broad-Based Strategy & Execution Lead global compensation benchmarking, market pricing, and the development of compensation structures, including base salary ranges, target bonuses, and long-term incentive guidelines. Own and enhance SoFi’s global job architecture, including job families, career levels, job profiles, and related compensation frameworks. Lead job architecture
From $326.1K/yr
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Principal Security Software Engineer on the Production IAM team, you will set the technical direction for how identity and access work across Roblox's production infrastructure, from the mTLS-based identity that services use to authenticate to one another, to the privileged access controls that govern how engineers reach production. The team is accountable for Roblox's machine and workload identity platform, its centralized authorization engine, its production access management platform, production PKI and certificate lifecycle, and just-in-time privileged access for engineers. As an individual contributor in Production IAM, you will define multi-year strategy, drive alignment across Roblox Platform, mentor senior and staff engineers, and personally build the hardest parts of these systems. As AI agents become first-class actors in production, you will also help pioneer how they get identity, prove who they are, and receive safely-scoped access. You will Lead the architecture for production identity and access. Define and evolve the end-to-end design for machine, workload, human, and AI-agent identity across our hybrid on-prem and cloud fleet, making secure access invisible when
From $98K/yr
Datadog is seeking a Field Marketing Manager to support and execute high-impact programs across the North Central region in North America. In this role, you’ll collaborate with regional Sales and Marketing teams to drive pipeline generation and deliver engaging in-person and virtual event experiences. You’ll take ownership of regional marketing initiatives, gaining hands-on experience across campaign strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment. This is an exciting opportunity for a results-driven marketer looking to make an immediate and measurable impact. 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: Plan and execute field marketing programs, including Datadog Live events, third-party sponsorships, customer panels, workshops, and executive experiences Manage field projects from planning through execution, ensuring on-time, on-brand delivery Own on-site logistics and execution for smaller, high-touch regional events Collaborate with Sales, Demand Generation, Marketing Ops, and other teams to maximize event engagement Track and analyze program results to evaluate pipeline impact and optimize future campaigns Who You Are: 3–5 years of experience in B2B marketing, preferably in the technology industry Creative and results-oriented, with a strong passion for customer-centric event experiences Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines Independent, detail-oriented, and comfortable taking initiative You communicate clearly and effectively in English, both in writing and speaking. Familiarity with Salesforce, Google Suite, and project management tools is a plus Willingness to travel up to 40% Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day o
From $156K/yr
The Team: As a Security Engineer 2 on the Cyber Threat Intelligence team, you will help Datadog stay ahead of evolving threats by identifying, analyzing, and operationalizing intelligence on threat actors, campaigns, and emerging threats. Working within Security Engineering, you will partner closely with security teams to translate intelligence into actionable security improvements across the company. You will serve as a subject matter expert on how the cyber threat landscape intersects with Datadog and contribute to intelligence-led decision making during both steady-state operations and active security incidents. This role provides opportunities to influence detection, response, and security strategy through technical analysis, collaboration, and intelligence-driven initiatives. 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: Develop and maintain tooling that automates the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence. Assess emerging vulnerabilities, threat activity, and security events to help stakeholders understand potential impact to Datadog. Conduct threat hunting and infrastructure analysis to identify adversary activity relevant to Datadog and improve defensive controls. Partner with security teams to operationalize intelligence into detections, investigations, and response workflows. Coordinate with information-sharing communities to gather, evaluate, and disseminate actionable intelligence. Produce technical briefings, threat reports, and intelligence products for security and engineering stakeholders. Who You Are: Experienced in writing and presenting operational and technical intelligence for threat detection, response, and security stakeholders. Skilled in partnering with detection and response te
From $149K/yr
As a Key Accounts Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. What You’ll Do: Partner with the Sales, Product/Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and executive leadership to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Lead technical strategy for both short-term and long-cycle pursuits by driving the end-to-end technical sales agenda for Fortune 100 and comparable prospects — from pipeline generation through purchase decision Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Present at executive and technical forums, lead workshops, and translate technical detail to business impact for CIOs, SRE/Platform teams, security/compliance, and engineering leadership Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering Experienced in programming/scripting with one or more languages (i.e. Python, Go, Java, etc.) and familiarity with DevOps practices such as CI/CD and IaC workflows Demonstrated ability to land into net new logo accounts and collaborate with prospects through long, multi-quarte
From $149K/yr
As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. 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: Partner with the Sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. Communicate Datadog’s value based on activities and work with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Deliver product and technical briefings / presentations to potential clients Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape Who You Are: Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering Experienced in programming/scripting with any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc. Someone with a minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and fr
From $244K/yr
