Technical Project Manager – E-commerce & Digital Delivery

North Sydney, NSW | $160,000 – $190,000 + Super

Own the technology. Drive digital delivery. Make a real impact.

Are you a technically savvy Project Manager who understands how digital platforms work, thrives on solving complex challenges and isn't afraid to roll up your sleeves?

We're partnering wiith an exciting to find an experienced Technical Project Manager who can take ownership of its e-commerce platform, drive technology initiatives and ensure seamless delivery across digital projects.

This isn't your typical Project Manager role.

We're looking for someone who brings genuine technical credibility, strong e-commerce experience and the confidence to challenge requirements, manage external development partners and translate business objectives into practical technology solutions.

If you've previously worked as a Developer, Technical Lead, Technical Product Owner or hands-on Technical Project Manager, this could be the opportunity you've been looking for.

The Opportunity

Based in North Sydney, you'll play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing the digital platform, working closely with business stakeholders, external development agencies and technology partners.

You'll be responsible for ensuring projects are technically sound, commercially viable and delivered to a high standard.

With no internal development team, you'll become the critical link between business requirements and technical execution, taking genuine ownership of outcomes rather than simply managing timelines.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own digital delivery: Take responsibility for the e-commerce website, its ongoing enhancements and technology delivery initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership: Understand APIs, integrations, application architecture and technical dependencies to confidently challenge solutions and identify potential issues.
• Manage external development partners: Coordinate agencies, oversee deliverables, challenge estimates and ensure quality, accountability and value.
• Drive end-to-end project delivery: Manage requirements, scope, budgets, timelines, risks and stakeholder expectations.
• Own release management: Coordinate internal releases, oversee testing, validate functionality and ensure changes meet business and operational requirements.
• Translate business needs into solutions: Work with stakeholders to refine requirements, identify improvements and recommend smarter ways of delivering outcomes.
• Strengthen delivery practices: Introduce practical structure, governance and processes to improve consistency and execution.
• Maintain exceptional quality: Ensure digital releases are accurate, thoroughly tested and delivered with meticulous attention to detail.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a technically mature professional who combines strong delivery capabilities with a genuine understanding of e-commerce technology.

Essential experience:

• Proven experience as a Technical Project Manager, Technical Product Owner, Technical Delivery Manager or similar.
• Strong background delivering e-commerce platforms, websites or customer-facing digital products.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles, APIs, integrations and application architecture.
• Demonstrated experience managing external software development agencies or technology vendors.
• Hands-on experience coordinating testing, UAT, release management and production deployments.
• Strong capability in project scoping, budgeting, estimation and stakeholder management.
• Confidence to question technical recommendations, challenge assumptions and propose better solutions.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a strong sense of accountability.

Highly regarded:

• Previous experience as a Software Developer, Technical Lead or Solutions-focused professional.
• Experience working in environments with formal governance, compliance or regulatory requirements.
• Exposure to both Agile and traditional project delivery methodologies.
• Experience balancing technical delivery responsibilities with product ownership.

You don't need to be coding every day, but you do need to understand what good engineering and technical delivery look like.

What Will Make You Successful?

You'll be someone who:

• Takes ownership rather than waiting for direction.
• Can confidently engage with developers and technical specialists.
• Understands the bigger picture while never overlooking the finer details.
• Is comfortable being hands-on with testing, releases and delivery activities.
• Brings practical solutions, sound judgement and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Enjoys working in a collaborative, established business environment where quality and reliability matter.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Genuine ownership: Take responsibility for a customer-facing e-commerce platform and influence how it evolves.
• Technical autonomy: Use your experience to shape solutions, challenge thinking and improve delivery outcomes.
• Visible business impact: Work on digital initiatives where your contribution makes a tangible difference.
• Collaborative environment: Join an established organisation that values maturity, accountability and attention to detail.
• Competitive remuneration: Indicative salary of $160,000 – $190,000 + Super, depending on experience.

Ready to Take Ownership?

