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.

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
• $225K + Super + Profit Share

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
• $225K + Super + Profit Share

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