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🚨 Hiring Alert: Do you want to work in AI? Here are new, hot 🔥🔥 roles our clients at Raya Advisory opened: 👉 If you are interested in these roles, please comment below with the name of the role you are interested and our team will reach out to you directly. 👉 You can, alternatively, add your name to our talent pool (link below). ➕ If you know others who are looking for similar roles, please tag them below. ♻ Re-share this post for the benefit of others who are looking for their next career move. ❇ VP of Product/GM: public company, SaaS AI ❇ VP of Platform Product Marketing: public company, SaaS AI ❇ VP of Product/GM: Series E company, SaaS AI ❇ VP of AI: Series E company, SaaS AI ❇ VP of Engineering: Series E company, SaaS AI ❇ Director of Product with gaming background: public company, SaaS AI ❇ Director of Product: public company, SaaS AI All these roles require the talent to be in the Bay Area (ideally) or relocate to the Bay Area as the clients have strong office cultures. #gethired #hiring #findingjob #jobsearch #findajob #talentacquisition

📣 🔥 I am beyond excited to announce that Andrew Reinhardt joined Raya Advisory as a Talent Partner to lead our Engineering and AI hiring efforts. 🥁 🌞 Andrew has built Engineering and AI/ML teams at scale at Meta, LinkedIn, and The Climate Corporation. 💻 🧠 Andrew possesses a deep understanding of the AI/ML talent, the skills required to thrive in technical roles, and the current hiring landscape; he leverages this expertise to develop efficient and scalable recruiting processes for companies at any stage of hiring. Beyond his technical expertise, what I admire about Andrew the most is his laser focus on our clients and ensuring we intimately understand their hiring needs, their businesses, and their cultures. Andrew has been in this role for months, laying out our hiring function, serving our clients, and helping build the business. I’m grateful to be working with Andrew. Please join me in congratulating him on his new role. 🎉 🎊 👉 P.S. If you are hiring for #product, #engineering, #AI/ML, and similar technical roles and you need help with recruiting, make sure to reach out to Andrew or me. We do executive placements and help companies build engineering teams. 🎊 👉 If you are looking for a job in the top tech companies, comment below and we get back to you with the next steps. #hiringannoucement #hiring #gethired #talentteams

There's something special about the "power of community"... That unstoppable energy; the one that can enable you to do great things together. That's why I truly enjoyed being among the impressive group of founders, investors, and operators at U & I Together: Tech Leadership Summit organized by Kim Moore, one of our awesome investors and board members at Cleo. This event was a great reminder of the "magic" of bringing a mission-driven, solution-oriented, and determined group of people together. Thanks to Kim and the rest of the organizers for making it happen. I enjoyed seeing old colleagues and friends while meeting new ones Pegah Ebrahimi, Noa Davidson, Sally Mueller, Amy Kux, Chris Stedman, CFA, Nikhil Abraham, and many more. I'm already looking forward to the next one! 😍 😊 #community #founders #investors #operators

🚀 🔥Hiring Alert: Raya is growing and we are expanding our team! We just opened a Content and Creative Master Mind role. This is a unique opportunity for various reasons: ✅ This person gets to work with an Influencer and LinkedIn Top Voice and learn how to build a personal brand with half a million (~500,000) followers. ✅ This role will have a front-row seat to learn how to build a high-growth, profitable business. ✅ This person has a chance to adopt the most cutting-edge AI tools to be more productive. For this role, the successful candidate could come from different backgrounds.Talents with past experiences in marketing, business analytics, content strategy, creative, or chief-of-staff roles could be a great fit. However, we are open to considering talents with other backgrounds. 🌎This role is fully remote. We are open to US and international candidates. You must be proficient in written and verbal English communication What Skills We Need: 📌 Strong in identifying, strategizing, and creating high-value and engaging content Understand the attributes of various distribution channels. 📌 Know how to create multi-media content including creating/editing videos, conducting surveys, creating charts and analytical information, writing contents 📌 Master in researching and finding any types of information. 📌 Know how to use design tools such as Canvas, Figma, others to create basic designs for contents 📌 Have already been using AI tools 📌 Must be proficient in written and verbal English communication 📌 2+ years of past work experience in a fast-paced environment Attributes You will Have: 📌 Growth mindset: Massive interest in learning and growing. 📌 Self-start & self-discipline: We are a small team. We need people who can set deadlines, unblock themselves, and deliver results. 📌 Interested and able to work with Influencers & high profile people: In this role you will work with a lot of Founders, C-level executives, and high-profile people. 📌 Startup mindset and commitment to our mission: We are in a mission to help 100s of companies build scaleable businesses by having the right people, products, processes, and technologies. This is hard work and we are in the early stages of building our business. We want people who have the same mindset and are in the trenches with us. 📌 Have a track record of success: You could come from many different backgrounds for this role. What we are looking for is a past track record of success in work, sports, or school. 👉 If you are interested in this role, please respond to the questions (link in the comments) 👉 If you know someone who could be a good fit, please tag them in the comments. #hiring #openrole #gethired #hiringalert