If you're a technically strong Project Manager or Product Owner who wants more than simply tracking project milestones, we'd love to hear from you.

This is an opportunity to combine your technical expertise, commercial judgement and delivery experience in a role where you can genuinely make your mark.

Senior Financial Accountant

Join a growing, multi-entity professional services group that is bringing finance activity across its businesses into a more centralised structure. As Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll play a hands-on role across daily cash flow, group reporting and the FY26 group audit, while helping improve how the group consolidates its financial information.

What you’ll be doing

• Review cash flow daily and follow up on any identified items for review

• Own the month-end close across multiple entities, including journals, balance sheet reconciliations and group reporting

• Help improve group consolidations by bringing Xero data into Excel and reducing reliance on manual spreadsheets

• Work with the team to improve and automate the consolidation process

• Support the FY26 group audit by preparing information and working with external auditors

• Assist with tax and audit work, including reviewing historical transactions and preparing supporting information

• Build a sound understanding of the group’s finance systems, entities and reporting needs

• Support and review work completed by offshore bookkeepers, helping keep reconciliations and finance tasks on track

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a practical, hands-on accountant who can manage the details of daily finance and month-end while helping improve group reporting and consolidation.

You’ll be comfortable working across multiple entities, taking ownership of your work and communicating clearly with the finance team and external auditors. You’ll also be ready to get involved in the details as the group prepares for its FY26 audit.

You’ll bring:

• Senior financial accounting experience, ideally in a multi-entity business
• Strong month-end, reconciliation and group reporting skills
• Practical experience with Australian tax and audit requirements
• Experience supporting group audits and working with external auditors
• Confidence reviewing cash flow, modelling baseline scenarios and investigating transactions
• Strong Excel skills and experience working with finance systems such as Xero and/or MYOB
• Experience improving reporting, reconciliations or consolidation processes
• The ability to review and guide work completed by offshore bookkeepers
• Clear communication and a steady, organised approach

Experience in professional or technology services, recruitment, labour hire or another service business with multiple entities would be useful.

What’s on offer?

• Work closely with a finance leader who is committed to developing their team and supporting each person’s career growth.
• A broad role across daily finance, month-end, group reporting, systems and audit
• The opportunity to improve how finance is consolidated and reported across the group
• Close working relationships with the finance team and external auditors
• A hybrid working arrangement, with three days in the office and two from home

Apply now or contact Joselle Masongsong at The Onset on joselle@theonset.com.au

Acquisition Marketing Manager | 6-Week Contract | Circa $740 - $800 day rate

Melbourne | Hybrid | Financial Services | Immediate Start

• 6-week contract wrapping up just before Christmas – perfect timing!

• High-impact acquisition campaigns with a leading financial services business

• Hit the ground running, make your mark and enjoy a well-earned festive break

Six weeks. Great experience. Christmas sorted.

Looking for a short-term contract that offers meaningful work, a strong brand on your CV and the chance to finish the year on a high?

This could be the perfect opportunity.

We're partnering with a well-established business in the financial services sector looking for an experienced Acquisition Marketing Manager to jump in for six weeks during a busy trading period.

This isn't a role where you'll spend your first month finding your feet. There's plenty happening, deadlines to meet and campaigns to deliver. We need someone who knows their stuff, can get across the detail quickly and enjoys making things happen.

The bonus? You'll wrap things up just before Christmas, leaving you free to enjoy the festive season and head into 2027 ready for your next opportunity.

What you'll be doing

You'll join an established acquisition marketing team working across a portfolio of credit card products, helping drive customer growth and campaign performance.

Your priorities will include:

• Managing the delivery of acquisition campaigns across paid media and digital channels.

• Developing creative briefs and coordinating campaign assets with internal teams and external agencies.

• Supporting the launch of new customer acquisition offers, ensuring everything goes live smoothly and on time.

• Project managing website refreshes and new landing page development to improve conversion.

• Working closely with creative, media, digital, legal and compliance teams to keep multiple projects moving.

