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, Risk Management Overview: The Core Payments Strategy & Execution team tackles critical strategic opportunities and challenges across Mastercard’s most foundational business. This role is suited for a senior risk leader with a passion for payments, innovation, and operating at enterprise scale. Mastercard powers an inclusive, digital economy that makes transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible for everyone, everywhere. Through secure data, trusted networks, and strong partnerships, we help individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and governments realize their greatest potential. Our Decency Quotient (DQ) shapes how we operate—guiding a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and integrity that enables better decisions, stronger innovation, and better outcomes. Role Description: The Director, Risk Management – Core Payments is a senior risk leader responsible for supporting the design, execution, and continuously strengthening the risk management framework supporting Mastercard’s Core Payments business. This role partners closely with business leadership and the second and third lines of defense to anticipate, mitigate, and remediate risk while enabling responsible growth. This position requires deep expertise in enterprise risk management, regulatory environments, and operational r
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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 Data Scientist What is the opportunity? We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to join our Cyber Analytics team within the Security Solutions Data Science organization. This role is critical to driving advanced analytics initiatives, improving fraud detection capabilities, and supporting strategic decision-making across cybersecurity and payment fraud domains. What will you do? • Gain subject matter knowledge on web application security, commonly exploited cyber vulnerabilities, and methods of online and payment card fraud including the common points of purchase for compromised cards. • Build, develop, and maintain innovative data-driven analytical solutions, including predictive models and machine learning algorithms, on large volumes of data to support analytics and reporting needs across products, markets, and services. • Competently handle large datasets, sifting for patterns and trends and translating those insights into technical rules and solutions. • Combine cybersecurity and transaction data into new and insightful views of fraud and vulnerability across the Mastercard network. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and operations to understand product, usage, and data pipelines as well as delivering scalable solutions. • T
At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. With Lyft Business, sales isn't a script you follow. It's a problem you solve in real time. As Business Associate for Lyft Business, you'll drive growth and expansion within your existing book of business in a market where transportation touches nearly every part of daily life. Success here isn't just about closing deals; it's about the judgment to identify where your time has the biggest return, and the strategic thinking to advise each client like a trusted partner as you grow their business with us. This job rewards people who think critically about where to focus their energy. Priorities will evolve, systems are still maturing, and you won't always have a playbook for every situation, but you'll have the experience and confidence to navigate ambiguity and make an impact as we figure it out. The people who thrive here are the ones who are resourceful, hard to rattle, and genuinely motivated by finding the right product fit for a client, especially when a conversation gets complex or unexpected. You'll focus on expanding and deepening relationships with small and mid-sized businesses, becoming a Lyft product expert who can efficiently resolve common support issues and guide clients through solutions that fit their needs. In this hybrid role, you will balance inbound and outbound outreach, but with a sharper eye toward prioritization: identifying key decision makers and influencers within your top accounts, and focusing your energy where it will drive the most growth. You're the hunter and the farmer, now with the experience to know which fields are worth tending. You'll be part of a driven, tight-knit sales team that's laser-focused on winning and growing business. We're looking for people who know how to apply critical thinking and strong judgment around ROI, work well with cross-functional partne
MongoDB is hiring a Senior Manager, Corporate Development & Ventures to help drive our inorganic growth strategy — partnering closely with our Sr. Director of Corporate Development & Ventures on M&A and strategic investment activity. This role is for someone who wants to own M&A execution end-to-end. You'll independently source, evaluate, and run a steady pipeline of deals, partnering with the Sr. Director and VP on our highest-stakes transactions. Once a deal signs an LOI, you become the day-to-day driver — the person Finance, Legal, HR, and the business count on to get it through close and integration. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, People, and other business stakeholders to help shape decisions about MongoDB's position in data infrastructure and AI. The role sits primarily in Corporate Development, with regular exposure to our Ventures platform. What you’ll bring Has 4–8 years of experience in Corporate Development, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Venture Capital Has meaningful experience running deal workstreams and is ready to own transactions end-to-end with real autonomy Is comfortable operating independently, while knowing when to bring in the Sr. Director, VP, or other senior leaders Demonstrates strong judgment, particularly under time pressure and incomplete information Holds a high bar for analytical rigor, but knows when to move without perfect data Can engage credibly with technical leaders while maintaining a clear business perspective Is direct, low-ego, and accountable — focused on outcomes, not process What you will do Own Deals, End-to-End Independently source, evaluate, and run your own pipeline of M&A and investment opportunities, from initial engagement through LOI Build and pressure-test valuation, structure, and strategic rationale, partnering with the Sr. Director and VP on the most complex or highest-stakes calls Know when to move on your own judgment and when to escalate Be the Function's
