Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Drive new client acquisition and revenue through high-volume lead outreach, sales strategy, CRM pipeline management, client pitches, stakeholder engagement, pricing analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to meet sales targets.

Manage inbound homeowner leads through the full sales cycle for Hometap's home equity investment product. Serve as primary contact from first call to close, maintain a high-volume pipeline in Salesforce and internal systems, coordinate with underwriting and processing teams, meet monthly and quarterly sales targets, and ensure compliant, empathetic communication throughout the application process.

Own a portfolio of major technology alliances, developing joint business plans, driving field-level co-selling, generating partner-sourced pipeline and revenue, and executing joint marketing programs. Align executives, sales, marketing, product, and partnerships teams around shared goals. Initially operate as an individual contributor, then hire and lead Technology Partner Managers while establishing team structures, QBRs, planning cadences, and reporting processes.

Own end-to-end network reliability across data centers, AWS, and GCP, including routing, switching, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, VPNs, circuits, and cross-connects. Automate network configuration with Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, CI validation, and IPAM. Engineer failover, observability, security hardening, client connectivity, and Kubernetes ingress while participating in an interrupt-contained on-call rotation.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Lead tax information reporting and withholding compliance across domestic and international frameworks, including FATCA, CRS, CARF, DAC7, and U.S. tax rules. Advise product teams on digital asset reporting, oversee tax documentation, withholding, remittance, and annual filings, and partner with technology and operations teams on automated workflows. Lead audits, risk remediation, policy updates, regulatory monitoring, and business requirements development for tax systems.

Architects and develops AI-powered systems, tools, agents, backend services, APIs, and experimentation frameworks using foundational AI models. Integrates AI capabilities with microservices, AWS, Snowflake, and complex data systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Translates business problems into technical solutions, prototypes AI applications, collaborates with product and engineering teams, evaluates emerging AI technologies, and documents system designs and integration patterns.

Leads sales coaching and field excellence for an insurance distribution team. Builds competency models, coaching cadences, learning pathways, onboarding programs, and performance feedback systems. Provides direct coaching through call reviews, ride-alongs, and group sessions, integrates agent and competitive insights, manages a growing coaching team, and partners with Marketing, Product, Enablement, and Distribution leadership on launches and agency onboarding.

Design, scale, and operate Runpod’s distributed storage platform across network volumes, local NVMe, and S3-compatible object storage. Tune storage and high-speed network performance, lead capacity expansions and migrations, write production automation and control-plane code, extend APIs, and build observability, dashboards, SLOs, and alerts. The role also participates in on-call operations, incident response, infrastructure-as-code practices, and long-term architecture decisions for petabyte-scale AI infrastructure.

Own the post-sale customer journey for youth sports organizations, including onboarding, adoption, account growth, renewals, and retention. Build relationships with club directors, leagues, coaches, and other stakeholders; monitor account health; create success and recovery plans; forecast renewals; and maintain CRM data. Help establish scalable account management playbooks and share customer insights with Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Product. The role is remote-first and focuses on basketball and baseball/softball markets.