Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead development and optimization of high-performance LLM inference pipelines across data center, edge, and embedded platforms. Improve latency and throughput via custom CUDA kernels, quantization, KV-cache and batching strategies, and deploy efficient, production-ready runtimes without external vendor dependency.

Lead product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Mysten Labs' first-party DeFi products (DeepBook suite). Collaborate with engineering, design, legal, BD, marketing, and partners to drive liquidity, usage, and institutional adoption. Define and track core metrics, build relationships with market makers and ecosystem participants, and launch responsible, scalable DeFi experiences.

Lead and grow an account management team focused on renewals, upsells, and expansion. Own team metrics, forecasting, hiring, client relationships, and collaboration with marketing and product to drive net dollar retention and pipeline growth.

Lead end-to-end legal ownership of bank–fintech strategic partnerships: structure, draft, and negotiate complex agreements; advise on product, regulatory architecture, compliance (payments, cards, lending); partner with cross-functional teams from ideation through launch; scale legal operations using AI and automation tools.

Lead state government sales for FutureFit AI: own full sales cycle from discovery to signed contracts, build multi-stakeholder relationships, navigate procurement and RFPs, monitor policy and funding cycles, and help create a repeatable go-to-market playbook while aligning internal teams.

Lead strategy, roadmap, and execution for a core Horizon product workstream. Translate college, student, and payer insights into prioritized requirements, define AI applications, track success metrics, and partner with engineering, design, compliance, and GTM teams to deliver PCI Level 1–compliant, scalable payment experiences for higher education.

Lead customer-facing platform engineering engagements to deploy and productionize Stacklok Enterprise on Kubernetes. Build custom operators and deployment changes, act as the technical SME, mentor teammates, and turn field learnings into reusable playbooks and tooling to speed enterprise AI agent adoption.

Responsible for net-new enterprise sales into $1B+ accounts within an assigned territory. Build territory plans, prospect and manage complex multi-stakeholder sales cycles, collaborate with technical experts and channel partners, maintain pipeline and forecast, meet quotas, and travel ~30-40% for customer meetings and events.

Lead end-to-end RFx lifecycle and proposal operations: build processes, manage a proposal operations team, coordinate cross-functional inputs, create and edit technical proposal content, administer AI-driven content library, and ensure quality and timely submissions.

Lead the PTC Professional Services PMO and oversee enterprise PLM/ALM transformation programs. Manage and mentor project/program managers, ensure program governance, delivery excellence, financial performance, customer satisfaction, and drive Services methodology improvements and AI-enabled solutions.