About the Team OpenAI's Enterprise team builds AI-powered enterprise products and shared platform capabilities that help organizations put advanced AI to work securely and at scale. Our work spans enterprise workflows, agent experiences, integrations, identity, administration, security, governance, and deployment. About the Role As a Technical Program Manager on Enterprise, you will lead the technical strategy and execution behind the products and shared capabilities that make ChatGPT, Codex, and future OpenAI products useful, secure, and scalable for organizations. You will translate customer needs, competitive dynamics, and product priorities into actionable plans, influence architectural direction, and deliver durable capabilities across application, platform, and infrastructure layers. The role requires deep technical fluency, strong product judgment, and the ability to move between hands-on execution and broader enterprise strategy. 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: Drive technical strategy and execution for enterprise product and AI workflow initiatives, from design through implementation, launch, customer rollout, and iteration. Partner with engineering teams to influence architectural direction, interface definitions, and implementation tradeoffs across full-stack products, APIs, integrations, and shared platform systems. Translate enterprise customer requirements into actionable product priorities across AI-powered workflows, agent experiences, integrations, permissions, data access, evaluations, identity, security, governance, and deployment readiness. Represent the needs of enterprise buyers, IT administrators, security teams, business leaders, developers, and end users in product and technical decisions. Identify adoption barriers, competitive gaps, and opportunities to make OpenAI products easier for organizations
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Technical Program Manager – Applied Product & Platform About the Team The Product & Platform teams at OpenAI are responsible for delivering the company’s most impactful offerings—such as ChatGPT, our API platform, and new enterprise capabilities—to a global and diverse customer base. These systems must perform at scale and deliver exceptional experiences to developers, consumers, and businesses alike. Technical Program Managers at OpenAI play a key leadership role in scaling these efforts, partnering deeply with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to bring ambitious ideas to life and ensure clarity and discipline in execution. About the Role We’re seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive complex, large-scale product and platform initiatives across ChatGPT, API, and related surfaces. This role sits at the intersection of technical strategy and execution. You’ll be responsible for translating product vision into actionable plans, shaping interfaces and experiences from both consumer and developer perspectives, and ensuring successful delivery across web, mobile, and platform layers. You’ll bring deep technical fluency, product sense, and a strong execution track record. You’re comfortable managing ambiguity, influencing architectural direction, advocating for developers, and leading cross-functional delivery with discipline and empathy. Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week in-office) In this role, you will: Collaborate with product, engineering, and design to shape roadmaps, technical strategies, and long-term platform direction. Translate product vision into clear, scalable technical execution plans, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution. Lead end-to-end execution of cross-functional product and platform programs—from planning through launch and iteration. Own timelines, milestones, dependency management, risk mitigation, and accountability across teams. Partner with engineering teams to influence ar
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 the world's leading API platform, and APIs and AI agents are increasingly the backbone of modern software. We're looking for a Technical Community Manager who will build and lead a thriving global developer community. One that goes beyond Postman users to become the destination for any developer working with APIs and AI agents. This is not a typical community role. You'll be architecting programs, designing engagement loops, and building something genuinely new: a community where developers come to learn, build, share, and grow — and where Postman is recognized as an indispensable part of their toolchain. The intersection of APIs and AI agents is one of the most exciting spaces in software right now, and Postman sits right in the middle of it. We have millions of developers already on the platform — the opportunity is to turn that user base into a community that educates, inspires, and advocates for one another. The person who builds this will leave a real mark on how developers collaborate and grow for years to come. What You'll Do Discord Community Growth & Engagement Own the end-to-end strategy for
Technical Program Manager – Applied Infrastructure About the Team The Applied team safely brings OpenAI’s technology to the world, powering products like ChatGPT, and the APIs for GPT and more. Behind these products is a complex and rapidly evolving infrastructure platform that enables scale, performance, and safety. The Applied Infrastructure TPM team partners across engineering to lead foundational programs that ensure OpenAI’s infrastructure can meet current and future demand. About the Role We’re looking for a seasoned Technical Program Manager to drive critical infrastructure programs across the Applied organization. This TPM will focus on cross-cutting initiatives such as general compute capacity planning, process transformation, cost and quota attribution and optimization, and coordination across infrastructure and product stakeholders. There will also be focus on evolving OpenAI’s infrastructure to support growth, scale and new products. This work is core to how OpenAI manages and grows its infrastructure footprint in a disciplined, scalable way. Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid – 3 days/week in-office) In this role, you will: Serve as the DRI for complex infrastructure programs spanning CPU planning, orchestration, and other resource management domains (e.g. networking, storage). Build and operationalize systems to capture demand signals, model future capacity needs, and align infrastructure planning across internal teams and partners external to the company. Partner closely with Infrastructure, Product and Finance teams to forecast infrastructure usage patterns and ensure supply/demand alignment. Lead cost attribution and quota enforcement programs to promote stability and ensure equitable access to resources across teams. Drive simplification and standardization of infrastructure tooling and processes across Applied and Infra organizations. Drive cross functional programs to evolve our infrastructure to support new growth and scale Work with external v