It's great to be in NYC for another Flybridge Founder Week -- one of my favorite events of the year. What I love about this annual event is that it's packed with high-value contents from founders to founders and the opportunity to meet high-caliber people who are building scalable businesses. These have been the highlights of the events for me: ❇ I loved seeing my friend and incredibly inspiring founder, Shiza Shahid, taking the stage and sharing stories about how to build a substantial business, Our Place, in a short few years. Building a 9-digit revenue business and having people like Selena Gomez getting behind your product in 5 years are impressive milestones -- to say the least. 👏 😍 ❇ What she shared very much resonated with me (and I often provide the same advice to companies we work with): In order to build a great business not only you need to have the best products, but all parts of your business including design, operation, customer service, marketing, etc have to work well together in synchrony. You need to keep the bar high on all fronts to keep the momentum and drive results. ❇ It was great to hear the panel of investors from A16Z, Insights Partners, Craft Ventures, and Threshold talking about what they look for in founders and startups for Series A and beyond. The gist of it is that what drives investors' interest is "sustainable and repeatable growth". The "perfect" founders and companies don't exist. Own your mistakes and focus on building a business and delivering sustainable growth. ❇ Love hearing some growth hacking tips on marketing and sales processes from James Theuerkauf, Julisa Salas, Will Greene, and Zach Shefska. ❇ Spending time with people I admire including Jeffrey Bussgang, Chip Hazard, Jesse Middleton, Katie Kirsch, Zina Ajlouny, and many others was great. I also very much enjoyed the walking dinner tour last night -- organized by one and only Cherae Robinson. 👏 👏 P.S. I missed the names of some of the amazing people I met last night/today. Please tag your name below or comment, so we can stay connected. #founders #entrepneuers

Recently, I had the opportunity to share insights about the executive search process and hiring trends in collaboration with Vidur Dewan (Partner @ Artisanal Talent) and Sam Wallace (Partner @ Wilton & Bain) hosted by one and only Jessica H.. 🤩 Below, I shared some of the takeaways from the panel. I hope these help more people who are looking for their next leadership role and trying to navigate the executive search process: ✅ AI roles are surging: Not only there's a high demand for technical AI roles, but also there's an emergence of business AI roles. To take advantage of this trend, engrain yourself into understanding the AI nots and bolts, be the user of AI tools, shape your point of view, and be a champion of change/adopting AI in your organization. ✅ Leadership roles have been consolidating: We see the emergence of CPTO roles; we also see more companies rolling up product, design, and engineering under one leader, would it be CPO, CTO, or COO. As a leader, work on upskilling your hardskills and sharpen your leadership skills, so that you can take on broader scope. ✅ Middle management is shrinking: From large companies such as Meta and Amazon to smaller players, the organizations are getting flatter with the goal of gaining more efficiencies. Focus on delivering real value and solving real problems to make yourself indispensable. ✅ Landing a great job is half skills & half story-telling: Only YOU know your own story; you are the best person positioned to help others understand your story and the why behind every career decision. Work on the "art of story-telling" to help hiring managers and recruiters understand the greatness in you and your skills. ✅ Networking, networking, networking: That's always been a golden rule for landing a great job. That's even more important given the current imbalanced demand and supply in the job market. So don't just submit resume and hope someone will get back to you; identify and reach decision makers and influencers (internal recruiters, executive search partners, hiring managers, etc). I'm sure you are reading these and thinking: "This is a lot of work! How do I do that!?" I agree these steps need work, but if you approach your job search "strategically" and continuously working on your own upskilling (by learning AI and other skills), you will have a much better result in landing your dream job! #hiring #executivesearch #recruiting #gethired Raya

