Most PHP roles talk about building features.
This one is about owning a system that already matters.

Somewhere inside a large organisation, there’s a platform quietly running the operations of thousands of properties. It schedules meetings, tracks work orders, and manages the flow of levy payments. It’s not flashy, but it’s critical - and it works at scale.

Under the hood sits a 750,000+ line PHP monolith.
Not something you rewrite. Something you understand, improve, and evolve carefully.

This team isn’t looking for someone to spin up landing pages or push out quick CRUD apps. They need engineers who:

• See complexity and lean into it
• Care about security, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Can navigate and improve a large, interconnected codebase without breaking what matters

The stack is modern where it counts - PHP 8.3, MySQL 8 - with some legacy frontend in Knockout.js (useful, but not the focus). The real work is in the backend: performance, structure, and making the system better piece by piece.

There’s also a forward-looking element. The team is exploring how AI can be applied in meaningful, practical ways, so hands-on experience here isn’t a “nice to have” - it’s expected.

They’re bringing in 3 senior engineers on 12-month contracts to begin with. People who contribute, challenge ideas, and take pride in doing things properly.

The process is simple: two conversations, focused on how you think and how you work.

If you enjoy getting deep into real systems and leaving them better than you found them - it might be worth a conversation.

Reach out to reema@theonset.com.au for more details.

B2B Growth Marketing Lead

• Own growth from positioning to execution, optimisation and revenue impact
• Dynamic, high growth fintech
• $130k - $140k plus super and bonus

The Opportunity

This is not a 'set the strategy and step back' role. It’s for someone who likes to own growth end-to-end—from positioning through to execution, optimisation and revenue impact.

You’ll join a fast-scaling fintech operating in the payments space.  The business is in a high-growth phase, with strong product-market fit and clear runway.

If you’re commercially wired, data-led, and equally comfortable in a Figma file as you are in a pipeline review, you'll want to read on.

• Shape and refine the brand narrative, simplifying complex product features into compelling, high-converting messaging
• Design and execute growth campaigns across acquisition and existing customer expansion
• Lead the visual execution of sales and ABM assets (decks, landing pages, partner materials)
• Apply UX/UI principles across all marketing touchpoints to improve conversion
• Identify funnel friction and drop-off points; and fix them
• Define and track core growth KPIs, using data to scale, refine or kill initiatives
• Run competitor and voice-of-customer analysis to sharpen positioning and win rates
• Partner with Sales Ops to deliver coordinated ads, email and outbound programs
• Build and optimise a referral engine across partners and customers
• Support event strategy and execution, including messaging and collateral
• Drive expansion within existing accounts through insight-led programs

What You Bring

• 5+ years in B2B growth or product marketing, ideally in tech or long sales-cycle environments
• A track record of owning revenue or pipeline impact, not just campaign delivery
• Strong ABM experience, with evidence of influencing closed-won deals
• Ability to translate complexity into clear, visually compelling content
• Hands-on capability across execution - this is not a pure strategy role
• Deep understanding of funnel optimisation, conversion and ROI improvement
• Experience building scalable design systems/templates
• Strong grasp of UX/UI for marketing
• Comfortable operating in a start-up / scale-up environment

• Genuine ownership of growth, not just a slice of it
• A product with strong market relevance and emotional resonance
• High visibility and direct impact on commercial outcomes
• A business that values speed, clarity and execution over bureaucracy

If you’re looking for a role where you can see the direct commercial impact of your work and move fast doing it, apply online or call Michelle Rubinstein a The Onset on 0413463 043.

Senior Software Engineer - Consulting - Permanent Opportunity 

My client is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work with cutting-edge Microservices, APIs, and cloud technologies alongside a high performing team. 

This role is with a a very well regarded consultancy who have a best in class reputation for the delivery of software and integration services. 

First 6 months in the role

• Design, build, and support APIs and integrations across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
• Ensure production services run smoothly – action alerts, fix defects, and implement enhancements.
• Collaborate with clients and your high-performing team to deliver solutions.
• Work for a consulting client to deliver first class engineering experiences

Ideal skills:

• 3+ years in Java/Spring Boot or integration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of API design, security, and SDLC.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proactive, quality-focused, and able to see projects through to completion.
• Bonus: Experience with Kafka, DevOps tools, or containerized solutions (Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, OpenShift).

Why apply:

• Boutique consultancy culture – you’re not just a number.
• Direct mentorship from a founder invested in your career.
• Work on cutting-edge integration projects that make a real impact.

Engineering Manager - B2B SaaS - Fintech - Permanent Opportunity 

My client is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team and play a key role in delivering scalable, high-impact platform capabilities.

This is a leadership role where you will shape the day to day operations, and implement best practice to an organization undergoing an exciting modernization journey. 

If you enjoy building high-performing teams, improving engineering practices, and driving meaningful outcomes in a product-led environment, this role offers strong scope and impact.

