Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads customer engagement and execution for government and industry defense programs from award through demonstration, delivery, and fielding. Owns schedules, budgets, milestones, risks, contractual commitments, customer relationships, cross-functional coordination, demonstrations, test events, deployments, reporting, and proposal support. Requires strong defense acquisition knowledge, program leadership, communication, and the ability to manage complex priorities in a fast-growing defense technology company.

Supports marketing programs including consumer growth, email, social media, events, webinars, and sales enablement. Creates campaign materials and social content, builds outbound sequences, maintains contact lists, tracks campaign performance, prepares reports, coordinates event logistics, and collaborates with Sales, Product, and Customer Success. Uses AI tools for content creation and campaign analysis.

Strategists apply political research, data, and tools to provide actionable guidance to Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations. They build trusted relationships with candidates and senior staff, address ambiguous needs proactively, operate in fast-changing election environments, present recommendations, and help improve tools for the 2028 election cycle. The role may be full-time, part-time, contract, project-based, or a short-term fellowship.

Owns Kestra’s enterprise data platform, Microsoft Fabric transition, data architecture, governance standards, and Master Data Management program. Leads platform reliability, semantic models, self-service BI enablement, data protection, compliance, vendor resources, and technical teams. Advises executives and functional data owners while preparing governed data assets for AI, automation, and enterprise reporting.

Leads enterprise AI transformation initiatives, initially focused on Accounting and Finance. Assesses processes, builds and manages an AI roadmap, develops business cases, oversees cross-functional implementations, manages vendors and budgets, drives adoption, and measures productivity, cost, accuracy, and ROI improvements.

Lead brightwheel’s education business from early traction through product-market fit and scale. Own product vision, customer discovery, prototyping, pricing, business economics, and growth across educators, families, states, districts, and early education programs. Build hands-on with AI and modern tools, partner with the CEO and executive team, recruit and develop the team, and drive outcomes visible to the board.

Leads the global UX strategy and design organization across Levi Strauss & Co.'s retail, e-commerce, and internal platforms. Manages 12 designers, establishes design standards and systems, influences product roadmaps and senior executives, and connects design outcomes to business results. Oversees AI-powered experience design, prototyping, user research, cross-functional collaboration, and team development across web, app, and in-store channels.

Develop and manage financial plans, forecasts, models, KPI reporting, and variance analyses. Partner with executives and cross-functional teams to improve profitability, operating efficiency, and forecast accuracy. Support budgeting, monthly close, project profitability, pricing, ROI analysis, and board-level reporting. Build automated FP&A workflows using AI and finance platforms while delivering strategic insights and clear recommendations.

Serves as the filtration products subject matter expert, driving sales growth through opportunity planning, customer relationship development, technical solution support, and account handoffs. Provides filtration guidance across industrial applications, trains branch teams, conducts seminars, manages vendor relationships, represents the company at trade events, and maintains territory activity and CRM records. Requires travel within the assigned territory.

Leads aerospace certification programs under the IAQG 9100 series, ensuring compliance with certification, accreditation, audit, and OASIS requirements. Manages auditor competence, technical reviews, certification decisions, oversight assessments, corrective actions, and client relationships. Provides technical expertise on AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, and related standards, while mentoring staff, supporting sales and marketing, identifying business opportunities, and driving program quality, growth, and customer satisfaction. The remote role requires travel exceeding 50% to client sites.