About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the role As a foundational FDE manager, you’ll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. You’ll partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure fieldwork informs roadmap priorities, drives new exploration, and supports safe deployment at scale. Your decisions will influence how OpenAI is trusted by the customers closest to our deployment work. Your success will be measured by how consistently your team ships, how clearly you deliver signal to Research and Product, and how durable your team and delivery model prove to be. This role is based in New York City We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. This role also will require travel up to 25%. In this role you will Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, actionable feedback Define how we staff and support field teams that can scale without added complexity You might thrive in this role if you Bring 8+ years of engineering or technical delivery experience, including 2+ years managing high-performing FDE or custo
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels. About the Role As a Product Marketing Manager, Research & Safety , you will shape how the world understands OpenAI’s frontier research and our approach to developing AI responsibly. You will establish the strategic narrative for some of the company’s most important research themes—including frontier capabilities, safety, preparedness, reasoning, and compute—and translate complex technical work into clear, credible stories for researchers, policymakers, and the broader public, working with cross-functional teams to translate that messaging and reach developers and enterprise. Working closely with Research, Safety Systems, Policy, Communications, and Product teams, you’ll lead the go-to-market strategy and messaging for major research and safety initiatives. You’ll develop narratives that build trust, translating technical concepts into tangible artifacts and messaging, drive industry understanding of emerging evaluation frameworks, and help communicate OpenAI’s unique perspective on responsible frontier AI development. You’ll also identify creative and non-traditional ways to bring these stories to the audiences that matter most. In this role, you will: Establish the strategic narrative f
About the Team The Human Data team at OpenAI is responsible for identifying and mitigating risks in advanced AI systems by designing evaluations, surfacing vulnerabilities, and collaborating closely with researchers to strengthen model reliability and public trust. About the Role As a Research Program Manager, you will lead initiatives that test the safety and robustness of OpenAI’s models through creative experimentation and structured evaluation. You’ll coordinate efforts across research and engineering teams to transform ambiguous risks into concrete research programs and influence future model development and deployment. We’re looking for people who are technically savvy, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited about shaping the future of safe AI. 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 programs that explore unexpected model behaviors and identify failure modes. Translate vague or emergent risk signals into clear priorities and actionable research plans. Design and run creative evaluations, experiments, and red-teaming campaigns. Collaborate with research, product, and deployment teams to integrate findings into model training and deployment cycles. Develop repeatable systems for tracking model performance and understanding emerging behavior patterns. You might thrive in this role if you: Have strong experience in technical program management, with excellent organizational and communication skills. Are familiar with large language models, prompt engineering, or model evaluation techniques. Are comfortable managing fast-paced, high-uncertainty projects and shaping them from the ground up. Are creative and resourceful in devising new methods for testing model behavior and performance. Can effectively coordinate across technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive alignment and execution. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI resear
About the Team The Premium team owns some of the highest-leverage customer-facing levers in ChatGPT’s consumer revenue business, spanning the paid customer journey: helping users understand the value of paid plans, convert with confidence, and continue finding lasting value in their subscription. Our work is highly cross-functional, partnering with Product, Data Science, Design, FinEng, Finance, Legal, Support, and Marketing to improve free-to-paid conversion, renewal, customer lifetime value, and revenue while keeping the experience trustworthy, scalable, and low-friction. In This Role, You Will: Lead and scale an engineering team responsible for some of ChatGPT’s most important subscription and monetization experiences. Own the technical execution for Premium customer experiences across plan merchandising, paywalls, upgrade flows, checkout UX, plan management, renewals, downgrades, and cancellation. Partner with Product and Data Science to run high-quality experiments across upgrade, trial, renewal, downgrade, and cancellation flows. Improve key subscription metrics including conversion, renewal, churn, ARPU, and lifetime value. Build reliable customer-facing Premium experiences for purchase, plan management, renewal, downgrade, cancellation, and access-related states at scale. Partner closely with FinEng and other platform teams to evolve the billing, payments, and entitlement capabilities that power Premium experiences. Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Finance, Legal, Support, and Marketing on monetization strategy and execution. You Might Thrive in This Role If You: Have 5+ years of engineering management experience, Have strong technical expertise in backend, frontend, or full-stack development, with experience building growth-oriented features. Have a track record of improving conversion, retention, or monetization through experimentation and data-driven product engineering. Are experienced with subscription products, plan merchandising
Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity Postman is hiring a Senior Manager, Customer Success Engineering to help lead Customer Success Engineering in North America. This leader will manage CSEs, ensuring the team is focused on the customers where Postman can create outsized impact, while providing the coaching, inspection, and operational discipline required for consistently high-quality execution. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role and a critical partner to Sales. The leader will work closely with North America Sales leadership, with a strong focus on East Coast alignment, to prioritize accounts, shape technical engagement strategy, allocate CSE capacity, and ensure customer execution is progressing with urgency and discipline. CSEs help customers embed Postman into real engineering workflows across API design, governance, CI/CD, developer platforms, integrations, modernization, migration, automation, quality enforcement, and service discoverability. This is not about general support or enablement; CSEs are laser-focused on turning Postman from a beloved developer tool into critical API infrastructure. The right leader is an experienced po
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. About the role Snowflake’s mission is to mobilize the world’s data as the AI Data Cloud. Our AI & Developer products including CoCo for builders, CoWork for knowledge workers and well our developer tools like Notebooks, Streamlit, and App Runtime are how we put that mission into the daily workflows of developers and data teams. We're looking for a Senior Developer Relations leader to own how builders discover, adopt, and succeed with Snowflake's AI and Developer portfolio, and to build and lead a team of Developer Advocates doing that work. You'll set the developer point of view for an ambiguous, fast-moving product area, manage and grow a team of DAs, and stay technical enough to set the quality bar yourself. What you'll do Own the developer strategy for AI & Developer tools Shape the developer point of view for complex, emerging product areas; anticipate where builders get stuck and align on the adoption path. Connect market shifts, developer behavior, customer demand, and Snowflake strategy to influence product direction. Maintain full awareness of the AI and Developer landscape and be the voice of the developer internally. Set the technical and quality bar Personally produce and review production-quality adoption assets reference apps, quickstarts, demos, deep-d
Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing. The Opportunity at Altana As a Global Public Sector Implementation Delivery Manager (IDM), you are the single-threaded technical owner of delivery for one of Altana’s most important public sector accounts or organizations. You blend enterprise architecture, hands-on deployment, and product design and development with the relationship skills to be the trusted technical voice in the room for the mission owners you serve. You lead a small, account-aligned implementation pod and are accountable for turning a closed-won account into mission outcomes: architecting the deployment, delivering it in secured and regulated environments, keeping it healthy, and finding the next place Altana can create value. You do this hip-to-hip with commercial — partnering with the Technical Account Managers (TAMs) and Program Managers who run the account — using delivery credibility to enable organic growth and inside sales without carrying the commercial number yourself. This role reports to a GPS Implementation sub-vertical lead (Trade, Resilience, or Policy) within the Implementation function, and is deployed against a named strategic account. For example, an IDM aligned to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would report to the Trade sub-vertical lead. Your Responsibilities Own delivery outcomes for a named strategic account or account groups. Serve as the single-threaded technical owner for implementation and platform delivery to a key public sector account or organization, from post-award through sustainment. Deliver on-time against contractual commitments and hold the technical quality bar. Set and steward the account architecture. Translate mission outcomes into a coherent enterprise/solution architecture across SaaS and regulated PaaS environments. Own the deployment, integration, and data-m
Procurement Multi-fam Manager (Supply Management & Procurement Multi-Family) Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) has an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Multi-Family Manager (Level K) to join our dynamic team in Tukwila, Washington or Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . Manage, lead and grow a team of 15 Air Vehicle E-7 Supplier Performance employees. The team consists of Supplier Program Managers and Supply Base Managers with personnel located in Oklahoma City, Seattle, and virtual. The ideal candidate will have the ability to motivate and lead this team to ensure system design and development, part build and delivery, as well as product sustainment for the supply base associated with the E-7 platform. There will also be a heavy need for understanding emergent support of an aircraft production facility. Setting the right expectations and building the optimal team are the basic needs to make this position successful. Position Responsibilities: Acts as an authorized agent of the company with responsibility for managing all supplier related activities and the authority to commit company resources through contracts and agreements. Manages employees from multiple Supplier Management and Procurement disciplines performing activities related to the acquisition of goods and services in support of company operations, supplier assessment and performance improvement, management and improvement of supply chain management and processes and supplier diversity. Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets operational goals. Acquires resources for projects and processes, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements.</li