Day to day:

• Coach and support Technical Leads, helping them grow as leaders and strengthen overall team capability
• Create a high-performance culture that values accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with Product and Delivery to align priorities, manage trade-offs, and deliver customer value
• Improve delivery predictability through clear planning, visibility, and effective execution practices
• Ensure strong engineering discipline across teams, including architecture, testing, CI/CD, and scalable design
• Proactively identify and manage delivery risks in complex, fast-moving environments
• Contribute to both the strategic direction of the platform and the day-to-day effectiveness of engineering teams

Ideal skills:

• Experience leading engineering teams in a SaaS, platform, or product environment
• A strong track record of building and developing high-performing teams and Technical Leads
• Solid understanding of modern engineering practices (Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, scalable architectures)
• Ability to translate strategy into clear execution plans and drive consistent delivery outcomes
• Confidence working cross-functionally with Product, Delivery, and other stakeholders
• Experience navigating competing priorities, trade-offs, and technical complexity
• A pragmatic, outcome-focused mindset with strong commercial awareness

Why apply? 

• Real opportunity to shape engineering culture and ways of working
• Leadership scope across multiple teams with meaningful impact on delivery outcomes
• Strong partnership with Product and Delivery in a collaborative, product-led environment
• A role that balances strategic influence with hands-on leadership

More details:

• Reporting to: Head of Engineering
• Department: Engineering
• Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
• Location: Sydney, Hybrid

Lead Delivery Manager - Sydney | Hybrid

We’re partnering with a growing technology business looking to hire a Lead Delivery Manager to elevate delivery across the organisation.

This is not a standard Delivery Manager role.

You’ll operate at a senior level — leading programs, influencing delivery leaders, and driving how delivery is executed across teams.

What you’ll do

• Oversee complex, multi-stream programs across enterprise clients
• Lead and influence Delivery Managers and cross-functional teams
• Drive consistency, structure, and high standards across delivery
• Own delivery outcomes end-to-end — including commercial performance
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to align delivery with business outcomes
• Identify and improve inefficiencies across teams

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience leading large, complex delivery environments
• Experience managing or mentoring Delivery Managers
• Strong commercial acumen (budget, forecasting, trade-offs)
• Ability to lead without authority and drive performance across teams
• Confident working with senior stakeholders and clients
• Track record of improving ways of working and lifting delivery standards

Why this role

• Influence how delivery is done — not just what is delivered
• Work at a leadership level across programs and teams
• Opportunity to lift capability and shape delivery maturity

This role suits a high-performing, commercially astute delivery leader ready to step beyond traditional program delivery.

Apply now or reach out for a confidential discussion.

Data & Analytics Director

Build & Lead a High-Impact Data Function | High-Growth Consumer Scale-Up
Sydney or Melbourne | Hybrid (2 days in office)
$200k - $220k + Super + ESOP

Join one of Australia’s fastest-growing DTC scale-ups. Strong product-market fit, purpose-driven brand, loyal customers, and serious momentum. This is your chance to own how a business uses data to scale—across growth, marketing, operations, product, and customer.

Lead a modern, high-performing team of 6 across Analytics, Data Science, and Data/Analytics Engineering, turning data into a true competitive advantage.

The Role

• Own the entire data function: strategy, roadmap, and team
• Build, lead, and scale a multidisciplinary team, setting priorities, ways of working, and raising the bar on impact
• Partner with leadership across Growth, Marketing, Product, Operations, and Finance to answer critical business questions:

• • Where to invest for the next growth phase
  • How to optimise marketing, pricing, and customer lifecycle
  • How to improve operational efficiency and margin
  • How to embed data into every decision

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead & scale the data function: Coach and mentor a high performing Data team - attracting exceptional talent, setting expectations & objectives, and managing performance & development
• Own data strategy & roadmap: align initiatives to key business priorities
• Drive impact across the business:

   

• • Growth & Marketing: performance, attribution, budget optimisation
  • Operations: efficiency, automation, cost optimisation
  • Product & Customer: lifecycle, retention, engagement
  • Finance: reporting, forecasting, commercial insights

• Build a data-led culture: improve accessibility, literacy, and self-serve capabilities
• Stay hands-on where it matters: SQL, data models, problem-solving, and scalable data foundations

What We’re Looking For

• Proven Data & Analytics leader (min 5+ years) of multidisciplinary data teams in high-growth, fast-paced environments
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end data lifecycle (ingestion → insight → impact)
• Track record of using data to drive commercial outcomes - particularly across Customer, Growth, Marketing, Ops, Finance Metrics
• Experience in consumer, subscription, DTC, eCommerce, or product-led businesses
• Operates at strategy and execution levels, with strong stakeholder influence
• Comfortable in ambiguity—brings structure, clarity, and direction
• Hands-on problem-solving with the team: SQL, data modeling, and modern data stacks (dbt, Snowflake, Looker, Omni etc.)

Interested? Apply now or message Ailbhe McDonagh Kelly on Linkedin if you’re keen to know more or email ailbhe@theonset.com.au

We’re looking for a hands-on, results-driven Digital Marketing Manager with strong Hubspot and CMS capabilities to join a leading real estate platform and help shape high-quality digital experiences across web, social, and email channels. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact while supporting both customer engagement and business growth.

