Shape the future of the graduate programme for a global technology brand

Sydney or Melbourne location

About the Role

This is an opportunity to redefine what a successful graduate programme looks like in a modern technology organisation.

The graduate programme has been running successfully since 2015 and has built a strong reputation in market, attracting high-calibre talent and delivering a highly regarded graduate experience. But the environment has changed. AI is reshaping the nature of junior work, capability needs are evolving, and the business is rethinking how early careers talent fits into the future workforce.

This newly created role will establish and lead the strategic direction for the Graduate Programme across Product & Technology.

You’ll work closely with the Talent, People Teams and senior Product & Technology leaders to redesign and evolve the programme for the future - ensuring it aligns to workforce planning, future capability needs and long-term business strategy.

Your Remit

Programme Strategy & Workforce Planning

• Define the future direction of the Graduate Programme
• Partner with Product & Technology leaders to understand future workforce and capability needs
• Review programme structure, scale and future location strategy
• Help shape how junior talent works alongside AI and automation
• Support roadmap planning for future graduate programmes

Programme Design & Delivery

• Lead the design and evolution of graduate and early careers programmes
• Establish consistent onboarding and team placement experiences
• Build strong programme structure, engagement and graduate community experiences
• Develop and track programme success measures and performance metrics
• Ensure programmes continue to align with business and workforce needs

Stakeholder Engagement & Talent Partnership

• Partner closely with the People function on attraction strategy, university engagement and selection processes
• Work across Product, Engineering, Security and Data stakeholders
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the business
• Support leaders in understanding where junior talent best fits within future team structures

What sets you up for success

• Experience shaping graduate programs for within the technology sector is essential
• Strong degree of technical acumen and understanding of SDLC environments
• Experience working within technology or SaaS organisations and understanding how Product & Technology teams operate day to day
• Strong stakeholder engagement capability across technical and senior leadership groups
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving and globally distributed environments
• Strong programme and project management capability
• Curious and forward-thinking, particularly around AI, workforce planning and the future of junior talent

About You

• You have worked within a technology or SaaS business and understand how Product & Technology organisations operate. This is a non-negotiable requirement for the role.
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, building relationships across complex stakeholder groups and balancing strategic thinking with programme delivery.
• You’re interested in the future of work, how AI is reshaping junior talent and how organisations continue to build strong early careers pathways in rapidly evolving technical environments.

What’s On Offer

• Strong benefits package including ESP, flexible hybrid working and one of the strongest leave offerings in market.
• High visibility across senior leadership
• Strong employee resource groups and inclusive internal communities
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced Product & Technology leaders in a fast-moving environment

This role requires someone who understands how Product & Technology teams actually operate. If you haven’t worked within a technology or SaaS environment and don’t understand how Product & Technology functions work, this role won’t be the right fit.

If this sounds like you, apply now or contact Geri Condon at The Onset on 0404 183 291.

Implementation Capability Lead

Lead teams. Build capability. Create delivery consistency at scale.

This role requires stronger people leadership, better operational discipline, clearer workforce planning, and greater consistency across teams.

As the Implementation Capability Lead, you’ll lead a team of Implementation Consultants across multiple customer engagements, partnering closely with Delivery Managers and senior leadership to improve team performance, delivery quality, and ways of working.

Importantly, this is not a heavily hands-on technical role.

It’s a leadership role centred around:

• People management
• Coaching and capability uplift
• Delivery consistency
• Workforce planning
• Operational improvement

What you’ll be doing

You’ll:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Implementation Consultants
• Drive consistency across implementation standards, workflows, and delivery practices
• Improve delivery quality, execution discipline, and team performance
• Support utilisation, capacity planning, and resource coordination across multiple engagements
• Partner closely with Delivery Managers to create aligned and predictable delivery outcomes
• Contribute to strategic improvement initiatives across tooling, AI adoption, and operational maturity

What we’re looking for

The ideal background will likely include:

• SaaS, software implementation, or consulting environments
• Experience leading implementation, consulting, or technical delivery teams
• Managing teams across multiple concurrent customer engagements
• Driving operational consistency and improving delivery ways of working

What will really separate strong candidates is leadership capability.

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Build high-performing, accountable teams
• Coach and develop consultants effectively
• Bring structure and clarity to complex delivery environments
• Balance delivery quality with commercial outcomes
• Communicate confidently across delivery, leadership, and customer stakeholders

Deep technical expertise is not the priority here — strong technical appreciation and implementation experience is enough.

This role is better suited to someone who has moved beyond being purely hands-on and now thrives on enabling teams to perform at their best.

Why this role stands out

• Genuine influence across the delivery function
• Strong focus on people leadership and capability development
• Opportunity to shape delivery standards and team maturity at scale
• Highly collaborative environment working alongside senior delivery leadership
• A business actively investing in operational improvement and scalable growth

If you enjoy building stronger teams, improving delivery environments, and creating consistency across complex implementations, this is the kind of role where you’ll have real impact.