About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role Sentry's Infrastructure Engineering team is what makes operating Sentry simple, safe, and seamless for every other engineering team in the company. They build the internal control platforms, configuration systems, traffic routing, and automation that let product engineers operate services safely at scale without needing deep infrastructure expertise themselves. As the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure Engineering, you'll lead a team of engineers building the tools that power Sentry's growth: internal admin and change management tools, configuration automation, and the routing layer that underlies Sentry's architecture. You'll be responsible for technical vision, team health, system reliability, and partnership with engineering teams across the company who depend on your team's tools every day. You'll work closely with leaders across Infrastructure, Platform, and Production Engineering to shape how Sentry scales its operational model as the company grows. In this role you will Lead a team of engineers building the internal control platforms that every engineering team at Sentry relies on to operate services safely. Drive the evolution of Infrastructure Engineering's platform, including configuration management, traffic routing and environment controls Own the team's technical direction, contributing to key decisions on API architecture, internal tooling design, and automation frameworks. Nurture and grow engineers at different levels, providing support through coaching, mentorship, and career development. Foster an inclusive, high-performing team culture focused on ownership, learning, and delivery. Partne
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Code Intelligence sits at the intersection of agentic engineering and product, running agents against real customer source code in production. This is a chance to own an AI-native team at the center of a business-critical growth area. High visibility, high leverage, and squarely in the fastest-growing part of the AI agent space. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You'll Do: Lead and develop an existing engineering team, building trust, setting technical direction, and establishing a high bar for ownership and execution. Own the roadmap and execution across four areas: source code indexing, PR Agentic Reviewers (agents that generate artifacts like metric descriptions on customer pull requests), shift-left work (extending code-writing agents to make direct changes to customer repos), and closed-loop feedback and evaluation systems including LLM-as-judge. Set the team's product strategy independently while partnering day-to-day with product teams company-wide — this team functions as its own product org. Build and operate scaled LLM and agent software in production: LLM APIs, agent frameworks, harness and tool-use layers, prompt and eval tooling, and closed-loop evaluation systems that measure and improve agent output quality. Partner closely with customers and internal stakeholders to deeply understand needs and translate them into technical direction. Drive the team's AI-native development practices, setting high standards for safety, validation, and increasing agent autonomy over time. Who You Are: Experienced engineering manager with a track record of shipping products with direct customer interaction, not just internal stakeholders. Hands-on experience building scaled LLM software: LLM APIs, agent frameworks, prompt and eval tooling, h
About Dawn Aerospace Dawn Aerospace is redefining space transportation through reusable, sustainable, and high-cadence flight systems. Our Aurora Spaceplane enables rapid access to suborbital space and speeds over Mach 3, serving a growing need for near-space testing, high-speed flight, and microgravity research. Together with our in-space propulsion business, Dawn is building the infrastructure for sustainable access to and operation in space. Role Overview Aurora is the first vehicle capable of flying missions to the edge of space multiple times a day. Your job is to transform this vehicle capability into mission success for our customers working from anywhere in the US - although Huntsville , USA is preferred (with domestic and international travel) . As a Mission Manager, your core role is to translate customer objectives into executable flight plans. You will be the customer’s interface to Dawn's flight operations, engineering, regulatory, and commercial teams. Throughout any project, you will coordinate the specialists required to solve individual problems while retaining responsibility for the mission. This is not a passive account-management role. You will be expected to assess mission feasibility, challenge customer assumptions, defend engineering realities, and drive clarity across complex, first-of-a-kind mission concepts. You will be the customer’s technical advocate inside Dawn, and Dawn’s operational interface to the customer. You will succeed here if you can lead through ambiguity, communicate with precision, and have the technical depth to engage meaningfully with aerospace engineers and flight operators, while keeping customers aligned, informed, and confident. Key Responsibilities Mission Ownershi
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CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. The Engineering Manager, CLEAR1 Strategic Partnerships Platform (StratP) is responsible for leading the engineering team that builds partner integrations, healthcare-related workflows, identity and authentication capabilities, and reusable platform improvements that strengthen CLEAR1’s customer offerings. In this role, you’ll drive execution, technical direction, and team development across a high-leverage platform area, turning strategic partner and market needs into scalable, reliable capabilities that improve delivery quality and create long-term business value. What you’ll do: Lead, coach, and develop engineers through hiring, feedback, performance management, and career growth Drive roadmap execution by setting priorities, running strong planning cadences, and delivering against CLEAR1 business commitments Partner across Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering to translate partner and customer needs into scalable platform capabilities Lead delivery across work spanning partner integrations, healthcare-related workflows, identity and authentication capabilities, and reusable platform improvements for CLEAR1 Guide architecture, technical tradeoffs, and dependency management to improve reliability, speed, and long-term platform leverage How you’ll measure success: Improved roadmap predictability and delivery against planned commitments Clearer prioritization and stronger execution across competing demands and shared dependencies Better ownership clarity across partner-facing integrations, identity flows, and customer-facing platf
