Crossover | The Olympics of Work

If your default button is ‘Try AI first,’ watch this. Then, apply here: bit.ly/43agUl3

AI won't make you memorable. Knowing how to use it might. @andrewallenxo's latest in @ForbesCommCncl. Link in comments.

@totogi is hiring a Senior Sales Engineer who actually understands what telecom customers need, not just what they ask for: $200,000/yr | 100% Remote | Worldwide Telco BSS runs on legacy vendors who take months to ship a feature and charge a fortune to change anything. Totogi is cloud-native BSS that moves in minutes, not months. You'll interview customer SMEs, map their real technical requirements to Totogi's platform, and own the Solution Scope. Deep BSS and online charging systems experience required. If that's you, apply here: link.crossover.com/cVbr

LearnWith.AI is hiring a Platform Architect who designs the foundations other teams actually build on: $200,000/yr | 100% Remote | Worldwide Most architects write specs that get ignored. Their decisions get overridden in sprint planning. Their APIs get changed without them. This isn't that. You'll design platform-level systems - APIs, architectural patterns, technical decisions - with real authority. After alignment, your specs are mandatory. You build what you design. You own what you ship. If you want pure architecture without implementation, or need a large team to feel impactful, this isn't for you. If you want to be the person other teams depend on, and actually have the authority to match, apply here: link.crossover.com/0RBF

They miss normal prompts.

AI really can help education: Randomized controlled experiment on high school students found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD, "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates"

The education system cares deeply. 🙂

A school where technology adapts the learning, and educators elevate the student. If you’re an educator ready to do your best work, explore Alpha opportunities: ed.crossover.com/clients/alpha

Dear education leaders watching their best teachers disappear, We both know they didn't quit on kids. They quit the clipboard. The walkthrough. The meeting about the meeting about the data from the data meeting. The pacing guide nobody believes in. The sixth observation rubric this year. The Sunday dread that starts around 4pm Saturday. They quit a system one teacher described as: "built on the belief that if you make people feel not good enough, they'll get better. Twenty-five years of that belief. Failed every time. Still running." And you know this. You're not the villain here. You're just also stuck in it. ...for what! AI is already doing the quizzes. The progress tracking. The feedback reports. The stuff eating your teachers alive at 9pm. Not someday, now. Some schools have already stopped doing it the old way. AI took the busywork. Teachers got their afternoons back. And when you give a good teacher an afternoon - really give it back - you know they don't waste it. They find the kid in the back who stopped talking. They finish the conversation. They remember why they got into this profession in the first place. They didn't quit on kids. Don't you quit either. <3 If this resonated with you, we went deeper on what leading differently actually looks like in practice: ed.crossover.com/resources/how-… And if you're done waiting for the system to fix itself: ed.crossover.com/jobs

We're hiring a VP of Business Operations who fixes broken systems instead of describing them: $200,000/yr | 100% Remote | Worldwide Hiring is broken. Almost everyone knows it. Few know how to fix it. This role is for someone who does. You'll design and own the end-to-end system that brings the right people in - on time, at quality, into roles where they stay. You'll work directly with senior leaders without formal authority. You'll use AI hands-on every day, not hand ideas to engineers and wait. If you prefer diagnosing over owning, or need org charts to get work done, this isn't for you. If reading that made you more energized, apply here: link.crossover.com/HPGz

Your resume doesn't tell the whole story. A good recruiter knows that. Our VP of Talent - Heather Lother - on The Breakthrough Hiring Show with James Mackey | Full episode: bit.ly/3OZr30M

They're so done with us!

The most advanced AI school in the world - @AlphaSchoolATX - still runs on human empathy.

SaaS Ops leaders who've owned the function end-to-end, this is $200,000/year, fully remote, and it's built for you. You've squeezed every inefficiency out of your current stack. The architecture is clean. The uptime is good. You've automated everything worth automating. ...and now you're bored. Trilogy is hiring a VP of SaaS Ops to run AI-powered operations across a growing portfolio of acquired SaaS businesses - not one product, dozens. High-complexity, high-autonomy ops work at a scale most people never get near: link.crossover.com/YRKz

Heard them talk about you.

Dear companies that can't find good engineers, By 2050, one in four people on Earth will be African. India already has the second-largest developer community on GitHub, growing faster than any other major economy on the planet. And yet you're all walking around going, "Where's the talent?" Indian startups are building 105-billion-parameter AI models from scratch - in local languages, for local contexts. In Brazil, engineers built an AI that predicts deforestation before it happens. Across Africa, AI is analyzing satellite imagery to forecast crop yields, delivering postnatal care to rural mothers with zero internet access, and giving credit to businesses that have never seen a bank in their lives. But of course... Where's the talent. You're still filtering candidates by location, penalizing accents like you're casting for another adaptation of Wuthering Heights nobody asked for, and ending up with a team that couldn't innovate their way out of a Google Doc. Seriously... Where. Is. The talent. Remote-first hiring exists. Paying people fairly exists. You don't even have to leave your chair to do it. Which, given everything, feels like the least you could do.

@praveenkoka lol forgot I even had those.

Anybody still using ChatGPT atlas? Perplexity Comet?

$200,000/year to lead - and still write real code. LearnWith.AI is hiring Technical Team Leads to ship AI-powered educational apps used by thousands of students. This is a true player-coach role: - 50% hands-on building complex features - 50% reviewing PRs, mentoring engineers, and setting quality standards Small team (3–5 engineers), no bureaucracy, no HR admin You’re accountable for outcomes, not just your own commits. 5+ years full-stack. 2+ years leading engineers. Proven SaaS shipping experience. AI tools in your workflow. Fully remote. Worldwide. Apply here: link.crossover.com/4IBn

AI fear 🤝 AI worship Same energy.

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"AI is going to change the world!” vs. “AI is a total scam!” If you’re stuck in that argument, you’re missing the real threat: AI washing. AI washing is when leadership talks “AI-first” to look innovative… then uses the hype to justify bad decisions, heavier workloads, and layoffs. Meanwhile, half the internet is AI slop and most enterprise AI projects fail. It’s tempting to get cynical and check out. That’s the trap. Here’s how to survive AI washing without becoming the scapegoat: 1) Ignore the extremes The “AI will replace everyone” crowd and the “AI is a bubble” crowd are both useless for your career. Progress happens in the grey zone. Experiment. Break it. Learn where AI helps and where it fails - like people did with early spreadsheets. 2) Become the AI boundary setter AI is great at repetition and bad at judgment. Be the person who says where humans stay in the loop, flags risky edge cases, and defines escalation paths. That’s how you move from being a cost to being the control system. 3) Make your value visible When work gets faster, effort disappears. Shipping in 3 days instead of 3 weeks often looks like “less work,” not more leverage. Don’t say: “I did this faster.” Show the delta: what AI handled vs. the human decisions that prevented failure. Negative sentiment toward AI is rising. Layoffs are real. But executives are still using AI daily. A skill gap is opening between people arguing about AI and people quietly creating value with it. Don’t let bad implementation by detached leadership wreck your career. Stop picking sides. Be on YOUR side.