Alternative Careers for Software Engineers

Build and execute Mistral's global early-stage recruitment strategy, including campus partnerships, internship program design, and graduate hiring pipelines. Involves sourcing talent, managing university relationships, and creating structured onboarding programs rather than technical work.

Building and maintaining evaluation infrastructure that measures AI model quality, focusing on system reliability, reproducibility, and making evaluation results accessible to researchers rather than building the models themselves.

Design and engineer physical aeronautical structures using CAD software (Siemens NX), creating detailed models, drawings, and production equipment while collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and managing supplier relationships throughout the development lifecycle.

Leads a clinical data management team overseeing eClinical system implementations, database design, and documentation for pharmaceutical trials. Day-to-day involves managing project timelines, communicating with clients about requirements, writing system specifications, and ensuring data quality across clinical projects.

Lead and develop a field sales team in Lyon, coaching salespeople on pipeline management, performance metrics, and customer engagement while collaborating cross-functionally to support revenue growth and team expansion.

Medical data quality assurance and review role in clinical research, involving protocol analysis, database validation, medical coding of clinical events, and ensuring accuracy of trial data. Day-to-day work includes reviewing data consistency, coding adverse events, and validating database specifications rather than writing software.

Lead a team managing partnerships with accounting firms, driving customer acquisition and revenue through relationship management, strategy, and team leadership. Day-to-day involves partner engagement, revenue targets, and scaling a growth channel.

Lead a small team of account managers while managing your own portfolio of dealer group clients, focusing on revenue targets, client retention, and team coaching. Split between strategic leadership/mentoring and hands-on account management with B2B partners.

Senior product manager role overseeing insurance product lines (liability, household, accident, rental deposit products), responsible for strategy, cross-functional collaboration, and translating market/customer needs into product decisions throughout the full lifecycle.

Lead academic strategy, teacher development, and student success at an online school by managing instructional teams, overseeing academic standards, and using data to drive educational decisions. Day-to-day involves coaching teachers, handling student/family situations, coordinating testing, and collaborating on schoolwide strategy.

Build statistical models, design experiments, and analyze data to measure product impact and optimize search/revenue metrics. Work involves data infrastructure, Bayesian analysis, and translating analytics into business decisions rather than writing production code.

Account Manager responsible for managing a portfolio of restaurant partners in Montpellier, building relationships, implementing platform tools, and driving account success for a food delivery platform.

Account manager role managing restaurant partnerships at Deliveroo, focusing on relationship building, performance optimization through data analysis, and identifying improvement opportunities for key accounts in a mature market.

An Account Executive role selling SaaS software to public transport operators, involving market research, outbound prospecting, managing the full sales cycle from demos to contract negotiation, and building partnerships with local resellers.

Build and manage the sales pipeline for a SaaS public transport software company in Spain, including prospecting, product demos, contract negotiation, and stakeholder management. Work with technical teams to ensure successful customer deployments.

Client-facing sales leadership role focused on selling digital transformation services (data modernization, AI, platform modernization) to airline and retail clients. Involves account management, relationship building, proposal development, and contract negotiation rather than hands-on technical work.

Manage and optimize digital marketing campaigns across channels to drive app downloads and user acquisition, using data-driven targeting and performance metrics like CPA/ROAS to meet growth targets across different markets.

Lead and scale workplace programs and initiatives across Legora's organization, likely involving cross-functional coordination, resource planning, and organizational development rather than technical implementation.

Sales team leadership role selling managed IT services and security solutions to mid-market companies, with 60% direct client engagement and 40% team management responsibilities. Requires closing deals, generating leads via modern outreach, and collaborating with technical teams to scope solutions.

Research and identify executive-level job candidates using LinkedIn and databases, support recruiter on candidate evaluation and sourcing strategy, and maintain candidate records and search progress updates.