About the Role As a Field CTO (Strategic Pursuits) , you will serve as a strategic bridge between our customers, go-to-market (GTM) teams, and product organization. You will partner closely with Sales, Technical Success, and Product to shape high-impact deals, guide customer architecture decisions, and influence our product roadmap based on real-world adoption and feedback. This is a highly cross-functional, externally facing leadership role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and customer empathy. In this role, you will: Customer & Deal Strategy Partner with Sales, Product and Technical Success teams to support complex, high-value deals as a technical and strategic advisor. Translate customer business needs into scalable technical solutions and architectures. Engage with senior customer stakeholders (CTO/CIO/VP-level) to drive alignment on vision, roadmap, and adoption. Lead technical strategy discussions during key deal stages, including discovery, solution design, and executive presentations. Architecture & Implementation Guidance Guide customers on best practices for deploying and scaling AI-driven solutions in production. Provide architectural oversight across use cases such as LLM applications, integrations, data pipelines, and security. Act as a trusted advisor to ensure long-term success, not just short-term wins. Product & Feedback Loop Bring structured customer insights back to Product and Engineering teams to inform roadmap and prioritization. Identify gaps, opportunities, and emerging patterns from customer deployments. Influence product direction based on real-world usage, scalability needs, and enterprise requirements. GTM Strategy & Thought Leadership Help shape GTM strategies by identifying repeatable patterns across industries and customer segments. Develop scalable frameworks, reference architectures, and playbooks for broader field teams. Represent the company externally through customer en
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About the Team OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options. About the Role The Site Selection Lead sets the site-selection strategy for powered-land and greenfield/brownfield opportunities. This role defines, with cross-functional partners, what makes a site attractive, executable, and scalable, then turns that shared rubric into portfolio choices and deployment plans. Key Responsibilities Own the site-selection strategy across priority geographies, including market maps, pipeline segmentation, source refreshes, live-location tracking, and portfolio prioritization. Convene Power, Land, Development, Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Community, Commercial, Legal, and Finance partners to define the shared rubric for a high-quality site. Translate that rubric into clear screening criteria across power readiness, land control, timing, scale, cost, community risk, environmental constraints, AHJ path, budget, schedule, and counterparty credibility. Orchestrate Commercial, Legal, Finance, Power, and Development teams to shape exclusivity, initial terms, site-control strategy, funding assumptions, and the path to deployment before deeper commitment. Build a deployment plan for top candidates that identifies capacity, sequencing, capital implications, critical-path approvals, risks, owners, and stage-gate decisions. Lead conceptual site planning and test-fit screening using boundaries, map layers, buildings, substations, roads, parking, laydown, stormwater, utility corridors, acreage, and estimated load. Maintain a single decision-support view of pipeline stage, site health, power readiness, finance review, maps, project evidence, outstanding source data, owners, deadlines, and escalations. Present executive-ready advance, defer, or stop recommendations with clear
About the Team The Statsig team is responsible for the experimentation, feature rollout, dynamic configuration, and analytics systems that help OpenAI ship products with speed, safety, and evidence. Teams across ChatGPT, Codex, model measurement, monetization, business subscriptions, developer products, and shared infrastructure rely on Statsig to introduce capabilities safely, measure their impact, and make high-confidence product decisions. About the Role As a Product Lead on the Statsig team, you will define how experimentation, rollout, configuration, and analytics become a simple, reliable, and trusted part of how every OpenAI product team ships. You will set strategy across multiple product and platform workstreams, translate company-wide needs into durable capabilities, and help Statsig become a core part of OpenAI’s product development system. We’re looking for a product leader who combines strong product judgment, technical fluency, and deep analytical thinking. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguous customer needs, influencing teams across the company, and balancing rapid adoption with reliability, usability, and measurement quality. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Travel requirements should be confirmed with the recruiter before publishing. In this role, you will: Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for experimentation, feature management, dynamic configuration, rollout safety, and analytics. Partner with product, engineering, research, data, design, and infrastructure leaders to turn recurring launch and measurement needs into reusable platform capabilities. Develop a deep understanding of workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, model measurement, monetization, subscriptions, and developer products, then establish clear priorities across competing needs. Drive adoption by making sophisticated experimentation and analytics c
