Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead deal sourcing, diligence, financial modeling, and execution for strategic startup investments. Manage relationships with investors, entrepreneurs, and internal stakeholders; prepare investment memos, reports, and presentations; monitor portfolio performance and industry trends; support occasional M&A work and represent Zebra Ventures externally.

Contacts existing and prospective customers by phone, identifies products and services that address their needs, and sells relatively simple solutions to end-user or channel-partner accounts. Manages routine customer objections, answers basic technical questions, presents product features and benefits, and meets individual revenue quotas through many small sales. This is a fully onsite role in Chicago expected to start in Summer 2027.

Lead design, validation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes with Tier 1 suppliers. Drive NPI, cost reduction, LSS and Industry 4.0 initiatives, manage engineering changes, create work instructions and BOM alignment, develop fixtures/tools, and collaborate cross-functionally to implement DFX and improve production quality, efficiency, and cost.

Lead Zebra's global software solutions consulting (pre-sales) organization, managing leaders and teams to deliver demos, RFPs, value engineering, competitive analysis, and go-to-market strategy. Own sales-aligned quotas, collaborate with product and marketing to shape roadmaps, scale enablement and tools, and drive consultative discovery and customer-facing engagements across regions.

Lead technical product strategy and roadmaps for developer-focused platforms and APIs (AI SDK, EMDK, DataWedge, ZDNA Cloud). Bridge product, architecture, and engineering to prioritize technical backlogs, reduce technical debt, and own non-functional requirements. Manage and mentor product owners/managers, drive developer experience, and enable GTM adoption for platform offerings.