Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Director, Strategic Partnership Sales, Media Solutions Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Job Description Summary We are looking for a professional, thought-leader and hustler to help Mastercard reach more customers through strategic partners focusing on our targeting, measurement, and location insights solutions in the NAM region. The ideal candidate is someone who understands the media and advertising industry very well and knows how to put together smart partnerships around activation, measurement, and analytics solutions. This position is a quota-carrying, revenue-producing role that is responsible for developing and managing channel and alliance partner relationships within the NAM region. The role is responsible for executing our strategy with regional nuances for the entire partner lifecycle; new partner recruitment, partner onboarding,
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Job Requisition ID # 26WD100708 Director, Expansion & Strategic Accounts D&M We are seeking a strategic Director Expansion & Strategic Accounts to lead a regional sales organization focused on the Design and Manufacturing industry. This leader will drive revenue growth, develop high-performing teams, strengthen customer and partner relationships, and execute sales strategies aligned with Autodesk’s business objectives. What You’ll Do Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing sales team focused on revenue growth and customer expansion. Develop and execute territory and industry sales strategies aligned to Autodesk priorities. Drive quota attainment through pipeline discipline, forecasting, deal inspection, and accountability. Build strong customer, partner, and internal relationships to identify growth opportunities and deliver outcomes. Partner across sales, technical sales, customer success, partner management, marketing, finance, and product teams to improve execution. Create a culture of ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement. What You Bring Experience leading sales teams in enterprise software, SaaS, technology, or a related B2B environment. Track record of achieving revenue targets and building predictable sales performance. Strong understanding of territory planning, pipeline generation, forecasting, account planning, and customer expansion. Experience with direct and indirect sales channels, including partner ecosystems. Ability to lead through influence across matrixed teams and senior stakeho
Job Title Sales, Strategic Accounts Director - Image Guided Therapy Systems (Southeast/Mid-Atlantic) Job Description The Director of IGT Strategic Accounts will work with 2 IGTS Districts and be responsible for order and revenue growth at a targeted set of named accounts. Your primary responsibilities will be to act strategically and grow Philips Marketshare by focusing on: executing fleet replacement plans of Philips Install Base accelerating competitive replacements at accounts where Philips is not installed (red accounts). In this role, you will work closely with the Philips IGT Sales and Marketing teams, you will build deep customer relationships at multiple touchpoints throughout your assigned health systems, all while developing and deploying strategies to solve interesting hospital challenges to help IGT continue to win. Your role Deliver agreed-upon growth in targeted accounts, and contribute to the overall sales results of the covered districts. Actively manage, monitor and continually improve the team’s overall sales process to ensure a successful productivity ramp in order to exceed revenue and commercial goals. Analyze and quantify equipment replacement potential at targeted accounts, assess regional market conditions, and use this to create and execute strategies to help grow Philips share Partner with CADs and ECEs to relentlessly assess and build out IDN and GPO sales strategies that help the district grow Philips IB or replace competitive IB Track and analyze customer performance to identify positive or negative trends, all while looking for opportunities to find mutually beneficial areas for growth. Able to quickly digest data, identify trends, and turn them into proactive strategies Ability to both work with and lead the IGT field sales teams in a matrix environ
Why Box needs you Box is looking for a strategic events leader who can define how we show up in the market and ensure our event investments drive measurable business impact. This role is critical as we sharpen our strategy across marquee events, sponsored industry moments, and the broader event portfolio, bringing greater clarity to where we invest, why we invest, and how those programs support pipeline and brand goals. We need someone who can operate as a true strategic partner to executive leadership, bring cohesion across teams, and elevate how Box presents itself through memorable, high-impact experiences. This person will create stronger alignment between strategic events and field priorities and build the framework that guides our event strategy going forward. Your impact at Box Own and evolve Box’s strategic events vision, including marquee moments such as BoxWorks, Dreamforce, Google Next, and other high-impact national and sponsored events. Develop a clear event strategy that connects Box-led and third-party events to business objectives, audience engagement, pipeline targets, and brand goals. Evaluate the right mix of events for Box to sponsor, host, and scale, ensuring investments are aligned to measurable return and long-term impact. Partner closely with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams including Field Marketing, Partner Marketing, Product Marketing, Brand, PR, Content, and Sales to align priorities and execution. Lead the strategic planning behind large-scale customer experiences while guiding teams and agency partners responsible for production, logistics, and execution. Build and refine a repeatable playbook and operating framework for how Box approaches events, ensuring consistency in brand presence and decision-making across programs. Define strategic team structure, priorities, and operating models across strategic events and adjacent functions to support Box's long-term vision, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and ownership
