Ambra 🇪🇸

Product Marketing

"Being Clear About What You Want"

Ambra's Story

Ambra is originally from Italy, spent most of her adult life in London, and moved to Lanzarote to join her partner in Spain. That move was the first time she'd ever had to look for a remote role, and it wasn't optional. The choice was stay separated from her partner or give up the career she'd built. Product marketing, her area of expertise, doesn't have much of a local market on the island, so she needed something international that kept her seniority intact.

The harder problem was that she'd never actually had to job search before. She'd always been promoted internally or headhunted, so she had no process for actively promoting herself, and the market had shifted since she'd last needed one. Two months in, she'd sent over 50 applications and hadn't held anything back, yet heard nothing. She realized a CV alone wasn't enough anymore, but wasn't sure what was missing, and felt uncomfortable enough about the whole situation that she wanted to make the shift as quietly as possible.

Remote Rebellion changed that discomfort into something else. Meeting people from consulting, big tech, and senior roles who were in the exact same spot reframed the whole thing for her: it wasn't her, it was the market. That shift moved her from wanting to hide the process to wanting to talk about it. She started publishing on LinkedIn, going to networking events, connecting with other professionals, and even collaborating on fractional projects with people she met through the program.

The first few weeks were spent rebuilding her CV and LinkedIn profile from the ground up. That groundwork changed her approach entirely. Instead of applying broadly, she got specific about what she actually wanted and only applied when a role genuinely resonated. From that point, every application got a reply. Every interview reached final stages. She ended up with two competing offers in the same week, a total reversal from 50 applications into silence.

Her advice: get clear on your intention, stay flexible enough to respond to what comes back, and don't underestimate the community. Some of the people she met, she now counts as friends.