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Managing Partner

Company: Snell & Wilmer
Location: Phoenix
Audited 14h ago

$350k - $450k / year

Full-Time

Chief IP Counsel

Company: Baker Hughes
Location: Houston
Audited 3d ago

$280k - $350k / year

Full-Time

Chief Marketing Officer (Product)

Company: UpKeep
Location: Los Angeles
Audited 2h ago

$260k - $340k / year

Full-Time

Chief Nursing Informatics Officer

Company: University of Chicago Medicine
Location: Chicago
Audited 5d ago

$260k - $340k / year

Full-Time

Sarah's Take:

This is the defining ascent test: UChicago Medicine gives the CNIO authority to redesign care at scale, but it also makes that leader the named executive when digital ambition collides with nurse trust, labor pressure, and patient-safety reality. The operational truth is simple: if documentation load rises, workflows slow, or bedside staff reject the rollout, this seat absorbs the heat even when staffing ratios and budget controls caused the failure conditions. This builds a rare board-level credential in nursing informatics inside a major academic system under real financial and labor strain. Apply if you want enterprise influence and a nationally credible clinical technology signal. Skip if you want political cover or distance from frontline backlash.

Head of DeFi (Decentralized Finance)

Company: Jump Crypto
Location: Chicago
Audited 5d ago

$250k - $320k / year

General Counsel

Company: San Antonio Fire & Police Pension Fund
Location: San Antonio
Audited 3d ago

$210k - $285k / year

Contract

Arthur's Take:

I selected this role because it is a rare public-pension General Counsel seat where the real question is not compensation or title, but whether you want to inherit a legal function that already proved it is one step from the top job and therefore one mistake away from board-level consequence. The core reality is simple: in a lean institution managing roughly $4.5 billion, legal is the control point for governance, investments, benefits, and trustee process, with no buffer between your review and institutional fallout. This builds a hard-to-fake credential in fiduciary leadership, direct board trust, and enterprise judgment inside a financially healthy public fund. Apply if you want visible influence and a credible path to broader executive authority. Skip if you fear owning risk you do not fully control.

Director of Game Development

Company: Rockstar Games
Location: New York
Audited 1 week ago

$220k - $275k / year

Fractional Chief Underwriting Officer

Company: Trivora Insurance
Location: New York
Audited 5d ago

$180k - $260k / year

Part-Time

Arthur's Take:

This is a classic asymmetric-accountability brief: Trivora offers front-row influence in an AI cyber build, but the structural risk is whether you are being hired to architect underwriting discipline or to absorb blame for a book and capital structure you do not fully control. The core operating reality is blunt: underwriting leadership carries outcome responsibility before it gets full authority over capacity, staffing, and governance inputs. The career payoff is clear: this is a sharp market credential as the executive who imposed portfolio discipline inside a launch-stage AI-native cyber MGA. Apply if you want a visible underwriting build with real resume equity. Skip if you refuse accountability inside a system that keeps key control points elsewhere.

Head of Design

Company: ParetoHealth
Location: Philadelphia
Audited 2d ago

$190k - $240k / year

Full-Time

VP of Design

Company: Chicago Public Media
Location: Chicago
Audited 2 weeks ago

$190k - $240k / year

Full-Time