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is seeking an accomplished Principal level Data Engineering Solutions Specialist (Openflow and Iceberg/Polaris) to drive sales execution for our ingestion workloads. This is a strategic role that works closely with the broader field organization to ensure the successful customer adoption of Snowflake’s Data Engineering and Data Lake capabilities. Responsibilities: Achieve pipeline generation and revenue targets for allocated accounts and/or territory on a quarterly and annual basis by developing a sales strategy in the allocated territory with a target account list Execute tailored sales plays to capture market opportunities in Data Engineering, helping customers optimize their use of Snowflake's platform. Work directly with customers to understand their Data Engineering needs, communicating insights to inform Snowflake’s product roadmap and ensuring alignment with customer requirements. Become an expert in Snowflake’s Data Engineering and Data Lakehouse capabilities and provide executive-level insights to customers and partners, guiding strategic discussions that emphasize the value of Snowflake’s Data Engineering capabilities. Work with our Account Executives, Sales Engineers, Leadership and Field CTOs to drive customer engagements from discovery and qualificati
About the Team The Enterprise Marketing team helps the world’s largest organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI responsibly. We partner closely with Sales, Solutions, Product Marketing, Customer Success, Events, and executive leadership to create programs that accelerate strategic customer growth and strengthen OpenAI’s position as the leader in enterprise AI. Within Enterprise Marketing, the Field Marketing team is responsible for translating business priorities into high-impact customer engagement motions across industries, regions, and strategic accounts. We build and run programs that create pipeline, accelerate opportunities, deepen executive relationships, and bring OpenAI’s latest innovations directly to enterprise decision-makers. About the Role As an Enterprise Field Marketer, you will be a growth partner to Enterprise Sales, owning field marketing programs that create pipeline, accelerate strategic opportunities, and deepen relationships with priority enterprise accounts. Your focus will attach to the business’s most important needs at any given time, whether that means an industry motion, a regional priority, a strategic account, an executive engagement, or a new company-wide growth opportunity. You will own the full program lifecycle: translating sales priorities into field plans, identifying the right accounts and moments, executing high-quality customer programs, driving follow-up with sellers, and measuring business impact. This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from territory strategy to tactical execution quickly, with strong commercial judgment and high accountability for outcomes. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York City. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance. Travel is expected for customer events, executive programs, industry conferences, and internal planning moments. In this role, you will: Build and execute field marketing plans aligned to priority seller gro
About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. Within Premium Support, Dedicated Support Engineers combine deep technical troubleshooting with an enduring understanding of our most strategic customers’ architectures, critical workloads, and business priorities. Through proactive reliability work, ownership during incidents, and AI-powered support capabilities, we help customers operate successfully as their use of OpenAI grows. About the Role We’re looking for a senior leader to build and scale our Dedicated Support Engineering function globally. You will define its strategy, build the team, and establish how we deliver technically rigorous, proactive support for customers running some of the most complex and consequential workloads on OpenAI. This role combines organizational leadership, technical judgment, and executive customer engagement. You will establish a model in which DSEs develop deep customer context, independently advance difficult investigations, anticipate operational risks, and drive issues through resolution. You will also turn what the team learns into improvements that benefit customers across OpenAI. You should bring experience building technical organizations that maintain long-term accountability for enterprise customers. Leadership in Technical Account Management, enterprise Support Engineering, or a comparable technical customer function is particularly rel
From $146K/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 looking for a technically fluent Senior Product Marketing Manager to own product marketing for Logs, one of the most strategic parts of our observability. In this role you will define how the market understands New Relic Logs, from positioning and messaging through launches, enablement, and competitive differentiation and you will be the person marketing, Product, and the field turn to when the conversation turns to log management, log analytics, and telemetry cost. This is a role for a product marketer who is equally comfortable going deep with engineers on ingest pipelines, parsing rules, OpenTelemetry, and query performance as standing in front of a customer or a sales kickoff audience explaining why it matters. Logs are where observability meets cost, scale, and AI, and the buyer is increasingly forced to choose between keeping all their data and keeping their budget. If you want to own that narrative in a fast-moving category and see your messaging show up directly in pipeline and adoption, we want to hear from you. What you'll do Responsible for Logs positioning and messaging: define and maintain the core positioning, messaging, and narrative for New Relic Logs across buyer personas and ensure it is applied consistently across web, campaigns, sales conversations, and analyst interactions. Lead Logs launches: Own end-to-end Logs launches, including tiering, messaging, content, enablement, and launch metrics, partnering with Product Management