• Identifying opportunities to optimise campaign performance and improve acquisition outcomes.

It's a hands-on role with plenty of variety, stakeholder engagement and commercial impact.

What we're looking for

You're an experienced marketing professional who can comfortably balance strategic thinking with rolling up your sleeves and getting things done.

Ideally, you'll bring:

• 6+ years' experience across acquisition, digital or campaign marketing.

• A strong track record delivering performance-focused marketing campaigns.

• Excellent project management skills and the ability to juggle multiple priorities.

• Confidence managing creative development, agencies and cross-functional stakeholders.

• A commercially minded approach, with an understanding of campaign performance and conversion.

• The ability to work autonomously, make decisions and deliver at pace.

• Experience in financial services, credit cards or another regulated environment would be highly regarded.

Most importantly, you're someone who can come in, build relationships quickly, take ownership and deliver without needing a lengthy runway.

Why take this contract?

Because sometimes a short contract is exactly the right career move.

You'll get the chance to work with an established business, contribute to meaningful acquisition initiatives and add some valuable experience to your CV.

And rather than committing to a role that carries you through the holiday period, you can finish the year with six productive weeks under your belt and your Christmas break ahead of you.

The details

📍 Melbourne – hybrid working
⏳ 6-week contract
🚀 Immediate start / availability at short notice preferred

If you're an experienced acquisition marketer who's available now or coming to the end of a contract, apply online, call Michelle Rubinstein on 0413 463 043 or Ana Macedo on 0403 748 727 at The Onset.

Six weeks of great work. A strong finish to the year. And Christmas off. What's not to like?

Own the frontend architecture of an early-stage software platform, from the JavaScript SDK other engineers integrate to the checkout experiences their customers use.

We’re partnering with a Sydney startup building infrastructure that helps software companies manage pricing, subscriptions, billing and payments. The founders have built monetisation systems at scale and are now bringing that experience to a new product.

As a founding frontend engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders and early customers. The architecture is still taking shape, giving you scope to make the decisions that future engineers will build on.

What you’ll build

• Embeddable checkout and upgrade experiences that work inside customers’ products and feel native to their brands.
• A JavaScript/TypeScript SDK that makes integration straightforward for external developers.
• A reusable component library and design system across embedded experiences and the customer portal.
• Interfaces that help customers manage pricing, run experiments and understand revenue performance.
• The frontend standards for performance, accessibility, testing and safe releases.

The technical challenge is substantial: your code needs to work reliably inside applications you don’t control. You’ll solve problems around browser behaviour, CSS and script isolation, bundle size, security and compatibility, while keeping the experience simple for users.

What you’ll bring

You’ll have personally owned significant frontend architecture decisions and still enjoy writing production code.

We’re looking for:

• Deep JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge and strong browser fundamentals.
• Experience building complex frontend systems with React.
• Ownership of SDKs, reusable component platforms, design systems or similar frontend foundations.
• Good product judgement, including the ability to turn complex workflows into clear interfaces.
• Confidence making technical decisions in an early-stage environment, working closely with founders and customers.

Experience with public JavaScript SDKs, embedded widgets, Web Components, Shadow DOM or iframes would be particularly relevant. Payments experience is useful, but isn’t essential.

Why join?

You’ll join while the key technical decisions are still open. You’ll have direct input into the product, learn from real customer integrations and see how your work affects the way people buy and use software.

This is a hands-on Staff/Principal opportunity with ownership across architecture and delivery. It suits someone who wants to build the foundations, stay close to the code and help shape a growing engineering team.

The frontend uses TypeScript and React, supported by a Java backend on AWS with PostgreSQL. Your focus will be frontend engineering, with close collaboration on API design.

Apply now or contact Matt at The Onset for a confidential conversation.

 Help rebuild the core technology platform of an established Australian Fintech.

We're partnering with an established Australian Fintech that's investing heavily in its engineering capability and undertaking a major technology transformation.

With an impressive new technology leadership team bringing experience from some of Australia's leading technology companies and high-growth scale-ups, they're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of their platform.

