What stood out this week
Three new postings appeared on the NL tracker since last week's issue: two Senior Product Managers at Spellbook (Enterprise and Growth) and a Sales Engineer at Avalon Holographics. No new postings are junior, so if you're early career or just graduating, there are no new jobs on the board for you this week but one worth a closer look is highlighted below. Later in this issue we decode a real posting line by line to show you how to stand out.
The salary transparency picture is unchanged from last week. Four postings disclose a band: NetBenefit Software ($60K to $80K, Content Marketing), CoLab Software ($70K to $110K, Business Development Representative), WSP ($104K to $138K, Project Manager / Project Engineer), and Intact Financial ($149K to $182K, Cloud Strategy).
Of the 93 open roles, 39 are fully remote.
Three positions worth a closer look
New grad with an engineering degree: Junior Electrical Engineer at Kraken Robotics. Mount Pearl, hybrid supported. Kraken designs subsea imaging, battery, and robotic systems deployed in more than 30 countries. A true new grad position as the only must-haves are a bachelor's in electrical engineering (or a related field) and a basic understanding of PCB design and mixed analog/digital systems. Everything else is spelled out as "nice to have, not required," so a new grad with the degree and the fundamentals is genuinely in scope. The role also mentions mentoring co-op students and reporting to an engineering manager with 10+ years in subsea, so there's real support for someone early in their career.
Mid-career product manager open to AI work: Senior Product Manager, Growth at Spellbook. Remote, Canada. New to Spellbook's board this week. Spellbook closed a couple of roles and added two Senior PM positions, which signals a shift to finding market fit. The growth role is the one where AI product experience would carry the most weight. Using a product framework like Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits or similar could help in this role.
Career-changer with writing or content experience: Content Marketing Specialist at NetBenefit Software. St. John's, $60,000 to $80,000 disclosed. NetBenefit builds employee-benefits software, so the work is making complicated benefits stuff readable. If you've been in content marketing, journalism, teaching or other persuasive writing, the skills transfer.
Under the Surface
Read the posting for the problem
Last week's hiring lead left us with one line: "Don't just focus on whether you meet the listed requirements. Focus on whether you understand the problem the role is trying to solve. Job postings are often a mix of ideal state and copied requirements."
This week we put that to work on a real posting. The trophi.ai Strategy and Operations Associate role is one of the few early-career postings open right now. Inside this issue, we go through it line by line: must-have vs teach-able, the negotiable bits, and how to turn it into a resume, a cover letter, and three interview stories. Same exercise will work on any posting once you've seen it once.
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