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👋 This week's Shortlist has landed, welcome! This is what you’ll find in today’s Shortlist:
The fractional job board - 8 operators live, 18 founding spots still available
Last call - Generation AI's free 8-week cohort closes tomorrow
Founding Operations Lead @ SeenCulture - interviews underway but still talking!
Jobs from the AFC community and wider ecosystem
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The longlist: Our thoughts and update on our Fractional work & our board!
We announced the fractional board last week. Here's where we're at and what we're thinking.
Eight operators are live and building out their profiles, there are eighteen founding pricing spots are still available, and we're already learning what makes a profile actually work!
The thing I keep coming back to in my conversations as a recruiter: fractional work is a business. Lots of fractional operators reach out to us looking for work - and the honest answer is, this isn't really something a recruiter solves. Fractional consultants should be selling their work like a business. That's exactly how the best ones operate.
Not everyone gets that yet - and that's fine. But the operators in this community who run fractional practices are serious. Multiple engagements, deep specialisation, real track records. They deserve better than a LinkedIn profile to represent what they do. LinkedIn is a CV. This is a profile you'd send someone mid-conversation about a piece of work - with video, case studies, how you engage, and what you charge (all optional but the more the better). Something that moves as your business moves.
On the other side, we have founders and scale-ups in this community who'd benefit enormously from senior thinking without the full-time commitment - and most of them just don't know how to find the right person.
So we’re determined to connect these two parties!
Businesses can post opportunities through the platform for free, and operators can reply and manage enquiries straight from the AFC Slack channel. We're improving distribution and SEO week by week. The earlier you're on, the more you benefit as it grows.
ABSOLUTE LAST CALL. Last Opportunity for Generation AI sign ups! Want to be a better AI Startup Leader / Employee? This is for you!
If you're working in a startup right now, you're probably already asking yourself how to actually build with AI - not just prompt ChatGPT, but use it to solve real problems and move faster.
And if you've been sitting on an idea of your own, wondering if now's the time to back yourself and build something - this is your opportunity.
Generation AI is a free 8-week program that gets you doing, not just learning. Open to Victorian founders and employees. Des and I are both doing it. Come do it with us.
👉 Apply before tomorrow and jump into #generation-ai-cohort in Slack too - we'd love to see more AFC faces in there.
We have put out a few offers in the last week or two so wrapped up a few roles but we’re still open to CVs for one of our favourite roles!
ICYMI - We are still speaking to potential Founding Operators with SeenCulture!
Interviews underway, still reviewing applications: Founding Operations Lead @ SeenCulture
Come in as the founding operator and grow into a key strategic role as SeenCulture scales. SeenCulture is the feedback platform helping leaders understand how they're actually experienced at work - through Techstars Sydney 2023, A$1.5M raised, with customers including Atlassian and Culture Amp. New product dropping mid-July.
📍 Melbourne - hybrid (2 days in Carlton office)
💼 1+ year in early-stage startup land | AI fluent | Low ego, high follow-through
💰 $80-110k + super + ESOP
Jobs from our AFC Community:
Jobs from the wider ecosystem, continued below 👇
🎯 Content Manager @ Workinitiatives
Write SEO copy that ranks and still reads like a human wrote it, owning content end-to-end for a growing careers platform. Fully flexible and remote.
📍 Australia - remote/flexible
💼 SEO writing | Content strategy | Full-time
👉 Apply here: https://workinitiatives.com.au/job/content-manager-flexibleremote-6a41e18c2c892
Jobs from the wider Ecosystem:
🧑💼 Business Development Manager @ Prospa
Drive new SME lending relationships for one of Australia's leading small-business fintechs - a hunter role with real ownership of your pipeline.
📍 Sydney
💼 B2B/SME sales | Full-time
👉 Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/prospa/jobs/7783173
Want to see more from Prospa? https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/prospa
💻 Senior AI Engineer @ Karbon
Ship AI features into a global accounting-practice platform used by firms in 50+ countries - hands-on work turning LLMs into real workflow wins.
📍 Melbourne
💼 AI/ML engineering | Full-time
👉 Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karbon/jobs/6008707004
Want to see more from Karbon? https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karbon
💻 Lead Platform Security Engineer @ Deputy
Own platform security for a workforce-management platform trusted by 300,000+ businesses - shape the strategy and build the guardrails.
📍 Australia
💼 Security engineering | Senior/Lead | Full-time
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/deputy/5b856e9e-63ac-4be5-ba84-5564ff93f7c5
Want to see more from Deputy? https://jobs.lever.co/deputy
⚡ DevOps Engineer @ Brighte
Build the infrastructure behind green home-finance - helping more Australian households fund solar and batteries. Impact-driven fintech.
📍 Sydney
💼 DevOps/Cloud | Full-time | Climate fintech
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/brighte/98f020ad-a2a2-4e97-8920-92136bb48e3e
Want to see more from Brighte? https://jobs.lever.co/brighte
💻 AI Deployment Strategist @ Relevance AI
Sit between customers and product deploying AI agents that do real work - part technical, part consultative, at one of Australia's fastest-moving AI-native companies.
📍 Sydney
💼 AI deployment/solutions | Full-time | Fast-paced
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/relevanceai/a104c172-046e-4e47-962c-de14f184b022
Want to see more from Relevance AI? https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/relevanceai
💻 Data Scientist (Fraud) @ Kasada
Use data to outsmart bots and fraud rings for a cybersecurity company defending the world's biggest brands from automated attacks.
📍 Sydney
💼 Data science/ML | Full-time | Cybersecurity
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/kasada/644f2a25-d295-4432-9ca9-44b847a0453d
Want to see more from Kasada? https://jobs.lever.co/kasada
🤝 Customer Success Manager @ Lyrebird Health
Keep clinics thriving on Lyrebird's AI medical scribe - own relationships and retention at one of the fastest-growing health-AI startups in the country.
📍 Melbourne
💼 Customer success | Full-time | Early-stage, high-growth
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/lyrebirdhealth/8c54fdcc-0a6c-4217-97dc-fae51f4dc8df
Want to see more from Lyrebird Health? https://jobs.lever.co/lyrebirdhealth
💻 Software Engineer @ Lorikeet
Build AI customer-support agents that handle genuinely hard problems - small team, high technical bar, backed to take on global players.
📍 Sydney
💼 Software engineering | Full-time | Early-stage
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lorikeet/479046de-5df8-4f51-a72c-2a8dd39a43cb
Want to see more from Lorikeet? https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lorikeet
💻 AI Infrastructure Engineer @ Maincode
Build the training and inference stack behind a sovereign Australian LLM - rare ground-floor infra work on frontier models built onshore.
📍 Melbourne
💼 ML infrastructure | Full-time | Frontier AI
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maincode/b0ab0077-c4f1-4373-b5d8-5007fbe451c7
Want to see more from Maincode? https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maincode
🧑💼 Registry Officer @ Caruso
Run share-registry operations for a modern fintech rebuilding how private companies manage their cap tables and investors.
📍 Sydney
💼 Operations/registry | Full-time | Early-stage fintech
👉 Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/caruso/13c37948-3e0c-4009-b8d4-d1b4a629ed45
Want to see more from Caruso? https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/caruso
🎯 Organic Growth Manager @ Everlab
Own organic growth for a preventative-health startup catching disease early - SEO, content and lifecycle at a fast-scaling healthtech.
📍 Melbourne
💼 Growth marketing/SEO | Full-time | High-growth healthtech
👉 Apply here: https://careers.everlab.com.au/jobs/7735195-organic-growth-manager
Want to see more from Everlab? https://careers.everlab.com.au/jobs
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