Jobs in Burlingame, CA

A leading corporate venture and innovation team at a global mobility firm HQ'd in Asia is hiring an Associate / Senior Associate to help lead early-stage investments and oversee strategic partnerships with high-growth startsup in various sectors including mobility, deep tech, climate tech, AI, robotics, advanced manufacturing and energy.

Please note that this position will begin as a 6 to 12 month contract, with the goal of transitioning to a long term full-time perm hire. The team has a strong track record of converting contractors into full-time roles, and this position is being scoped with long-term fit in mind.

This role sits at the intersection of venture investing, corporate development, and tech integration—ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving, cross-functional environments and is passionate about emerging technologies. This is a rare opportunity to join a venture group backed by a Fortune Global 100 company — focused not on financial return, but on investing for long-term strategic technology advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Source and evaluate early-stage startups (Seed to Series B) across sectors like climate tech, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and AI
• Lead proofs of concept (POCs) and internal pilot projects with engineering and business teams
• Conduct strategic diligence and support investment decisions
• Manage post-investment partnerships and cross-functional implementation
• Coordinate with global stakeholders, including R&D and innovation teams abroad

Candidate Profile:

• 2–7+ years of experience in corporate development, corporate venture capital, VC, innovation, or strategic partnership
• Strong understanding of startups and emerging technology trends
• Technical or engineering background preferred
• Experience with pilot programs, startup collaboration, or venture incubation is a plus
• Comfortable navigating complex organizations and building cross-functional consensus
• Japanese language fluency a strong plus but not required

About the job

Admera Health is seeking a Sales Executive to drive business expansion for our NGS services.

ADMERA - Entering the ADvanced Molecular ERA

Admera Health provides genomic and bioinformatic services supporting discovery through clinical research stages. Our services include solutions for genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and bioinformatics. Admera has deep expertise working with single-cell, FFPE, custom panels, and difficult or low-input samples.

Corporate Culture Attributes:

Innovative

Collaborative

Energetic

Accountable

Results-oriented

Customer-centric

Admera offers competitive health and financial benefits. In addition, we offer professional development and learning opportunities, rewarding bonus programs, and a wide range of work-life benefits.

Title: Sales Executive

Department: Sales

Location: Remote/Field; Bay Area–based (required)

• Territory: Academia accounts across the Bay Area, academia + industrial accounts of Washington (WA), Oregon (OR), Nevada (NV), Idaho (ID), and Canada

Responsibilities:

• Drive new business and retain customer base while meeting sales targets.
• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of the Next Generation Sequencing portfolio, research customer needs, and identify how our solutions can address those needs.
• Ensure cross functional communication and alignment toward accomplishment of company goals.
• Perform lead generation, account mapping, and identify decision-makers to sell effectively in a solution-oriented team selling approach.
• Collaborate with others to identify and implement creative solutions to improve business performance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required in Life Sciences or Business Administration (a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in a Life Sciences related field is preferred or equivalent experience).
• At least 2+ years of NGS sales experience required
• Passionate about business results, with a strong sense of accountability, metrics, and ownership.
• Proven leadership skills as a sales/business development professional in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven and verifiable history of increasing revenues to meet benchmarks and company goals.
• Strong understanding of Genomics and/or NGS experience.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal are essential.
• Willing and able to travel overnight as required (up to 35% of the time).
• Must have a valid US driver’s license and proof of auto insurance for business purposes.

Compensation

• Salary Range Starting at: $80,000 annually (commensurate with experience and qualifications)
• Commission: 20–30% of base salary, tied to performance and sales targets
• Health Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) plan with company contribution
• Paid Time Off & Holidays: Generous PTO and holiday schedule
• Professional Development: Ongoing support and learning opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Admera Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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SEEKING A STRONG SENIOR BEAUTY ACCOUNT MANAGER TO MANAGE SEPHORA ACCOUNTS. THIS IS SELLING IN! MUST BE BASED IN SAN FRAN !! THIS IS NOT A FIELD EDUCATION ROLE!!

Summary:

Seeking an experienced Senior Account . You will be responsible for maintaining and expanding our business relationship with Sephora and other retailers. Your strong experience and knowledge of Sephora's operations, product requirements, and customer preferences will be instrumental in achieving sales targets and fostering a mutually beneficial partnership. This position will give the right candidate exposure to many departments within the company and will provide insight and experience into how a beauty brand is managed from the corporate level.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute plans to achieve sales targets and maximize revenue opportunities; collaborate with Sephora's team to align strategies and drive sales growth.

