Job Radar

Roles that pay for what you actually do: framing the problem, designing the system, shipping it end to end, and owning the commercial outcome. No coding required.

Where the opportunities sit

Quality of what is on the board

Your progress

Worth knowing

Swipe right to keep, left to bin, down to park for later. Arrow keys work too.

Widening the net

Aggregators, the contract market, recruiters and the routes that never appear on a board at all.

AI companies and startups

Labs and AI-native startups hire off their own boards and through VC talent networks. By the time a role reaches Indeed it is usually well into its shortlist.

Sport and football

The industry runs on its own boards. Roles here rarely reach Indeed, and when they do it is late.

General boards

Filtered to the last 7 days where the site allows it.

Sniping the applicant tracking systems

AI companies and sports tech firms post to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable days before the aggregators pick it up. These go straight at the source.

What these roles pay in London

Total pay in London unless stated. The bar is the typical spread, the gold line is the median. Sanity check an offer with these, do not treat them as a promise.

The red line on every bar is your 60k floor. Anything to its left is not worth the move.

Four reads. One: AI transformation and enablement pays roughly double e-commerce management for work closer to what you already do. Two: in sport the vendors pay properly and the clubs do not, so aim at the companies selling into football rather than the clubs themselves. Three: your 60k floor rules out two whole families. E-commerce Manager sits almost entirely below it, and so do UK Sport and general club-side roles, which is a real cost of the football route rather than a technicality. Four: the frontier labs are the highest ceiling on this board by a distance, and the eye-watering numbers reported in London are engineering and research packages. The commercial and enterprise roles are the ones open to you, and at Anthropic's London office those are understood to approach 200k.

Where 300k actually sits

The top 1% of UK earners starts at roughly 207k. 300k is inside the top 0.5%, and around 300,000 people in the country clear it. It is a real target, but it is not a promotion away, and no ladder of ordinary salaried jobs reaches it in five years from where you are.

The structural point that decides everything else: above about 150k, UK income stops being salary. Partnership and dividend income make up more than a quarter of top-1% income and a third at the top 0.1%. People at 300k are not mostly people with a 300k salary. They are people with a 120k salary plus something that scales: commission, equity, or their own book of business. Pick which of those three you are building, because they need different next moves.

The four routes, honestly rated

What I would actually do

Run the stack, not a single job. Your position is unusual in that you already have two engines: a salary and a consultancy. Most people chasing 300k have one.

Year 1
Move to an AI-native company on 90k to 120k base in a commercial or solutions role. This is the step the rest of the dashboard is built to find. It buys you the label, the network, and equity that may or may not matter.
Year 1 to 2
Keep Fulcrum running and push it toward retained monthly work rather than projects. Fractional engagements run 15k to 40k a month. Two of those is a second salary. Get Sky's written clearance before you scale it, because your contract requires it.
Year 2 to 3
Decide whether the scaling engine is commission or ownership. Commission means moving to a quota-carrying enterprise seat. Ownership means Fulcrum becomes the main event and the job becomes optional. Doing neither is how people plateau at 130k.
Year 3 to 5
Compound the one you chose. Enterprise AE at an AI company with 250k+ deal sizes gets you 180k to 220k on target and past 300k in a good year. Fulcrum at 400k revenue with margin gets you there through dividends and builds a saleable asset on top.

The honest probability. Reaching 300k in five years as a salaried employee alone is unlikely, maybe one in ten. Reaching it as salary plus a real second income is perhaps one in three. Reaching 180k to 220k in five years is very achievable and would put you in the top 1%. Plan for that, and treat 300k as the outcome if the equity or the business lands rather than the thing you are counting on.

The three things that decide it

  • Deal size, not job title. Commission scales with what you sell. AI deals run two to four times larger than equivalent software deals because buyers are replacing headcount rather than buying a tool. A seller closing 250k contracts and one closing 25k contracts have the same job and a tenfold difference in earnings.
  • Equity only pays if you pick right. Startup equity is mostly worth nothing. It is a lottery ticket you get paid to hold, and the only sane way to treat it is as upside on top of a salary you would accept anyway. Never take a pay cut for equity you cannot value.
  • Ownership is the only route where you keep the margin. An agency with 300k of profit sells for three to four times that, and a well-run mid-market one goes higher. That is the difference between earning 300k and building something worth a million. Fulcrum is the only asset on this list that does both.

