00—Working at phaselink

Build the agency
that ships.

We are small on purpose. Senior on purpose. Remote on purpose. We hire builders who would rather kill a pilot than ship a demo — and write the ADR explaining why.

01—What we look for

Five traits.
Non-negotiable.

Years of experience aren't on this list. We've seen senior engineers who can't write an ADR and second-year operators who run a pilot cleaner than most consultants. We hire on output, not pedigree.

01

You write before you build.

An ADR, a design doc, a one-pager. We don't trust work that wasn't named in writing first. If your first instinct is to open a notebook, we're aligned.

02

You can kill your own work.

A pilot that fails its shadow run is a successful pilot. If you'd rather ship the broken thing than tell the client it didn't work — this isn't the job.

03

You're vendor-neutral by reflex.

No favorite stack. No religious wars. The right answer is whichever tool ships the smallest meaningful piece for this client this quarter. Often it's not AI.

04

You ship docs as part of the build.

If the operator can't run it without us in the room, we didn't ship it. Documentation is not the deliverable after the deliverable — it's the deliverable.

05

You write like an editor.

Short paragraphs. Specific verbs. No buzzwords. The brand is editorial trust — every email, ADR, and Slack message has to earn it.

02—How we work

What it is, and what
it isn't.

The same anti-positioning we use with clients applies internally. Read the right column carefully — most agencies optimize for the opposite, and we'd rather lose you to one of them than mis-fit.

What it is

Small, senior, remote, async.

  • Fully remote, async-first. Two team meetings a week, that's it.
  • Project-based comp + revenue share. Everyone shares pipeline upside.
  • Direct client contact from week one. No account-manager layer.
  • 4-week sabbatical every two years. Time off is engineered in.
  • Tools paid: laptop, IDE, model credits, a real office chair.
What it isn't

A SaaS startup or an enterprise consultancy.

  • No standups. No sprint ceremonies. No story-point theater.
  • No junior tier. We don't have time to teach the job during the job.
  • No "AI strategist" titles. Everyone ships code or writes ADRs.
  • No staffed-up bench. If there's no project, you don't fake one.
  • No 60-hour weeks. We sized the engagements to make this true.
03—Open roles · Engineering

People who build the thing.

Engineering hires ship code that touches production within their first two weeks. We pair you with a partner on day one — there is no onboarding gauntlet, only the first ADR.

AI Engineer

SeniorRemoteFull-time or contract
open

Design, build, and ship LLM-powered agents on real production data. You own evals, prompt engineering, and the model-selection calls that make pilots succeed or fail.

What you'd ship
  • Build production agents (LLM + tools + RAG) for client operations
  • Write and own eval suites — your work outlives every model migration
  • Drive vendor selection: Anthropic vs OpenAI vs open-source, by use case
  • Pair with consulting on discovery; write the ADR before the code
Must-haves
  • 3+ years shipping AI in production (not just notebooks)
  • Comfort across at least two of: Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex, local models
  • Strong Python or TypeScript; you've written evals from scratch
  • Public writing or open source we can read
apply for ai engineer

Full-Stack Engineer

Mid–SeniorRemoteFull-time
open

Build the application layer around the agent — dashboards, integrations, auth, billing. You own the surface clients see and the infrastructure that keeps it up.

What you'd ship
  • Next.js / TypeScript / Postgres / Vercel — end to end
  • Custom integrations with client tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, custom)
  • Build internal tooling that makes the consulting + AI team faster
  • Own observability, CI/CD, and the on-call rotation
Must-haves
  • 4+ years shipping full-stack at production scale
  • Strong React + TypeScript; you reach for SSR / RSC by default
  • Comfortable owning infra (Vercel, Postgres, queues, jobs)
  • Pragmatic — you'll cut a feature to ship the deadline
apply for full-stack engineer
04—Open roles · Marketing

People who distribute the thing.

Marketing hires own a metric end-to-end — paid pipeline, organic traffic, brand share-of-voice — and ship experiments weekly. Founders are in the loop, not in your way.

Growth Marketer

SeniorRemoteFull-time or part-time
open

Own top-of-funnel: paid acquisition, lead-gen experiments, conversion, attribution. You run experiments end-to-end, from hypothesis to pipeline impact, with a real budget.

What you'd ship
  • Build and optimize paid acquisition (LinkedIn, Google, programmatic)
  • Design and run experiments on hero, pricing, contact, apply
  • Own attribution model + pipeline reporting from first touch to closed-won
  • Tight loop with sales — every campaign tied to qualified meetings
Must-haves
  • 3+ years running paid acquisition for B2B SaaS or services
  • You've owned a marketing budget ≥$30k/mo and can show the dashboard
  • Fluent in attribution (UTM, dbt, GA4, or your own stack)
  • Strong on conversion copy — you can ship the headline yourself
apply for growth marketer

Content / SEO Lead

SeniorRemoteContract or full-time
open

Compound organic distribution through long-form, technical content and GEO/AI-search optimization. You own the pillar guide library, industry pages, and ranking strategy.

What you'd ship
  • Write or commission deep technical content on AI implementation
  • Optimize for both Google and AI-answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity)
  • Build and maintain a programmatic SEO surface (industries, services, use-cases)
  • Pair with founders on thought leadership — long-form, signed pieces
Must-haves
  • Strong writing portfolio with technical depth (engineering-adjacent)
  • You've moved a domain from <1k to 50k+ monthly organic visits
  • Comfort in MDX, GitHub PRs, Next.js content — content as code
  • Opinions on GEO/AI-search — and a track record on at least one site
apply for content / seo lead
05—Always reading

Carve out your own role.

If you'd build a role we don't list — Voice Agent Engineer, Brand Designer, Automation Engineer, Founders' Office — pitch us. Make the case for what you'd ship in the first 90 days.

Something else you'd ship for us

Surprise usRemoteAny
always reading

If you'd build something we'd be lucky to have — Voice Agent Engineer, Brand Designer, Founders' Office, Automation Engineer — make the case. We read every one.

What you'd ship
  • Tell us what role you'd carve out, and what you'd ship in the first 90 days
  • Show us one thing you've actually built — production, not theory
  • Be specific about how the role compounds with the existing team
Must-haves
  • A clear case for the role you're proposing
  • Evidence you've shipped at this level somewhere before
  • Comfortable being the first hire in your specialty
apply for something else you'd ship for us
We measure shipped, not pitched. The right hire would rather kill their own pilot than ship a demo.
— phaselink working agreement, line 1
06—Apply

Send us
something you've shipped.

No CV gauntlet. Send us one thing you've actually shipped — an ADR, a production workflow, a pull request, a write-up of a pilot you killed. We read every one and reply within the week.

send your work see what we ship