Senior Manager, Affiliate Marketing

This is a rare opportunity to step into a global, high-growth digital platform operating at the forefront of the creative, content and AI ecosystem.

With a strong existing foundation, the business is now looking to elevate its affiliate channel into a core growth engine - and that’s where you come in.

You’ll take ownership of a global affiliate and partner marketing program, driving scalable customer acquisition through a sophisticated mix of publishers, creators, influencers and strategic partnerships.

This role offers a genuine blend of strategy and execution, along with direct access to senior leadership and the CEO, giving you the ability to influence direction, not just deliver against it.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define and execute a global affiliate and partnerships strategy

• Scale high-value partner acquisition across publishers, creators and strategic channels

• Design innovative commercial models (hybrid commissions, incentives, bespoke deals)

• Build and deepen relationships with top-tier partners globally

• Optimise performance through testing, experimentation and data-led insights

• Partner with analytics, marketing and creative teams to maximise channel impact

• Leverage AI and automation to improve scalability and performance

What You’ll Bring

• Proven success scaling affiliate or partner marketing programs

• Strong understanding of the modern affiliate ecosystem (publishers, creators, influencers)

• Experience structuring performance-based and hybrid commercial models

• High level of commercial acumen and analytical capability

• Exceptional stakeholder and partner management skills

• Experience with platforms such as Impact, Partnerize or CJ

• Leadership experience in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment

Why This Role Stands Out

• Fully remote role (Australia or New Zealand)

• Direct exposure to executive leadership and CEO

• Real ownership of a global growth channel

• Blend of strategic thinking and hands-on execution

• Operate within a business shaping the future of the creative and AI landscape

• Strong, values-led culture with a focus on innovation and inclusion

If you’re looking to step into a role where you can build, influence and scale, apply now or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset on 0413 463 043.

Global Paid Media and Growth Lead

• Set, own and deliver the paid growth strategy
• Lead a multi-million dollar paid media function
• Circa $190k - $220k plus super and bonus

Join a global, high-growth digital platform operating at the forefront of the creative, content and AI ecosystem.

This is a pivotal role leading a multi-million dollar global paid media function, with a clear mandate to scale customer acquisition through sophisticated, full-funnel campaigns across social and non-search channels.

You’ll have end-to-end ownership of paid growth strategy and execution, working closely with in-house creative and analytics teams to build a high-velocity experimentation engine that drives measurable performance.

With direct access to senior leadership and the CEO, this role offers both influence and accountability in shaping the future of the growth function.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and execute the global paid media strategy across social and non-search channels

• Manage and optimise significant media budgets to drive strong ROAS and acquisition efficiency

• Build and scale a creative experimentation framework to continuously improve performance

• Leverage AI, automation and advanced tooling to enhance campaign optimisation and testing velocity

• Partner with analytics to define attribution models, measurement frameworks and experiment design

• Identify and unlock new growth opportunities across emerging platforms and channels

• Collaborate cross-functionally with creative, product marketing and growth teams

• Lead and mentor a small team

What You’ll Bring

• Expertise in paid media with proven success managing large-scale acquisition campaigns across multiple geographies

• Deep expertise across platforms including Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest and programmatic display

• Strong track record building and scaling experimentation frameworks

• Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve campaign performance

• Advanced analytical capability with a commercial, results-driven mindset

• Leadership experience within high-performance marketing environments

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills

Why This Role Stands Out

• Fully remote (across Australia or New Zealand)

• Ownership of a global, multi-million dollar paid media function

• Direct exposure to executive leadership and CEO

• Strong in-house creative and analytics capability (you won’t be flying blind)

• Real focus on experimentation, innovation and AI-driven growth

• Opportunity to shape the future of a high-impact acquisition channel

If you’re looking for a role where you can operate at scale, influence strategy and push the boundaries of paid growth, this is a standout opportunity.  Apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset - 0413 463 043.

Verification & Validation Lead (Embedded Systems)

📍 Sydney

💰 $140-155k + super

🛂 AU Citizenship required (NV1 Clearance preferred)

Build systems that actually matter.

There aren’t many roles in Sydney where your work genuinely sits in the “this can’t fail” bucket.

This is one of them.

