Founding Commercial Director

Amber is a healthcare talent marketplace being built to connect internationally qualified nurses, midwives, doctors, care workers and allied health professionals with the employers who need them across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland.

We are pre-launch. We are looking for the person who will run the commercial side of it — and own a meaningful share of what they build.

The role

You would own the commercial side of Amber entirely. Employers in four launch countries, recruitment agencies, Philippine training partners, and candidate conversion. The strategy as well as the execution — you would be deciding what we sell, to whom, in what order, and at what price, then going and doing it.

You would work alongside our technical co-founder as an equal. He owns the platform. You would own the market. The roadmap is something the two of you set together.

Amber's founder spent twenty-five years in healthcare recruitment and technology.

What the first year looks like

• Test the employer proposition properly — fifteen to twenty real conversations before you decide it is right.
• Sign founding employers ahead of platform launch, so there is somewhere for candidates to go on day one.
• Turn a Philippine pipeline into an active partner network, which means getting on a plane.
• Build the agency channel in the destination markets.
• Set the pricing, own the numbers, and tell us where the business plan is wrong.
• Hire the first people under you.

This is right for you if

• Have real international healthcare recruitment experience — the specific combination, not domestic healthcare or international in another sector.
• Have sold to hospital groups, care providers, trusts or health services yourself, and can describe why those deals are slow.
• Understand the machinery: AHPRA, NMC, NMBI, the Nursing Council of New Zealand, IELTS and OET — and why they set the timeline for everything.
• Have built something from very little before. A market, a desk, a division, a company.
• Want equity more than salary, and have done that arithmetic yourself.
• Work without being managed, because nobody is going to.
• Will travel regularly and would rather be in the room than on a call.

This is NOT for you if

• Want a desk, a target and a warm client list. This is not that.
• Need the product to be finished before you can sell the idea.
• Are looking to match your last salary. We cannot, and we would rather say so now than in the fourth interview.
• Treat compliance as an obstacle.
• Write like an advert.

Package

• Equity-led, and meaningful. Structure is genuinely open — co-founder-level equity with vesting, or a smaller stake alongside a modest salary. Shaped around the right person.
• Remote. UK or Ireland based, for overlap with both the Philippines and Australasia.
• Travel to the Philippines, and to destination markets as the business needs it.

How to apply

No cover letter. Send us three things:

1. A short note on what you have built and why this interests you. Plain language.

2. One international healthcare deal you signed — who, how long it took, what nearly killed it.

3. Look at amberglobalhealth.com and tell us, in a paragraph, the single biggest reason you think this fails. Be blunt. We are more interested in that answer than in the first two.