Hello!
In the last issue, I wrote about sending personalized decks as a way of breaking through the noise of people mass applying with AI.
I’m exploring working with founders on exec communications. I’ve been testing this out for myself with some fractional work and the initial results are positive: two conversations, with one reply about pricing from a founder about twenty minutes after sending and some paid work.
I want to help a few of you build your own deck. I’m testing this out at a low price with up to three people: $150 for two 45-minute 1:1 sessions, where we work together to build a deck you can use to reach a company you want to work at. You can grab a spot here.
Things that we’ll cover:
The intro and catching the reader's attention
Introducing yourself
Presenting examples of your work
Telling a story that moves quickly
Using humour
Demonstrating credibility
Linking your pitch back to a specific job post or service request
If that’s not quite right for you but you’d want something like it, reply and tell me what would be.
Some Highlights
Over the past week (Nov 2–8), there have been 3,037 new roles across 724 companies added to the job board. October finished with 14,142 new roles, up from 12,851 in September.
13.1% of last week’s new roles were remote and about 24% listed a salary.
Relevant quote from Emily Kramer’s MKT1 newsletter:
“The fastest path to more salary for the same level, besides getting a job at OpenAI or Anthropic, is to join a startup that raised money in the last year: They pay about 17% more.”
How AI is showing up
Of the 38k roles open right now, only 11.8% explicitly mention AI use as a part of the job. That share is rising: 14% of roles posted in October, up from 11–12% for July–September. When it’s asked for, it’s almost always required: only 13% list it as a nice-to-have.
Share of roles that ask you to use AI, by function:
Design: 32%
Marketing: 22%
Product: 22%
Software engineering: 14%
Finance: 13%
Sales: 10%
Customer success and support: 9%
What’s specifically being asked depends on the role. Among the roles that ask for it, finance and operations mostly mean automating workflows. About half of product and design roles mean prototyping things yourself, and just over a third of engineering roles mention coding agents.
Most of these job descriptions don’t name a tool. When they do, Claude, Claude Code and Cursor are the ones that come up most often.
Roles in Europe
More of you have been asking about Europe, so here’s some data.
There are currently 5.9k roles open in Europe (office or hybrid), about 15% of the job board. London, Berlin, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, and Stockholm account for most of the roles.
Remote for Europe is a bit of a different story. Of the 4,575 remote roles open right now, about 12% are open to people in Europe.
Typical pay in the UK, among European roles that list a salary (about 13%), using the midpoint of each range and counting each company once: £98K overall, with engineering £122K, marketing £110K and customer success £76K. The same measure in the eurozone: €90K overall, with engineering €100K, customer success €70K and marketing €68K.
Best,
Chris