The story:

• The Onset is working with a defence-grade engineering business delivering mission-critical systems where failure isn’t an option. Think real-world deployment, high-stakes environments, and tech that directly contributes to safety and operational outcomes
• They’ve quietly picked up significant contracts over the past 12–18 months, which is now translating into headcount growth and a need for stronger technical leadership across V&V

The role:
You’ll own verification and validation across complex, system-level products. This is end-to-end ownership, from strategy through to execution and continuous improvement.

You’ll be:

• Leading V&V across both product and project workstreams
• Working closely with product, systems, and project engineers to shape how things get tested, not just executing someone else’s plan
• Driving test automation and process maturity as the company scales
• Acting as the internal authority on V&V, setting standards rather than following them

The "why":

• Mission-critical work: the output matters, and the team lives ands breathes this
• Real growth: new contracts landing, more complexity, more ownership
• Multi-disciplinary environment: engineers up and down the stack form squads tailored to specific problems

This is the kind of role where you’re not just validating systems, you’re shaping how the organisation builds confidence in them.

If you’ve led V&V in complex environments and want something with more weight behind it, let's talk. Apply direct and we can set something up.

Head of Product - High Growth SaaS Platform

Step into Product Leadership role, where you’ll partner directly with the founder to shape the product strategy of a scaling SaaS business.

• First Head of Product hire, reporting directly to the CEO
• SaaS business entering next growth phase
• Own product strategy, roadmap, and commercial outcome

About the Client

We’re partnering with a high-growth Australian SaaS business in the fintech space, providing a mission-critical platform used by clients to manage complex commercial products and services.

With over 15 years in market, the business is entering its next phase of product growth, focused on product innovation and international expansion.

This is a founder-led business with strong market traction, a loyal customer base, and clear market positioning, now looking to mature its product function.

About the Role

This is the first Head of Product hire, reporting directly to the CEO.

You’ll take ownership of product strategy and work closely with the founder to:

• Translate vision into a clear multi-year product roadmap
• Strengthen product differentiation in a competitive market
• Engage directly with enterprise customers and partners
• Drive commercial outcomes through pricing, packaging, and new product opportunities
• Uplift product capability from reactive delivery to strategic product leadership

This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role where you’ll shape both the product and the function.

About the Candidate

This would suit someone stepping up into their first product leadership role or for someone who has already had exposure to an initial product leadership role. 

You’ll bring:

• Experience in SaaS, fintech, insurtech, or complex platform businesses
• Strong commercial thinking, with exposure to pricing, revenue, or growth initiatives
• Ability to operate across strategy and execution in a lean team
• Confidence working closely with a founder or senior leadership team
• A customer-first mindset, comfortable engaging with enterprise clients

Insurance experience is beneficial but not essential.

What’s on Offer

• First Head of Product role with real ownership and influence
• Direct partnership with the CEO and leadership team
• High-growth SaaS business entering a key scaling phase
• Opportunity to shape product strategy and drive commercial impact

For more information please contact Jacquie Nolan @ The Onset on jacquie@theonset.com.au 

This is a customer facing technical role working across Microsoft Secure Workspace environments. You’ll partner with account managers to understand customer needs, run discovery sessions, and design solutions that address security gaps across identity, endpoint, collaboration, and information protection.

A core part of the role is translating those conversations into clear, well-scoped Statements of Work. You’ll be expected to turn around SOWs quickly, with defined scope, deliverables, and assumptions, and support customers through to commitment. You’ll also present solutions, run technical workshops, and deliver proof-of-concepts where needed.

The role covers Microsoft technologies across endpoint management, identity and access, information protection, and collaboration security. This includes platforms like Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Purview, with a focus on aligning solutions to Zero Trust principles.

You’ll work closely with the existing customer base to identify opportunities, run security health checks, and build roadmaps to improve their security posture over time. Internally, you’ll contribute to reusable solution patterns, support pipeline growth, and stay current across the Microsoft security ecosystem.

We’re looking for someone with experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or senior consulting roles, who is comfortable engaging with technical and business stakeholders. You should be able to scope work independently, communicate clearly, and operate across both technical design and commercial context.

Russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

They’re building something new within their Microsoft Practice, and need another senior engineer who can take the lead, deliver at scale, and set standards.

The Identity & Access pod will define how they manage identity, access, and governance for a growing customer base – and you'll turn complexity into repeatable, secure, and supportable processes.  

