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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The U.S. Policy and Partnerships team sits within Global Affairs and helps translate that mission into trusted, practical engagement with civil society, community leaders, researchers, and other external stakeholders across the United States. Our current operating model is built around disciplined, cross-functional campaigns: moving from abstract persuasion to local proof, pairing policy expertise with real-world use cases, and working with trusted validators who can help communities understand, shape, and benefit from AI. The team works closely with colleagues across Global Affairs, Legal, Safety, Communications, Product, Research, and other functions to build relationships that are substantive, durable, and grounded in two-way learning. About the Role As U.S. External Affairs Associate, you will work with the team leads to help advance OpenAI's engagement with civil rights organizations, civil society groups, researchers, community-based organizations, and other external stakeholders shaping the AI policy debate in the United States. This role is central to the team's partnership and outreach operating model. You will help identify priority stakeholders, design engagement strategies, and build the external relationships and feedback loops. The work is not about one-way education; it is about co-design, listening, product and policy learning, and creating concrete proof points that can strengthen public trust. Reporting to the External Affairs Lead, you will work across the U.S. Policy and Partnerships team and in close coordination with State and Local Policy, Federal Affairs, Communications, Safety, Legal, Product, and Research. OpenAI is evolving quickly as we release new research, products, and tools. Day-to-day work may include representing OpenAI at convenings, designing a stakeholder strategy around a fast-moving policy issue, organizing partner briefi

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📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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We take play seriously. We’re looking for curious adventurers ready to find their party, fueled by imagination and drive to build what’s never been built before. At Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, you’ll collaborate with passionate teams to reimagine our iconic brands and create experiences that spark joy, connection, and community through the magic of play. This is your chance to shape legendary play that lasts a lifetime. Ready to shape the future of play? At Hasbro, we entertain and connect generations through storytelling and play. We’re looking for a curious, analytical, and driven Associate Brand Manager to help lead iconic brands — translating consumer and shopper insight into line plans and products kids ask for by name. You’ll work alongside designers, engineers, franchise managers, and licensees to bring new play experiences to life across global markets, partnering closely with regional marketing, demand planning, packaging, and sourcing teams. You’ll be the voice of the consumer throughout — using research and competitive analysis to shape strategy and translating data into stories that move the business. The Preschool & Fashion Team works on brands like Peppa, Potato Head, Baby Alive and Furby! Effective from the date that Hasbro opens its new Boston location, this position will be on-site Tuesday-Thursday at Hasbro's new HQ location in Boston, MA. In the interim, this position will be onsite Tuesday-Thursday at Hasbro's HQ in Pawtucket, RI or at Hasbro's temporary location in Boston, MA. A Day in the Life as an Associate Brand Manager: Business Management Analysis on POS, share, and inventory tracking (Circana or equivalent); forecast inputs P&L stewardship at the item and line level — cost, margin, pricing, and promotional plans Business reviews, retailer line-review content, and the annual brand planning cycle Detailed work in P2M Development System and dashboards Product Development Line plan and range architecture: what to m

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📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States· Full-time
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From $198K/yr

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Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. The Role As a Quant Trading (QT) Intern, you will be challenged to learn and adapt in an exciting team environment and will play a substantial role in our day-to-day trading and quant-related activities. Your impact is immediate and meaningful. You will become a member of a team for the summer and play a vital role completing project work and/or identifying trading opportunities and communicating with software engineers, quants, traders, and risk managers throughout the trading day. As part of the Summer Associate cohort, you will learn and socialize alongside other QT Interns and Software Engineering (SE) Interns. What to Expect The 8-week internship program gives you insight into our culture and an inward look into what our business is all about. You will participate in three classroom learning experiences including: a week-long Basics of Options class, a multi-week class on the fundamentals of market making (Mock Trading), and a multi-week class that introduces elements of our quant framework (Quant Curriculum). You will also attend planned social activities and talks from various business leaders to propel your professional growth, and

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📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States· Full-time
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From $198K/yr

