Noah Ward

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Founder & CEO at Maple AI | ex-Amazon

Maple AI
Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
4+ years experience
Australian National University
English
AdvisingHiring
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Overview

Founder of Maple AI (D2C food brands). 4 years of building before that. Grew the team to 28 people across 3 countries. Raised $32 million across 3 rounds. Most at home with consumer brands and marketing. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Advice on D2C food brands
  • Questions about D2C food brands
  • Second opinions on marketing decisions
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  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
supply chainconsumer brandsmarketing
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on consumer brands

Topics
D2C food brands, supply chain, consumer brands
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
First-time founders

4 years of D2C food brands. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Sydney, Australiasupply chainconsumer brandsmarketing
Open
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring our first founding engineer at Maple AI - Sydney

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$150k-$190k + equity
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with supply chain Production experience with marketing Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp S$145k-S$203k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Sydney, Australiamarketingsupply chainconsumer brands
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Maple AI · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · Sydney, Australia
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
    • Raised $18 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
    Amazon · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 372ms to 153ms.

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Education

  1. Australian National University
    BSc, Business Administration
    2018 - 2022

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