This is an opportunity to join at a point where significant architectural decisions are still being made, with genuine ownership over how the technology evolves.

The Opportunity

You'll be one of the most senior hands-on engineers in the business, working closely with engineering leadership to build new backend systems and progressively modernise a complex existing platform.

The focus is on building scalable, reliable systems across lending, credit and payments, while helping establish a stronger internal engineering function.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing and building backend services using Node.js, TypeScript and AWS.
• Architecting scalable distributed systems, APIs and event-driven services.
• Modernising legacy applications and integrating new systems with existing infrastructure.
• Driving technical decisions around architecture, scalability, reliability and performance.
• Establishing engineering standards, best practices and development processes.
• Remaining hands-on while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across the business.

What We're Looking For

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript, particularly backend engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and designing cloud-native applications.
• Experience building complex distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of API design, integrations, system performance and reliability.
• Experience modernising legacy platforms or delivering significant technology transformations.
• Proven experience operating at Staff, Principal or hands-on Technical Lead level.
• Excellent communication skills, technical judgement and the ability to work through ambiguous problems.

Experience in Fintech, payments, lending or banking would be highly regarded, but isn't essential.

Why Consider the role?

• Genuine technical ownership: Help shape the future architecture rather than simply deliver against an existing roadmap.
• Experienced leadership: Work directly with senior technology leaders who have built and scaled engineering teams in successful technology businesses.
• Meaningful engineering challenges: Complex backend systems, distributed architecture, new platform development and legacy modernisation.
• Stay hands-on: A senior individual contributor position without the expectation of moving into people management.
• Long-term impact: Play a key role in building a stronger engineering function and setting its technical foundations.

Location: Sydney CBD — five days in the office during probation, moving to four days afterwards.

If you're a senior backend engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, working with strong engineering leaders and having real influence over architecture, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.

Performance Marketing Specialist - 6 month fixed term contract

• Own customer acquisition across paid and organic channels
• Drive growth through campaign optimisation, CRO and experimentation
• Salary: $110k - $115k + super

We’re working with an Australian fintech that helps customers access loans. They’re looking for a hands-on Performance Marketing Specialist to drive acquisition, improve conversion and make every marketing dollar work harder.

The Opportunity

This six-month fixed-term contract offers ownership of campaigns across paid search, paid social, SEO and affiliate partnerships.

Reporting to the Growth Marketing Lead, you’ll combine campaign execution with data analysis to improve acquisition efficiency. You’ll work closely with product, data and design teams, as well as external agencies, with scope to test new ideas and explore AI tools and automation.

What You’ll Be Doing

Your role will focus on three key areas:

Customer acquisition and channel performance
Plan, launch and optimise campaigns across paid and organic channels. Manage budgets and external agencies, using performance insights to improve acquisition costs and customer growth.

Conversion and experimentation
Build and execute a CRO and A/B testing roadmap across landing pages and application funnels. Work with internal teams to turn insights into improvements to the customer journey.

Measurement and optimisation
Track campaign and funnel performance, maintain dashboards and support reliable conversion tracking. Use the data to inform channel investment, targeting and campaign decisions.

About You

You’re a hands-on digital marketer who enjoys both running campaigns and understanding what drives their results. You’re comfortable making decisions, testing ideas and explaining your recommendations through data.

You’ll also bring:

• At least 3 years’ experience in digital, performance or growth marketing, ideally within fintech, lending or financial services from either agency or in-house environments.
• Strong experience across SEO and SEM, exposure to affiliate marketing would be a bonus.
• Hands-on expertise in Google Ads and GA4, with working knowledge of Google Tag Manager and conversion tracking.
• Experience managing budgets, agencies and experiments, with measurable acquisition or conversion improvements.

If you’re looking for a six-month contract starting mid-November where you can take ownership, test new ideas and make a measurable impact, apply online or call Ana Macedo (0403 748 727) or Michelle Rubinstein (0413 463 043) at The Onset.