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Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a premier proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. Our collaborative culture fuels innovation in quantitative research, systematic trading strategies, and cutting-edge trading technology. For over three decades CTC has provided critical liquidity across derivatives exchanges worldwide - making them fairer, more transparent, and more efficient. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. The Role As a Software Engineering (SE) Intern, you will be challenged to learn and adapt in a dynamic, forward-thinking, and fast-paced environment and will experience life as an engineer on one of our technology teams. Your impact is immediate and meaningful. You will work alongside software engineers designing, solving and testing complex coding problems that will deliver solutions to our trading tools and risk applications. You will build the tools traders and quants rely on to price, trade, and manage risk in real time - and because our release cycles are measured in days, you will watch your code reach production and affect the desk almost immediately. This work draws on a solid foundation in computer science, software development practice, and strong communication and teamwork. You will get exposure to the design and implementation of these systems, which will allow you to build upon your technical skills. As part of the Summer Associate cohort, you will learn and socialize alongside other SE Interns and Quant Trading (QT) Interns. There are a variety of languages you could get practical experience working with including (but

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📍 Mahwah, New Jersey, United States· Hybrid
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Work Flexibility: Hybrid As a Portfolio Manager on Stryker’s Knee team , you will help shape the future of the Partial Knee portfolio by identifying customer needs, supporting new product development, and building the business case for commercialization. You’ll leverage research, market intelligence, and cross-functional collaboration to bring forward-thinking strategies to life and support our mission of moving patient lives. What you will do: Develop portfolio and product strategies by translating customer, patient, and market insights into compelling value propositions and growth opportunities. Leverage qualitative and quantitative market research, Voice of Customer (VOC), competitive intelligence, and third-party data to identify customer needs, industry trends, and market opportunities. Partner cross-functionally throughout the New Product Development (NPD) process , helping advance new products from concept through commercialization. Build financial business cases and ROI models to evaluate new product opportunities and support investment decisions. Develop market assessments, volume forecasts, and commercialization strategies grounded in market dynamics, customer insights, risk, and uncertainty. Partner with Product Marketing to develop go-to-market and product launch strategies for new products. Identify opportunities for customer acquisition, retention, market expansion, and portfolio growth , evaluating the financial tradeoffs associated with each. Partner with Clinical Affairs and Product Marketing to develop clinical evidence, publication, and messaging strategies that support portfolio objectives. Lead Product Lifecycle Ma

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Data Science team helps shape how our products are adopted, monetized, and scaled across organizations. We work at the intersection of Product, Go-to-Market, Finance, Research, and Data, turning product usage, customer evidence, and market signals into decisions that grow durable enterprise value. We’re looking for a senior Data Scientist to own the analytical strategy for enterprise knowledge-worker adoption. As ChatGPT Work and Codex become capable of research, analysis, document creation, spreadsheets, presentations, internal knowledge synthesis, and other agentic workflows, you will help determine how these products become embedded in everyday work—not merely tried once. About the Role You will define how we measure activation, retained usage, workflow depth, and value across ChatGPT Work, Codex, and connected enterprise systems. You will explain why adoption succeeds or stalls and identify the product, enablement, and commercial interventions most likely to create durable usage. This is a hands-on, zero-to-one role. You will work through imperfect telemetry, overlapping product surfaces, evolving definitions, and ambiguous business questions. You will partner closely with GTM, Product, Finance, Research, Customer Deployment, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. Your work is successful when it changes a product, GTM, or investment decision. In This Role, You Will Define a trusted measurement framework for knowledge-worker adoption, including identity, eligible populations, activation, retained usage, penetration, workflow depth, feature adoption, and monetization. Map the knowledge-worker journey from initial exposure through first successful task, repeated workflows, multi-surface usage, and durable adoption. Identify which personas, functions, use cases, product capabilities, and account conditions are associated with deep and retained usage. Design and evaluate experiments and quasi-experiments across onboarding, enablement, wo

