Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads Yahoo’s technology internal audit program, including risk assessment, audit planning, advisory projects, testing, workpaper review, reporting, and senior stakeholder presentations. Oversees audits covering cybersecurity, identity and access, cloud security, resilience, data governance, privacy, and AI. Develops auditors, directs co-source providers, enhances AI audit capabilities, and applies analytics and automation. Partners with Technology, Security, Privacy, Engineering, SOX, GRC, and external audit teams.

Lead research and development of generative AI and deep learning models for Yahoo Mail at massive scale. Responsibilities include fine-tuning foundation models, applying LoRA and quantization, knowledge distillation, building evaluation frameworks, developing agent-based systems, creating scalable training workflows, integrating AI development tools, and mentoring researchers and engineers. The role emphasizes NLP, production-grade model optimization, low-latency performance, and strategic AI direction.

Owns Yahoo Everywhere’s business development and distribution partnerships from pipeline creation through negotiation, launch, renewal, and expansion. Sources and closes complex deals across browsers, OEMs, consumer apps, telcos, and other platforms; develops financial models; manages partner performance; and collaborates with product, engineering, design, legal, finance, and analytics. The role also helps build scalable partnership playbooks and leads individual contributors.

Leads global technical lease accounting and financial reporting under ASC 842. Oversees lease evaluations, reconciliations, journal entries, month-end close, variance analysis, SOX controls, and audit support. Partners with cross-functional teams and uses Oracle Financials, Excel, AI tools, and automation to improve accounting workflows and data accuracy.

Leads Yahoo Finance’s Brand Strategy team, developing client-focused advertising solutions, content-led programs, and revenue strategies. Responsibilities include team leadership, cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Editorial, Product, Finance, and Operations, AI adoption, brand storytelling, campaign optimization, market analysis, and executive-level client presentations. The role requires deep digital advertising and financial services expertise, strategic vision, and a record of achieving revenue growth and building strategic client relationships.

Leads enterprise-wide business development and strategic technology partnerships across Yahoo’s portfolio. Responsibilities include sourcing and negotiating AI, cloud, infrastructure, and enterprise service agreements; managing renewals and expansions; modeling aggregated deal value; aligning Finance, Legal, Procurement, Security, Privacy, and Engineering; overseeing executive partner relationships; and building AI-assisted pipeline tracking, governance, and scalable commercial processes.

Develops brand-consistent design concepts and production-ready assets for digital marketing campaigns, email, social media, events, and large-scale print. Collaborates with copywriters, art directors, designers, and producers; presents creative options; incorporates feedback; manages multiple projects and deadlines; and supports creative presentations. The role requires strong visual storytelling, typography, color, layout, digital and event design expertise, and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Leads the design, programming, and operational execution of dynamic live graphics for Yahoo Sports digital programming. Owns Flowics-based graphics systems, live data integrations, AI-assisted workflows, sponsorship integrations, YouTube creative, and graphics support for major sports events. Collaborates with production, engineering, sales, and creative teams to deliver reliable, visually engaging, data-driven experiences while improving scalability, automation, and operational efficiency.

Own consolidated revenue reporting and forecasting within Yahoo’s central FP&A consolidations team. Responsibilities include validating revenue submissions, analyzing variances and operational drivers, managing marketing performance reporting and budgeting, maintaining revenue and marketing data pipelines, and standardizing source-to-P&L mappings. The role also builds dashboards, automates reporting, uses enterprise AI tools for analysis, and partners with Marketing, Finance, Data, and Accounting to improve financial insights and governance.

Own end-to-end security reviews for SaaS, vendor integrations, corporate tools, cloud migrations, and AI/LLM products. Assess identity, access, data flows, configurations, agentic architectures, and AI security risks; document actionable dispositions under SLAs. Build scalable triage, risk-tiering, review rubrics, automation, and guardrails for AI-assisted reviews. Partner with risk, privacy, legal, identity, cloud, and network security teams while maintaining frameworks-based assurance and cross-training reviewers.