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE Our Sales and Solutions teams navigate hard technical conversations spanning inference performance, GPU economics, latency budgets, deployment shape. As Baseten’s platform matures, we need a dedicated owner to translate launch velocity into field readiness. As our first Product Enablement Lead, you'll sit between Product, Marketing, and Sales GTM and own how Baseten's products, features, campaigns, and market moments like the launch of GLM-5.2 or Kimi K3 or the sudden evolution of Tokenomics as a discipline get translated into field execution. You will own how these launches land with the field, how AEs and SAs stay credible on a highly dynamic technical ecosystem, and how what the field hears from customers makes it back to Product. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You are the bridge between product, marketing, and sales. You'll build the system and run it, which includes cross-functional program leadership, direct training and enablement of in-seat reps, and content and curriculum development for managers, sellers, and new hires. Success here will depend on your ability to build repeatable systems and rhythms and to partner across the business and with your enablement colleagues to ensure alignment and speed of execution. RESPONSIBILITIES Own launch readiness: partner with Product and Marketing on positioning, write internal launch comms, and run readiness sessions so AEs and SAs can sell new pr
About the Team OpenAI's Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) team partners across the company to enable safe, responsible growth. This role will be a senior EHS partner to our robotics operations as our operating footprint expands. You will work closely with Robotics, Engineering, Operations, Facilities, Workplace, Construction, Security, People, Legal, and external partners to integrate safety into how our facilities are designed, built, staffed, and operated. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Manager, EHS - Robotics to provide senior, hands-on safety leadership across multiple sites. This role is for an experienced EHS leader who can operate independently in a fast-moving technical environment, anticipate risk before it becomes an incident, and build practical safety systems that scale with the business. Our robotics operations are scaling quickly, with a growing mix of construction, commissioning, workforce expansion, and around-the-clock operations. This creates a complex and evolving risk environment and requires strong preventive planning, consistent field presence, and sustained incident-management oversight. This leader will own site-level EHS strategy and execution for the robotics portfolio while partnering with the broader EHS team on company-wide standards and programs. The successful candidate will look around corners: planning for future ramps, identifying requirements early, influencing design and operating decisions, and creating durable systems that enable teams to move quickly without compromising safety. In this role you will: Serve as a senior EHS partner across robotics R&D operations, owning site-level safety strategy, priorities, and execution as the footprint scales. Anticipate EHS requirements for new operations, equipment, processes, construction phases, staffing ramps, and 24/7 operations, and translate them into practical plans before work begins. Lead proactive risk identification and control across robotics activities, incl
About the Team OpenAI’s Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team delivers trusted devices at scale: secure by default, reliable by design, and effortless to use. We own platform capabilities across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, spanning endpoint posture and device trust, application delivery, onboarding, updates, telemetry, workflow orchestration, and employee-facing remediation. The team partners deeply with Security, Research, Applied, and specialized engineering groups to enable and protect OpenAI while reducing friction for the people advancing our mission. About the Role As an Engineering Manager for CPE, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operation of OpenAI’s cross-platform client foundation. You will combine people leadership with strong technical judgment: setting direction, developing engineers, reviewing architecture and tradeoffs, and creating the operating mechanisms that turn ambiguous needs into durable platform outcomes. This is a high-leverage role at the intersection of security, reliability, developer velocity, and employee experience. CPE is a highly technical platform engineering organization delivering first-party services, automation, observability, and safe fleet operations. We’re looking for a leader who can guide its next chapter, scaling the team and its systems, partnering across the company, and raising the bar for secure, reliable, low-friction experiences across every supported platform. In this role, you will: Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team; hire thoughtfully, coach engineers, create clarity, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture that pushes perceived limits. Define and execute a multi-year client-platform strategy and roadmap across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux, including how Codex and agents can reshape employee computing. Provide technical direction for endpoint posture, device trust, application delivery, device onboarding, updates,
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