• Serve as a point of contact between our brand and Sephora, building and nurturing a strong professional relationship.

• Responsible for coordinating and scheduling meetings with the internal team and Sephora

• Manage internal and competitive pricing list for all product categories as part of a master product catalog, update with any new SKUs and or discontinued SKUs

• Collate competitive reviews of newness launches to share with internal Sales team + global Marketing

• Identify new opportunities and promotional initiatives to drive incremental sales.

• Monitor market trends, competitive activities, and consumer preferences to identify growth areas and propose innovative strategies.

• Stay updated on industry trends, new product launches, and emerging technologies to effectively communicate the value of our brands and products.

• Help develop and manage account forecasts, budgets, and sales projections.

• Monitor and analyze sales performance, inventory levels, and promotional activities to identify areas for improvement.

• Provide regular updates to the management team, highlighting sales achievements, challenges, and strategic recommendations.

• Potential for additional ad-hoc Sales team requests

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in account management or sales roles within the beauty industry, working with Sephora. MUST HAVE SELL IN EXPERIENCE

• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and driving business growth.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with clients and internal stakeholders.

• In-depth knowledge of the beauty industry, including trends, competitors, and consumer preferences.

• Highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and CRM software

• Strategic and adaptive; ability to efficiently anticipate, identify, and articulate problems in real-time.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Based in Redwood City, California, with offices in Chicago and New York, Equilar’s award-winning suite of online databases is the first choice for executive intelligence and networking solutions. Equilar’s clients include leading professional service firms (investment banks, law firms, recruiters, consultants), private equity firms and corporations. Clients rely on Equilar to provide insight into the boardrooms and leadership of Corporate America. Equilar’s work is featured regularly in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC and other leading media outlets.

ABOUT THE JOB

Account Executive, ExecAtlas

The Account Executive will be responsible for procuring new business for Equilar’s ExecAtlas product, owning the full sales cycle from inbound leads to prospecting new leads to closing new business and ensuring customer success. The Account Executive will work closely with Equilar’s sales, marketing, product and client services teams to market and establish ExecAtlas as the leader in relationship intelligence and sales enablement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sales strategies in order to increase market presence by originating new business and managing strategic client relationships.
• Articulate the value of ExecAtlas to help customers meet their needs.
• Build and develop solid working relationships with key decision makers and executives to promote Equilar’s advantages and to uncover new growth opportunities.
• Prepare, create, and deliver effective client presentations, product demonstrations, and proposals that address the specific needs of the customer.
• Partner with Equilar’s research and product teams to provide clients with configurable solutions.
• Collaborate with Equilar’s product team by providing feedback from prospects and customers and being knowledgeable about upcoming features and functions.
• Provide accurate forecasts, competitive and market intelligence to management and business leadership and to the account management team.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of exceeding annual quota in a full-cycle, quota-carrying closing role, including both new logo acquisition and expansion within existing accounts
• Demonstrated success working with private equity firms, professional services firms (investment banks, law firms, consultants, recruiters, etc.), and alternative asset managers (hedge funds).
• Ability to communicate effectively with external clients and internal colleagues, demonstrating the ability to reach desired outcomes.
• Strong understanding and use of strategic selling techniques and CRM systems.
• Experience with SaaS/software and data sales.
• Self-driven, motivated, and results oriented with new business sales (or hunter) mentality with the ability to drive urgency and close business.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• High integrity and credibility with internal and external business partners and stakeholders.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 5+ years in a quota-carrying closing role with experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles and a history of closing multiple $100,000+ ARR deals.

EQUILAR EXECATLAS

The Equilar ExecAtlas platform accelerates business development by providing unprecedented insight into executive connections and histories, drawing on 25 years of boardroom relationship data. With access to over 800,000 private and public companies, nearly 4,000,000 rich profiles of board members and executives, and over 550 million person-to-person connections, users can quickly identify trusted referral sources to establish instant credibility with prospects to win new business. ExecAtlas users can research prospects for background and insights to engage in more targeted and meaningful conversations when competing for new business. Learn more about Equilar ExecAtlas at Candidate:

To be successful in the role as an Account Executive, you must be sales-driven, fast-paced, and customer-focused. You are passionate about creating value for your customers, which ultimately leads to more profitable businesses for both of you. Identifying the right decision makers and influencers, and having the courage to ask the right questions, is critical to your success.You have excellent communication skills – you know what to say and, more importantly, how to say it. You believe in what we are doing and will not stop at anything to deliver on your goals. You are best at what you do, and you know how to get the best out of your colleagues.