Delivery Manager

Enterprise SaaS | Sydney CBD

Some delivery roles are about coordination.

This one is about ownership.

We’re partnering with a scaling B2B SaaS business in the insurance technology space that is looking for a commercially minded Delivery Manager to lead complex customer implementations and delivery programs across enterprise clients.

This role suits someone who performs best in evolving environments where priorities shift, expectations are high, and strong judgement matters.

Someone who can navigate ambiguity, proactively surface risks, balance competing demands, and build trust with customers through clear communication and follow-through — particularly when challenges arise.

What you’ll own

You’ll lead the delivery of complex technology programs and customer implementations across multiple workstreams — balancing customer expectations, commercial realities, delivery risk, and internal priorities.

This includes:

• Owning customer delivery conversations from initiation through to execution
• Translating commercial commitments into realistic delivery outcomes
• Managing project financials, forecasts, budgets, invoicing, and delivery performance
• Leading project teams across delivery milestones, risks, dependencies, and escalation pathways
• Driving clear trade-off decisions across scope, timelines, and capacity
• Building trusted customer relationships at both operational and executive levels
• Supporting pre-sales activities including scoping, estimation, workshops, and proposals
• Helping evolve delivery capability, governance, and scalable delivery practices

You’ll work closely across Delivery, Product, Sales, Engineering, and Leadership — often operating at the intersection of competing priorities and making the calls needed to keep delivery moving.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for Delivery Managers who have built their careers in consulting, technology services, or software vendor environments — where customer ownership, commercial accountability, and delivery complexity are part of the role.

You’ll likely bring:

• A strong track record delivering large-scale, complex technology programs over multiple years
• Experience managing both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments
• Customer-facing delivery leadership experience within a software vendor, SaaS, or consulting environment
• Strong commercial acumen with accountability for budgets, forecasts, margins, and delivery outcomes
• Experience navigating delivery under resource constraints and shifting priorities
• Confidence managing difficult conversations, escalations, and expectation resets with senior stakeholders
• The ability to think beyond individual projects and improve delivery systems, cadence, and scalability
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and mentoring delivery professionals
• PMP certification or formal project management accreditation (highly regarded)
• Insurance industry exposure is beneficial but not essential

The type of person who succeeds here...

You’re calm under pressure.

You ask hard questions early instead of smoothing things over.

You’re comfortable holding customers — and internal stakeholders — accountable.

You understand that strong delivery is not just about process; it’s about judgement, communication, commercial thinking, and follow-through.

Most importantly, you want to shape how delivery operates in a growing business — not just inherit a mature environment and maintain it.

Why this opportunity

This is an opportunity to join a business where:

• delivery maturity is genuinely being invested in
• your judgement and leadership will shape how delivery evolves
• you’ll have direct impact on customers and outcomes
• leadership values ownership, collaboration, and accountability
• there’s significant opportunity to grow alongside the business

If you’re looking for a role where you can lead from the front, own outcomes, and help scale delivery capability in a high-growth SaaS environment — we’d love to speak with you.

Senior Machine Design Engineer, Custom Production Equipment

Sydney | Full time | Hybrid | $110k to $150k + 12% super + equity
Relocation and visa support available for the right person

The Mission

Some engineers design parts.

Some engineers deliver machines.

This role is for the second type.

You’ll take ownership of custom production equipment from requirements capture through design, build, FAT, SAT, commissioning, handover and stable operation.

The machines are high-precision, multidisciplinary and built for semiconductor manufacturing. Mechanical structure, pneumatics, electrical systems, controls, safety, vision, motion and operator reality all matter.

What You’ll Work On

• Own the full machine lifecycle from concept to stable production
• Capture requirements and turn them into a machine design specification
• Lead mechanical structure, electrical/pneumatic systems, controls architecture and safety systems
• Specify motion systems, sensors, actuators, frames, enclosures, PLCs, HMIs and vision systems
• Produce complete documentation packages across drawings, schematics, BOMs and manuals
• Coordinate internal fabrication, vendors, build, system integration and commissioning
• Walk machines through FAT, SAT and production handover
• Work with production, process and quality teams on throughput, yield and uptime
• Implement safeguards, risk assessments and machine safety requirements
• Support post-deployment iteration and knowledge transfer to operations and maintenance teams

What Matters Here

• 8+ years designing and delivering custom manufacturing or automation equipment
• Strong mechanical design across structures, mechanisms, pneumatics and tolerancing
• 3D CAD experience, such as SolidWorks, Inventor, CATIA or Fusion 360
• Electrical and controls integration experience
• Panel design, motor/drive selection and PLC/HMI fluency, or close collaboration with controls engineers
• Direct commissioning and production handover experience
• FAT, SAT and stable operation experience
• Machine safety standards such as ISO 13849, IEC 62061 or AS 4024
• Cross-disciplinary confidence across mechanical, electrical, controls, production and quality

Nice to Have

• PCB-related equipment experience, including handlers, testers, dispensers, pick-and-place or laser systems
• EPLAN or AutoCAD Electrical
• Beckhoff TwinCAT, Siemens TIA Portal or Allen-Bradley
• Cognex, Keyence or other vision systems
• SISTEMA or similar machine safety calculation tools
• SolidWorks PDM, Vault or other PDM/PLM tools

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a narrow design-office role.