What You’ll Do

• Website & Content Management
  • Lead website projects with a focus on customer experience, mobile optimisation, stakeholder engagement, and campaign reporting.
  • Oversee SEO and SEM agency partners, guiding content strategy, keyword research, and performance tracking.
  • Monitor, analyse, and report on website and campaign performance, ensuring content is up-to-date and aligned with business priorities.
  • Prepare digital assets, campaign briefs, and performance reports for key initiatives.
• Social Media Management
  • Plan, schedule, and manage content across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
  • Drive content strategy and paid campaigns for our Indi Build-to-Rent platform, coordinating with agencies and internal teams.
  • Track, report, and optimise social performance, ensuring alignment with leasing strategies and seasonal promotions.
• Email & Marketing Automation
  • Lead the creation and execution of email marketing programs, workflows, and automation.
  • Manage audience segmentation, personalisation, and campaign performance.
  • Apply best-practice email marketing principles to deliver engaging, effective communications.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Work closely with internal teams including Marketing & Communications, IT, Leasing, Customer Experience, ESG, People & Culture, and Funds/Mandate teams.
  • Manage external partners such as developers, SEO/SEM agencies, social agencies, and content providers.

What We’re Looking For

• Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in digital marketing, with a proven track record in both strategic planning and hands-on execution.
• Hubspot experience -A MUST!!!
• Experience managing website projects, multi-channel digital campaigns, and marketing automation 
• Knowledge of SEO, SEM, and website optimisation principles; familiarity with analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Meta reporting is a plus.
• Property sector experience (office or living) is advantageous but not essential.
• Creative thinker with a results-driven mindset.
• Strong organisational and project management capabilities.
• Customer-focused, proactive, and able to manage multiple stakeholders effectively..

Why You’ll Love It

• Be part of a collaborative team that values innovation, creativity, and impact.
• Work across multiple platforms and business units, making a real difference to customer experience and business growth.
• Opportunity to transition from a 3-month contract into a permanent role.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, hands-on environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.

Apply via the link or email Karen at Karen@theonset.com.au to learn more.

They’re building out how leadership capability, talent, and learning operate at scale and need a GM of Organisational Development who can take ownership, deliver, and set the standard.

The leadership and capability space will define how they develop, align, and scale ~80 senior leaders across a global, matrixed business and you’ll turn complexity into structured, repeatable systems that directly impact how the business performs at scale.

This role is about building systems that don’t just develop people, but improve how the business performs.

You’ll work closely with executive leadership, facilitating and partnering with exeutive stakeholders to understand where the business is heading, then translating that into leadership capability, talent strategy, and development approaches that actually move the organisation forward. It’s not about running sessions or lifting frameworks from elsewhere, it’s about designing what fits this business, at this stage, and making it work globally.

This is hands-on, delivery-focused work, but it also demands strategic thinking, influence, and strong facilitation. You’ll take what exists, challenge it, reshape it, and turn it into something that scales, then embed it across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning talent and succession strategy at senior levels, including executive capability and leadership development
• Facilitating and partnering with ~80 senior leaders, driving alignment and landing clear outcomes
• Designing and delivering executive-level experiences such as offsites, leadership programs, and forums
• Building integrated capability systems across talent, leadership, and learning that drive measurable business performance
• Leading global initiatives that need to work across regions, not just locally
• Embedding modern approaches to learning, including AI, blended models, and personalised development
• Leading a small team (2 - 4), while staying hands-on in key programs and workstreams

This isn’t a rinse-and-repeat role.

They’re not looking for someone to bring a playbook and apply it.

They want someone who can design approaches specific to the organisation, understand complexity and build for it, bring new thinking into learning and leadership, and drive large-scale, global transformation.

If you enjoy environments where influence, execution, and design all sit together, and you like taking something ambiguous and turning it into something structured, scalable, and impactful, you’ll fit right in.

Hit apply or email geri@theonset.com.au

Lead React Native Engineer

Permanent | Hybrid (Melbourne / Sydney) | Consulting

My client is building out a React Native capability from the ground up—and are looking for a Lead Engineer to define what “great” looks like.

This is not just another delivery role. You’ll set technical direction, influence clients, and establish React Native as a core offering across the business.

Why this role stands out

• Own the mobile direction
  Be the go-to React Native expert, shaping architecture and setting standards across multiple client engagements
• High-impact work
  From platform rewrites to greenfield builds and modernization—no maintenance treadmill
• Real consulting exposure
  Partner directly with clients, influence decisions, and drive outcomes (not just code delivery)
• AI + mobile innovation
  Help define how AI tooling integrates into mobile development workflows
• Variety over repetition
  Work across industries, teams, and technical challenges
• Strong engineering culture
  Collaborate with a high-performing group of mobile specialists

Working model

Flexible hybrid depending on client needs
No mandated office days — just a monthly team catch-up / town hall

What will make you stand out? 

• Proven experience leading React Native architecture and delivery in complex environments
• Strong communicator who can translate technical decisions into clear business impact
• Comfortable in a consulting environment, working directly with stakeholders and influencing direction
• A pragmatic mindset — balancing best practices with real-world constraints
• Track record of innovative problem-solving that drives meaningful outcomes

Interested?

We’re scheduling interviews for the week commencing 30 March 2026, so lets chat!

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.