Upwork

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Upwork is an online work marketplace that connects businesses with independent talents worldwide. It offers a platform that enables companies and freelancers to collaborate and unlock their potential across various industries and skills.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 115250.0 - 160000.0 USD per year

  • 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or Sales, with at least 2+ years managing a team​.
  • Proven success working with Enterprise clients, with a strong track record of driving adoption, retention, and expansion​.
  • Strong leadership and coaching abilities, with experience developing high-performing teams that operate as trusted advisors to customers​.
  • Expertise in customer engagement strategies, consultative selling, and workforce solutions, with a deep understanding of contingent workforce trends​.
  • Ability to analyze and leverage customer data, using insights to drive decision-making and optimize customer programs​.
  • Cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working across Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to drive impact​.
  • Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and decision-makers​.
  • Contributes to the strategy and execution plans for a team of Enterprise CSMs, driving performance with minimal oversight while aligning to broader Customer Success objectives.
  • Establishes a standard of excellence within the team, continuously optimizing best practices and driving operational efficiencies that enhance customer outcomes.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Enterprise CSMs, ensuring they operate as strategic consultants for customers while continuously developing their skills.
  • Accurately forecast anticipated revenue, identify future revenue opportunities, serve as an expert in quality QBRs and creation of Success Plans.
  • Engage directly with Enterprise accounts to support high-value opportunities, strategic initiatives, and executive-level stakeholder management.
  • Monitor customer health metrics, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to drive retention, expansion, and customer advocacy.
  • Implement and refine processes that drive efficiency, enhance customer experience, and streamline CSM workflows.
  • Takes ownership of team performance, proactively identifying gaps in customer engagement strategies and implementing corrective actions to drive retention and growth.
  • Leverage data-driven insights to assess team performance, refine customer engagement strategies, and drive measurable business impact​.
  • Establish and track clear performance metrics, ensuring CSMs are not only meeting business goals but also demonstrating proactive leadership and customer influence​.
  • Leverages internal insights and best practices from Upwork’s own usage of the platform to guide customers in developing high-impact contingent workforce programs.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 151500.0 - 215500.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • Strong leadership experience managing backend and frontend engineering teams, ideally in a fast-paced environment.
  • Deep understanding of monetization models, including subscriptions, transaction fees, and marketplace revenue structures.
  • Experience working with payment processing systems, financial transactions, or billing platforms.
  • Hands-on technical expertise in backend development (Java, Python, or similar) and frontend technologies where applicable.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Data, and other key stakeholders to align engineering efforts with business goals.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions in a complex marketplace ecosystem.
  • Passion for building scalable, secure, and user-friendly financial systems that drive business growth.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers, fostering an environment of technical excellence and innovation.
  • Drive the development and optimization of subscriptions, fees, and payment models to enhance Upwork’s monetization strategies.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Finance, and Data teams to define and execute on revenue-generating initiatives.
  • Ensure the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions while maintaining a strong focus on user experience and performance.
  • Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to solve complex engineering challenges related to payment processing and transaction fees.
  • Establish best practices for engineering, testing, deployment, and monitoring to ensure system reliability and efficiency.
  • Balance short-term deliverables with long-term strategy to scale Upwork’s monetization infrastructure effectively.

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📍 Latin America

🧭 Contract

🔍 Software Development

  • Solid software development experience using Java as well as extensive experience with REST and relational databases in a cloud environment such as AWS.
  • Deep knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6+ and Typescript), CSS, and HTML.
  • Experience with a modern JS framework, such as Vue (preferred), React, or Angular
  • Experience in writing well-structured, easily maintainable unit tests (such as JUnit, Mockito, Jest, etc).
  • Experience with AI-coding assistants such as co-pilot, cursor, etc
  • Experience with Infrastructure and working with AWS , Azure
  • A solid track record of collaborating on code and documentation with large, distributed teams of engineers.
  • Experience building and supporting high-load web applications and solving scalability issues.
  • Working with Engineering teams, Product Managers, and Designers to build outstanding products for our users!
  • Requires proactive communication and collaborative work with other skilled professionals for code reviews, problem solving, and writing supporting documentation.
  • Share the ownership of our front and back end code domains and will actively work to solve meaningful user problems and improve quality.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 175500.0 - 277500.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

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  • Design, implement, and optimize distributed systems and infrastructure components to support large-scale machine learning workflows, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, and serving.
  • Develop and maintain frameworks, libraries, and tools to streamline the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from data preparation and experimentation to model deployment and monitoring.
  • Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure systems that meet the performance and scalability requirements of production machine learning workloads.
  • Collaborate with machine learning researchers and data scientists to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software solutions.
  • Stay current with the latest advancements in machine learning infrastructure, distributed computing, and cloud technologies, and integrate them into our platform to drive innovation.
  • Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 185500.0 - 293750.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • Strong technical expertise in designing and building scalable ML infrastructure.
  • Experience with distributed systems and cloud-based ML platforms.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Deep understanding of ML workflows, including data pipelines, model training, and deployment.
  • Passion for innovation and eagerness to implement the latest advancements in ML infrastructure.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to optimize complex systems for performance and reliability.
  • Collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills to work across teams.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with evolving technical challenges.
  • Design, implement, and optimize distributed systems and infrastructure components to support large-scale machine learning workflows, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, and serving.
  • Develop and maintain frameworks, libraries, and tools that streamline the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from data preparation and experimentation to model deployment and monitoring.
  • Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure systems that meet the performance and scalability requirements of production machine learning workloads.
  • Collaborate with machine learning researchers and data scientists to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software solutions.
  • Stay current with advancements in machine learning infrastructure, distributed computing, and cloud technologies, integrating them into our platform to drive innovation.
  • Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

