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Own full-cycle enterprise sales and account growth across a Southern California territory. Responsibilities include prospecting school districts, managing renewals and expansions, conducting discovery and presentations, negotiating contracts, forecasting in Salesforce, coordinating onboarding and implementation, resolving escalations, and building long-term relationships with K-12 education leaders. The role requires travel for onsite visits and conferences, estimated at 30–50%.

Build and own Glow’s global analyst relations strategy for the cybersecurity market. Manage relationships, briefings, inquiries, evaluations, research participation, and executive preparation. Develop market narratives, positioning, and briefing materials while partnering with product, sales, communications, and leadership teams. Bring analyst feedback and market intelligence into product, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market decisions. Track analyst sentiment and program effectiveness while helping establish Glow’s market category and credibility.

Lead go-to-market strategy and launch new verticals: identify opportunities, validate via demand generation and direct enterprise selling, build sales playbooks, guide product roadmap, and own deals end-to-end while collaborating with CEO/CRO.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle for Andesite’s AI-driven cybersecurity platform through channel partners. Build territory pipeline, cultivate partner relationships, engage CISOs and executives, lead consultative discovery and POCs, develop ROI-based business cases, and drive new customer acquisition, expansion, ARR growth, and production deployments. Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and field teams while providing market insights to support product and go-to-market strategy.

Leads Climate Power’s fundraising and development strategy, including major donor relationships, stewardship, donor events, proposals, grant reports, revenue projections, and fundraising communications. Builds and manages the Development team, oversees its budget, partners with executive leadership and finance, represents the organization with donors and at events, and drives annual revenue growth exceeding established benchmarks.

Own the architecture and technical direction of conversational AI and voice-ordering systems. Design reliable, low-latency backend services for live drive-thru traffic, lead cross-system integrations with POS and hardware, improve AI evaluation and observability, mentor engineers, and resolve complex production issues involving real-time audio, distributed services, and third-party integrations.

Lead co-marketing and alliance programs with strategic partners (AWS, Microsoft, Shopify, SAP). Translate partner GTM into joint demand-gen, messaging, MDF management, enablement materials, event/marketplace participation, and performance reporting to drive partner-sourced pipeline.

Oversee financial management, forecasting, project accounting, revenue recognition, invoicing, accruals, reconciliations, budgeting, audits, and executive reporting for a client portfolio. Supervise monthly close and project tracking, assess contracts, manage intercompany transactions and subcontractor costs, monitor project profitability, and ensure GAAP and ASC 606 compliance. Lead process improvements, mentor finance staff, and collaborate with FP&A, legal, project leadership, and senior management.

Lead CEA’s grantmaking operations across intake, diligence, compliance, structuring, payments, monitoring, and closeout. Serve as the internal authority on US charitable grantmaking, including cross-border grants, individual grants, DAFs, and non-standard vehicles. Manage and grow the Grants Operations team, partner with grantmakers and Finance, establish scalable systems and controls, and guide risk-sensitive decisions. Develop SOPs, templates, technology systems, reporting, and evaluation processes that support rapid, compliant grant deployment.

Tune AML and fraud detection models using customers’ live transaction data. Investigate missed cases, alert quality, pattern drift, and false positives; validate changes through backtesting and sample review; document regulatory rationale; and present model performance and business value to compliance, risk, and data science stakeholders. Partner with customer teams on account strategy and relay customer-specific or systemic findings to product and model functions.