You’ll work closely with the new Cloud Engineering Manager, engaging with customers to understand their environments and requirements, then translating that into modern, scalable identity solutions. It’s not about dictating or building bespoke setups every time – it’s about creating frameworks that work across multiple clients. This is hands-on, delivery-focused work, but it also demands strategic thinking, mentorship, and continual improvement. You’ll take what’s been done, tweak it, and turn it into something best-in-class, and then show the rest of the pod how to do it too.   What you’ll be doing:  

• Designing and implementing identity and access solutions across Microsoft Entra ID, Azure AD, Exchange Online, and Microsoft 365.
• Leading migrations, RBAC, MFA, Conditional Access, and privileged access strategies.
• Embedding repeatable processes so solutions can be applied across 50+ customers efficiently.
• Mentoring engineers, documenting frameworks, and contributing to continual improvement of the pod.
• Collaborating with customers to understand requirements, guide solutions, and balance technical best practice with their needs.

If you enjoy environments where technical excellence, operational efficiency, and mentorship intersect, and you enjoy seeing your work scaled across multiple customers, you’ll fit right in.  

Russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

They’re building something new — and need a senior engineer who can take the lead, deliver at scale, and set the standards for Azure delivery. The Cloud Engineering pod will define how infrastructure, automation, and operations are managed for a growing customer base, and you’ll turn complex cloud environments into streamlined, secure, and supportable platforms.

You’ll work closely with the Cloud Engineering Manager and customers to understand their business and technical goals, then design modern, scalable Azure solutions that actually deliver outcomes. This is hands-on work, architecting, automating, optimising, but it also calls for strategic thinking, mentoring, and building something repeatable that scales across 50+ customers. You’ll take what’s already there, improve it, and help shape what comes next.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, implementing, and optimising cloud architectures across Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, and security.

• Building automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Python) to standardise delivery.

• Leading cloud migrations, modernisation initiatives, and platform builds aligned to client outcomes.

• Driving operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and SRE practices.

• Mentoring engineers, documenting frameworks, and lifting capability across the pod.

• Partnering with customers to deliver technical leadership, cost optimisation, and continuous improvement.

If you enjoy environments where deep technical delivery meets automation and innovation — and you like the idea of shaping how Azure is delivered across dozens of clients — this team is for you.

Russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265

• Newly created role, new office location
• Toowoomba, QLD
• Specialist Helpdesk / technician role - Win 11
• 12 month contract
• Potential opportunity for an extension 
• Requires NV2 clearance
• Onsite residency role - 37.5 hrs a week

You’ll be working at secret and later top-secret levels of security clearance in this Tech Support role, joining the QLD helpdesk of a globally renowned private business.


Please note

- This business is associated with the Australian Government, and as such this role is ONLY open to Australian Citizens with NV2 clearance.
- Car and valid drivers license required. Expenses reimbursed.


Starting as a contract role, there is room for you to become a permanent member of the organisation down the line. Plus, having security clearance places you in the unique position of being able to access other similar roles in future.
 
The Role

In this position you will be troubleshooting moderately complex MS Windows desktop systems or network issues and escalate problem as appropriate and assist with basic computing delivery systems configuration management.

You will be responsible for applying compliance of IT operations against industry standards, ensuring efficient and effective delivery of IT operations, and escalating and coordinating the resolution of basic hardware or networking issues to vendors and suppliers.

You must also ensure that all documentation is current and aligns with Policies and Procedures, as well as participating in and responding to tasks as notified through the IT Service Desk.

About you 

• Experienced in the support of networked PCs running Windows-based software applications
• At least 2-3 years commercial experience in PC Support, with Windows 11
• Working knowledge and experience with PC hardware and peripheral equipment
• Excellent communication skills
• Has current NV2 Australian Government clearance
• Ability to work with limited supervision
• Certificate Level qualifications in IT and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• The ability to undertake ad-hoc tasks out of hours and available to be rostered for on-call duties if required
• Driver’s license and ability and willingness to travel to remote sites if required

 
If this sounds like you then please get in touch with Steven on email steven@theonset.com.au or apply online.

Head of Engineering

This pioneering (B2B SaaS) Fintech is reshaping the way large enterprise customers build new products and services at speed. Based in the heart of Sydney, their mission is to simplify and enhance the experience for their clients and users.

