Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Owns SwimOutlet and Sporti’s organic social presence and social creative production across video, UGC, motion graphics, and static content. Responsibilities include shooting, editing, publishing, community management, ambassador program management, paid-social creative testing, performance analysis, trend monitoring, and brand-voice stewardship. The role partners with the CMO and internal teams to align content with business priorities and optimize creative based on performance data.

Lead Outpost from pre-seed startup to category-defining company by setting market strategy, commercializing its autonomous infrastructure platform, securing design partners and early revenue, raising seed financing, recruiting the founding team, and owning strategy, product prioritization, partnerships, operations, and company building. The role requires hard-tech commercialization experience, industrial customer relationships, technical fluency across energy, AI, compute, and robotics, and exceptional storytelling.

Design, build, and maintain automation and control systems for bioreactors and bioprocessing equipment. Tune and troubleshoot PID control loops, improve system reliability through monitoring and fault recovery, and develop safe interfaces between cloud software and physical devices. Build sensor, actuator, and embedded-controller integrations while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions.

Own the customer renewal and expansion lifecycle, including pricing strategy, negotiations, proposals, quotes, sales orders, RFPs, forecasting, and closing opportunities. Partner with Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and Legal teams to manage SMB, mid-market, and enterprise renewals. Analyze usage metrics, identify renewal risks and upsell opportunities, lead Procurement discussions, maintain Salesforce records, and drive customer retention and revenue growth.

Build and scale Ruby on Rails backend systems powering StackBlitz and Bolt.new. Responsibilities include improving application scalability, reliability, and performance; optimizing PostgreSQL and object storage; developing platform features and integrations; supporting developer infrastructure; and reviewing code. The role works across Rails and Node.js/TypeScript stacks in a globally distributed, remote team.

Manage SEO and Answer Engine Optimization across multiple B2B media brands. Monitor organic and AI search visibility, conduct keyword and competitor research, identify technical and content opportunities, provide editorial recommendations, run optimization tests, and report on traffic, rankings, citations, mentions, and visibility across Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and other platforms.

Serves as the primary liaison for premier accounts, delivering proactive support, resolving complex issues, managing SLAs, conducting client training, providing specialized reporting, and supporting strategic account initiatives. Builds trusted customer relationships, documents interactions in CRM systems, collaborates with internal teams, and mentors junior client service staff.

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who partners with enterprise customers to identify AI opportunities, design and deploy autonomous agents, and convert custom solutions into scalable platform capabilities. The role owns the full lifecycle from discovery and architecture through production deployment, monitoring, and optimization. It also establishes FDE processes, playbooks, team culture, technical roadmaps, and cross-functional operating practices.

Designs, builds, tests, deploys, and optimizes full-stack product features using React and Python. Develops GraphQL integrations, scalable backend services, data visualizations, analytics instrumentation, and production-ready platform capabilities. Contributes to UX workflows, CI/CD, monitoring, code quality, and stakeholder updates while collaborating in agile sprints and evaluating new technologies.

Develop and grow strategic relationships with U.S. agricultural distribution partners. Lead account planning, sales strategy, negotiations, forecasting, pricing, profitability, market share growth, product launches, and cross-functional execution across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Technical Service, and Regulatory teams.