the old girls club digest

September 26, 2025

Author

mallory contois
September 26, 2025 • est. reading time:8 minutes

Happy last Friday in September, OGC ❤️ 

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Announcements

📌 The OGC Women at Work pulse check survey is live - please choose the survey that applies to you! The more responses we get, the more useful this data will be. The survey is completely anonymous, and should take you 2-3 minutes.

📌 We announced our partnership with Decimals to help match more women leaders and ICs with hiring managers of top companies.. Add yourself to the OGC talent collective here to potentially get matched for intros and interviews.

📌 The OGC consultants group has kicked off a project to set up a database to make it easier to hire each other - browse the database here.

The list

The community-recommended good stuff. Never sponsored.

Member recs: This price tracking feature in Chrome to never pay full price, this cosmetics bag that will keep your all your stuff off the bathroom counter, this affordable under-desk walking pad, this YouTube channel for personal budgeting content, these custom jeans measured for with AI, this line and this line of comfortable bras, this tool for voice to text dictation, these affordable jeans with no waist gap and 4 inseam options, this tool for getting the f off your phone, this podcast episode for a good giggle, this book that got a few members out of reading ruts,

Some resources: This video and this podcast on negotiation skills, this AMA with Ray Dalio, this breakdown of various platforms for newsletters and creators, this visual search engine for finding new inspiration, this gallery of beautiful decks and presentations to help you uplevel yours, this database of 4,000+ downloadable diagram and data visualization templates, this guide to hiring college students, this database of OGC consultants for hire, this OGC session on making Linkedin work for you, this tool for interview prep.

A good read: ‘The more I heal, the less ambitious I become’ by Nadia Meli

Ambition is so celebrated and praised that it’s seen as a moral failure to not chase it.

I dare you to look at it differently.
Do I have dreams left? A few.
Do I have ideas I’d like to realise? Most certainly.

But I am not going there with ambition. I will go there with audacity instead. With courage. With my own pace. I will get there taking breaks and making detours if I have to. I will get there considering my impact on others. I will get there without sacrificing the most important thing on the altar of ambition. And if I don’t get there I know that I always acted in integrity with myself.

The more I heal, the more audacious I become. The more I dare to be who I really am. The more comfortable and free I feel to speak and live the truth I know in this moment. Audacity lets me move with faith at my own pace, not at the dictation of ambition. The more I heal, the deeper my courage to do what others won’t, to stand alone in my conviction. Audacity lets me create something that looks so different to the marketing messages and algorithms out there. Audacity lets me rest when I need it, it gives me space to be me in a system that doesn’t want me to be. It takes audacity to be you instead of being popular. I will take that any day over ambition.

[read the full essay here]

A newsletter or podcast rec: Plain English with Derek Thompson

Longtime Atlantic tech, culture and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you.

Open roles w/ warm member intros available

If you’d like to hire from OGC, share your open roles using this form!
Details on how to apply for these roles can be found on the OGC job board here.
All roles below were shared in the past 14 days.

  • SDR @ Outset.ai [JD]

    • $80k - $110k OTE

  • Account Executive - Media Sales @ Upscale AI [JD]

    • $100k + $100k OTE + Equity

  • Senior & Staff Software Engineers @ Caribou

    • $130k - $210k

  • Contracts Manager @ Corpaxe [JD]

  • Growth Intelligence Lead @ Growth Protocol [JD]

    • $150k - $180k

  • Founding Growth Lead @ Rosie [JD]

  • Sr. Product Marketing Manager @ OpenSpace [JD]

  • UX Designer @ TwinKnowledge [JD]

  • Founding Customer Success Lead @ Outmarket AI [JD]

  • AI Engineer @ Her Scout

    • $160k - $185k + equity

  • Fullstack Engineer @ Yogi

    • $140k - $170k + equity

  • Senior Mobile Developer @ Gridwise [JD]

    • $160k

  • Head of B2B Marketing @ Franki [JD]

  • Digital Content & Social Media Manager @ Kira [JD]

    • $90k - $120k

  • Business Operations @ Gabbi [JD]

  • Multiple @ Illinois Science and Technology Coalition [JDs]

  • Product Marketing Manager @ Recharge [JD]

    • $112k - $140k CAD

  • Senior Scientific Support Specialist @ MBF Bioscience [JD]

    • $70k - $100k

  • Founding Engineer @ Paxos Health [JD]

  • Sr. Product Design Manager @ Kira [JD]

    • $150k - $190k

  • Director, Communications @ The Connor Group [JD]

  • Marketing Data & Systems Specialist @ Small Great Ventures [JD]

  • Manager, Commercial Marketing/Enablement @ Visana Health [JD]

    • $90k - $110k

  • Director of Marketing @ Iris (tryiris.ai)

    • $140k - $165k base + equity

If you’d like to join us in Slack and you are a woman or non-binary person with 5+ YOE building an ambitious career, you can apply here.

Thanks for reading!!

❤️ Mallory & the OGC team