Role Summary: Datadog is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Logs offering by unifying observability pipelines with log management software that customers deploy and manage in their own infrastructure. This role will focus on building and scaling systems that process, route, and store high-volume observability data within customer-managed infrastructure. You will operate as a hands-on technical leader, driving architecture, cross-team delivery, and product direction across a complex and evolving space. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence product strategy, mentor engineers, and solve deeply technical challenges at scale. 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: Make customer-controlled deployments feel like a managed Datadog product: deployment, upgrades, configuration, observability, diagnostics, reliability, and secure operation across diverse customer cloud environments Build and scale high-throughput systems for log processing, routing, and transformation across distributed environments Lead cross-team initiatives, aligning engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-team projects Design and implement software that runs reliably that customers deploy and operate within their own cloud infrastructure. Improve system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through thoughtful trade-off analysis and capacity planning Contribute hands-on to critical code paths, debugging, and deployment challenges in customer environments Who You Are: You have significant experience building software that is installed, deployed, and operated in customer environments rather than only as a fully managed SaaS service. You have strong expertise in distributed systems,
From $244K/yr
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Logs organization at Datadog and help redefine how our customers ingest, query, and derive insights from logs data. In this role, you’ll work closely with Product Managers and customers to drive complex initiatives across ingestion pipelines, search infrastructure, and intelligent log management capabilities - all while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and distributed systems. You’ll have the opportunity to lead efforts that shape the future of log management. 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: Partner with Product Managers to define ambiguous product requirements and determine the most impactful solutions for customers Lead technical strategy and execution and design systems surrounding log query performance and ingestion at scale. Explore and prototype new capabilities and collaborate with peers on initiatives spanning AI-powered log management, security and business operations, advanced query capabilities, and external data sources query capabilities. Mentor engineers across levels and contribute to growing a high-performing, collaborative team culture Who You Are: You have deep experience architecting and scaling backend systems, with a strong focus on data-intensive or distributed infrastructure You excel in ambiguous environments, demonstrating a mix of drive, curiosity and pragmatic decision-making You’ve partnered effectively with Product Managers and customers to define product direction and ship impactful features You have expertise in debugging complex systems and optimizing performance across real-time data pipelines You have experience in using AI agents tools in your day-to-day engineering practices You lead by example and enjoy helping others grow through m
Datadog Incident Response is an end-to-end incident operations solution native to Datadog’s unified observability and security platform. It brings the entire incident lifecycle — from alert to resolution — together in one place so engineers can respond fast with confidence instead of losing time switching between disconnected monitoring, paging, and incident tools. As a Product Marketing Manager (PMM) - Incident Response, you will develop go-to-market strategy for new products and features, create the content that enables our sales and partner teams, and touch on all areas of the business while helping move Datadog forward. We give our Product Marketing Managers the opportunity to collaborate, investigate, and idealize how we can gear our product strategy to yield the highest results. 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: Drive the go-to-market strategy for Datadog Incident Response products, such as Incident Management, On-Call, and Incident AI as an expert of your product area. Launch new features with compelling messaging and positioning, developing assets such as slide decks, blogs, product demos, webinars, and solution briefs. Develop high-impact sales enablement assets (battlecards, pitch decks, demos) grounded in deep market and competitive insights. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute campaigns across webinars, paid media, organic channels, and sponsored events. Drive customer marketing initiatives including case studies, testimonials, and
From $155K/yr
Alerting is the beating heart of the Datadog platform. It is the critical bridge between raw data and decisive action, ensuring that when our customers’ systems falter, they are the first to know. Datadog is reimagining alerting; we’re evolving beyond simple triggers into providing a sophisticated, AI-powered posture that covers both known and unknown risks. As the Product Manager for Notification Orchestration, you will lead the evolution of how alerts reach the right people at the right time. You will define the strategy for our notification routing engine, ensuring that thousands of businesses can manage complex alerting logic without being overwhelmed by noise. You will empower customers to move beyond managing individual monitor outputs to a world where notifications are grouped, contextualized, and reliable at massive scale. 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: Develop a comprehensive understanding of customers and the core problems behind their alerting and notification monitoring challenges. Collaborate across product teams to identify and deliver the most critical alerts and health indicators for every product area. Define, build, and launch the next generation of user experiences for managing automated alerts and configurations. Design intuitive solutions that represent alert status and system health across the entire application, providing users with at-a-glance visibility. Join an engineering team to scope, spec, and design alerting features capable of supporting the most complex, high-scale organizations Continuously evolve the product with the latest technologies, including AI tools and agents. Partner with marketing and customer success teams to help users understand and adopt new alerting frameworks and health-monitoring
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