Monitor Posted Roles with AI

Whispered focuses on unposted roles - those that are ‘whispered’

We generally find that VP+ roles are increasingly unposted. That is why we built Whispered - the deepest database of unposted roles - to allow top executives to collaborate with each other to confidentially share unposted roles.

But, even at senior levels, sometimes roles are posted. This article shares the latest tactics from Whispered members on how to monitor the internet for posted roles and signals.

Finding Public Roles

DIY: We see many members use AI to find and evaluate posted roles. Here are tactics to find posted roles:

• Job Board APIs: Indeed, Monster and other job boards have free APIs.
• ATS APIs: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Wellfound all have APIs you can monitor
• LinkedIn: For $30 / month, plug in anysite’s MCP into Claude / ChatGPT and have it scrape all LinkedIn job posts and the feed for relevant roles.
• Communities: Communities are a powerful way to find jobs - here is a list of top communities we know. Many have careers channels where members post roles they see / are hiring for. You can create a Zapier trigger for each new message in these channels. Forward them to your email where Claude's Gmail MCP can ingest them for you.
• Apify job scraping: If you don't want to get into Claude Code, you can use Apify's prebuilt job scraper.
• Investor Job Boards: Typically these do not have unposted roles as they keep the private ones off these boards. But still a great source to scrape.
• Recruiter Sites: There are a few recruiters that post some jobs including True (via Above Board)

Turnkey Tools: In addition to building your own AI to scrape roles and signals, here are some tools our members use to find / engage with posted roles.

• AI Job Boards: Share your profile with sites like Jack & Jill and they will send you matches (typically of posted roles but sometimes they find an unposted role)
• Warmer Jobs: Connect your network and Warmer Jobs monitors over 30k career pages and pings you when jobs at companies you have connections at open up that match your profile.

Score every role before you chase it

Prioritize opportunities: Use AI to analyze each job you find to focus your effort. Load the following into Claude to compare every opportunity against

• Your profile: Load in your resume / linkedin profile
• Your target criteria: Define your target criteria and target list companies
• Your network: Load in your LinkedIn connections

"Put it on autopilot: The members getting leverage don't run these manually. One setup: Claude with the Gmail MCP plus an ATS scraper, on a daily schedule. It pulls new postings from your target companies' feeds and your community careers channels, scores each against your criteria, and emails you only the matches worth a look. You wake up to a ranked shortlist, not a firehose." Whispered Member

Strategies and Tactics

Below are a few things we’ve observed about public roles:

• There is no universal API for posted roles: Every job board, ATS… has some jobs but not all. That is why you need to build so many different ways to monitor posted roles.
• Don’t assume because a role is no longer posted, it is closed: Some companies are required (either because they have federal contracts or through their own policies) to post each role. Many will post for a few days to comply with requirements and then remove the post. Use your network to confirm if jobs are still live but don’t stop chasing an interesting job just because it isn’t live publicly anymore.
• Leverage your network: Don’t apply through the front-door. Use your network to get in through the back-door.

Catch roles before they post

Signals: Depending on the role you are targeting, it may also be valuable to track job changes to know where roles may open up (i.e. new CROs often hire RevOps leaders, CMO/CRO departures often publicly announced). Some signals members have found useful:

• SEC EDGAR 8-K filings: Search this free public API for "departure of" + "marketing officer", new CEO appointments, IPO filings, completed acquisitions. All predict open searches weeks before a recruiter is hired.
• Crunchbase News: Series C/D/E funding rounds and M&A activity predict new senior hires within 60-90 days.
• Layoffs.fyi B2B SaaS companies doing layoffs often bring in a turnaround senior hire within 30-60 days.
• LinkedIn departure signals: Use anysite to search role changes. For example "CMO stepping down" with datePosted=past-week. When a CMO announces their departure publicly, the company typically launches a search within 30 days.

Monitoring posted roles catches what's public. For unposted roles, see our tactics to find themand … if you want to leverage more tactics and plug into the Whispered network, visit whispered.com