$113.7K – $144.8K/yr
Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Support post-sales engagements focused on the optimization, retention, and growth of Stripe’s enterprise customers. Manage a book of customers to drive overall account health, including performance, product adoption, usage velocity, account renewals and growth, referrals, and customer satisfaction. Serve as a trusted payments and product advisor to manage customers by delivering payment performance and industry insights. Perform business reviews to align on user priorities, review payments performance metrics, share company product roadmap and provide guidance on how to optimize the value from the company. Advocate for the customer to internal stakeholders. Share customer feedback and insights to Product Management, Engineering, Support, Marketing, and Sales on the innovation and improvement needed to optimize the company user experience. In coordination with an account team, support book expansion, identify and surface opportunities to ensure customers are successful. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Management, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in enterprise customer success or strategic account management. Must also have four (4) years of experience in each of the following: Supporting expansion of complex accounts, including identifying opportunities, driving business outcomes
About OfficeSpace: OfficeSpace Software provides the leading AI operating system for the built world, that helps teams plan, connect, and perform in the workplace. As a performance-based, PE-backed company, we hire based on merit and a willingness to do what it takes to succeed long-term. You’re a great fit for the role if you’re entrepreneurial, passionate, motivated by building at light speed, and an Agentic AI early adopter. Our world-class teams operate in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica in a culture of trust, respect, growth, and impact. About the role As an Enterprise Client Success Manager, you own the success of our most strategic customers. You build executive partnerships, drive long-term business outcomes, and help global organizations maximize the value of OfficeSpace. You combine strategic thinking with operational excellence. You leverage AI to surface insights, predict risk, and scale your impact—while building trusted relationships that keep people at the center of every customer experience. This version aligns with the OfficeSpace "High-Performance Innovator" voice by emphasizing active language, ownership, short paragraphs, and high information density. What you'll do Own the success, retention, renewal, and growth of a portfolio of enterprise customers with complex organizational structures and executive stakeholders. Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors and business leaders, serving as a strategic advisor throughout the customer lifecycle. Lead enterprise onboarding, adoption, and value realization strategies that accelerate measurable business outcomes. Develop and execute strategic Success Plans aligned to customer objectives, adoption milestones, and long-term business goals. Leverage AI-powered Customer Success platforms to monitor customer health, predict churn risk, recommend next-best actions, and uncover expansion opportunities. Lead executive Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that connect product adoption to me
Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy. Job Purpose The Director, Marketing Communications owns how Hyliion is understood by customers, investors, media, employees, and partners. This role sets the strategic direction for corporate and executive communications, public relations, brand management, and marketing communications, and is accountable for translating company strategy, technical progress, and business milestones into clear and credible narratives across all channels. The position leads and develops a team and function that scale with Hyliion’s growth, partners with the leadership team on high-stakes communications. This position operates as both a strategic owner and a hands-on contributor, flexing between communications strategy, team leadership, and direct production based on business needs. AI at Hyliion At Hyliion, AI is core to how we work. We equip every team member with leading AI tools and count on you to use them — to move faster, solve harder problems, and help us realize the full potential of KARNO technology for the world. Duties and Responsibilities Communications Strategy and Brand Management Sets the vision for and lead execution of Hyliion's corporate and marketing communications strategy in alignment with commercial priorities, corporate objectives, and key milestones. Define and own the narrative for Hyliion and the KARNO technology across customers, investors, media, employees, and partners. Establish, own and enforce brand guidelines, including visual identity, messaging, terminology, tone of voice, photography, renderings, and technical language. Lead and develop a high-performing communications and marketing team. Own crisis and issues communica
Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy. Job Purpose The Senior Strategy & Supply Chain Associate is responsible for proactively assisting in the development of sourcing strategies that are aligned with business and program needs and then driving execution of those strategies while ensuring quality, delivery, and cost targets are exceeding expectations. Duties and Responsibilities Strategic Problem-Solving: Apply a structured, hypothesis-driven approach to diagnose complex supply chain challenges, identify root causes, and develop data-backed solutions. Data Analysis and Modeling: Conduct quantitative analysis using large datasets from our ERP and supply chain data. Develop and maintain analytical models to optimize key supply chain metrics such as inventory levels, lead times, and product economics. Process Optimization and Redesign: Lead high-impact projects to re-engineer core supply chain processes, leveraging best practices to drive significant improvements in efficiency, cost, and resilience. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders in Engineering, Finance, and Operations. Effectively communicate complex analyses and recommendations to senior leadership, fostering alignment and driving execution. Performance Management: Design, implement, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to track supply chain health and project performance. Provide regular, insightful reports to management on progress against strategic objectives. Supplier and Sourcing Strategy: Collaborate with the Procurement team to analyze supplier capabilities, assess market dynamics, and develop commodity and category strategies that align with bot