About the Team Enterprise Marketing helps the world’s largest organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI. Our Executive Engagement programs bring OpenAI’s products, research, and perspective into the room with senior leaders as they consider how intelligence can be put to work against their most important priorities. These engagements are more than briefings or events. At their best, they help a leadership team understand what is changing, distinguish what is possible now from what is still emerging, and leave with greater clarity about what to do next. About the Role We are looking for an Executive Programs Lead, Americas to build and lead the portfolio through which OpenAI engages its most important customers and executives across the region. You will own the regional strategy, team, and quality bar for Executive Briefings and a broader portfolio of C-suite engagements, recurring executive forums, advisory programs, and proven formats ready to scale. Your mandate is to turn high-stakes customer moments into a durable business capability, one that consistently advances important relationships while preserving the judgment and customization that exceptional executive experiences require. This is a senior people-leadership role for a builder who can set direction, make disciplined portfolio choices, and create the systems and team required to deliver at scale. You will partner closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Product, Research, Solutions, Customer Success, Events, and OpenAI executives, moving comfortably between long-term design and the critical details of a live engagement. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid model of three days in the office each week and offer relocation assistance. Given the customer-facing nature of the role, regular in-person participation in executive briefings and related preparation is expected and may require additional time onsite. Travel across the Americas and occasional global travel are also expected. In this
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role can be based in our San Francisco, New York, or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you'll: Manage a portfolio of customer accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan Support your customer accounts from initial engagement to successful deployment, expansion, and through to renewal Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects Own a revenue target Manage revenue forecasts Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and
About the Team OpenAI's Marketing team helps customers understand, adopt, and get value from OpenAI's products and platform. Within Ads Marketing, Partner Marketing is responsible for building the ecosystem that helps advertisers access, activate, measure, and grow on ChatGPT through the partners they already work with. Our team brings that ecosystem to life by meeting advertisers where they already work, while also helping them discover new platforms and capabilities that can strengthen their advertising strategy. We partner with technology, measurement, agency, and other strategic partners to make it easier for advertisers to access ChatGPT Ads, launch and optimize campaigns, measure performance, and grow their investment over time. About the Role ChatGPT Ads is creating a new environment for how people discover products, evaluate options, and make decisions. As advertising in ChatGPT grows, our partner ecosystem will play a critical role in helping advertisers access, measure, and get more value from this new channel. We’re looking for an experienced individual to focus on ads partner marketing to help build and scale the partner marketing function for ChatGPT Ads. In this role, you will develop the strategy, programs, and go-to-market frameworks that activate our ecosystem of technology, measurement, and other strategic partners. You will work closely with partners ranging from global advertising platforms and measurement companies and emerging technology providers. Your goal will be to turn partnerships into meaningful business impact by helping partners bring advertisers onto ChatGPT Ads, accelerate adoption, increase investment, and demonstrate the value of advertising in a conversational environment. This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of partnerships, product marketing, sales, communications, and growth. You will help define how we bring partners to market, where we invest, and how we scale successful programs as the ecosystem grows.
About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. The Technical Accounting team plays a crucial role in helping OpenAI navigate complex, judgmental, and rapidly evolving accounting matters with rigor and clarity. We aim to bring both technical excellence and strong business partnership to some of the most novel accounting questions in the industry. About the Role As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting, Compute Infrastructure, you will lead the evaluation, documentation, and operationalization of complex accounting matters related to OpenAI's compute infrastructure, strategic investments, and other non-routine business activities.. This role sits at the intersection of U.S. GAAP technical accounting, infrastructure strategy, financial reporting, controls, and cross-functional execution. Key areas may include cloud compute arrangements, data center and colocation arrangements, lease accounting under ASC 842, power purchase agreements, strategic investments, consolidation evaluations under ASC 810, financial instruments, and other emerging or non-standard arrangements. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead technical accounting analysis for complex, judgmental, and non-routine transactions under U.S. GAAP. Evaluate accounting implications for compute infrastructure arrangements, including cloud compute, data center, colocation, lease, PPA, infrastructure procurement, and related commercial arrangements. Partner with Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Procurement, Infrastructure, and other cross-functional teams to assess the accounting implications of new products, commercial arrangements, strategic transactions, and business initiatives. Prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, position papers, and other auditor-ready documentation. Translate