WHY JOIN THE EQUILAR TEAM?

Financial Strength. Our business is built on a profitable, subscription-based model with high client retention rates. We take pride in our disciplined fiscal approach and have consciously avoided the financial irresponsibility that has taken down many startups in Silicon Valley.

Performance-Driven Culture. We come from diverse backgrounds and top universities with proven track records of success. We seek top-quartile performers who strive to be the best at everything that they do. We are employee-owned and reward our top performers with a unique profit sharing program.

Great Career Opportunities. We offer plenty of opportunities for those passionate about career advancement and developing a broad skill set. Our comprehensive training and development program provides all employees with an annual allowance and paid time off for training and development.

In Summary. We offer the energy and ambition of a startup and the stability and benefits of a publicly traded company. We are growing rapidly and looking for exceptional talent who share our values to join our team and help take our business to the next level.

Pay & Benefits:

• $250K to $300K on-target earnings (salary + commission)
• 100% Employer Paid Benefits for Employee for Dental, Medical Insurance, Vision, Life, STD, LTD
• 401k with Employer Matching Contributions that are fully vested
• Opportunity for equity and profit sharing
• Paid Time Off

This is a chance for you to join a challenging and inspiring environment where you will have the possibility to make a daily impact. Every day you will work alongside helpful and down-to-earth colleagues who are dedicated and ambitious. Together we create an innovative environment that drives Equilar forward. If you are the right person for the role you will be part of a fantastic journey in a dynamic, high-growth business.

We are looking forward to your application.

Equilar is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.

We are always committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Discrimination is not welcome on the basis of any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

Technical Manufacturing Sales Representative

The Opportunity

A stealth-mode innovator in AI-driven manufacturing intelligence is scaling its North American sales force. Backed by recent funding and triple-digit growth, the company’s visual-intelligence platform turns any factory camera into a real-time quality, safety, and throughput coach. As a Regional Sales Partner, you will spearhead new-logo expansion across California’s manufacturing corridors - owning both the commercial strategy and the technical conversation that wins trust on the plant floor.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the entire revenue journey - from prospecting through contract signature- for an industry-leading industrial visual-intelligence solution.
• Lead in-person discovery sessions with plant leadership and C-suite stakeholders, translating production pain points into measurable ROI.
• Deliver live product demos without a dedicated pre-sales engineer, articulating complex concepts in clear business language.
• Build and manage a predictable pipeline through proactive outreach, market mapping, and account planning.
• Travel to customer sites across key California hubs to deepen relationships and accelerate deal momentum.
• Channel field feedback to product and customer-success teams, sharpening go-to-market strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of quota-carrying success selling technical or industrial SaaS / automation solutions into manufacturing environments.
• Proven record exceeding $1 M+ annual targets in complex, multi-stakeholder deals.
• Comfortable running technical evaluations end-to-end; engineering or automation background a plus.
• Credible on the factory floor - able to engage operators, quality managers, and executives alike.
• Willingness to travel (~25-40 %) throughout the Bay Area or Greater Los Angeles.

Why Join

• Hyper-growth runway: join a sales build-out targeting 50 AEs nationwide over the next 12 months.
• Industry-agnostic impact: current wins in food & beverage and building-materials, with greenfield headroom across all manufacturing verticals.
• Autonomy & influence: shape territory strategy, refine ideal-customer profile, and become the voice of the market internally.
• Competitive 50/50 comp plan (uncapped OTE), full benefits, and rapid path to leadership as regional teams scale.