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a Senior Data Analyst on the Finance team, you’ll play a pivotal role in uncovering the insights that shape company-wide planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making. This high-impact role blends analytical rigor, technical fluency, and business acumen to steer strategy and identify opportunities for scalable growth. The Finance Data team partners with both Finance and other teams across Vanta. You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to build trust and deliver data-driven recommendations; your work will influence everything from operating plans and investment decisions to self-serve reporting and process automation. This is a unique opportunity to deepen your analytics expertise in a dynamic, high-growth environment, with visibility into executive-level priorities and the ability to shape them with data. What you’ll do as a Senior Data Analyst at Vanta: Deliver strategic insights by conducting deep, prioritized analyses that inform high-impact financial decisions. Act as a technical partner to teams across FP&A, Accounting, RevOps, Product, Marketing, and more. Increase team efficiency by automating recurring deliverables and helping scale workflows as the company grows. Empower decision-makers with self-service dashboards and data assets that surface trends and drive informed choices across the business. Advance our analytics infrastructure by partnering with Data Engineering and other analytics teams to democratize access to high quality data and insights. How to be successful in this role: Experience: 4+ years of experience in data analysis or equivalent function. Exposure to FP&A, Accounting, or SaaS
About the role OpenAI is building a world-class global mobility and immigration program—agile, compliant, technology-enabled, and designed to help exceptional people work where they can have the greatest impact. In this role, you will lead high-impact strategic initiatives, including U.S. permanent residence strategy, M&A, organizational change, and global expansion. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a builder who can translate legal and operational complexity into clear, practical solutions. Reporting to the Head of Global Mobility & Immigration, you will partner with the broader team and lead through expertise and influence across Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, business teams, and external counsel to turn emerging business needs into scalable programs, policies, and durable controls. What you'll do Set the roadmap, principles, governance, and operating model for priority global mobility and immigration initiatives. Lead the U.S. permanent residence strategy, including PERM planning, controls, communications, compliance and continuous improvement. Own immigration and mobility workstreams for M&A, divestitures, restructurings, entity changes, and new-market entry—from diligence through integration. Lead global expansion strategy, ensuring work authorization, business travel, and compliance in rapidly growing international jurisdictions. Build reusable playbooks, decision frameworks, risk assessments, and change-management plans. Partner with Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, and business leaders to identify implications early and drive sound decisions. Establish dashboards and program-health measures covering compliance, cycle time, quality, cost, vendor performance, and employee experience. Manage external counsel and vendor partners through clear service levels, quality standards, budgets, and outcomes. Use systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve case handling, documentati
About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. The Opportunity Flexport is investing heavily in the next generation of fulfillment—and we’re looking for a Staff Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives who wants to be at the center of that transformation. This is not a traditional program management role. You will be the architect and hands-on builder of tomorrow’s Flexport Fulfillment network: deploying automation, designing processes, building decision tools, and creating the operational standards that define how we scale. You will own initiatives from whiteboard to go-live—and you will own the business case and ROI that justifies every dollar we invest. That means getting into the weeds on automation system design (ASRS, robotics, goods-to-person), building the financial models to size the opportunity, driving implementation on the floor, and tracking realized returns post-launch. You are accountable for the full lifecycle. You’ll sit at the intersection of operations, product, engineering, and technology—working across all functions to identify gaps, design solutions, and bring them to life. We want someone who thrives in ambiguity, loves solving highly technical problems, and isn’t afraid to get hands-on—whe