It is blank page to production floor.

You’ll be the person who can see the whole machine, spot the trade-offs early and keep the build moving when mechanical, electrical, controls, safety and production all start pulling in different directions.

Interested to hear more? Apply direct to set up a conversation.

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment

Sydney | Full time | Hybrid | $110k to $150k + super + meaningful equity
Relocation and visa support available for the right person

The Mission

Can you take a machine from idea to production-ready hardware?

Not a product part. Not a bracket. Not a polished CAD model.

A full manufacturing machine.

This role owns the mechanical design backbone of custom semiconductor manufacturing equipment, from early concept through detailed design, prototyping, validation, commissioning and production release.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead mechanical design for custom manufacturing equipment
• Take machine concepts through CAD, drawings, BOMs, build and production release
• Design mechanisms, structures, pneumatic systems, motion assemblies and precision subsystems
• Apply DFM and DFA thinking before manufacturing problems become expensive
• Conduct tolerance analysis, FEA and engineering analysis where required
• Select materials, components, suppliers and vendors for mechanical subsystems
• Support prototyping, commissioning and continuous improvement of equipment
• Work with controls, mechatronics and software engineers on fully integrated machine solutions
• Help define mechanical design standards, documentation and workflows
• Reduce reliance on external vendors by building deeper in-house equipment capability

What Matters Here

• 7+ years mechanical engineering experience
• 4+ years focused on manufacturing equipment, automation equipment or machine design
• Proven experience taking machines from concept to production-ready equipment
• Strong 3D CAD skills, ideally SolidWorks, Inventor or similar
• Strong understanding of mechanisms, pneumatics, motion systems and structural design
• GD&T, tolerance stack-ups and engineering drawings
• Precision prototyping and manufacturing process experience
• Cross-functional confidence with controls, mechatronics, software and production teams
• Semiconductor or chip manufacturing equipment experience would be a major plus

Nice to Have

• FEA and tolerance analysis tools
• PLM, JIRA or Confluence
• Startup or fast-paced engineering environment experience
• Experience setting engineering standards in a team that is still maturing

Why This Role Is Different

This is mechanical engineering for machines that make the technology possible.

The work is not just “design it”.

It is design it, build it, commission it, improve it and make sure it survives contact with the production floor.

Interested to hear more? Apply direct to set up a conversation.

Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Controls & Electronics

Sydney | Full time | Hybrid | $110k to $150k + super + meaningful equity
Relocation and visa support available for the right person

The Mission

What happens when semiconductor tooling needs to get smarter, faster and more repeatable?

You build the controls layer properly.

This role sits across electronics, controls, automation software and the physical machine. Not pure software. Not generic industrial controls. Real equipment, real sensors, real actuators, real commissioning pain.

You’ll help build advanced manufacturing tools for next-generation semiconductor packaging, where precision, uptime and integration matter from day one.

What You’ll Work On

• Design and implement control systems for advanced manufacturing equipment
• Specify sensors, actuators, motors, drives, controllers and electrical components
• Develop embedded software, firmware and PLC programs for machine automation
• Work across motion control, servo drives, actuators and machine-level electronics
• Create electrical schematics, wiring diagrams and control panel layouts
• Commission, test and debug complex electromechanical systems
• Troubleshoot hardware, software and integration issues across the full machine
• Develop machine safety systems and support relevant safety standards
• Help establish controls, electronics and automation standards for a scaling team
• Work closely with mechanical, software and systems engineers to deliver integrated tools

What Matters Here

• 7+ years in mechatronics, controls engineering, automation or similar
• Strong PLC programming and motion control experience
• Embedded C/C++ or Python experience
• Familiarity with protocols like EtherCAT, Modbus or OPC-UA
• Electrical design experience across schematics, panels and wiring diagrams
• Solid mechanical fluency, enough to integrate across the actual machine
• Experience commissioning complex electromechanical equipment
• Semiconductor equipment, precision manufacturing, robotics or industrial automation experience
• Startup appetite without startup chaos tolerance being mistaken for lack of standards

Nice to Have

• MATLAB or Simulink
• ISO 13849 or IEC 62443 exposure
• Semiconductor tooling or fab equipment experience
• Experience building automation standards from scratch

Why This Role Is Different

This is not controls work in a plant that already knows what it is.

