Jobs at Upwork

Senior strategic partner to the COO and GM of Marketplace who sharpens decision-making, prepares executive materials, owns operating rhythm (reviews, planning, budgets), drives cross-functional alignment, unblocks execution, and models leadership and continuity during change.

Lead MarTech systems for Paid Acquisition, Paid Social, and SEO by owning GTM, tagging, server-side measurement, Conversion API, and CDP integrations. Build AI-enabled workflows for segmentation, personalization, and automation. Drive cross-functional initiatives with engineering, data, legal, and privacy to embed consent, governance, and maintain Privacy Impact Assessments and data-flow documentation.

The Senior Director of Corporate Development will lead M&A and investment strategy, oversee execution, and drive integration for growth opportunities.

Lead a 0-to-1 AI-native product end-to-end: set vision and roadmap, drive human-to-AI automation, coordinate engineering/design/data/platform partners, run operational scaling and go-to-market for early cohorts, and use qualitative and quantitative learning to iterate and reduce human effort per engagement.

Lead development and productionization of reinforcement-learning and agentic systems for search, recommendations, and AI assistant features. Design scalable retrieval, vector/graph-based reasoning, and RAG workflows; move research prototypes to robust production; partner cross-functionally on explainability, safety, and observability; and mentor engineers and scientists to deliver high-impact ML outcomes.

Lead and scale the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX 404) program, maintain the ICFR framework, manage control design/testing/remediation, oversee ITGC scoping, integrate controls for acquisitions, liaise with external auditors and the Audit Committee, and build and mentor a SOX compliance team.

Upwork is opening a new hub in Lisbon for technical and back-office roles including product development and AI engineering.

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Lead the engineering organization for Upwork's Search & Recommendations platform. Define technical strategy, modernize search infrastructure, scale systems and teams, partner with product/ML/data science, ensure reliability, experimentation, responsible AI, and deliver platform metrics and roadmaps that drive marketplace matching and business outcomes.