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The Enterprise Talent Solutions team at Upwork is helping craft the future of work and we are looking for a dedicated recruiting partner to help grow the talent pool of some of our largest clients. As the Enterprise Talent Acquisition Specialist at Upwork, you will be partnering with Talent Solutions management to grow and evolve the talent base for our Fortune 500 customers. In addition to rolling up your sleeves and recruiting on behalf of Upwork Enterprise clients across numerous verticals, your main focus will be delivering talent offering services in the Marketing and Creative categories. Come join a collaborative, dynamic team that helps grow the business and embodies the company's mission and values.

Your job will be to empower our team of Python API engineers to release scalable, performant, supportable products into production. You will lead our team through a transition from traditional, monolithic services to a microservice-based architecture running on AWS. You will build the backend services that can be used easily by our product’s client applications and our integration partners.

Teamwork: The SRE is often the first point of contact for questions about troubleshooting, performance, security, and deployments. Being a strong team member and communicator is a daily requirement.  Helping developers become as self-sufficient as possible is a priority. Security: You’ll be responsible for managing access control policies for all our resources, ensuring, daily, that we stay secure and exceed industry standards. Deployment: We deploy continuously. You’ll be responsible for ensuring this process is reliable and safe. We are a microservice architecture which means new services roll out regularly. Development: We use CloudFormation and Terraform to manage our cloud resources. You’ll be responsible for updating and maintaining the underlying infrastructure, as well as contributing to our roadmap and system architecture choices.

Lead in the month-end and year-end close of books and the preparation of consolidated monthly and annual financial statements.  prepare, review and analyze general ledger entries and monthly balance sheet accounts reconciliations to ensure transactions are recorded in accordance with us GAAP. participate in the year-end internal/external audit (prepare audit schedules/requests). Actively participate in all accounting functions which include, but not limited to financial reporting, budgeting, planning, gain/loss (g/l), accounts payable, accounts receivable, costing, taxes, compliances, and regulatory filings. Reconcile bank statements and credit card transactions monthly. calculate monthly sales commission. Directly involved in the development of accounting principles, practices, and procedures to improve internal controls and management reporting. Maintain payroll-related accounts, including sales commissions, workers' compensation, payroll taxes, 401k, flexible spending accounts, transit, healthcare, and other benefit accounts. assist in the preparation and distribution of financial statements including budget vs. actual variance reports. Assist controller in preparing proper consolidations of division financial statements, including treatment of intercompany accounts, eliminating journal entries, preparation and documentation of all supporting schedules for recordkeeping, variance analysis, and audit support.

We are seeking a highly motivated, talented engineer to join our engineering team.  As part of the Software Development team, you will develop innovative products by building software quickly and iteratively in an agile environment. We are looking for someone to lead and influence the technical direction of a core component in our system. A person in this role must be comfortable collaborating with product managers, designers, and other technical

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our Product team to help launch the next generation of our core platform. As a Product Manager, this role will work with leading edge technologies and an elite engineering team to then deliver new capabilities and features that deliver quantifiable value to our users and help craft the future of the company. Core job responsibilities include: Driving strategic insight to industry standard

As a Sales Development Representative, you'll play a key role in our marketing and sales efforts through the development of qualified leads that result in more product demos and sales for the company. Perform sales activities such as phone calls, emails, and demo scheduling. Meet or exceed key activity metrics for calls, emails, qualified opportunities, demos booked, and more.

We are looking for an experienced Account Manager who is ready to join our Client Success team and hit the ground running. The primary focus of the Account Manager is to act as trusted advisor and ensure every PerkSpot client has a winning plan in place to successfully launch their program and frequently promote PerkSpot to their employees. The Account Managers provide prompt, consistent and empathetic solutions.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and tech savvy marketing intern to join our marketing team. In this position, you will collaborate with our marketing team across multiple stages of market testing and marketing launch campaign development. Your work could include supporting our ongoing beta testing programs, market launch planning, internal communication planning and execution, social media strategy development, online community strategy and execution, marketing campaign development, marketing message testing, and marketing campaign execution.

The Business Development Representative (BDR) will help contribute to our continued growth by supporting our Sales Team. This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly-motivated, individual to join an extremely successful sales team within a rapidly growing organization! There is a direct path of advancement to an Account Executive role after successful performance as a BDR.   You Will: Uncover, qualify and build the sales

The Billing Manager will be involved in decision making for various high-level functions related to billing and financials and other vital business sectors. This individual will work to develop long-term strategies aimed to propagate a vision of growth and sustainability of current and future operations. This role will take accountability for the direction of the business which will be guided by successful evolution of tools, processes, and relationships with our Enterprise Clients.

Hello, We’re Built In Built In unites companies and people around their shared passion for tech and the universal need for purpose. To help our partners attract qualified talent, we create content that tells their story in a way no job post ever could — and we put their jobs in front of people who were born to do them. Our audience of sought-after candidates use Built In to find their professional purpose and connect meaningfully to the tech

As a staff writer, you will be joining our Brand Studio team, which is composed of writers, editors, designers, strategists and UX experts collaborating each day to develop high-quality content in support of the tech and startup community. We are looking for a startup lovin’, analytical, tech-crazy writer with a fresh voice and style.

As the Head of Product Marketing, you’ll lead a small, agile team with access to key leaders and areas of the business. You’ll work with partners across Upwork to shape new product features and initiatives and ensure we deliver a consistent, customer-centered experience. We’re looking for a strategic leader and customer advocate with experience leading a product marketing team. If you are hungry to define and own product marketing’s role across a growing and dynamic business, this job is for you.

About The Role You will have the opportunity to define and drive best practices and standards for Yello’s relational and non-relational data stores. You will join an existing team charged with ensuring the overall health of data that Yello collects. You will work closely with the architects, data guild, core, feature and infrastructure teams to produce solutions that are scalable and sustainable. You will act as a technical thought leader within

Narrative Science is seeking a solutions consultant to join our team in Chicago. The Solutions Consultant will be responsible for building automated reporting and content solutions for our clients using Quill™, our natural-language generation (NLG) platform. In addition, the Solutions Consultant will act as the primary point of contact on Quill™-based project work, helping customers understand our solutions, forming strong relationships with

ReviewTrackers is the rapidly-growing customer feedback platform trusted by tens of thousands of businesses around the world. ReviewTrackers software quantifies the customer experience, extracting data from customer reviews that allows brands to better understand their customers and turn them into lifelong advocates.  ReviewTrackers is looking for a Backend engineer with experience designing, developing, training and maintaining NLP models. 

Work with leadership to identify KPIs and translate them into actionable goals with supporting activities. Create customized dashboards and reports in response to business needs. Maintain dashboards and reports to track and communicate performance. Map, document and continually improve the sales process and supporting processes. Implement and enforce processes to maintain the integrity of Salesforce.com data.

We are looking for a dynamic, entrepreneurial Account Manager with a strong track record of high performance. You will be responsible for growing your current book of business, preventing account issues with a proactive approach, and establishing relationships at the C suite level. You are expected to manage a portfolio of accounts and cultivate consistent growth acting as a strategic advisor to your clients.

Hello, We’re Built In We unite companies and people around their shared passion for tech and the universal need for purpose. We’re looking for a Staff Writer We’re expanding our team of Staff Writers to produce compelling features for a sophisticated national audience in the tech sector and beyond. Some days might be spent reporting and writing a 2,000-word deep dive on the state of VR in healthcare, others researching the future of deep learning