About PostHog Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools. PostHog is the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously. We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort . We've since shipped more than a dozen products , including: PostHog Code , the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase. A built-in data warehouse , so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights. PostHog AI , an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries. We are: Product-led . More than 450,000 organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit. Default alive . Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on. Well-funded. We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey. We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible . Things we care about Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook . Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions. Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions . Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed. Shipping fast: Why not n
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 Pinterest's Ads Delivery Infrastructure team builds and operates the real-time serving, indexing, retrieval, and budgeting systems that power Shopping and Ads at Pinterest. We're in the middle of a significant modernization effort: unifying our catalog and index platforms to scale to billions of items, moving core services onto our next-generation compute platform, and re-architecting our budgeting systems for real-time accuracy. We work closely with engineering, product, and monetization teams to keep Pinterest's advertising systems fast, reliable, and ready to scale. What You'll Do: Lead or support programs that scale Pinterest's Shopping and Ads catalog, indexing, and retrieval systems to handle billions of items, partnering with engineering leads across catalog, search infrastructure, and retrieval. Drive cross-team execution on inf
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 Pinterest's Data Engineering organization builds and operates the data platforms that power every Pinterest product — the batch and streaming pipelines that produce training data for our ML models, the storage and table formats that back our data lake, the workflow orchestration that runs it all, and the analytics platforms that fuel experimentation and decision-making. We're in the middle of a multi-year modernization effort: moving to streaming-first ingestion (CDC, Kafka, Flink), open table formats (Iceberg), a consolidated workflow platform, and retiring legacy footprints along the way. We work closely with ML, product, and analytics teams to make Pinterest's data platforms faster, more reliable, and more cost-efficient. What You'll Do: Lead a multi-quarter portfolio of data platform modernization programs — spanning ingestion (CDC/
From $98K/yr
WHAT IS BOX? Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift. WHY BOX NEEDS YOU We have a dynamic team of consultants and technologists who are dedicated to making our customers successful, but our customers' needs are getting even more sophisticated and technically complex. We are looking to add more consultative and technical muscle to the Technology Consulting team in order to solve our customers' most complex challenges through the application of thought leadership and technical domain expertise. WHAT YOU'LL DO Box is growing fast. Every business in the world is looking to modernize the way that they work. As the leader in cloud content management, Box has what it takes to enable enterprises to transform how people work together. We engage directly with the largest and most complex enterprises in the wo
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 . Director of Accounting, Revenue Recognition At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. Our Finance & Accounting team plays a critical role in powering that mission—ensuring growth is responsible, scalable, and future-focused. We’re looking for a strategic, collaborative, and technically strong Director of Accounting, Revenue Recognition to ensure ASC 606 compliance and lead our revenue processes in a dynamic, cross-functional environment. What you’ll do: Oversee Pinterest's global revenue recognition and sales contract processes, ensuring accurate and timely revenue recognition in compliance with ASC 606. Develop and maintain global revenue recognition policies, SEC disclosure and related SOX controls to reflect changes in our business, GAAP or SEC guidance. Serve as the subject matter expe
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. We lead complex technical programs that help Plaid scale its engineering platform. We partner across Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, Security, ML, Legal, and Product to deliver company-wide technical initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. You'll lead strategic technical programs from planning through execution. You'll partner with engineering leaders to align stakeholders, manage dependencies, drive decisions, and ensure successful delivery of complex initiatives. You'll work across a variety of technical domains, adapting quickly to new challenges and helping teams execute effectively. As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives. As a generalist, you may work on a variety of programs. An example is one that strengthens Plaid's data and machine learning platforms. You will partner with engineering, product, data, legal, privacy, and business stakeholders to drive complex technical programs from planning through execution. Your work will help improve data governance, modernize machine learning infrastructure, and accelerate the adoption of trusted, high-quality datasets that power analytics, artificial intelligence
