Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manages strategic projects, new product development, customer relationships, production coordination, project reviews, schedules, and delivery from kickoff through completion. Serves as the liaison between customers and production teams, resolves bottlenecks, maintains ERP and CRM data, supports operational alignment, and generates performance reports. The role requires experience in high-reliability electronic or interconnect manufacturing, supply chain, compliance, and project execution.

Manage and grow a West Coast territory by developing leads, building executive relationships, communicating Chainguard’s secure software value proposition, managing CRM opportunities, forecasting, exceeding quota, and collaborating with product, support, and sales engineering teams. The role requires SaaS, security, or DevOps closing experience and occasional client travel as needed.

Lead ONDC integration by designing and implementing backend services and APIs. Ensure compliance with ONDC/Beckn standards, handle data modeling, performance tuning, API security, and transaction flows. Integrate logistics, payments, and catalog systems, write tests, conduct code reviews, and maintain high availability for ONDC services.

Develop and maintain Power BI, SSRS, SQL, recurring, and ad hoc reports for the Mortgage Lending Division. Analyze large datasets, validate regulatory reporting data, identify trends, automate reporting, and provide actionable insights. Collaborate with business units, support HMDA and fair lending reporting, document data dictionaries and procedures, and train users on reporting tools.

Manage server procurement and supply chain projects supporting Akamai’s global infrastructure. Responsibilities include vendor relationship management, scorecards, cross-functional planning, supply issue resolution, inventory risk mitigation, deployment sequencing, warehouse transfers, and equipment substitutions. The role requires forecasting and procurement expertise, analytical and financial judgment, project and vendor management, and strong negotiation and intercultural communication skills.

Leads Akamai’s global Platform IAM engineering organization, overseeing managers, software engineers, and architects. Sets technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for scalable, resilient, low-latency identity and authorization systems. Ensures software development quality, safety, and performance while partnering across teams to convert business goals into technical milestones. Coaches and grows a distributed engineering organization and drives delivery of customer-facing IAM platforms.

Analyzes business problems, KPIs, forecasts, capacity, and quantitative models to support product strategy and operational excellence. Improves processes, standardizes global metrics, develops data-driven insights, and facilitates stakeholder business reviews for better decision-making and productivity.

Design and ship technical product experiences from research and user flows through production UI. Build design systems, prototypes, React interfaces, agent skills, and implementation-quality standards covering accessibility, copy, interactions, and edge cases. Research customer workflows, balance user findings with business priorities, and collaborate with engineers and marketing. Clearly communicate design decisions while iterating based on feedback and data.

Own strategy and execution for 65+ industry conferences and events, including event selection, budgeting, logistics, staffing, lead capture, ROI attribution, and pipeline tracking. Build owned events such as customer advisory boards, manage event vendors, coordinate with marketing, sales, revenue operations, and account management, and support customer and prospect engagement through collateral and merchandise.

Develop and maintain web applications, APIs, integrations, automation scripts, and AI-enabled features using JavaScript, Python, and PHP. Connect internal business systems with third-party platforms, support enterprise platform customizations, troubleshoot workflows, and collaborate with technical teams, business users, vendors, and development partners. Participate in testing, documentation, version control, and change management while gaining experience with applied AI integration.

Owns the rollout and enhancement of AI-enabled sales and operations platforms, including Aviso and the Zaigo Control Desk. Documents workflows, writes requirements, manages vendors and developers, oversees integrations, testing, training, adoption metrics, and change management. Facilitates AI use-case intake and Claude enablement, including shared prompts, context, and governed connectors. Partners across sales, revenue operations, marketing, enablement, and Information Systems to deliver automation programs.

Lead the creation of EasyLlama’s Platform Engineering function and technical roadmap. Build and operate scalable Ruby on Rails services, Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, AI and LLM infrastructure, billing systems, enterprise integrations, and observability platforms. Drive security, reliability, scalability, and architectural decisions across engineering teams while mentoring engineers and resolving complex production issues.

Manages sales, profitability, forecasting, contracts, inventory, and customer relationships across the Southeast territory for specialty electrical wire and cable products. Leads regional sales representatives, assigns targets, develops accounts, coordinates customer issue resolution, provides market intelligence, supports pricing and product decisions, conducts training, and attends trade shows. The role manages approximately $75 million in sales and requires extensive customer and partner travel.