What will not get you there: staying in e-commerce management, chasing job titles rather than compensation structures, or waiting for a big employer to promote you into it.

Two problems to fix before you send this anywhere

1. Sky is missing. The CV has Kub Products as 2023 to Present. You have been Trading Performance Manager at Sky Broadband since June 2026. Every AI adoption and enablement role on this board wants proof you can work change through a large organisation, and the one line that proves it is not on the page. This is the single highest-value fix and it takes ten minutes.

2. The CV and the board are chasing different jobs. The header says Head of eCommerce and Commercial Strategy. That is a good CV for the three e-commerce entries on this board and the wrong CV for the other eighty-six. There is no mention of AI, no Fulcrum, no agents, no MCP, nothing about building working systems with AI tooling. That is the thing that makes you unusual, and it is currently invisible.

What is already strong. The achievements are specific and numeric, which most CVs are not: profitability up 12 per cent on a 4m base, meta ads from 3k to 21k a month, ROAS 1.2 to 4.3, 20 hours a week freed through automation, 400k monthly impressions. Keep all of it. The problem is framing, not substance.

The reframe. Those automation and dashboard lines are currently filed as e-commerce housekeeping. They are actually the proof for the AI roles. Freeing 20 hours a week through automated workflows is an adoption case study; you just have to call it one.

Tailoring by role family

Same evidence, different order and different language. Do not write a new CV each time; run the master through the relevant block.

The master CV

What you sent me, unchanged, so tailoring always starts from the same place. Fix the two problems above and update this.

Aaron Manu · London · aaron.manu@btinternet.com · +44 7715 250594

Head of eCommerce and Commercial Strategy. Kub Products Ltd 2023 to present, Commercial Executive placement 2021 to 2022. Earlier: BT cybersecurity and sales intern, Cisco product and innovation intern, Warner Bros, retail operations. Loughborough BA Politics with Economics 2:1. Watford Grammar AAB. Shopify, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, GA4, Clarity, Meta and Google Ads, Make.com, Xero, Looker.

Tailoring a CV for a specific role

Every card on the Board has a Tailor CV button. It copies a prompt carrying your master CV, that role's details, and the tailoring block for its family. Paste it into Claude and you get a version written for that posting.

Do not send a tailored CV without reading it. The tailoring reorders and relabels what you have done. If it ever claims something you did not do, that is on the page with your name on it, not mine.

How much to change. The profile paragraph, the top four achievements and the skills line, every time. The employment history stays fixed. If you find yourself rewriting the history, you are applying to the wrong role.

What your swipes are telling me

What is actually missing

Ranked by how much each one is costing you against the families you are actually chasing, not by how hard it is to fix. Most of these are not skill gaps at all, which is the useful part.

Projects that tick boxes

Each one produces an artefact you can link to. Reordered as you swipe, so the top of this list is what serves the roles you are chasing today.

Skills worth developing

Only the ones that change which roles you can credibly apply to. The order follows your swipes: bin a family and its skills drop down the list.

The 90 day sequence

Weeks 1 to 2
Fix the CV, publish one written case study of the prospecting engine with real numbers, and put a link to it on your LinkedIn header. Nothing else. This is the highest return fortnight available to you and it needs no new skills.
Weeks 3 to 6
Ship the adoption measurement project. It is the single artefact that converts "I use AI tools" into "I can prove AI adoption works", which is the exact claim every role on this board is buying.
Weeks 7 to 10
Publish the MCP server or the evals harness openly. Write the post that goes with it. Two artefacts and two posts is a portfolio; one of each is a coincidence.
Weeks 11 to 13
Fifteen speculative approaches using the artefacts as the opener, and five recruiter registrations. Applications through the front door come last, not first.

What you should not do in those 90 days: a certification. See below.

