Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manage the full talent acquisition lifecycle, including developing recruitment strategies, sourcing candidates, conducting screenings and interviews, coordinating offers and onboarding, and maintaining candidate pipelines. Partner with hiring managers and candidates, use recruitment data to measure effectiveness, and stay current with industry best practices.

Leads the enterprise AI control tower, managing intake, prioritization, funding alignment, portfolio visibility, governance, and value realization. Partners with executives across Finance, Strategy, Technology, Data, Risk, Legal, and business units to evaluate AI opportunities, prevent duplication, track investment outcomes, and recommend portfolio trade-offs. Establishes AI operating models, reporting, KPIs, business cases, and executive decision forums while coordinating centralized and business-unit-owned AI initiatives.

Leads enterprise AI governance and Responsible AI programs by embedding risk-based controls throughout the AI lifecycle. Establishes intake, risk classification, approvals, monitoring, inventory, documentation, production-readiness, incident response, and control-validation processes for AI models, agents, copilots, vendors, and data use. Partners with Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Risk, Data Governance, Technology, Procurement, Audit, and business teams. Reports governance status, risks, issues, and control coverage to executive leadership while translating policies into practical procedures, templates, and guidance.

Leads enterprise AI enablement and adoption by developing role-based learning, champions networks, adoption playbooks, workshops, communications, and support programs. Partners across HR, Technology, Communications, Legal, Security, Risk, and business teams to embed approved AI tools and workflows. Translates governance into practical guidance, removes adoption barriers, and measures usage, behavior change, productivity, readiness, and business value through executive reporting.

Lead retailer and manufacturer account strategy, develop and execute growth and trade plans, coordinate Customer Managers, analyze syndicated and financial data, manage promotion and distribution forecasts, optimize trade funds and merchandising targets, and support client reviews and sales calls.

Drive retailer and manufacturer growth plans by coordinating Customer Managers, managing forecasts, promotions, distribution, and trade funds. Use syndicated data and cross-functional insights to build strategic retailer plans, perform financial and promotional analysis, support customer calls, and maintain plans in CROSSVIEW and trade planning systems.

Perform category analytics and insights to support sales and CPG category management using retailer POS and syndicated data (Circana/IRI/NielsenIQ). Drive assortment planning, store clustering, presentations, and recommendations; partner with clients, Space Technology, and CPG teams to influence action and ensure quality deliverables.

Manage principals' business within assigned natural/organic retail accounts: achieve sales and merchandising goals, develop customer business plans, engage decision-makers, manage trade funds and budgets, ensure in-store presence, collaborate with retail teams, use technology for reporting, and complete special projects to drive sales growth.

Field sales role closing face-to-face sales within assigned territories. Train and support in-store personnel, build vendor and store relationships, expand brand presence via merchandising and new business development, gather competitive intelligence, complete call reports and administrative tasks, and escalate store-level issues as needed.

Lead client relationships and serve as primary contact while supervising account teams to develop, present, and execute retail and omnichannel marketing programs. Manage creative process, budgets, timelines, and profitability; drive shopper and consumer initiatives; expand business and ensure contractual obligations are met.