Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead technical sales evaluations of Aleph’s AI-native FP&A platform for private equity firms and portfolio companies. Conduct product demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and fast-paced trials; configure solutions; answer finance and product questions; and communicate value to CFOs, operating partners, and other senior stakeholders. Partner with go-to-market, Product, and Engineering teams to improve positioning and roadmap direction. Apply private equity, finance, financial modeling, and AI expertise to build buyer trust and win technical evaluations.

Owns full-lifecycle recruiting for software engineering, data and AI/ML, infrastructure, cloud, and security roles across multiple geographies. Sources and assesses candidates, manages requisitions and applicant tracking records, coordinates interviews, partners with technical hiring managers, analyzes recruiting metrics, builds diverse talent pipelines, and improves candidate experience and recruiting processes.

Manage and expand a geographic sales territory across Oklahoma and Arkansas. Responsibilities include scheduling appointments, visiting manufacturers, identifying customer needs, demonstrating and specifying industrial equipment, closing sales, supporting startups, onboarding accounts, maintaining relationships, collaborating with product specialists and suppliers, and providing feedback to management. Recent graduates with engineering, industrial distribution, or business degrees are encouraged to apply.

Provides administrative and office support by managing schedules, appointments, correspondence, reports, filing systems, contact lists, office supplies, travel arrangements, and visitor assistance. The role also responds to manager requests, handles administrative queries, and helps maintain efficient organizational operations.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and full product lifecycle for Vertex’s AI-powered indirect tax audit and notice management solution. Translate tax audit workflows into AI-enabled features, establish evaluation frameworks for accuracy and compliance, guide human-in-the-loop experiences, and collaborate with engineering, design, sales, marketing, consulting, and customers. The role requires deep expertise in audit evidence gathering and notice response workflows, strong product leadership, and the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.

Owns competitive and market intelligence for the sales organization, translating competitor, customer, market, and win/loss insights into sales strategies, positioning, battlecards, enablement content, and executive recommendations. Partners cross-functionally with sales, product management, product marketing, customer success, and leadership to improve win rates, guide product and go-to-market decisions, and identify competitive threats and market opportunities.

Lead the design and implementation of Aalyria’s security platform, including identity, authentication, authorization, PKI, workload identity, secrets, key management, audit evidence, and security standards. Build systems that operate securely in commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Set technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, threat-model distributed systems, and operate production services through upgrades, maintenance, and incidents.

Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise security solutions across networks, endpoints, email, identity, and data protection. Responsibilities include firewall and VPN management, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, security audits, penetration testing, SOC 2 compliance, phishing response, SIEM monitoring, threat hunting, and security assessments. The role also supports Azure security, third-party risk questionnaires, technical design reviews, and off-hours security operations.

Drive new business, upsell and cross-sell Instructure’s education software across an assigned K-12 territory. Build district relationships, develop sales strategies, conduct needs analyses, tailor proposals and presentations, guide prospects through purchasing, forecast performance, achieve quotas, and maintain accurate Salesforce CRM records. The role requires enterprise software sales experience, consultative selling skills, executive-level engagement, and travel up to 50%.

Supports global trade compliance for imports and exports by classifying products under tariff and export control regulations, determining licensing requirements, preparing export license and CCATS applications, monitoring regulatory changes, assessing compliance risks, maintaining trade data, advising stakeholders, managing external partners, conducting training, and leading trade-related projects.