What to skip

  • Most AI certifications. Roughly 80 per cent of learners buy credentials hiring managers actively discount, and for AI-adjacent roles a portfolio of real work beats any paper certificate. You are not a career changer with nothing to show. You have things to show and have not shown them, which is a completely different problem and a cheaper one to fix.
  • Learning to code properly. Tempting, and wrong for the next two years. It takes you from excellent-non-coder to mediocre-coder, and every role on this board that requires code has candidates who have been writing it for a decade. Your edge is being the person who ships without it.
  • Another dashboard or internal tool nobody sees. You have plenty. The bottleneck is visibility, not volume.
  • Waiting until the portfolio is impressive. Two published artefacts beats ten private ones indefinitely.

The one certification exception: if a specific job description names a credential, get that one. The most valuable certification is the one that appears in the posting you are applying to. That is a reactive decision, not a plan.

The pitch that makes this profile work

The gap most people have is either commercial depth or the ability to actually ship something. You have both, plus large-company exposure at Sky and owner-operator exposure through Fulcrum. The risk is being read as "manager who is keen on AI." The fix is to lead with artefacts, not enthusiasm.

Lead with
Systems you built and shipped: the prospecting engine, the client content tooling, dashboards, automations. Name the outcome and the mechanism.
Then
Commercial ownership: multi-channel trading P&L across Shopify, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop and John Lewis.
Then
Enterprise credibility: a performance function inside Sky, working change through a large organisation.
Say plainly
"I do not write production code. I design the system, build it with AI tooling, and own whether it works commercially." A feature for adoption and enablement roles, a hard no for engineering roles. Sort yourself into the right pile early.
Avoid
Titles with Engineer in them where the interview is a coding test. Forward Deployed Engineer is the main trap: perfect on the description, majority production coding in practice.

Applying to AI companies specifically

The labs and AI-native startups do not hire like normal tech employers, and applying to them like normal tech employers is why most people never hear back. OpenAI took over 400,000 applications in a single year.

  • Warm introductions and visible work beat cold applications. Anthropic says so on its own careers page. Your leverage is the thing most applicants lack: you have built and shipped real systems with these tools. Put them somewhere public and let them do the introducing.
  • Go for the commercial side of the house. Enterprise sales, applied AI, adoption, solutions, partnerships, growth, product marketing. The research and engineering ladders are not your route in, and competing for them wastes months.
  • The tier below the labs is more winnable and nearly as good. ElevenLabs, Synthesia, PolyAI and Wayve are all London-headquartered or London-hubbed, all scaling commercial teams, and all far less swamped than OpenAI. ElevenLabs alone has been running roughly 30 to 75 open roles.
  • Use the VC talent networks. Portfolio job boards from a16z, Lightspeed and Bessemer surface thousands of startup roles, filterable by function and location, often before the company posts anywhere else.
  • Your customer service and contact centre exposure is a live asset at conversational AI companies like PolyAI and ElevenLabs, whose entire pitch is replacing or augmenting exactly that function. You have run the thing they are selling into.

The sport route specifically

  • Sky is already a football employer. Sky Sports holds Premier League rights, so an internal move or a move to a rights holder or sports tech vendor with Sky on your CV is a far shorter jump than cold-applying from outside the industry.
  • Clubs and rights holders are buying what you sell. Current specs ask for CDP segmentation, lifecycle measurement, C-suite dashboards and linking marketing activity to commercial outcomes. That is your Fulcrum work with a football badge on it.
  • Aim vendor-side first. Two Circles, Genius Sports and Sportradar pay market rate and hire commercial operators. Club-side pays less and competes on passion rather than capability.
  • Watch the gambling adjacency. A large share of sports tech revenue is betting. Decide now, because it narrows the list considerably if the answer is no.

Widening the net

More roles come from three moves, in this order of return.

