Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

As a Founding Engineer, you'll lead product development initiatives, make architectural decisions, and foster engineering best practices in a startup environment. Your expertise will be critical in building a user-friendly AI-driven supply chain platform.

Perform peer reviews of public-record due diligence reports to ensure compliance with FCRA, client guidelines, and internal standards. Analyze legal documents and online sources, produce accurate QA reports, communicate with client relations and investigators, collaborate with third-party vendors, and support audits and process improvements.

Lead and evolve marketing strategy for a cybersecurity SaaS company—own demand generation, product marketing, brand, communications, channel and website. Drive GTM for enterprise and government markets, optimize funnel and conversions using analytics and AI, define KPIs, collaborate with Sales/SDR/Product/Channels, and measure ROI to grow pipeline and revenue.

Review and evaluate AI-generated responses, annotate and validate text/conversations, identify linguistic and contextual issues, and ensure annotations meet quality and linguistic guidelines to improve LLM performance.

Drive full-cycle net-new enterprise sales (3,000+ employee accounts) for an AI-enabled digital adoption platform. Close $100K–$300K ACV deals, build and manage a growing book for expansion, navigate complex stakeholders (security, legal, procurement), convert PLG usage into commercial agreements, and partner cross-functionally to ensure onboarding and account health.

Lead demand and inventory planning across e-commerce, marketplaces, wholesale, and retail. Build rolling forecasts, run monthly S&OP, prioritize constrained inventory allocations, own open-to-buy and inventory investment, design replenishment automation, manage supplier reorder decisions, and develop planning systems, dashboards, and standards. Manage one planner and grow the planning function while working cross-functionally with Merchandising, Sales, Retail, Operations, Production, and Finance.

Manage the full post-sale customer journey to drive rapid onboarding, activation, and growth. Monitor usage, re-engage dormant accounts, remove technical blockers, run onboarding playbooks, identify upsell opportunities, coordinate cross-functionally, and use AI/tools to improve efficiency. Success measured by utilization, expansion, time-to-value, and customer advocacy.

Lead pre-sales and post-sales technical engagements to help customers adopt Aiven's managed open-source services. Conduct proofs-of-concept, ensure customer stability and enablement, support sales processes, create technical content (blogs, webinars, talks), and travel up to 20% to build and maintain customer relationships.

Lead end-to-end revenue for EMEA across Sales and Customer Success, owning regional growth, net-new acquisition, upsell/retention, product penetration (iOS/RT/UA), GTM for new products, marketing partnership, and hiring and scaling a high-performance commercial organization.

Lead technical direction with the CTO, architect and build high-scale distributed systems, mentor engineers, ship product roadmap, manage cloud infrastructure and orchestration, enforce CI/CD, testing and fault-tolerance, and collaborate with product and business teams while leveraging AI/ML frameworks.