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How to Actually Get Hired
Who reads applications, which channel gets a reply, and what they screen for.
Don't make these mistakes
Saying you love gaming. Every applicant will say that. ManaMind is not hiring gaming enthusiasts. It is hiring people who understand vision models, agent architectures, and enterprise QA workflows. Lead with what you have built, not what you play.
What gets their attention
Sure Valley Ventures is the most important investor signal. They are a UK and Ireland-focused VC that has backed AI software companies since 2017, specifically in the UK market. Their portfolio is concentrated in applied AI products with real enterprise customers, and they are known for pushing portfolio companies hard on commercial traction and customer expansion in the immediate months post-funding. Three live roles posted the same day as the funding announcement is the operational signal: this team has been planning these hires for weeks and is moving immediately. EWOR's participation is equally revealing. EWOR is a fellowship with a 0.01% acceptance rate that backs what it calls "outlier founders" and explicitly values unconventional backgrounds and high-speed execution. Emil is an EWOR Fellow himself, so their investment is a peer endorsement as much as a financial one. EWOR's involvement signals the wider European founder and investor network will be watching this company, which creates urgency: the window before this team has warm inbounds from that network is narrow. Heartfelt Capital investor Imti Basharat was quoted in the prior press coverage noting the agents' ability to operate in unfamiliar digital environments, and flagged expansion beyond gaming as a foundation for the long-term thesis. That is a signal about what the investors expect ManaMind to prove first: that the perception and reasoning stack generalises. Every hire they make now is building toward that proof. Three live roles, all cold email only. The application emails go to mo@mbnsolutions.com with the subject line format specified on the careers page. The Founder's Associate role has a Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIoDuDsO84LS68lh4LDaQ15EsDOKMkerrXBgp3jKXfwpusIw/viewform
Why applying the normal way doesn't work
ManaMind has an ATS but the real pipeline is referrals → sourced → recruiter picks → cold apps. You can still get through, but know where you stand.
Who to contact at ManaMind
What to show them
Build the vision-language model layer: raw gameplay video in, real-time understanding out, so autonomous agents can see, reason, and play. This is Sabtain's direct hire. Core skills: Vision-language models, video understanding, real-time inference, PyTorch or JAX, game environment perception, model fine-tuning for domain-specific tasks, evaluation design for non-standard outputs. Proof of work: Take any publicly released game footage (YouTube game walkthroughs work) and build a minimal pipeline that detects a specific game state: health bar below 20%, menu open, or a UI element appearing on screen. Document how your detection approach generalises across two different games. Publish the code and a write-up on what broke between the two.
A cold email that works at ManaMind
What ManaMind screens for
What they look for: Sure Valley Ventures is the most important investor signal. They are a UK and Ireland-focused VC that has backed AI software companies since 2017, specifically in the UK market. Their portfolio is concentrated in applied AI products with real enterprise customers, and they are known for pushing portfolio companies hard on commercial traction and customer expansion in the immediate months post-funding. Three live roles posted the same day as the funding announcement is the operational signal: this team has been planning these hires for weeks and is moving immediately. EWOR's participation is equally revealing. EWOR is a fellowship with a 0.01% acceptance rate that backs what it calls "outlier founders" and explicitly values unconventional backgrounds and high-speed execution. Emil is an EWOR Fellow himself, so their investment is a peer endorsement as much as a financial one. EWOR's involvement signals the wider European founder and investor network will be watching this company, which creates urgency: the window before this team has warm inbounds from that network is narrow. Heartfelt Capital investor Imti Basharat was quoted in the prior press coverage noting the agents' ability to operate in unfamiliar digital environments, and flagged expansion beyond gaming as a foundation for the long-term thesis. That is a signal about what the investors expect ManaMind to prove first: that the perception and reasoning stack generalises. Every hire they make now is building toward that proof. Three live roles, all cold email only. The application emails go to mo@mbnsolutions.com with the subject line format specified on the careers page. The Founder's Associate role has a Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIoDuDsO84LS68lh4LDaQ15EsDOKMkerrXBgp3jKXfwpusIw/viewform
Don't send a generic CV to ManaMind. Mirror the job posting's language to get past automated screening.
Mistakes that kill applications
At people, a copy-paste CV is immediately obvious. It's an instant no.
Nobody cares what you want. Start with QA is typically 12% of a game's total production budget and how you'd help.
Don't apply and wait. The median AI application gets no response ever. One follow-up at day five roughly doubles reply rates.
Frequently asked questions
How do I apply to ManaMind?
Through the roles on our ManaMind jobs page, or directly to the hiring manager if you can reach them. At null people, direct outreach outperforms the form.
Does ManaMind respond to cold emails?
We're still collecting cold email data for ManaMind.
Who is the hiring manager at ManaMind?
At this size, hiring is usually run by the hiring manager.
How competitive is it to get hired at ManaMind?
-person AI companies see ~100-250 applicants per role in two weeks. The 72-hour window is your advantage.
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