Jaclyn Lilly

Jaclyn Lilly

I’ve spent 9+ years working with enterprise IT clients, mainly in recruiting and pre-sales. I focus on building strong client relationships, understanding business needs, and partnering with technical teams to find the right solutions. I’m also especially interested in the growing Charlotte engineering market and currently building hands-on skills in AI and C# development.

Most outreach fails before it’s even read

If you’re applying to jobs without also reaching out to recruiters or hiring managers in your space, you’re leaving opportunities on the table. But knowing how and when to engage is what actually matters. Top: what my LinkedIn inbox looks…

Charlotte QA: Market Watch

Remote, Stateside- Senior SDET Gig: Briefly swapped intros today with Rob Sarro who mentioned he’s hiring for his team at Anaconda. (remote, stateside- backfill). He noted the 5+ years is more of a baseline signal than a hard filter which…

Ovidius AI

Title: Senior AI Engineer, Agentic SystemsDuration: FulltimeLocation: Fully remoteRelease Date: 05/04Owner: Owen Boesveld We’re hiring a Senior Engineer to build production AI agents. This role owns the full stack: Claude Managed Agents, RAG pipelines over proprietary data, and Claude Cowork…

Coffee Chats

The Validation Bottleneck

Why cutting QA right now is backwardsInsights from the field: a conversation with Lucas Smit, AI Forward SDET Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing the same patterns across the QA market: layoffs, impossible reqs, and a growing belief…