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Overview

A private investment firm is seeking a Senior Associate to join its Technology investing team. The role will focus on evaluating and executing private equity investments in technology-driven businesses, supporting the full investment lifecycle from sourcing through portfolio management.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate investment opportunities in the technology sector through market research, financial analysis, and due diligence
• Build and maintain detailed financial models and investment materials
• Support deal execution including diligence coordination, transaction structuring, and documentation
• Prepare investment committee presentations and internal reports
• Monitor portfolio companies and assist with strategic initiatives, performance tracking, and exit planning
• Work closely with senior investment professionals and management teams

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, growth equity, or a related investment role
• Strong financial modeling, valuation, and analytical skills
• Experience analyzing technology or technology-enabled businesses is preferred
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all design control activities for new and updated products meet company procedures and global regulatory requirements.
• Lead risk management activities, including hazard analysis, FMEAs, and risk documentation.
• Support sterilization and biocompatibility assessments.
• Own and maintain design control documentation.
• Partner with R&D, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and Project Management to ensure quality is built into every stage of product development.
• Maintain accurate test, validation, and risk records and report progress to leadership.
• Support regulatory submissions (e.g., 510(k), CE Mark).
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions related to design issues.
• Support complaint investigations, nonconformances, and CAPAs after product launch.
• Conduct DHF audits to ensure phase completion requirements are met.
• Review and approve engineering documents and test reports.
• Identify opportunities to improve product quality, reduce cost, and increase efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of quality engineering experience in medical devices, including new product launches.
• Experience with sterilization and biocompatability
• Strong knowledge of design controls, risk management, and medical device regulations (FDA, ISO, IEC).
• Experience with verification & validation (V&V) and FMEAs.
• Strong problem-solving and statistical analysis skills (e.g., Minitab, JMP).
• Detail-oriented with strong documentation skills.
• Quality certifications (CQE, CSQE, Six Sigma) are a plus.

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Bay Area, CA (On-site: Richmond, CA)

Full-Time

Confidential | Drug Testing Industry (Stealth Mode)

Peoplework LLC is looking for a highly motivated Quality Assurance Supervisor to join our client’s team! The primary role will responsible for developing, establishing and maintaining quality systems programs, policies, processes, procedures, training materials, and controls enhancing the performance and quality of products to demonstrate conformance to established standards and regulations. This position reports to the SVP of Operations.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

·       Manage quality program for the company in support of new production line bring up, product related manufacturing activities and document control.

·       Issuance of batch records and labels for commercial product manufacturing.

·       Own production documentation review and product release, issuance of batch records and labels for commercial product manufacturing.

·       Responsible for incoming receiving and QC activities.

·       Lead complaint, CAPA, and training record initiation and completion.

·       Assist troubleshooting activities, including root cause analysis, to achieve a timely resolution.

·       Author and review relevant departmental documentation.

·       Ensure compliance is adhered to for review requirement for all documents.

·       Maintenance of controlled document program including upgrades to QMS when required.

·       Provide support for document control function through routing, review, distribution, approval, and release of documents.

·       Process Standard Operating Procedures, Batch Records, Validation Documents, Miscellaneous Reports, Forms, and Material Specifications through Greenlight Guru.

·       Manage Training program, including initiation of training required as a result of new hire, document change, CAPA, etc.

·       Management of the Document Control archive room including organization, filing and retrieval of documents as needed.

·       Adherence to the Corporate and Company record retention policy for documents stored within the Document Control archive room.

·       Assess resource needs to assure that the accurate level of quality support is provided when needed with the competencies needed.

·       Maintain effective Quality Metrics and define and execute activities to resolve decreases in performance.

·       Establishes and maintains Quality milestones and timelines

·       Represent Quality Systems as required in support of cross-functional team projects.

·       Identify Quality Initiatives and lead cross-functional teams to complete them and provide guidance and direction of the Quality Systems Body-of-Knowledge

·       Identify opportunities to apply, continuously improve, and redefine quality systems and controls for all divisional product-related processes in accordance with applicable internal, domestic and international quality regulations, US 21 CFR 820 (QSR), ISO 13485, etc.

·       Assist in hiring process and creation of relevant job descriptions.

·       Manages staff; provides staff with coaching, training and opportunities to develop skills, and gives ongoing, constructive and timely feedback on performance and progress toward goals and expectations.

Experience

·       Bachelor's degree in science, engineering or related field.

·       5+ years professional experience in medical device or related fields.

·       1+ years of direct supervisory experience in an industrial setting.

·       Experience working in a quality system environment, or related combination of education and work experience.

·       Previous experience in medical device manufacturing environment.

·       Effective planning and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize, multitask and work with a high degree of accuracy and recall.

·       Strong written, oral, interpersonal, group and telephone communication skills.

·       Work with Subject Matter Experts to provide demonstrations as needed.

·       Experience working with Electronic Document Management Systems preferred.

·       Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office Products including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

·       Strong customer service skills.

Work Habits

·       Ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team to achieve project goals and timelines is required.