The Role:

As Head of Engineering, you’ll work directly with the Founder and be responsible for scaling a platform that supports some of the biggest global names in Insurance. This role blends leadership, strategy, and technical expertise, positioning you as a key player in shaping both their product and technology roadmaps. Your key responsibility is to drive and deliver great products and services while scaling the platform for national expansion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, Inspire, Elevate – Guide a team of exceptional engineers (software, QA, Cloud), fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and collaboration.
• Own the Full Product Journey – From the spark of an idea to deployment, you’ll ensure our products are scalable, secure, and customer-centric.
• Strategic Partnership – Work hand-in-hand with Head of Product to align engineering efforts with our ambitious business objectives and user needs.
• Deliver at Speed & Scale – Keep us moving fast, while delivering high-quality solutions, all while keeping projects on time and within budget.
• Champion Innovation – Drive the adoption of cutting-edge tools and methodologies that push the limits of what our Java on AWS stack can do.
• Shape the Future – Provide strategic leadership that influences both the product and engineering direction of the company.

About You:

• You’ve led high-performing engineering teams and thrived in fast-paced, product-driven environments; ideally B2B SaaS.
• Your leadership style inspires, motivates, and cultivates high ownership across your teams.
• You can seamlessly translate complex technical challenges into product wins that align with business goals.
• You thrive at the intersection of technology and product, with a knack for balancing innovation and delivery.
• Experience in fintech or similarly disruptive industries is a bonus, but your passion for building game-changing products is what counts.

Why Us?

• Lead with Impact – Play a pivotal role in a fintech that’s making waves and transforming an industry.
• Shape the Future – Join a team where your ideas matter and your leadership defines the future of our products.
• Innovate at Scale – Work with modern technology, constantly pushing the boundaries with Java, React and AWS
• Growth and Challenge – Enjoy the rewards of a competitive package, professional growth, and the excitement of being part of a high-growth business.

If you are interested in a confidential chat, reach out to sean.mitchell@theonset.com.au

Senior Finance Leader (Future CFO Pathway)

Fintech  | Sydney | Up to $250k plus super

A rare opportunity for a commercially minded finance leader who wants to step into a high-impact role with genuine CFO trajectory.

We are partnering with a high-growth fintech whose cloud-based platform is used by financial institutions globally. The business is scaling rapidly and winning against their competitors.

As the business continues to expand its footprint, this is a newly created role for a finance leader who wants to play a pivotal part in shaping their financial strategy and infrastructure.

Working closely with the Exec leadership team, this role sits at the centre of the organisation and will be responsible for financial management, reporting and strategic financial planning for the group.

For the right person, this represents a clear pathway toward a future CFO role as the company continues its expansion.

The Opportunity

This is a broad and influential role where you will combine technical financial leadership with commercial insight, partnering closely with executive leadership and the board.

You will lead the financial management of the business while helping build the financial infrastructure required for a rapidly scaling fintech.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the financial planning and reporting function for the consolidated group

• Preparing monthly management and board reporting

• Managing budgets, forecasting and performance analysis

• Ensuring strong financial controls, governance and reporting processes

• Overseeing cash management and banking relationships

• Preparing statutory accounts and coordinating external auditors and advisers

• Managing tax compliance, including R&D claims

• Supporting fundraising activities and financial due diligence

• Delivering commercial analysis and financial modelling to support growth decisions

• Developing scalable financial systems, reporting frameworks, and operational processes

• Mentoring and leading a small, growing team

• Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leadership

What Success Looks Like

• Senior leadership and the board view you as a trusted financial partner with sound judgement

• The business operates with robust financial controls and zero surprises

• Financial reporting provides accurate and clear insight to drive commercial decision making

• The finance function evolves to support growth and increasing complexity

About You

You are a high-performing finance leader who enjoys operating in dynamic, growth environments and wants the opportunity to step toward a CFO role.

You are likely to bring:

• Significant experience in financial management or financial controller roles

• Exposure to high-growth technology, fintech SaaS, or financial services environments

• Strong experience with board reporting, forecasting and financial planning

• Proven ability to balance hands-on financial management with commercial thinking

• Experience working with external auditors, tax advisers and regulatory environments

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to engage at executive and board level

Experience supporting capital raising, investor reporting or international operations will be highly regarded.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Newly created with a clear pathway toward a future CFO role

• Exposure to global operations 

• Opportunity to shape the finance function of a scaling business

• Direct engagement with senior leadership and board

• Work at the forefront of innovation 

If you’re an ambitious finance leader who wants real strategic influence and a pathway to CFO, call Michelle Rubinstein at The Onset for a confidential discussion or apply online.