Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead end-to-end experiential event production for Babylist’s Los Angeles showroom, including brand activations, partner pop-ups, Registry Weekend, educational panels, and influencer gatherings. Own event strategy, concepts, budgets, vendors, timelines, logistics, onsite execution, show-running, breakdown, and post-event recaps. Manage multiple overlapping productions while coordinating internal teams, venue partners, and production vendors in a hybrid Los Angeles role.

Own Open-to-Buy, replenishment, order writing, forecasting, and inventory flow for Division 1 categories. Manage sales, inventory, margin, turn, and order pipelines while maintaining forecasts and prioritizing key SKUs. Partner with Merchandising, Supply Chain, and vendors on assortment, availability, delivery timing, and inbound planning. Produce weekly sales and inventory recaps, use advanced Excel and AI tools, and identify process improvements.

Leads a team of five experienced analysts and data scientists while personally owning strategic analytics across ecommerce, health, supply chain, inventory, fulfillment, and merchandising. Partners with executives, establishes KPI and reporting standards, prioritizes the analytics roadmap, and delivers actionable business insights. The role also advances AI-native, self-service analytics capabilities, strengthens data governance and quality, and builds a high-performing analytics culture.

Own Babylist’s global compensation strategy, including executive compensation, equity programs, job architecture, market pricing, pay equity, incentives, and annual compensation cycles. Lead compensation analytics, governance, compliance, budgeting, and executive committee materials. Partner with Finance, Legal, Payroll, HR, and business leaders while advising on pay decisions and workforce planning. Build and develop the compensation team, communicate programs company-wide, and redesign equity strategy as the company prepares for potential IPO growth.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, developer tooling, observability, security defaults, backup recovery, and incident response. Build reliable automation and self-service workflows, establish SLOs and actionable alerting, support engineers across environments, lead platform initiatives, improve security and reliability practices, and mentor engineers serving millions of users.

Lead the technical direction for Babylist’s new search team, building an in-house search platform from scratch. Own indexing, retrieval, ranking, query understanding, personalization, relevance measurement, conversational search, and integration with recommendations and AI. Drive architecture, product decisions, cross-team initiatives, production delivery, platform adoption, and search quality improvements while coaching senior engineers and partnering with product, design, and data.

Own the end-to-end personalization experience across Babylist’s products, defining its vision, UX strategy, quality bar, KPIs, and research direction. Partner with product, engineering, analytics, marketing, and merchandising leaders to set priorities, prototype, build, and ship high-impact experiences. Champion AI-native design workflows, mentor designers, establish craft and operating standards, and help evolve the organization’s design practices.

Own monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A cycles, including forecasting, budgeting, long-term modeling, and variance analysis. Prepare consolidated income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow models, executive reporting, and board materials. Partner with business leaders on opex and headcount planning, surface risks and insights, and improve finance processes. Identify and implement AI-enabled automation across reporting, modeling, forecasting, and presentation workflows while maintaining rigorous accuracy and quality control.

Own the strategy, architecture, development, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production personalization and recommendation systems. Build custom embeddings, ranking models, and shared representations across feeds, search, and recommendations. Lead ambiguous problems from concept to measurable customer impact, establish AI evaluation standards, partner with product and data teams, make cross-team technical decisions, and coach senior engineers.

Own multi-state U.S. payroll for 600–1,000 employees across approximately 35 states, including payroll processing, audits, corrections, and employee support. Manage a comprehensive compliance calendar covering federal and state filings, screenings, training, policy updates, and employment-law changes. Design internal controls, maintain audit evidence, improve procedures, and build automation. Partner with People Operations, Accounting, Legal, outside counsel, and the payroll provider to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant payroll operations.