Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build and manage sales pipeline through MSP events, conferences, roadshow dinners, field events, and high-volume outbound calls, emails, and LinkedIn outreach. Follow up with prospects, convert event conversations into qualified meetings, collaborate with Account Executives to improve messaging and handoffs, and maintain organized activity tracking. The role requires event confidence, strong communication, persistence, competitiveness, resourcefulness, and 1–2 years of BDR, SDR, or outbound sales experience, ideally in SaaS or cybersecurity.

Lead U.S. sales strategy and customer development for technical food ingredient and sweetener products. Responsibilities include prospecting, market research, technical presentations, proposals, sales negotiations, relationship management, forecasting, CRM administration, trade show participation, customer support, product feedback, and meeting revenue targets. The role requires close collaboration with internal stakeholders and customers, technical knowledge of sweetener formulation, market analysis, and travel of at least 50%.

Design, develop, and maintain core database features for VillageSQL Cloud, emphasizing performance, stability, scalability, security, and reliability. Build distributed systems using Go and Kubernetes, collaborate on technical vision and architecture, contribute to open-source projects, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and engage with the developer community. The role focuses on database-as-a-service infrastructure and cloud service evolution.

Work with the development team to build and debug web applications: write Python backend code, create responsive HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontends, integrate frontend and backend, participate in code reviews and testing, learn frameworks and document progress.

Performs standard and advanced secretarial and administrative duties under general supervision. Supports a manager or senior manager, completes independent project assignments, and applies knowledge of departmental practices and district policies and procedures.

Recruit, onboard, match, monitor, and support technical mentors overseeing student open-source software projects. Responsibilities include mentor calls, reviewing weekly reflections, tracking team meetings, checking in with mentors, escalating concerns, and optionally recruiting volunteer mentors through outreach to technology companies. The role is contractor-based, flexible, fully online, and requires availability during some US working hours.

Serve as the US-based technical contact for industrial valve and fluid-control customers. Responsibilities include responding to technical inquiries, maintaining customer relationships, conducting occasional site visits, gathering requirements, supporting quotations and technical proposals, sharing market intelligence, coordinating orders, and resolving routine technical issues. The role requires an established US industrial network, product knowledge, B2B communication skills, account management experience, and comfort with an independent, commission-based consultant model.

Provide customer support across email, chat, and social media; assist with onboarding, resolve bugs and usability issues, gather and prioritize product feedback, and communicate customer insights internally. The role requires empathy, strong problem-solving, product knowledge, excellent written and verbal communication, creative thinking, and availability for weeknight and weekend shifts.

Leads global upstream marketing, portfolio strategy, product roadmaps, and new product development for a medical device platform. Identifies unmet clinical needs, conducts market and customer research, builds business cases, defines product requirements, and guides products through development and launch readiness. Partners with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Finance, Downstream Marketing, and Sales while managing global commercialization strategy, KOL relationships, and upstream marketing talent.

Build and manage partnerships with community-based organizations, health systems, and health plans. Own the sales cycle from prospecting through contract close, conduct discovery conversations, deliver tailored product demonstrations, maintain pipeline forecasts in HubSpot, and develop regional go-to-market strategies. Represent Pear Suite at community events and conferences, build referral networks, provide market intelligence, and support growth through relationship-based engagement. The role is fully remote with up to 30% strategic travel.