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Issue #33 | 1/14/2026
From the Editor in Chief
When you’re on your path to leadership, you’ll find more high-stakes conversations in your path. Being enthusiastic and agreeable may be sending the wrong message. Today, you’ll get a deep dive into the better signals you need to show to be taken seriously.
In this issue, we have:
400+ great roles in delivery!
Industrial humanoid robots
How to enter high-stakes conversations
Why architecture still matters, even when you’re an incredible vibe coder
Enjoy today’s issue!
Sincerely,
Phedra Arthur Iruke
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Job Board
🦸 Hero Role of the Week
400+ jobs pulled. One caught my eye.
Every week I scan the board for the role I'd actually apply to. This week's pick? Let's just say it involves a company you've definitely heard of, a level most PMs dream about, and increasingly rare flexibility.
This week's pick: You'd be designing global playbooks for Stripe's Solutions Architecture org, partnering with leadership to operationalize pre-sales excellence, and running programs that scale best practices across their entire field team. Translation: You'd be the architect behind how Stripe's technical sellers show up to close deals. The rare part? You're not building slide decks in a vacuum. You're influencing cross-functional stakeholders from ICs to C-suite, managing high-stakes "Big Rocks" initiatives, and creating internal communication rhythms that drive actual action. $115K–$173K base, 50% in-office expectation.
If you've ever wanted to see what strategic program management looks like when it's directly tied to revenue—and you're tired of roles where "strategic" means "glorified project coordinator"—this is it.
No spoilers. Go find it. Filter on jobs posted in the last 7 days and hit Apply Now.
👉 Browse this week's top roles 👇
New roles added daily.
Professional Development
💡 Micro-Tip of the Week
The 'definition of done' litmus test
If you can't demo it to a customer, it's not done. Code complete ≠ done.
Industry News
A few things from Big Tech & business leaders that you can steal in 10 minutes
Anthropic Launches Claude for Healthcare in OpenAI Rivalry
Source: Anthropic Research
Days after OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Health, Anthropic rolled out Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-ready infrastructure, prior authorization workflows, and direct integrations to medical databases, including PubMed and ICD-10. The timing signals an escalating AI land grab in the $4 trillion healthcare sector—and raises questions about who controls patient data when chatbots meet medical records.
Read more →
Boston Dynamics Partners with Google DeepMind on Industrial Humanoid Robots
Source: CES 2026 / PYMNTS
Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots will now run DeepMind's Gemini Robotics foundation models, designed for perception, reasoning, and tool use in manufacturing environments. This is embodied intelligence at scale—AI that doesn't just think but acts in the physical world. Target deployment: complex factory floors by 2028. The convergence of hardware and cognition just accelerated.
Read more →
How Lovable Hit $200M ARR in One Year: The New AI Growth Playbook
Source: Lenny's Newsletter (Substack)
Elena Verna (Head of Growth at Lovable) breaks down how traditional growth playbooks are dead for AI companies. The winning move? Innovation over optimization, giving products away for free as a growth lever, and shipping new features instead of perfecting activation funnels. Lovable reached $200M annual revenue with 100 employees by treating growth like a product problem, not a marketing problem. The lesson for PMs: Stop optimizing yesterday's product. Build tomorrow faster.
Read more →
The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.
AI has changed how consumers shop, but people still drive decisions. Levanta’s research shows affiliate and creator content continues to influence conversions, plus it now shapes the product recommendations AI delivers. Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified.
In case you missed it
Community Pulse
This week in PM land, the community is fired up about Process & Productivity, AI & Automation, Leadership Challenges.
Hot discussion: Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)" thread from Hacker News.
Other trending conversations:
Other trending conversations:
Hacker News] [ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
Dev.to] [Prompt Engineering Won’t Fix Your Architecture
ProjectManager.com] [Break Even Analysis in Business & Project Management
What's on YOUR mind this week? Hit reply and tell me.
Energy
🎤 Phedra's Take
This week's theme: Entering High-Stakes Conversations with Leverage
Here's my take: Silence isn't awkward. It's leverage. If it makes you uncomfortable, you don't control the room.
What I've learned: Authority is established before you speak.
Before any critical meeting or negotiation, decide three things:
One non-negotiable term (your floor)
One thing you won't customize (your boundary)
One condition under which you walk (your exit)
Without a walk-away condition, you're a resource—not a decision-maker.
The posture that works:
Calm, minimal, unhurried
Prepared to end the conversation
Comfortable with silence
The posture that doesn't:
Over-enthusiastic, over-prepared
Eager to align at all costs
Afraid of silence
Your move this week: Before your next stakeholder meeting, write down one condition under which you'll walk away or push back. It can be scope, timeline, or a resource you won't compromise. You don't have to use it—but having it written down changes how you show up. Authority starts with knowing your floor.
That’s it for this week.
Keep showing up, keep cheering each other on.
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