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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 Technical Consulting is Ramp's post-sales technical delivery team. When a finance org needs Ramp to work the way their business actually runs, this is the team that takes customers through that transformation, from complex accounting issues to integration errors to everything in between. The Senior Manager, Technical Consulting, Strategic leads the team responsible for Ramp's largest and most strategic accounts . You'll own post-sales technical implementation for this segment end to end — from technical discovery and solution design through go-live, adoption, and expansion — working shoulder-to-shoulder with our Customer Activation team , with whom you'll co-own activation milestones and time-to-value . Strategic customers arrive with multi-entity structures, legacy ERPs, in-flight finance transformations, procurement and treasury requirements, and executive sponsors who expect a named technical leader in the room. Your team is the last line of technical escalation for these accounts — there is no tier above you. This role suits an ex
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . The Team Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you will help cultivate a thriving content ecosystem, managing digital communities of Pinterest content p
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Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for: Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go. Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them. A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level. Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience. A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates. Job Summary: The Director of Strategic Finance - GTM is the embedded finance partner to Drata’s GTM org, working directly with the CRO, CMO, SVP of CS, and SVP of BD. This role owns ARR forecasting, capacity planning, investment allocation and ROI. You will partner with the VP of RevOps and be a trusted advisor in the room with GTM leadership, not a downstream reporting function and significant
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As Vanta's Customer Success Manager, Strategic, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Vanta's largest and most complex customers—organizations with 10,000+ employees navigating sophisticated security and compliance landscapes. Unlike traditional CSM roles managing 20-30 accounts, you'll own a focused book of 5-10 strategic accounts, driving deep customer relationships, multi-quarter projects, and high-impact business outcomes. The Strategic CS team plays a defining role in proving Vanta can serve the enterprise at scale. You'll partner closely with Strategic Account Executives and Account Managers to execute land and expand strategies, manage complex implementations, and guide executive stakeholders through their GRC program maturity journeys. Your work will directly influence Vanta's upmarket growth, product roadmap, and strategic positioning in the market. What you’ll do as a Customer Success Manager, Strategic at Vanta: Serve as the primary trusted advisor for 5-10 of Vanta's most strategic customers, each with 10,000+ employees and highly complex organizational structures Lead enterprise-scale implementations, configurations, and optimizations of Vanta's Trust Management Platform across multi-business-unit, multi-geography organizations Build and maintain deep, multi-threaded executive relationships with CISOs, CIOs, Chief Compliance Officers, and other C-level stakeholders Partner closely with Strategic Account Executives and Account Managers to identify expansion opportunities, develop account growth strategies, and execute on land and expand motions Manage complex, multi-quarter projects that require coordination across
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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 Technical Consultants are on the frontlines working to establish partnerships with Ramp customers, and act as a liaison between customers and our internal technical teams. You'll be partnering with Customer Activation & Account Management teams to identify, prioritize and build financial solutions for new and existing customers so that Ramp continues to scale with their needs. You will act as the technical and financial subject matter expert for our customers and design solutions that address the customer's needs through Ramp and partner integrations. You will partner with Post-Sales teams to drive Product, Design and Engineering teams' roadmaps to evolve Ramp to better serve our customers at scale and offer increasingly higher value. You will define the customer's financial & technical success criteria from onboarding through activation and expansion. You will represent Product, Design, and Engineering externally and will operate with deep conviction and understanding of Ramp's technical capabilities. The role requires techni
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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's Strategic Finance team sits at the center of how the company allocates its time and resources. We're hiring across three complementary tracks — and looking for people with sharp financial instincts, a builder's mindset, and the drive to take on a large scope quickly. Whether you lean toward GTM strategy, FP&A infrastructure, or broad strategic partnership, this is a rare opportunity to shape a pre-IPO company at a pivotal moment in its growth. What You'll Do Build and own detailed financial and operational models with the highest quality and accuracy Use data to influence key strategic decisions across Product, GTM, and business leadership Lead planning analyses for cross-functional teams, evaluating tradeoffs across growth, efficiency, and resourcing Identify and develop KPIs; build dashboards to monitor performance and communicate insights to stakeholders Partner closely with business leaders to translate strategy into execution and drive accountability Help run bi-annual budgeting and headcount planning cycles Manage com
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