There’s obviously more to a fulfilling career than how much cash you take home each year, but being compensated at a high level certainly doesn’t hurt. When you use Glassdoor Salary Estimates, you’re able to easily spot the gigs that fall into your desired pay range, so you never have to wonder whether you’re wasting precious time submitting applications for jobs that aren’t paying what you’re looking for. For a preview of what the tool can do, check out these 12 cool jobs that will earn you top dollar.
1. Content Strategist, Facebook
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $122,000/year
Location: Menlo Park, California
Job Details: “As a Content Strategist at Oculus, your mission is to create a compelling and elegant content system to share the company’s vision with the world. Working alongside the Design team, you’ll craft smart, relevant, and contextually curated content for a great user experience within the emerging field of virtual reality. You’ll comfortably move from the big picture to the smallest detail across various platforms; equipped with top-tier marketing and analytic skills, as well as possessing a deep knowledge of the latest technology products and gaming culture. The ideal candidate will confidently define, create, optimize, and publish compelling content, maintaining superb attention to detail throughout its lifecycle, collaboratively employing a creative, research-driven process to shape content structure, visuals, and tone.”
2. Director Global Packaging Operation, Nike
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $97k-$151k/year
Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Job Details: “This new position within a newly created Global Packaging Operations team, is designed to unlock new capability across the packaging area, inclusive of transport, consumer, and retail packaging. While the team has an initial charter to update and consolidate existing packaging guidance, and lead some specific packaging optimization initiatives, this role will lead formalization of a comprehensive packaging operation program and organization.”
3. Senior Business Development Manager, Amazon
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $138k-$194k/year
Location: Herndon, VA
Job Details: “Have you ever thought about the next model for software procurement and deployment? Are you interested in helping to create and drive a new US Public Sector National Security business? AWS Marketplace (http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace) is looking for people who thrive in an environment where you are faced with new things every day and have the latitude to figure it out and run with it. We have created an online store where customers can find, buy, and immediately start using software in a utility model that runs on the AWS Cloud. Our job is to bring Amazon’s e-commerce expertise to cloud software and fundamentally change how software is discovered and consumed in the cloud.”
4. Design Director, McKinsey & Company
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $182,000/year
Location: New York, New York
Job Details: “You’ll participate in ever-changing projects for our clients worldwide – in industries that range from healthcare and education to finance and consumer electronics. You will strive to be an inspirational leader and will have exceptional knowledge in human-centered and digital design processes. You’ll join a passionate group of individuals that work together to bring an engaged perspective to our three main disciplines: people insight, design impact and business innovation.”
5. Global Learner Senior Portfolio Manager, Boston Consulting Group
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $153,000/year
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Job Details: “The Global Learner Portfolio Senior Manager is responsible for driving the learning agenda for our supported ABMs and ECTers and will shape the core skills learning experience for our specialist consultants. In addition, he/she will take a strong role in raising the bar for all our consulting learners by fostering cross-learning and collaboration across our consulting teams. In this role, you will own the full value chain across our suite of L&D services: from assessment to set-up, activation and delivery as well as ongoing continuous improvement.”
6. Technical Solutions Engineer, Google Cloud Platform, Google
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $127,000/year
Location: Austin, Texas
Job Details: “As a Technical Solutions Engineer, you will combine software development, networking, and systems administration expertise with an aptitude for technical advising, troubleshooting and analysis. You will work across multiple customer-facing teams to improve the product’s vision and to make global businesses and organizations successful. You are a technical solutions expert, helping Googlers and customers approach and resolve technology problems and design Google-scale services.”
7. Senior Director, Global Hospitality and Events, Workplace Services, Salesforce
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $172,000/year
Location: San Francisco, California
Job Details: “We are looking for a seasoned, experienced, multi-talented hospitality leader who can wrangle thousands of moving parts, program manage all hospitality elements and lead a global team to success. Salesforce is a marketing-driven company and more specifically, a very events-driven company. Our incredible spaces support executive receptions, non-profit fundraising events, customer networking and more. This senior leadership position is very hands-on in the day-to-day management and execution of our hospitality and events globally that will include managing a team in multiple offices, working with teams inside Salesforce as well as customers and non-profits outside of Salesforce. In this position it will be critical to lead the team in supporting internal and external requests with, budgeting, execution, team and vendor management, analysis and reporting. Help shape the vision, values and key results for this new world-class hospitality and events team.”
8. Associate Director Human Resources, Astellas Pharma US
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $161,000/year
Location: Northbrook, Illinois
Job Details: “Responsible for directing human resource policies and programs that support achievement of the company’s business objectives. Directs human resources activities for assigned organizations within Astellas, functioning as a human resources “generalist”. Remains informed of state and federal laws and regulations, and competitive practices, ensuring the company’s policies and programs conform to laws and regulations and are designed to attract and retain employees.”
9. Vice President for Communications, The Getty
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $152,000/year
Location: Los Angeles, California
Job Details: “As a key member of the executive team, the VP for Communications works closely with the President & CEO, the Getty’s Vice Presidents, and four Program Directors to develop strategies to communicate the Getty’s institutional vision. The VP leads a team to execute the entire range of communications activities, reaching across digital, social media, and traditional platforms in support of that vision.”
10. Data Scientist, Microsoft
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $135,000/year
Location: Redmond, Washington
Job Details: “We are looking for a Data Scientist who is passionate about solving large business optimization problems at scale and develop a new class of services. If you are comfortable working in a startup-like environment in the initial phase of a complex system, and you are motivated by solving hard business problems with technology then, this could be the position for you.”
11. Economist, Noblis
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $130,000/year
Location: Washington, D.C.
Job Details: “Noblis is seeking an Economist to plan, analyze and report findings as they relate to project financial performance, revenue generation and other business related questions. This opportunity supports a government agency with analysis to help them understand organizational cost impacts of new projects and methods of implementing intercompany chargebacks. The goal being to identify project cost drivers and accurately charge them back to appropriate projects and also identify cost savings and revenue impacts attributable to their respective projects. Responsibilities include: data collection, data analysis; statistical analysis; technical writing; and communicating findings. As part of a Noblis team, candidates will work closely with government clients to understand current issues and challenges, implement practical and effective solutions and foster the clear understanding of research results.”
12. Senior Brand Manager Beauty Face/Sun, Johnson & Johnson
Glassdoor Salary Estimate: $136,000/year
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey or Los Angeles, California
Job Details: “This person will lead upstream innovation strategy development and new product development for the Face and Sun category need states across J&J Beauty and will be a critical link to inform the global brand strategic plan development.”
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