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Maintain, scale, and improve SaaS production platforms with a focus on automation, observability, disaster recovery, and 99.999% availability. Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, optimize performance, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement durable operational improvements.

Manage and scale an indirect partner ecosystem by building executive partner relationships, executing joint GTM plans, driving partner-sourced pipeline, enabling partners through training and events, maintaining disciplined CRM and forecasting, recruiting and onboarding partners, and collaborating cross-functionally to grow partner-influenced ARR.

Manages safeguarding notifications, regulatory submissions, records, audit trails, and compliance activities. Coordinates safeguarding cases, meetings, advice-line activity, deadlines, and follow-up actions while supporting operational teams. Tracks risks, trends, and regulatory requirements, ensuring accurate documentation and timely reporting. The role requires experience in regulated environments, compliance or safeguarding, auditing, strong organisation, and attention to detail. A relevant Level 3 qualification is desirable, and an enhanced DBS check is required.

Own Rain’s financial model, budgeting, cash forecasting, runway analysis, debt facility monitoring, and strategic finance initiatives. Partner with leadership, accounting, investors, and department heads on capital allocation, reporting, fundraising, and business decisions. Build complex financial scenarios, analyze new products and partnerships, improve planning automation with Drivetrain, and translate financial insights into recommendations for executives and board members.

The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is expected, alongside optimizing existing systems.

Lead and scale marketing across consultancy and product studio: define positioning, run digital/social/content campaigns, implement lead-gen systems, manage internal and external teams, integrate AI and martech, track KPIs and ROI, and evolve brand voice and messaging.

Lead growth marketing across a studio and portfolio ventures: source contacts, run outbound sequences, build SEO-optimized content architectures, automate workflows, manage social presence, use AI for drafting, and optimize campaigns with data-driven experiments to drive customer acquisition and brand visibility.

Develop and maintain Java applications, RESTful services, and Angular frontends using Spring Boot and NgRx. Deploy applications to cloud platforms, practice TDD, manage CI/CD with Jenkins, and work with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. Participate in agile processes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and independently lead technical initiatives and feature delivery.

Provides periodic technical oversight for a mission-driven mobile and web application. Responsibilities include reviewing functionality, performance, and stability; coordinating with an external software vendor; assessing maintenance and support delivery; advising on technical priorities and long-term sustainability; and preparing advisory notes for non-technical stakeholders. This is a part-time, fixed-term consultant engagement totaling approximately seven working days over ten months.

Long-term fractional Talent Partner responsible for approximately 20 annual hires across sales, operations, finance, and fractional CFO support. The role includes proactive pipeline development, scalable recruiting process design, and year-round talent acquisition for food, beverage, CPG, and alcohol businesses. The recruiter must be U.S.-based, detail-oriented, and experienced in building predictable hiring systems.