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🔥 Product Manager
Posted 25 days ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 136250.0 - 194000.0 USD per year

🔍 HRTech

  • 4+ years of product management experience in a fast-paced environment (ideally scaleup/start-up).
  • Experience with products that are consumption-driven, not just SaaS. Ideally, experience at a company that is a tech-enabled services company.
  • A good grasp of technical concepts relevant to the product.
  • Prioritize solving problems for customers (enterprise clients, talent, internal teams), not building features for the sake of building.
  • Take full cycle ownership of your work from ideation on bold, new solutions, design, review and feedback in the final test build and after release, and be proactive & curious throughout the process.
  • Focus on creating new solutions based on enterprise client needs. Identify client problems proactively, define high-impact solutions, and drive implementation of new solutions to achieve product-market fit.

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🔥 Sr. Revenue Accountant
Posted 30 days ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 80250.0 - 97250.0 USD per year

🔍 Technology

  • 4+ years of experience in revenue accounting or public accounting (Big 4 preferred)
  • CPA certification (or progress toward CPA) is highly preferred
  • Experience in a Public Company and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance
  • Solid knowledge of accounting policies/procedures and financial statements
  • Ability to resolve problems where analysis requires the in-depth evaluation of various factors
  • Support the monthly and quarterly revenue close process, ensuring accurate and timely recognition of revenue and related expenses
  • Conduct variance analysis and reporting on revenue trends and discrepancies for both the Enterprise and Manage Services products
  • Support the month end close for various functions; including the preparation of journal entries, account reconciliations, flux analysis for revenue-related accounts, including deferred revenue and accounts receivable
  • Partner with external auditors by providing documentation, explanations, and support for SOX compliance and audit requests
  • Collaborate with Accounts Receivable to analyze bad debt reserves, prepare related journal entries, and ensure proper accounting treatment of doubtful accounts.
  • Partner with FP&A and other business partners to record, reconcile and maintain accrual balances and monthly forecast vs actual analysis
  • Identify process improvements and internal control enhancements related to revenue accounting
  • Help with implementations, report maintenance, close efficiency, audit readiness and ad-hoc projects

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 195000.0 - 308000.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years leading ML teams.
  • Strong expertise in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, and search technologies.
  • Proven experience in search ranking, query understanding, and NLP-based search improvements.
  • Proficiency in distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Kubernetes).
  • Deep knowledge of deploying scalable ML models in production search systems.
  • Exceptional leadership skills with a track record of building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
  • Experience with cloud-based ML infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to drive alignment across product, engineering, and data teams.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of machine learning engineers, data scientists, and backend engineers.
  • Drive the development and deployment of state-of-the-art ML models for search retrieval, ranking, and personalization.
  • Pioneer the integration of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLMs) into traditional search systems.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to enhance Upwork’s search ecosystem.
  • Establish technical direction and best practices for ML model training, experimentation, and large-scale deployment.
  • Optimize search algorithms to improve user experience, engagement, and conversion rates.
  • Foster an experimentation-driven culture, leveraging A/B testing and data insights to refine search and ranking strategies.
  • Ensure model explainability, fairness, and ethical AI considerations in search algorithms.
  • Develop a roadmap for scaling ML-powered search and stay ahead of industry trends.

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📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

💸 175500.0 - 277500.0 USD per year

🔍 Software Development

  • Proven expertise in full-stack development with deep specialization in frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular, or Vue.js).
  • Experience leading engineering teams of 10+ people, with a focus on mentorship, collaboration, and technical leadership.
  • A track record of driving product innovation and successfully transforming complex ideas into scalable solutions.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
  • Hands-on experience applying AI/Gen AI concepts, integrating ML models into applications, and working with LLMs. Experience with agentic platforms is a plus!
  • Full-Stack Leadership: Leverage your frontend expertise (React, Angular, or Vue.js) and robust backend knowledge to build and maintain scalable, high-performance services.
  • Architectural Excellence: Design resilient, cloud-native architectures, including microservices and data pipelines, for high availability and scalability using AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Product Innovation & Rapid Prototyping: Drive product transformation by identifying opportunities for innovation, creating prototypes, and iterating quickly toward customer-ready solutions.
  • Software Lifecycle Management: Implement CI/CD pipelines for model training, deployment, monitoring, and versioning, ensuring seamless production rollouts and model observability.
  • AI & Machine Learning Integration: Collaborate with ML experts to embed AI/Gen AI capabilities, including LLMs, into our products to enhance intelligence and user value.
  • Tech Trend Awareness: Stay ahead of emerging AI/ML trends (e.g., prompt engineering, transformer architectures) and promote continuous learning within the team.
  • Team Leadership & Growth: Build and lead a high-performing technical team, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and engineering excellence.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product, data science, design, and ML teams to deliver features based on A/B testing, user feedback, and analytics.

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🔥 Director, Data Science
Posted about 1 month ago

📍 United States

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Data Science

  • Master’s or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Machine Learning, or a related.
  • 10+ years of experience in Data Science, AI/ML, or Econometrics.
  • Proven success with supply-demand models, econometric modelling, and other optimization tools.
  • Ability to tackle ambiguity with a data-centric mindset.
  • Keen attention to detail and ability to articulate ideas clearly.
  • Hire, mentor, and scale a world-class data science team.
  • Present insights with conviction, linking metrics to key business drivers.
  • Work closely with AI/ML engineering and data platform teams.
  • Reinforce rigorous processes for model selection, validation, and retraining.
  • Evangelize cutting-edge techniques and mentor colleagues.

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