From $200K/yr
Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. The Head of Revenue Enablement at Appian is responsible for leading and managing a high-performing GTM enablement organization that supports Field Sales across four global theaters (North America Commercial, US Public Sector, EMEA, APJ), Solution Consulting, Partner Channels, and Onboarding. This role will oversee a team of 7-8 direct reports and manage strategic vendor relationships, notably with Seismic. What You’ll Do: Lead & Scale: Manage, coach, and drive accountability across a global team of 7-8 enablement professionals covering Field Enablement, Solution Consulting, Partner Channels, and Onboarding. Architect Strategy: Develop and execute a cohesive, global enablement roadmap aligned with Appian's revenue objectives, ensuring programs are effectively localized across North America, US Public Sector, EMEA, and APJ. Optimize Tech & Process: Own the strategic vendor relationship, contract negotiation, and platform optimization for Seismic , integrating it deeply into daily sales workflows. Drive Deal Rigor: Accelerate sales productivity and increase deal sizes by institutionalizing the MEDDPICC framework and the Ambition Planning methodology globally. Accelerate Time-to-Productivity: Oversee the modernization of onboarding programs for new sellers and solution consultants to dramatically reduce ramp times. Measure Impact: Establish clear, data-driven enablement KPIs, tracking program adoption, sales velocity, and value engineering utilization to present directly to executive leadership. Required Qualifications: Education: Bachelor’s De
From $160K/yr
VTS is looking for a Director of Growth Marketing to be the core driver of our unified GTM motion, working in close partnership with Sales, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations. You've built a growth motion from the ground up before, and you know how to set direction while staying close enough to the work to execute it yourself. You'll own the integrated campaigns and how we bring them to market, translating that into what goes out through our own marketing channels (owned and paid). You'll work closely with sales and revenue operations to make sure the right message, content, and actions show up throughout the entire GTM funnel, moving target accounts from unaware to aware to actively engaged, and measuring what actually matters. Reporting to the VP of Marketing, you'll work alongside a strong marketing team and set the strategic direction for growth while remaining hands-on, using AI and other tools to prototype ideas, test messaging, and explore new channels and activations before scaling them. ** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office 4 days a week. ** What Makes This Job Awesome? You will... Own and build the growth motion, including identifying and launching the right channels and tactics for VTS's key business segments and buyer personas. Build and launch full-funnel campaigns through the growth channels, and partner with the rest of the GTM team on distribution across every touchpoint, so buyers get one unified message. Translate product positioning, market trends, and sales intelligence into campaign concepts that actually move buyers. Create the different types of content and messaging that fuel your campaigns, and know how to brief others clearly when you need to bring someone else in. Own the campaign calendar: prioritize programs based on business impact, pipeline goals, and what's happening in the market. Partner tightly with sales to understand where deals get stuck,
From $125K/yr
Client Success is the front line of VTS’s retention engine. As a Senior CSM, you aren't just managing accounts—you are partnering with executive leaders at the most influential commercial real estate firms on the planet to transform how their businesses operate. With the support of powerful data-driven workflows and advanced VTS AI tools , you will own relationships with our largest, most complex clients. You’ll act as a strategic powerhouse, driving high-level product engagement, pioneering adoption strategies, and ensuring value realization across our entire ecosystem. Simply put, when our Senior CSMs success, the world’s leading CRE giants scale and thrive with us. ** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. ** What you can expect as a Senior Client Success Manager: This isn’t your typical CSM role. At VTS, you’ll join a high-impact, AI-augmented CS team that’s rethinking how modern enterprise client success is executed. You will: Build Elite Partnerships: Establish deep, "trusted advisor" relationships with executive sponsors, asset managers, and senior decision-makers across the country, aligning VTS with their ultimate macroeconomic business goals. Drive Strategic Value Realization: Move far beyond simple onboarding; you will serve as a core change leader, proactively identifying workflow gaps and challenging enterprise clients when necessary to maximize their ROI. Command Retention: Partner hand-in-hand with Sales and senior leadership to lease Executive Business Reviews (EBRs), dictate retention strategies, and identify expansion and upsell opportunities. Collaborate Within a Coordinated Ecosystem: Seamlessly orchestrate cross-functional initiatives alongside Sales, Implementation, Marketing, and Product teams to ensure an elite, unified client experience. Be the Voice of the Customer: Serve as the ultimate internal advocate, channeling critical product feedback
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