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📍 Texas, United States of America, United States
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Distinguished Technologist - Principal Architect, Platform Security and Firmware Systems Description - HP is seeking a senior technical leader to serve as a lead architect for hardware rooted Platform Root of Trust for HP's commercial PC platform. In this role, you will be responsible for envisioning, defining, and driving the architecture of hardware, firmware, software, and cloud-integrated security capabilities that protect HP commercial PCs from current and emerging threats. You will also work across the hardware and security architecture teams, collaborate with HP's Security Research Labs, Firmware (BIOS) team, our security business that creates and deploys industry leading enterprise security and manageability solutions, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, customer enablement, and field organizations to create cohesive system solutions that deliver unique customer value. This position requires deep expertise in embedded systems, platform firmware, hardware, security, device manageability, and PC system architecture. The role also requires the ability to translate complex technical capabilities into customer-relevant value propositions and to influence internal and external stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority. Responsibilities Serve as principal architect for HP Endpoint Security Controller roadmap, associated hardware and firmware based capabilities, cryptographic identity, attestation, secure communication, event logging, and future controller generations. Define and evolve HP Sure Start architecture and related firmware resilience capabilities, including hardware-enforced firmware authenticity, recovery, update, and protection mechanisms. Drive secure BIOS and firmware configuration management strategies, including HP Sure Admin ecosystem capabilities, key management, zero-touch provision

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📍 United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community The Senior Compliance Professional ensures compliance with governmental requirements. The Senior Compliance Professional work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Regulatory Compliance – State Enterprise Intake and Implementation – Senior Compliance Professional The Senior Compliance Professional implements new statues, regulations, rules and other regulatory guidance issued by state and federal regulators across the enterprise. Coordinates business partner engagement and implementation of rules. Researches compliance issues and recommends changes that ensure compliance with regulatory obligations. Provides compliance guidance and direction to business partners. Monitors metrics and other oversight tools that track implementation activity. Recommends new measures of compliance performance. Begins to influence department's strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding implementation components. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments. The Senior Compliance Professional's primary focus will be to implement new federal and state rules, including PBM, across the enterprise. Key responsibilities may include: Serve as the subject matter expert and point-of-contact for individual state and federal implementations, leading implementation activity from onset to conclusion. Research, understand, and apply laws, regulations, and regulatory guidance for federal and state compliance issues. Analyze business requirements and complex issues, conduct research, and provide regulatory guidance to business partners, Law, Risk, and Compliance associate and leaders with regard to federal

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📍 Iowa, United States· Remote
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$176.6K – $294.3K/yr

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Role Summary The Director, State Policy & Government Relations, reports to the State Policy Team lead and is responsible for leading a defined portfolio of state policy priorities and government relations responsibilities in Iowa, Minnesota, and any other states identified by SPGR leadership. The state policy responsibilities include developing and supporting implementation of coordinated national policy positions and strategies that align with business and enterprise-wide objectives; act as a single point of accountability and enterprise-wide subject matter expert (SME) for a portfolio of state policy issues; responsible for developing policy platforms on priority policy issues, including collateral for external facing colleagues such as policy principles, legislative language, backgrounders, talking points, research summaries, comments letters, and testimony; responsible for analyzing, forecasting, and communicating the short- and long-term implications of changes in the state legislative and regulatory landscape to internal stakeholders, including business units, enabling functions, and senior leaders; develop and implement strategies to generate new policy evidence through contracted resources, including consulting firms and academics, to support Pfizer’s priority policy issues; participate in key trade association work groups; and represent Pfizer externally with multi-stakeholder policy coalitions, in forums related to key policy issues, and at legislative hearings. The government relations responsibilities include developing strategies to favorably influence the policy environment in Iowa, Minnesota, and any other states identified by SPGR leadership; collaborating and coordinating with colleagues in U.S. Policy and Government Relations, including Policy, Alliance Development, Public Affairs, Federal Policy and Government Relations, and BU Policy and Public Affairs, as well as with the broader Corporate Affairs org

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📍 Santa Clara, United States
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NVIDIA's DGX Cloud (DGXC) powers AI for strategic research and product workloads. The company seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead complex, cross-functional programs powering NVIDIA’s next-generation AI software platforms. In this role, you will drive software initiatives across platform services, cloud infrastructure, and system integration. The focus is on enabling scalable, reliable, and supportable software for AI workloads. You will be responsible for managing high-impact engineering programs within a dynamic, fast-paced roadmap, aligning priorities across teams, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery. This role requires strong technical competence, a proactive approach, and the ability to operate effectively across multiple levels of the organization. This is a software-first TPM role. The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing software initiatives. They also understand the full-stack environment, including infrastructure dependencies, system bring-up, integration readiness, and operational needs to support software across stack layers. What You'll Be Doing: Lead end-to-end execution of software platform initiatives, including planning, execution, delivery, and operationalization. Work together with software, infrastructure, product, and operations teams to ensure alignment on goals, deliverables, achievements, and schedules. Lead cross-functional initiatives encompassing cloud-native services, platform software, system integration, and release delivery. Help connect software roadmap execution to full-stack readiness, including dependencies across infrastructure, bring-up, validation, and downstream operational support. Identify cross-functional dependencies, mitigate risks, and drive resolution of complex technical and programmatic issues. Establish clear success metrics and reporting mechanis