About the Team Like every team at OpenAI, the Marketing team contributes to our broader mission of ensuring responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence With that aim in mind, we are responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive awareness, engagement, and usage for OpenAI’s products and platform amongst our core audiences. We take a data-driven approach to understand our customers' needs and challenges, ensuring that their voices are reflected in product development and messaging. We then partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design teams to create a cohesive customer experience across all our channels. Our focus extends beyond just promoting product features; we aim to provide valuable insights and resources that help our users make the most out of AI technologies. About the Role As a Product Marketing Manager for Partner Marketing on the Hardware team, you will help shape the partnership strategy for a new product ecosystem and bring that ecosystem to market with the right partners, programs, and commercial motions. This role calls for a strategic, relationship-oriented marketer who can identify high-potential partners, understand their priorities, and turn shared opportunities into durable, high-impact go-to-market plans. You will work closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Integrated Marketing, Sales, Comms, Finance, Legal, and partner-facing teams to define how first-, second-, and third-party partners participate in our hardware ecosystem. You will lead the marketing and commercial aspects of partnerships, support joint launches, and ensure partner needs are understood internally while OpenAI’s product, brand, and customer experience standards are represented externally. This role reports into the VP of Product Marketing, Hardware, and offers a unique opportunity to build the partner marketing foundation for a new category of AI-powered devices. In this role, you will: Help craft and implement th
From $158.8K/yr
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 . 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 the inspiration to create a life they love. As a member of our Legal team, you'll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. We're looking for an experienced, self-motivated, practical, and creative lawyer to join our small and nimble team. In this role, you'll support product and engineering teams across Pinterest's core consumer experience and/or ads ecosystem—serving as a subject matter expert and influential advisor to senior business and legal leadership alike. You'll drive strategy on cutting-edge legal issues in generative AI, privacy, IP, digital advertising, and beyond. We're al
About the Team We’re hiring Software Engineers to join our broader Infrastructure organization, which supports multiple high-impact teams. Depending on your interests and experience, you could work on one of several focus areas—including Core Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Observability, Developer Productivity or Cloud Infrastructure. About the Role All teams are deeply collaborative, work on mission-critical services, and are responsible for building distributed, scalable infrastructure to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to understand infrastructure, data and compute needs, setting the technical strategy that supports cutting-edge research and product development. This is a critical role for someone who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems at scale, ensuring their performance, scalability and reliability Team Focus Areas Distributed Systems: Owning and building important, highly scalable, available, performant, and reliable distributed systems (and their building blocks) to power the entire stack at OpenAI Systems Engineering: Work across layers of the stack—debugging system bottlenecks, evolving core infrastructure, and solving novel problems in performance and scalability. Reliability Engineering: Build scalable, fault-tolerant systems and lead efforts around service health, incident response, and resilience. Observability: Design and maintain observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) to give teams visibility into production systems at scale. Developer Productivity: Create tools, environments, and workflows that help engineers ship high-quality software faster and more safely. Cloud Infrastructure: Own the cloud-native infrastructure (compute, networking, storage) that underpins all services and research workloads. Databases: Building high performance, distributed database systems that power all of OpenAI's product stack. In this
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. Being an SDR at Vanta is, first and foremost, about hitting targets and driving revenue. But beyond that, it’s about joining a community that is deeply committed to your success and career growth. We believe that the future of our sales organization lies with our SDRs, which is why we place a strong emphasis on enablement and career advancement. You’ll receive the training, support, and mentorship you need to excel, with a clear path to advance within our sales team. This role is hybrid in office in San Francisco or NYC 3 days per week Vanta is in a period of rapid growth, consistently outpacing our targets while maintaining stellar NPS scores. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team. As a Vantan, you’ll be part of a talented group of professionals who are passionate about making an impact. Join us, and you’ll not only help shape the future of internet security but also build a rewarding career in a company that truly values and invests in its people. If this sounds like you, and you're excited to join a growing team, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll do as a Sales Development Representative at Vanta : Raise awareness and generate interest for Vanta through cold calling, emails, and social outreach to prospective customers Manage your own book of accounts and set the strategy for effective book management Develop a deep understanding of Vanta’s value proposition and products to effectively communicate their benefits to prospects. Master the use of tools like Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Outreach, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and 6Sense to identify and prioritize strategic accounts that support our move upmarket. Organize
🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role Writer is the enterprise AI platform for agentic work, purpose-built for the Fortune 500 — and our platform is expanding fast. As a product marketing lead, you'll own the go-to-market strategy for new products and features in our Core app, helping prospects understand how WRITER empowers marketing and sales teams to transform their work, and driving new feature adoption among current customers. You'll sit at the intersection of product, sales, and marketing — translating complex platform capabilities into crisp messaging that resonates with enterprise buyers. 🦸🏻♀️ What you’ll do Own end-to-end product marketing for WRITER Agent and other key features of our core app, including positioning, messaging, launch strategy, and competitive differentiation – translating new agentic capabilities into clear enterprise value Partner with product, demand generation, content, comms, and customer marketing teams to drive go-to-market for product and feature launches Trans
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. Being an SDR at Vanta is, first and foremost, about hitting targets and driving revenue. But beyond that, it’s about joining a community that is deeply committed to your success and career growth. We believe that the future of our sales organization lies with our SDRs, which is why we place a strong emphasis on enablement and career advancement. You’ll receive the training, support, and mentorship you need to excel, with a clear path to advance within our sales team. This role is hybrid in office in San Francisco 3 days per week. Vanta is in a period of rapid growth, consistently outpacing our targets while maintaining stellar NPS scores. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team. As a Vantan, you’ll be part of a talented group of professionals who are passionate about making an impact. Join us, and you’ll not only help shape the future of internet security but also build a rewarding career in a company that truly values and invests in its people. If this sounds like you, and you're excited to join a growing team, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll do as a Inbound Sales Development Representative at Vanta : Raise awareness and generate interest for Vanta through cold calling, emails, and social outreach to prospective customers Manage your own book of accounts and set the strategy for effective book management Develop a deep understanding of Vanta’s value proposition and products to effectively communicate their benefits to prospects. Master the use of tools like Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Outreach, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and 6Sense to identify and prioritize strategic accounts that support our move upmarket. Organiz
From $154K/yr
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can Belong Anywhere. As we work to achieve that mission, we’re building world-class learning experiences for our technical teams. We’re looking for an exceptional and creative individual inspired to deliver innovative learning experiences that have tremendous organizational impact. The Difference You Will Make: The Staff Program Manager, Technical Education will play a key role in executing various technical learning programs including our Engineering Education programs that currently focus on AI Education, and other engineering and data education programming. Our focus is on impact and experimentation, creating world-class programs that enable technical excellence. We’re employing best practices from learning science and using measurement to iterate on learning experiences. The ideal candidate is confident in their ability to develop scalable learning experiences that drive overall growth and development for our technical audience. We are looking for someone who has the ability to synthesize a range of concepts into unified experiences, stay up to date in a rapidly shifting technical ecosystem, establish systems and processes, and deliver top notch program management. A Typical Day: Collaborate on and develop program strategy for various technical programs, including AI Enablement, AI Education, Machine Learning Education, Data Education, Engineering Education with internal SMEs and other Technical Learning & Development team members Design, create content, and project manage in-person and virtual technical learning
About the Role The Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer owns mechanical commissioning planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight for the project. This role ensures mechanical systems are installed, inspected, started, balanced, controlled, and tested in a way that supports reliable integrated facility performance. Reports to the Commissioning Project Lead and partners closely with mechanical contractors, equipment vendors, design/engineering teams, the electrical commissioning lead, controls stakeholders, and vendor field/test engineers. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain the mechanical commissioning scope, readiness criteria, inspection strategy, and discipline test execution plan. Review mechanical design packages, specifications, submittals, method statements, controls narratives, sequence assumptions, and testing requirements for commissionability and risk. Coordinate mechanical QA/QC inspections with contractors and vendor field/test engineers, including installation checks, pre-functional readiness, deficiency capture, and closeout tracking. Own mechanical commissioning procedure development and review, including equipment startup, functional testing, controls verification, balancing prerequisites, failure mode validation, and integrated systems testing inputs. Coordinate with equipment vendors on factory/site acceptance requirements, startup support, test prerequisites, documentation packages, and vendor participation during critical tests. Support readiness and execution for cooling, ventilation, hydronic, pumping, heat rejection, controls, and other project-specific mechanical systems. Lead discipline-level review of mechanical test results, deficiencies, corrective actions, retest requirements, trend logs, and acceptance evidence. Maintain mechanical commissioning dashboards and status inputs for the Commissioning Project Lead, including risk items, resource needs, test readiness, and issue aging. Partner with the E
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