Offshore Bookkeeper

Join a growing, multi-entity professional services group that is bringing finance activity across its businesses into a more centralised structure. As Bookkeeper, you’ll support the day-to-day bookkeeping across several businesses, working closely with a Sydney-based Senior Financial Accountant to keep transactions, reconciliations and month-end work accurate and up to date.

What you’ll be doing

• Complete daily and weekly bank reconciliations and help maintain daily cash-flow updates
• Process and code supplier invoices, contractor invoices, timesheets and other finance transactions
• Manage finance inboxes and keep transaction records accurate and up to date
• Prepare month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments, depreciation and other recurring journals
• Prepare balance-sheet reconciliations across bank accounts, AR, AP, payroll and other key accounts
• Maintain supporting schedules and the fixed asset register for month-end reporting
• Prepare GST and BAS reconciliations and workpapers for review
• Reconciliations and transaction coding
• Support the Senior Financial Accountant with month-end, audit and other finance requirements
• Help improve bookkeeping routines and processes as finance becomes more centralised across the group
  
  

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for an experienced Bookkeeper who has supported Australian businesses and is comfortable working across day-to-day bookkeeping and month-end activities.

You’ll need strong attention to detail and good organisation skills, with the ability to manage deadlines and keep accurate records across several businesses. You’ll work closely with the Senior Financial Accountant, so clear communication and the confidence to raise any identified issues are important. Be valued for your skills as well as your judgement. 

You’ll bring:

• At least three years of bookkeeping experience, including two years supporting Australian businesses
• Strong hands-on experience with Xero and/or MYOB
• Experience with bank reconciliations, transaction coding and day-to-day bookkeeping
• Practical experience preparing month-end journals and balance-sheet reconciliations
• Working knowledge of Australian GST and BAS requirements
• Experience supporting multiple businesses, entities or Australian clients
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Strong attention to detail and a well-organised approach to your work
• Clear written and verbal English communication skills
• The ability to work independently in a remote environment and manage deadlines
  
  

Experience supporting professional or technology services, recruitment, labour hire or another contractor or timesheet-based business would be useful. Exposure to systems such as Projectworks, Volopay, Weel or Employment Hero would also be helpful.

What’s on offer?

• A broader bookkeeping role covering several businesses within an Australian group
• The opportunity to work closely with and learn from a Sydney-based Senior Financial Accountant
• Scope to take ownership of your work and suggest improvements to bookkeeping routines
• A full-time remote role based in the Philippines, with working hours aligned to Sydney
• Local payroll and employee support through an established Philippine employment partner
  
  

Apply now or contact Joselle Masongsong at The Onset on joselle@theonset.com.au

Head of IT & Infrastructure | Sydney

Take complete ownership of IT and infrastructure for a fast-growing technology business.

We're partnering with a rapidly scaling technology company where software, hardware and advanced engineering come together.

This is an opportunity for a hands-on infrastructure leader to take full ownership of the systems keeping the entire operation running, from complex networking, cloud and security through to the specialist infrastructure supporting engineering and production.

The business is growing quickly and needs someone who can bring structure, improve reliability and build an infrastructure environment capable of supporting that growth.

You'll have the autonomy to make technical decisions, shape the long-term infrastructure roadmap and build out the IT function as the business expands.

What You'll Be Working On

• Networking: Own the design and operation of the network environment, including switching, routing, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs and network segmentation.

• Infrastructure: Manage Linux and Windows environments, servers, virtualisation, storage, backups and disaster recovery.

• Cloud: Support and improve AWS, DigitalOcean and on-premise infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, security and automation.

• Identity & Endpoints: Manage Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, SSO, MFA, device management and access controls.

• Security: Implement practical security controls, improve infrastructure security and support compliance requirements.

• Engineering Systems: Maintain the infrastructure supporting technical teams, including compute resources, CI environments, storage and specialist equipment.