  • Stop browsing, start receiving. Every search on the Channels tab can be an email alert. Applying inside 48 hours of a post going live is the single biggest lever on this board, and you cannot do that by remembering to check.
  • Go where the roles never get posted. Register with four or five specialist headhunters, use the Loughborough alumni filter to find a person inside each target company, and send fifteen speculative approaches showing something you built. No applicant tracking system, no competition.
  • Open new markets, not just new searches. Contract and outside IR35 work is a whole market you are not currently in, and it routes through Fulcrum rather than around it. Adjacent industries are the other unlock: broadcast and streaming, commerce platforms, ticketing, consultancy AI practices. In those, your Sky badge and trading background read as native rather than transferable.

What not to do: add more general job boards. Indeed, Reed and LinkedIn already cover that ground, and a fourth aggregator adds volume without adding signal.

Titles worth searching for

  • Highest fit: AI Adoption Lead, AI Enablement Lead, AI Transformation Manager, Head of AI Operations, Automation Lead, Business Systems Manager
  • AI companies: Account Executive, Enterprise Sales, Solutions Consultant, Customer Solutions Manager, Growth Generalist, Product Marketing Manager, Partnerships Manager, Deployment Strategist, Applied AI
  • Sport: Fan Engagement Manager, CRM and Lifecycle Manager, Digital Product Manager, Commercial Operations Manager, Partnership Operations Manager, Head of Digital, Membership and Ticketing Lead
  • Home turf: Head of E-commerce, E-commerce Trading Manager, Digital Trading Manager, Marketplace Manager
  • Stretch, verify the coding bar first: Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Applied AI Lead

Refreshing this board

Channels does not go stale, it queries the boards live. Board is a snapshot. The sweep now follows a written runbook, job-radar-refresh.md, which holds the candidate filter, the source order, the pruning rules and the standing questions. Paste this into a new chat:

/captain refresh my Job Radar. Read job-radar-refresh.md and job-radar-captain-log.md first, then run the sweep exactly as the runbook sets out. Keep my saved statuses and entry ids, flag what is new, and hand back the updated job-radar.html.

The Refresh button queues a real sweep. A webpage cannot wake Claude up, so the button does the next best thing: it drops a request in a queue. The agent on your Mac checks that queue every 15 minutes, runs the full sweep through Claude Code, edits this file, and redeploys it. Reload the tab twenty minutes later and the new roles are there. The same sweep runs on its own every day at 06:50.

No API key involved. The sweep runs on your Mac through Claude Code on your normal subscription. The queue is a postbox with no AI in it.

What breaks it: your Mac being off or asleep. The sweep runs locally, so nothing happens until it wakes. If a queued sweep has not landed after an hour, check sweep.log in the Job Radar folder.

Where your decisions are stored. Statuses and notes live in the browser you are using, on the device you are using. They do not sync between your laptop and your phone, and clearing site data clears them. If cross-device sync matters, say so and the next build can put a small Cloudflare Worker and KV store behind it.

Why the runbook matters. Without it every refresh restarts from instinct and the board drifts. With it the sweep works highest-yield sources first, dates every entry, refuses to promote listings it cannot date, and never renames an entry id, which is what your saved statuses are keyed on.

Cadence: Channels on a daily two minute scan, full sweep weekly, pay bands re-checked quarterly.

Entry types. Listing is a specific role that will expire. Employer is a careers page, always current. Pool is a filtered search that refreshes itself. The board deliberately leans on the last two so it stays useful between sweeps.

Two links per card where both exist. Open posting goes straight to the specific role. Open site goes to the careers page or search it came from, which stays alive after the posting expires. Cards with a direct link sort to the top and have their own filter chip, since that is the one you actually want.

Why every card does not have one. Job boards expire postings and rewrite URLs within weeks, so a direct link captured today is often dead a fortnight later. Where there is no stable direct URL, the card takes you to the site with the right filter applied and says so, rather than promising a posting and delivering a homepage. Each sweep converts more entries from site-only to direct as real postings appear.

Sweep history

Open questions holding the search back

  • Salary floor. Answered: 60k. Now applied across the board and marked on every pay band.
  • Active search or watching the market?
  • London only, hybrid, or remote UK?
  • Betting-funded sports employers: in or out?
  • Should internal Sky moves sit on this board too? Given Sky Sports, that may be the shortest route into football.