·       Strong verbal, written communication skills, including the ability to communicate efficiently with multiple people both internally and externally.

·       Ability to prepare and present information to groups.

·       Uses professional methods to contribute to the development of company concepts and principles and to achieve objectives in creative and effective ways.

·       Ability to lead and motivate others in both matrixed and direct-line management environments.

Why This Role

• Join a confidential, early-stage drug testing company with meaningful impact on assay development and lab operations
• Opportunity to work closely with scientists, engineers, and quality teams
• Competitive compensation and benefits; salary range: $115,000-$120,000/year

Due to the stealth nature of the organization, additional details will be shared during the interview process.

Interested?

Apply directly or message me to learn more.

About the Company

We are looking for a self-motivated sales rep to join our highly successful team in the Bay Area market. Alliance Gator is the industry leader in the hardscape accessories market with worldwide distribution of its products. Our partners have come to depend on our superior quality products, hands-on service, and industry certified training. We are looking for self-motivated sales reps to join our highly successful team. Alliance is based in Montreal, Canada.

About the Role

Help to continue the growth of sales and training throughout the respective market with existing and new customers.

Responsibilities

• Service and support existing customer base (national partners, dealers and contractors)
• Expand and grow product sales within existing customer base
• Cultivate new customers and end users
• Support aggressive plan to promote Alliance products in the market
• Present/facilitate industry certified training presentations
• Conduct hands-on product demonstrations in classroom and job site settings

Qualifications

• 5 years building products sales experience or equivalent
• 4-year degree or equivalent background in the construction or hardscape industry

Required Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated public speaking skills to audiences of 25-35+ attendees
• Strong time management, organization and proper decision-making skills
• 50% travel within territory and occasionally to national trade shows and corporate meetings
• Bi-lingual English-Spanish a must
• Must be proficient with computer and CRM software
• Must have passport and able to travel to Canada
• Must own reliable vehicle for travel and transport product samples (company has vehicle allowance)
• Must have valid driver’s license, registration and proof of insurance
• Occasional long-distance travel by car or air may be necessary; overnight travel 1-2 nights per week

Physical Requirements

• Must be physically and mentally able to work 40+ hours per week, Monday through Friday
• Must be able to lift/move and use 50 lbs of samples
• Must be able to work on hardscape job sites and demonstrate proper use of products; provide technical guidance and hands-on support to end-users
• Must reside in Bay Area

Pay range and compensation package

Base salary of $85,000 plus $1,100 monthly car allowance; benefits include health, dental, and 401K

A high-growth AI hardware company is hiring RTL Design Engineers to help develop next-generation compute platforms for large-scale machine learning workloads. The team is building vertically integrated silicon and system solutions designed to power advanced AI training and inference with exceptional efficiency and performance.

This is an opportunity to work across architecture and RTL, delivering complex SoC designs that sit at the core of modern AI infrastructure.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to scalable architecture-to-RTL methodologies spanning block, subsystem, and full-chip design
• Own subsystem and/or chip-level deliverables from microarchitecture definition through sign-off-ready RTL
• Drive design reviews and milestone tracking, including progress toward area and timing closure, design freeze, and tapeout
• Partner closely with Verification, DFT, and Physical Design teams to achieve best-in-class Performance, Power, and Area (PPA)
• Support structured handoff and collaboration across downstream siliconization flows

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven concept-to-production experience delivering ASIC/SoC subsystems or top-level designs from architectural specification through silicon
• Strong hands-on experience with SystemVerilog, Python, C/C++, Bluespec, or similar languages used in chip development
• Demonstrated experience designing high-performance compute architectures (CPUs, GPUs, accelerators), high-speed connectivity, memory management, and related subsystems
• Experience validating your own designs and partnering with verification teams to achieve performance targets and coverage closure
• Hands-on experience with synthesis, equivalence checking, linting, clock-domain crossing analysis, and related sign-off flows
• Working knowledge of DFT and physical design methodologies to enable high test coverage and optimized timing, power, and area

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with verification and emulation platforms and methodologies
• Experience participating in silicon bring-up and post-silicon debug
• Hands-on experience implementing silicon and firmware-based hardware security features such as Root of Trust (RoT), secure boot, lifecycle state machines, key management, TRNG interfaces, secure debug, secure firmware updates, access control, and memory protection

This role is ideal for engineers who want deep ownership of complex SoC design and to directly contribute to the silicon enabling the next wave of AI systems.