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📍 New York, California, United States· Full-time
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From $220K/yr

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About the role: Datadog is building a product-led Competitive Intelligence function to help inform product strategy, roadmap prioritization, positioning, and competitive readiness. As the Head of Competitive Intelligence you will build and lead the CompIntel function across priority competitors and adjacent market opportunities. You will translate competitor product evolution, technical capabilities, launches, pricing value, customer sentiment, analyst narratives, and ecosystem shifts into actionable insights for Product, GTM, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Advocacy, and leadership. In this highly technical, hands-on leadership role, you should understand how observability products are implemented, where workflows differ, what technical claims are credible, and how product gaps translate into customer impact. What You'll Do: Own the recurring competitive radar for Datadog’s priority competitor set, including taxonomy, source standards, evidence quality, and update cadence. Produce competitive deep dives, feature-gap analyses, early-warning briefs, and opportunity assessments tied to specific product domains and leadership questions. Translate CompIntel findings into roadmap recommendations, product differentiation hypotheses, and Product-facing decision guidance. Build and maintain a central CompIntel repository with competitor profiles, source notes, comparison frameworks, evidence logs, and decision-ready briefs. Convert validated findings into GTM-ready handoffs for battlecards, objection handling, strategic deal narratives, and field enablement. Synthesize signals from Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, field teams, technical communities, Advocacy programs, win/loss, customer feedback, analyst research, public competitor materials, and CABs. Partner with Product Management to frame competitive questions, identify decision criteria, and connect findings to roadmap and prioritization discussions. Partner with Tec

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📍 New York City, NY, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -99.2%

From $10K/yr

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About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role Ramp is in a critical phase of growth. This role is responsible for helping lead our domestic marketing media capital allocation engine, and launching it internationally. You’ll own channels like Linear TV, YouTube, and Out-of-Home, and work alongside an experienced marketing team with the creative, analytical, and technical resources to deliver on ambitious growth goals. This is a key role in which you’ll be uniquely positioned to shape Ramp’s global growth by scaling some of the company’s fastest growing marketing media channels. What You'll Do Develop the qualitative research and strategic frameworks that govern how we allocate brand marketing budget across channels and markets. Own marketing media channels end-to-end, from investment strategy and budget pacing to audience targeting and measurement. Design measurement approaches that quantify the effectiveness of every strategy, placement, and buy. Work with a world-class brand marketing team to identify, pressure-test and execute on campaign themes and creative concepts that reson

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world’s most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization—working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI’s talent. About the Role We are looking for a highly strategic recruiter to work closely with the Head of Research Recruiting on a small set of unusually important, high-touch searches and candidate relationships. This role will focus on exceptional talent who does not move through a standard recruiting process: highly visible researchers, technical leaders, operators, and other special-interest candidates where timing, discretion, market intelligence, and tailored engagement matter as much as process execution. This is not a conventional req-based recruiting role. You will help identify where the market is moving, develop intelligence on top talent and competitor activity, translate that intelligence into action, and orchestrate bespoke recruiting strategies for candidates who require a more nuanced path into OpenAI. You should be able to translate these signals and states into clear, actionable advice for leaders and then make it happen. In this role, you will: Partner directly with the Head of Research Recruiting and research leadership team to define priority talent targets and shape bespoke engagement strategies. Build and maintain deep market intelligence across frontier AI, research, engineering, and adjacent talent ecosystems, including competitor movement, candidate motivations, and relationship context. Proactively identify, map, and cultivate exceptional high-profile talent before there is a formal or standard hiring process attached. Translate weak signa

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you. How we work High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy. Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you. AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations. Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models. Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location. What we offer Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you. How we work High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy. Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you. AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations. Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models. Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location. What we offer Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a

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