Careers/Open role ContractMelbourne preferred AU-wide considered· $1,800–2,500/day Fractional CIO Partner Senior fractional CIO/CTO who can own a mid-market client engagement end-to-end in our model. For people who've been doing this work for fifteen years and want a steady stream of substantive engagements without running their own practice.

About The Role Red Yellow Blue's pipeline grows faster than one person can deliver. The bottleneck isn't sales — it's senior advisory capacity. We're looking for one or two fractional CIO/CTO partners who can take an engagement, run it in our model, and deliver the same standard of work the founder would. This is not a junior or intermediate role. We're looking for people who have: Run a fractional / consultancy practice before, or

Held a CIO/CTO/Head-of-IT role at a mid-market firm and decided the next chapter is portfolio work, or

Been a senior consulting partner at a firm and want to do similar work without the slide-deck overhead A Typical Engagement Looks Like Discovery + diagnostic — a 4–8 week deep read on a mid-market client's tech stack, AI readiness, vendor landscape, data hygiene, and operating model

Strategy + roadmap — building the 12-month plan with the client's leadership team

Embedded fractional advisor — 1–3 days/month ongoing as their de facto CIO, sitting in board meetings, owning vendor decisions, advising on talent and architecture

AI implementation governance — overseeing the engineering team's delivery, signing off on technical recommendations, being the senior voice in the room You'll bring your own clients where you can, take referrals where it makes sense,



and be supported by RYB's brain (mission control), implementation engineers, and discovery consultants on the engagements you lead.

What we're looking for 15+ years in technology leadership — CIO, CTO, Principal Consultant, or equivalent

Direct experience with AU mid-market ($20M–$500M revenue businesses), ideally across multiple industries A point of view on AI strategy that goes beyond vendor literature — you've seen what's worked, what hasn't, and you can argue your position

Comfortable being the most-senior person in a room of executives without performing seniority

Existing qualified network in Melbourne / AU mid-market is a meaningful plus

Right to work in Australia

Optional but valued: prior experience running your own practice, board advisory work, published thought leadership How we work Client-first; engagements are scoped tightly, billed on day-rate, no retainer theatre

We don't resell anything we wouldn't buy ourselves — vendor-neutral is non-negotiable

Markdown-first internally; you write things down; the brain (our internal ops system) handles a lot of the admin

Honest assessments over polished pitches — read the forms paradox and shadow AI for the operating principles

We treat clients as adults — direct, plain English,



no consulting-speak What we offer Day rate genuinely at the top of the AU fractional CIO band

Steady pipeline of engagements — you're never selling, only choosing what to take on

Implementation muscle to back up your strategy work — engineers + discovery consultants, not just slides

Internal tooling (the brain) that handles meeting recaps, commitment tracking, FR backlogs, status reporting

Equity in your own brand — engagements you lead are co-branded; you build your reputation, not ours What this is not Not employment, not a path to a CTO seat at RYB

Not a "find your own clients and we take a cut" model — we either bring you the engagement or co-sell, never just rent your name

Not a junior advisor seat — if you've done <15 years in technology leadership the AI-Ops Engineer or Mid-level AI Engineer roles are a better fit How to apply Apply Through This Page.

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Your most representative engagement of the last 3 years — what you owned, what changed, what you'd do differently

Your point of view on where AI strategy advice for AU mid-market is most often wrong

Capacity — how many days a month you'd consider, and what you're optimising for at this stage of your career A short note on the kind of client conversation you find most energising CV / LinkedIn URL is appreciated. We'll always do a coffee before any commitment.

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📌 FRACTIONAL CIO PARTNER (Melbourne)
🏢 Red Yellow Blue
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