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What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Fractional Director, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Fractional Director, you need extensive leadership experience, strategic business acumen, and a proven track record in driving organizational growth, often backed by an advanced degree or relevant industry certifications. Familiarity with business intelligence tools, CRM platforms, and project management systems is highly valued. Exceptional communication, adaptability, and relationship-building skills help Fractional Directors quickly integrate and deliver value across diverse organizations. These abilities are crucial for providing impactful, short-term leadership that addresses specific business challenges and accelerates results.

What is a Fractional Director?

A Fractional Director is an experienced executive who works with a company on a part-time or contract basis, rather than as a full-time employee. They typically provide strategic leadership and guidance in specific areas such as finance, operations, marketing, or technology. Fractional Directors are often hired by small or growing businesses that need high-level expertise but do not require a full-time director. This arrangement allows companies to benefit from specialist knowledge and experience without the cost of a permanent executive. Fractional Directors can work with multiple organizations simultaneously, offering flexible and scalable support.

What is the difference between Fractional Director vs Project Manager?

AspectFractional DirectorProject Manager
CredentialsIndustry experience, leadership skills, relevant certificationsProject management certifications (PMP, CAPM), experience in project execution
Work EnvironmentStrategic, high-level oversight, part-time or consulting basisOperational, day-to-day project execution, full-time or contract basis
Employer & Industry UsageUsed by organizations seeking strategic leadership without full-time commitmentCommon in various industries for managing specific projects
Comparison Search IntentUnderstanding strategic leadership roles in a flexible capacityManaging project scope, timelines, and deliverables

The main difference is that a Fractional Director provides strategic, high-level leadership on a part-time basis, focusing on organizational goals, while a Project Manager handles specific projects' execution and day-to-day operations. Both roles require relevant experience, but their scope and focus differ significantly.

How do Fractional Directors typically integrate with existing leadership teams to drive results?

Fractional Directors often work part-time or on a contract basis, so they need to quickly build rapport with existing leadership and staff. Successful integration involves establishing clear communication channels, understanding the company’s culture and goals, and setting well-defined expectations with stakeholders. They frequently act as strategic advisors, prioritizing key initiatives and collaborating closely with department heads to implement process improvements. This role requires adaptability and strong interpersonal skills to effectively drive change and deliver value within a limited timeframe.
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Developer Relations Engineer

Fractional AI

New York, NY • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 23 days ago

Job description

About Fractional AI
How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?
Fractional AI is focused on putting frontier AI to work. We're a group of veteran Silicon Valley builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems built right, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed.
We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.
The Role
Fractional AI is widely regarded by practitioners as one of the best teams at AI implementation in complex scenarios. Our brand awareness among top-tier engineers hasn't kept pace with our output. On May 20, we became the founding team of Anthropic's new AI Services Business, and it's the right moment to bring in our first Developer Relations Engineer to build a lasting engineering brand.
You'll be embedded in the engineering team, reading code, sitting in architecture reviews, talking to clients , and translating that work into content, community, and presence that engineers actually respect.
What You'll Do
  • Write and publish technical content - blog posts, project teardowns, HN writeups - drawn from what the team is actually building
  • Build Fractional's presence on channels where strong engineers spend time: Hacker News, technical podcasts, conferences, and niche communities
  • Run high-signal community touchpoints: dinners, workshops, small events where top engineers encounter Fractional in a non-transactional context
  • Drive open source contributions and external projects that reflect Fractional's engineering caliber
  • Build partnerships with complementary technical brands - co-sponsoring events, co-publishing content, cross-pollinating communities
  • Feed signal back to engineering leadership: what practitioners are excited about, skeptical of, building toward
What You Bring
  • Strong engineering foundation. You've shipped software and cared about doing it right. You understand why good system design matters and can have a credible technical conversation with a senior engineer about AI architecture, eval design, or production tradeoffs.
  • Exceptional writing. You write with clarity and specificity. You know the difference between content that earns attention and content that fills a feed. You've written things engineers have actually read and shared.
  • Taste for what resonates technically. You have a feel for the developer zeitgeist - what practitioners find credible, what reads as hype, what makes an HN post land versus get flagged.
  • High ownership mindset. You jump in without instruction, embrace a "no job too big, no job too small" mindset, and want to shape strategy and culture from day one.
  • Low ego, high integrity. You help others and ask for help. You hold a high bar for honesty, with yourself and your team.
Engineering at Fractional
We're opinionated about what works in production, and we write about it - from why most eval setups fail by collapsing everything into a single score, to why defaulting to chat interfaces limits AI's impact.
We have a distinct approach to building AI systems: applying standard software engineering discipline to the non-deterministic world of frontier AI. We design systems around testable hypotheses, curate durable datasets, and ensure what we ship keeps working long after we've handed it over.
After shipping 30+ AI products, we have strong opinions on what makes AI products succeed and how to get them into production. We think you'll find it refreshing if you've seen how most companies approach AI.
How Fractional Is Different
A typical engineer here ships two to three products per year and learns from dozens more. In this role, you'll have direct visibility into that full portfolio - which means a richer, more credible voice than any DevRel who's been handed a press release.
Our Values
  • Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world's best applied AI team.
  • Overuse AI: We go out of our way to experiment with the latest tools and share what we learn with our teammates - building a culture at the frontier.
  • Over "engineer" the culture: For every big decision, we ask "would this make Fractional a better or worse place for our team?"
Benefits
Competitive Compensation Package
401k with Matching
Unlimited PTO
Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Health FSA
Commuter Benefits
Life Insurance
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