Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Research and identify technical candidates using sourcing tools, build diverse talent pipelines, conduct personalized outreach and initial screens, research markets and companies, test sourcing strategies, and collaborate with recruiters. The role requires strong research, communication, organization, basic understanding of technical roles, and independent remote work. It is a six-month independent contractor position with potential extension or conversion.

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting searches for PCT clients, partnering with founders and senior technical leaders. Build structured interview processes, conduct talent mapping and competitive analysis, develop innovative sourcing strategies, assess senior and staff-level technical candidates, and track pipeline metrics. Manage multiple searches autonomously while collaborating with technical sourcers and using recruiting technology and AI tools to improve outcomes.

Manage and optimize paid acquisition campaigns across Meta and other platforms while owning creative ideation and testing. Track CAC, ROAS, conversion rates, spend, and performance trends; translate data into creative direction; collaborate with designers, editors, and leadership; and rapidly test audiences, offers, formats, and messaging to scale winning ads and improve performance.

Manages financial planning and earned value control for large aerospace development programs. Responsibilities include maintaining cost and schedule baselines, analyzing performance trends, forecasting sales and estimates at completion, reconciling accounting and project data, supporting audits and customer submissions, leading month-end processes, and advising program leadership on corrective actions. The role also supports proposals, program reviews, compliance, and government customer interactions, with travel up to 10%.

Manages program schedule controls and EVMS activities, including Integrated Master Plans and Schedules, critical path analysis, schedule risk assessments, forecasting, and cost-schedule reconciliation. Collaborates with schedulers, Control Account Managers, engineering, finance, contracts, and operations. Supports proposals, program reviews, EACs, IPMDAR reporting, compliance audits, and schedule mitigation recommendations. Requires travel of up to 10%.

Manages integrated master plans and schedules for aerospace and defense programs. Maintains schedule updates, analyzes critical and driving paths, performs schedule risk assessments, reconciles cost and schedule data, supports forecasts, proposals, program reviews, EACs, and IPMDAR reporting. The role also supports EVMS compliance, audits, reporting, and mitigation recommendations while coordinating with program managers, engineers, finance, contracts, operations, CAMs, and IPT leads.

Lead development and scaling of financial analytics: build data models, dashboards, and reporting; translate financial data into executive insights; embed predictive analytics; partner with Finance, IT, and business units to improve data quality, governance, forecasting, and automation.

Manage federal contract performance, coordinate contractor resources, oversee deliverables, and serve as the primary liaison with the Government COR. Lead acquisition workforce modernization and adoption initiatives through change-management planning, stakeholder engagement, impact assessments, resistance mitigation, communications, workshops, executive briefings, and reinforcement strategies.

Design, build, and operate end-to-end LLM-powered agents and RAG architectures on an AWS-native GenAI platform. Own services (FastAPI), MCP servers, Terraform IaC, evaluation pipelines, reliability practices, and mentor engineering teams while collaborating with product, data, and platform stakeholders.

Lead technical execution and team development for connected-services projects involving control systems, electrical power monitoring, and modular infrastructure. Own projects from $50K to $20M, including platform selection, system architecture, design reviews, budgeting, purchasing, change orders, commissioning, customer interface, and financial performance. Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, sales, service, field personnel, and subcontractors while managing risks, schedules, resources, and customer relationships. Indirectly supervise approximately 5–10 employees.

Lead growth marketing for CoLab's Top 100 major accounts to drive expansion and new-business pipeline. Build and test account-specific plays, coordinate cross-functional campaigns (events, webinars, digital, content), partner closely with Sales and Customer Success, and scale repeatable programs targeting senior stakeholders.

Design, implement, and maintain reusable engineering patterns, CI/CD, quality checks, observability, and release practices for data product delivery across dbt, Snowflake, and GitLab. Support incident response, environment management, and developer experience to enable trusted, maintainable production data pipelines at scale.

Executive leader owning global post-sales customer organization (Professional Services, Support, Success, Enablement). Define and scale unified delivery across CCaaS and AI/agentic solutions, drive NRR, time-to-value, ROI, P&L, cross-functional alignment, and build high-performing global teams and Forward Deployed capabilities.