About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role As an AI Accelerator Systems Software Technical Program manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips/system hardware roadmap to life, navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building. 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: Manage the end-to-end software development from design to implementation for our AI acceleration systems, working across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders Lead planning and scheduling of AI system software designs with our strategic partners and vendors Coordinate and lead internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience as a software technical program manager for data center system products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on) taking products from concept to volume in a data center environment ensuring the systems scale with high quality Know end-to-end software development program management techniques from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center Want to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges Enjoy working with and enabling world-clas
About the Team The compute infrastructure team runs the GPU fleet and large-scale compute clusters that serve the models backing ChatGPT and the API, while also supporting training workloads for our next generation models. We operate a large, modern GPU fleet and provide a unified platform for other OpenAI teams to seamlessly run production Applied AI and Research training workloads. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role You will be part of an engineer-first TPM team as a Technical Program Manager for Compute Infrastructure who owns the end-to-end delivery of large-scale GPU clusters, partnering with engineers to bring clusters online across external providers and partners. You’ll run a broad, parallel portfolio spanning hardware, networking, power, and cooling—driving execution, risk management, and crisp alignment from working teams through leadership to deliver production-ready capacity at scale. 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 end-to-end delivery of both New Compute SKUs and large-scale GPU clusters across an external partner ecosystem while supporting capacity planning for training and inference. Ability to contextually drive multi-threaded bring-up programs spanning hardware, networking, power, and cooling—owning plans, dependencies, and critical paths. Interface with chip providers to derisk long-term onboarding to new hardware platforms by working across kernels, comms, hardware, and scheduling engineering teams. Build and operationalize program mechanisms (roadmaps, milestones, risk registers, runbooks) that make delivery predictable at massive scale. Partner with engineering to improve cluster turn-up reliability, repeatability, and automation
About the Team OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing future generations of AI-native silicon and tightly integrated systems to power the next generation of frontier models. By co-designing chips, systems, tools, and methodologies, the team helps deliver faster, more efficient, and production-ready hardware for OpenAI’s supercomputing platform. About the Role As a Hardware Chips Programs Manager at OpenAI, you will help bring our chips hardware roadmap to life, navigating an array of technical and partnership challenges. We’re looking for people excited to push the frontiers of computing by navigating technical explorations and are passionate about building. 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: Manage the design and implementation planning of our ML acceleration hardware, working across technical, cross-functional and external stakeholders Lead planning and scheduling of chip hardware designs with our strategic partners and vendors Coordinate and marshal internal resources and communication for efficient interaction with partners and vendors. You might thrive in this role if you: Have experience as a technical program manager for data center hardware products (server, GPU, TPU, networking, storage and so on) Know the whole end-to-end system program management from concept, design, production, deployment into the data center Have some experience with System SW programs through NPI Want to help design some of the world’s largest supercomputing systems, working at the edge of complex hardware challenges Enjoy working with and enabling world-class AI Researchers and Engineers Are passionate about the technical program function, and enjoy independently owning and delivering on your tea
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 As a Member of Technical Staff and AI Agent Development Lead, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of next-generation AI agents that interact with users and complex environments. You will drive the architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable AI systems, working closely with research, product and engineering teams to build safe, interpretable, and performant AI technology. What You’ll Do Lead a cross-functional engineering team focused on AI agent development, from conceptual design to production deployment. Design and implement AI agent architectures leveraging state-of-the-art language models and associated technologies. Collaborate with research scientists on scalable experiments and productize research innovations. Drive the development of agent capabilities including dialogue management, decision making, and autonomy. Ensure AI safety and alignment principles are integrated throughout the agent lifecycle. Mentor and grow technical staff, fostering an environment of collaboration and innovation. Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance AI agent capabilities. Partner
From $242.6K/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 . We’re looking for a principal software engineer to lead the next generation of data infrastructure at Pinterest which powers mission critical big data and AI applications. You’ll be working on some of the most exciting big data and AI open source technologies (Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, etc.), at the scale of exabytes of data to help Pinners discover and do what they love. What you’ll do: Lead the strategy and technical direction of Pinterest’s data infrastructure for big data and AI applications Build and scale data infra frameworks and infrastructure to process petabytes-scale datasets, including compute engines, job management, resource management, scheduling and remote shuffling Work with internal customers on critical business use cases that rely on big data Provide thought leadership to the entire company on how data should be
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