• Strategy & Ownership: Take responsibility for infrastructure planning, vendors, budgets, documentation and scaling the IT function.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone with broad technical capability who has experience taking ownership of infrastructure across a business, rather than specialising in just one area.

The key things we're looking for:

• Excellent networking fundamentals, including hands-on experience configuring switches, routing, firewalls, VLANs and troubleshooting network issues.

• Broad systems administration experience across Linux, Windows, virtualisation and storage.

• Strong Microsoft identity experience, including Entra ID, Active Directory and hybrid environments.

• Experience managing cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, alongside on-premise systems.

• Scripting and infrastructure automation experience.

• Good security fundamentals across identity, access, endpoints and infrastructure.

• Experience working in a growing business where you've built, improved or taken ownership of systems yourself.

• The ability to move between hands-on technical work, problem-solving and longer-term infrastructure planning.

Experience supporting engineering teams, specialist technical environments or complex on-premise infrastructure would be particularly valuable.

Kubernetes, manufacturing systems and formal security compliance experience would also be useful, but aren't essential.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Genuine ownership: Take responsibility for how the entire IT and infrastructure environment operates and evolves.

• Build and improve: Design new solutions, modernise existing systems and introduce better ways of working.

• Technical variety: Work across networking, cloud, infrastructure, security and specialist systems rather than being limited to one technology.

• Autonomy: Make decisions, solve problems and shape the future infrastructure environment.

• Growth: Join a scaling business with the opportunity to build and lead a team as the company expands.

• Equity: Competitive base salary plus company equity.

Location: Sydney

If you're currently an Infrastructure Lead, IT Infrastructure Manager, Head of Infrastructure or Senior Infrastructure Engineer looking for greater ownership, we'd be keen to speak.

Apply now for a confidential discussion about the opportunity.

Senior Robotic Systems Integration Engineer

How do you deploy humanoids at scale when each one still needs an engineer beside it?

That’s the next problem for this robotics startup.

The team has built the core capabilities. Robots are moving into real customer environments. Now the work is making those behaviours reliable enough to repeat, understanding why they fail, and building a way to deploy them without sending the engineering team along every time.

You’ll own that transition.

The engineering challenge

A behaviour works in testing. You release it. In the field, the robot stops short of where it should.

You’ll need to work out whether the problem sits in perception, planning, control or the way those pieces interact. More importantly, you’ll make sure the next run captures enough evidence to find the answer.

Working alongside ML and robotics engineers, you’ll take new capabilities through testing and into deployment. Your decisions will shape what gets released, what needs more work, and what the team fixes next.

What you’ll own

• Define release criteria and repeatable tests that show how a behaviour performs and where it breaks.

• Get hands-on with the codebase and hardware to diagnose failures across the robotics stack.

• Build logging and review tools that let engineers investigate field issues without standing beside the robot.

• Turn failed runs into clear engineering priorities, then work with the original developers to ship improvements.

• Develop the metrics and deployment practices needed to track performance and roll out changes across a growing fleet.

There’s plenty still to build. You’ll have room to shape the approach, including the judgement to start with a useful manual process and automate it once you understand what works.

What you’ll bring

You’ve worked on real robotic systems and followed problems across hardware and software. You can read the code, question the behaviour, and keep investigating until you have a useful explanation.

ROS 2, perception, planning and control should be familiar ground. So should working through bag files and logs to understand what actually happened.

Experience with field deployments, fleet operations or rolling out robot updates would be especially useful. If your deployment experience is smaller, we’ll want to understand how you’d make it repeatable as the fleet grows.

You might come from a startup, a larger robotics business or a research team that puts systems into the field. What matters is what you’ve personally built, debugged and taken responsibility for.

Why join now?

You’ll join while the team is establishing how its robots will operate beyond closely supervised deployments. The testing and release decisions you make now will influence how the product scales.

It’s a small team working closely with physical hardware, so expect to be in the office most days, with occasional flexibility. You’ll have direct access to the engineers building the capabilities and the opportunity to see your changes tested on the robot.

Interested?

Apply directly to hear more.