Contract Sourcer, Talent Discovery

Upwork Inc.’s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at Upwork.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X; and learn more about Lifted at Go-Lifted and follow on LinkedIn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upwork’s Marketing Analytics team is focused on optimizing our growth engines through rigorous experimentation and data-driven decision making. This role sits at the intersection of product and marketing, driving measurement and experimentation across the customer funnel to improve acquisition, engagement, and conversion. You will partner cross-functionally with product, marketing, SEO, and data science teams to design experiments, analyze user behavior, and build frameworks that inform growth strategy. This role also supports understanding organic discovery, including traditional search and emerging AI-driven discovery surfaces. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: * Organic & AI Discovery Analytics: Support analysis of organic channels, including SEO and emerging AI-driven discovery (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini). Evaluate performance signals such as engagement, traffic, and visibility. * Strategic Communication: Present insights and recommendations to marketing leadership, influencing growth strategy and prioritization. * Experimentation & Testing: Design, execute, and analyze A/B and incrementality tests. Define hypotheses, success metrics, and test duration, and conduct deep post-test analysis to inform decisions. * Drive insights that improve conversion, engagement, and overall growth. * Data Extraction & Technical Analysis: Extract and analyze large datasets using SQL, Python, or R to support experimentation, user behavior analysis, and growth initiatives. * Experimentation Tooling: Utilize platforms such as Statsig, Optimizely, VWO, or similar tools to implement and monitor experiments across experiences. * SEO Tooling: Leverage tools such as Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, or similar to explore keyword performance and on-site engagement trends. WHAT IT TAKES TO CATCH OUR EYE: * A degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field. * Proven experience designing and executing experiments (A/B, multivariate, incrementality), including hypothesis development, metric definition, sample sizing, and post-test analysis. * Experience in marketing or growth analytics, with a strong focus on customer funnels, acquisition, and conversion optimization. Experience with organic search and SEO analytics. * Technical Proficiency: Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python or R for analyzing large datasets and supporting experimentation and analytics workflows. * Experimentation Tools: Experience with platforms such as Statsig, Optimizely, VWO, or similar tools used to run and monitor experiments. * BI tools such as Looker or Tableau. (SEO-specific tools are a plus, e.g., Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Botify, Screaming Frog) * Testing & Statistical Knowledge: Strong foundation in experimental design, statistical significance, and methods to measure incremental impact. * Marketplace Context: Previous experience in a two-sided marketplace or consumer tech environment will be highly regarded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Come change how the world works. Upwork is establishing an operational hub in Toronto, Canada. The new office is expected to be fully operational by Q4 2026. This role will require 3 days in office once we have an office open. This position will initially be employed through a partner to ensure a seamless hiring process while we establish the hub. Once the hub is established, there may be opportunities to transition to employment with Upwork, depending on business needs and other requirements. While employed by the partner, you’ll work as part of Upwork’s team, with access to our resources, culture, and growth opportunities. Our partner will offer competitive benefits. When Upwork’s hub is established, we will be excited to offer employment and benefits directly as business needs require.  Upwork is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law. We use BrightHire, an AI-enabled tool, to record interviews and summarize interview transcripts. The tool allows the interviewer to focus on the discussion and does not score or evaluate candidates or make recommendations. The interview transcripts are reviewed, and decisions are only made by humans. Candidates who prefer not to have their interview recorded through BrightHire can opt out when the interview is scheduled. To learn more about how Upwork processes and protects your personal information as part of the application process, please review our Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice and the Applicant Privacy Addendum (Canada).  The annual base salary range for this position  is displayed below. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salary for this position, and individual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, this position is eligible for the annual bonus plan or sales incentive plan and eligibility to participate in our long term equity incentive program. Annual Base Compensation $135,500—$212,000 CAD   To learn more about how Upwork processes and protects your personal information as part of the application process, please review our Global Job Applicant Privacy Notice

Your Impact at LILA Lila Sciences is opening a Contract Loading Dock Manager role to run the dock operations at our Alewife campus. As the company expands lab capacity across multiple buildings, the volume of incoming reagents, equipment, lab consumables, and capital deliveries has grown significantly, and lab teams depend on reliable, well-communicated dock operations to keep experiments on schedule. The Loading Dock Manager owns day-to-day receiving operations: coordinating inbound deliveries, inspecting and routing shipments, maintaining an organized dock area, and serving as the point of contact between carriers, vendors, and onsite lab teams. The role works closely with Facilities Management, Lab Operations, and EH&S to ensure deliveries are handled safely and communicated promptly to the right people. This is a hands-on contract position, 40 hours per week, based onsite at Alewife. It is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, takes ownership of operational details, and enjoys working alongside scientific and engineering teams. What You'll Be Building * Manage daily inbound deliveries from carriers, vendors, and couriers at the Alewife dock * Inspect shipments for damage, quantity accuracy, and documentation before routing * Maintain packing slips and invoices, and submit them for record-keeping as needed * Communicate delivery arrivals and exceptions to lab and operations teams in real time * Coordinate large or scheduled deliveries with vendors, Facilities, and lab leads in advance * Maintain a clean, organized, and safe dock area in line with EH&S standards * Track received goods and resolve discrepancies with vendors and internal teams * Support onboarding of dock operations at new Alewife buildings as they come online What You'll Need to Succeed * 3+ years managing receiving, shipping, or loading dock operations in a lab, manufacturing, or large commercial setting * Experience coordinating high-volume deliveries with carriers, vendors, and internal stakeholders * Strong communication skills with the ability to relay delivery status clearly across teams * Working knowledge of safe material handling and dock equipment * Must be able to safely operate a pallet jack * Ability to lift a minimum of 50 pounds and perform sustained physical activity on the dock floor * Comfort using inventory or receiving tracking systems and basic spreadsheets * Ability to work onsite at Alewife, 40 hours per week, during standard receiving hours * Flexibility to work across multiple Alewife buildings, and at other Lila campuses as needed Bonus Points For * Prior experience in a life sciences, biotech, or pharma receiving environment * Familiarity with handling temperature-sensitive or hazardous shipments (cold chain, dry ice, chemicals) * IATA or DOT certification for handling hazardous materials shipments * Forklift certification or willingness to obtain one * Experience standing up dock operations in a new building or facility * Comfort working in a fast-moving, growth-stage company About LILA Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai. Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply. We’re All In Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy [https://www.lila.ai/candidate-privacy-policy-notice]. A Note to Agencies Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.