The power of the Community of Like-Minded People is incredible... Recently, I had the opportunity to join the Product Leader Summit and gave a talk with my friend and one of the most amazing leaders, Ha Nguyen, to some of the most brilliant executives and leaders out there. It was truly an honor to be among this group. The learnings, growths, and deep connections were what I walked away with, and I'm beyond grateful for those. Here are a few highlights of the day: ❇ The summit started with a "shake it off" dance to get the energies out, loosen up, and be fully present. It's great to introduce creativity and unconventional things to make professional events more personal and fun. ❇ The caliber of attendees and how the multi-day summit was organized enabled deep conversations and close connections. I felt I could talk for hours with each colleague I saw there or any new leader I met. ❇ Ha Nguyen & I co-presented and co-led a workshop about the importance of Building a Portfolio Career to Live a Fulfilling Life and Augment Your Income Streams. We had a great participation and engaged audience, who were all keen to learn about how to diversify their risks and build a more liberating, full-filling career. ❇ I enjoyed hearing the thought leaders in the product management including Tatyana Mamut, Todd Yellen, Marily Nika, Ph.D, Gibson Biddle, and Dan Olsen. Each of them extended my way of thinking about the role of AI in product management, team building, and the challenges/opportunities of product management leadership. ❇ I truly enjoy deep conversations with Priyankka Mani, Amit Fulay, Disha Patel, Madhur Aggarwal, Thomas Fenrich, Deepinder Gulati, Ely Lerner, Prashant Mahajan, Jessica Chen Riolfi, Ken Sandy, Lacey Picazo, Matt Lindsey, Shishir Agrawal, and many others. Huge kudo to the thoughtful organizers of this summit: Sarah Bernard, Ha Nguyen, Gibson Biddle, Dan Olsen, and Vidya Dinamani. I'm already looking forward to the next year's event. #productmanagement #productleaders #PLS

Recently, I had the opportunity to share my learnings and insights from "Launching Products Globally" with an amazing audience at Plug and Play Tech Center with the presence of global audience including entrepreneurs from HKSTP - Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. Here are a few learnings and insights from the evening: 1) You need to "localize" your product & go-to-market strategy: This doesn't only mean just translating or localizing your product. It's a lot more than that. You need to localize your "go-to-market" motion as well. You may have product-market-fit (PMF) locally, in the first country/region you launched, but that doesn't mean you can take the same product and go-to-market strategy to launch in a new country/region. As an example at Fitbit, we learned how the French think about fitness (they count walking to a restaurant to get a glass of wine as their "fitness") is very different than how Americans define workout and fitness. So all our marketing and go-to-market strategies had to align with the way locals will see benefits in our products. 2) Having boots on the ground is essential for successful global expansion: You need to have boots on the ground who truly understand the nuances of how to go-to-market, how to sell, and how to deliver your value proposition to customers in different regions. There are a lot of nuances of how to do business locally that will take outsiders to any market a long time to learn. At Cleo, where we had global customers like Salesforce, Redbull, Pepsi, and Uber, we had to have local health Guides to deliver our services with an intimate understanding of customers needs and approaches in that region. 3) Understanding local, cultural, and social aspects is critical to a global expansion success: Even though at the surface things may seem similar in each region, there are a lot of nuances that make your go-to-market strategy and the way you deliver your services resonate with the local customers or not. At Teladoc, we've learned that people in different countries think about their mental health and how to get support for that "very differently" than each other. Huge thank you to my hosts Rahim Amidi, Dr. Yahya Tabesh, Amir Amidi, Ahmadreza Masrour, and Akvile Gustaite, and HKSTP leaders, Albert Wong & Pheona Kan, who are interested in continuing these conversations. It was awesome to meet great entrepreneurs and see old friends: Reza Moghtaderi Esfahani, Daniel Lo, Houman Homayoun, Wayne Chang, Golnaz (Naz) Moeini. #product #gotomarket #globallaunch #globalbusiness

🔥Exciting news, updates, metrics from launching a business. 🚀 Check out the video. Last part has a big announcement and bonus point. 🍪 #buildingbusiness #OKRs #metrics

💰 💸 Fed slashed interest rates for the first time in 4 years! 🤩 Why this matters and what it means for you: * This is a huge news! This is the first interest rate cut in 4 years. * This is a jumbo-sized interest rate cut! Fed cut rates by 50-basis-point instead of 25-basis-point which is more common for interest rate changes in an effort to head off a slowdown in the labor market. * That's great news for job seekers and companies who are eager to open new roles. * Lower rates are typically associated with a friendlier hiring environment as employers’ bottom lines get a boost from cheaper borrowing costs. * Not only do lower rates help with a more appealing job market, but they also help the cost of your car, home, and credit card loans be less. * It's expected that this is the beginning of multiple rounds of rate cuts well into 2025. The very next cut will probably occur after the Presidential election. #hiring #openroles #recruiting #jobmarket #fed #interestrrate