This is controls work where the machine, the process and the company are all scaling together.

You’ll be close to the hardware, close to the product and close to the decisions that shape how the tooling platform grows.

Interested to hear more? Apply direct to set up a conversation.

Operational Systems & AI Associate - Build the Platform

Do you thrive on turning messy operational problems into elegant systems? Are you excited about the power of data, automation and AI to drive real business outcomes? We’re working with an investor in the inner eastern suburbs that backs founder‑led companies and is building a new function to unlock execution across its portfolio.

What’s in it for you:

• Shape something new: You’ll be the first hire in an internal operations and AI capability, designing and building the tools and workflows that make multiple businesses run faster and smarter.
• Cross‑company impact: Work directly with investors and founders across diverse industries, rather than staying siloed in one business.
• Hands‑on with AI: Use modern tooling to automate and optimise processes, and see your solutions adopted in live environments.
• Autonomy and ownership: You won’t be handed a ticket backlog. You’ll own problems end‑to‑end, with the support of a tight‑knit investment team.
• Lifestyle: Spend time in the inner eastern suburbs office, with regular visits to investee companies. You’ll be surrounded by high‑energy entrepreneurs who are building real businesses.

What you’ll do:

• Immerse yourself in portfolio companies to understand their drivers of growth and pinpoint bottlenecks.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools that give leaders visibility into what matters.
• Integrate data from systems like Salesforce, Xero and custom apps into unified sources of truth.
• Develop lightweight process tools and automations that reduce manual work.
• Introduce AI‑enabled workflows and iterate on them to scale across the portfolio.

What you’ll bring:

• Technical fluency in scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript), APIs, SQL/data structures and dashboarding frameworks.
• Commercial and financial literacy; you can read a P&L, balance sheet and cashflow and translate them into operational insights.
• A builder’s mindset and bias toward action - you enjoy solving practical business problems without waiting for a detailed brief.
• Curiosity about AI and a desire to apply modern tools to real workflows.
• Confidence communicating with technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and a collaborative, low‑ego style.

If you’re curious about how to combine commercial judgment, technical fluency and AI‑driven innovation in one role, we’d love to tell you more. Reach out in confidence to explore whether this could be the next step in your career.

Product Manager – eCommerce Fulfilment

• 12 month contract to start with
  Own and transform the eCommerce Fulfilment experience for one of Australia’s largest retail environments, shaping tools and workflows used by frontline teams nationally.
• Join at a critical growth phase with a major transformation roadmap already underway, delivering high-impact capabilities ahead of Christmas 2026.
• Work across Product, Operations, Data, and AI-driven optimisation initiatives to improve fulfilment speed, team productivity, and customer experience at scale.

Lead the future of fulfilment for one of Australia’s most recognised retail brands.

This is not a BAU Product role.

This is an opportunity to step into a high-impact environment and shape how millions of customer orders are picked, packed, and delivered across a large-scale retail network. You’ll own the roadmap for eCommerce Fulfilment capabilities, partnering closely with store teams, operations, product, and technology to improve speed, efficiency, and team experience at scale.

You’ll be joining at a critical time, with a major transformation agenda already underway and a strong pipeline of initiatives targeted  over the next 12 months

Why this role?

• Own a product area with genuine operational and commercial impact
• Build tools and workflows used daily by frontline retail teams
• Influence how fulfilment evolves across stores nationally
• Work on AI-led optimisation and workflow automation initiatives
• Join a collaborative and fast-moving retail environment with strong backing and scale

What you’ll be doing

• Defining and executing the product roadmap for eCommerce Fulfilment
• Partnering directly with in-store teams to deeply understand operational pain points
• Prioritising and delivering high-impact capabilities across picking, packing, and shipping workflows
• Driving product discovery, experimentation, rollout, adoption, and optimisation
• Using data and insights to improve fulfilment performance and team productivity
• Exploring AI opportunities to improve workflow efficiency and task prioritisation

What we’re looking for

• Product Management experience within eCommerce, retail operations, fulfilment, logistics, or supply chain environments
• Strong understanding of fulfilment concepts such as pick paths, fulfilment rate, pick/pack workflows, and operational optimisation
• Someone highly hands-on who enjoys spending time with end users in operational environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across product, tech, operations, and leadership teams
• Analytical mindset with the ability to turn operational data into actionable outcomes

What’s on offer

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Sydney based role
• Large-scale transformation environment with immediate impact
• Strong career growth and long-term progression opportunities
• Opportunity to shape the future of retail fulfilment at scale

If you’re excited by operational product challenges, frontline user problems, and building products that improve real-world retail experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

Message jacquie@theonset.com.au for more details