Join a for-purpose Australian media organisation, where you’ll lead the HR function and support the people behind factual journalism.

Reporting directly to the CEO and sitting on the executive team, this is a broad, hands-on role combining operational HR with responsibility for culture, industrial relations, employee wellbeing and the implementation of a new HRIS.

What you'll be doing

• Advise the CEO, editors and department heads across a broad range of people matters
• Manage the employee lifecycle across permanent, part-time, casual and freelance workforces, including contracts, onboarding and offboarding
• Lead employee relations, performance management, disputes and grievances, drawing on external advice where needed
• Manage Enterprise Agreement and award compliance, union relationships and future bargaining processes
• Lead the evaluation, selection and implementation of a new HRIS, improving workflows and workforce reporting
• Develop practical initiatives that strengthen culture, engagement and connection across the workforce
• Build training, mentoring and professional development plans, and coach leaders on performance and feedback
• Lead WHS and wellbeing arrangements, including risk assessments and support for journalists exposed to high-risk environments or traumatic reporting
• Partner with Payroll and Finance on remuneration, workforce budgeting and employment costs
• Strengthen policies, statutory compliance, WGEA reporting and gender pay gap reviews

What we're looking for

We’re looking for an experienced HR leader who can independently run a broad function while improving the systems, processes and support around it.

You’ll be comfortable advising senior leaders, navigating unionised environments and making practical recommendations on complex employee matters.

Just as importantly, you’ll be willing to get involved in the day-to-day work. This is a role suited to someone who takes ownership, follows through and remains calm when priorities change.

You'll bring:

• At least seven years of progressive HR experience, including two to three years leading HR for a workforce of 80 or more
• A degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business or a related discipline
• Experience supporting a mixed workforce of permanent employees, casuals and freelance contractors
• Strong industrial relations experience, including unions, Enterprise Agreements and modern awards
• Sound knowledge of Australian employment legislation and independent contractor requirements
• Experience independently managing complex employee relations and performance matters
• A track record of leading or implementing an HRIS or ATS
• Confidence constructively challenging stakeholders and guiding leaders through change
• Practical experience across WHS, psychosocial safety and employee wellbeing

Experience in media, publishing, technology or another fast-paced operational environment will be highly regarded.

What's on offer?

• Report directly to the CEO and contribute as a member of the executive team
• Shape the HR function, with ownership of systems, culture and key people initiatives
• Access not-for-profit salary-packaging benefits
• Hybrid working, with a minimum of three days per week in the Sydney office

Apply now or contact Geri Condon at The Onset on geri@theonset.com.au

We are working with an Australian AgTech business looking for a key sales hire.

They have built a SaaS platform that helps agricultural businesses manage important operational and risk-based processes across their sites.

The business has early customer traction and is now ready to put more focus around sales.

This person will work closely with the CEO to take ownership of current opportunities, build new pipeline and create a sales process that can grow with the business.

The role will involve:

• Managing deals from first conversation through to close
• Running demos and building relationships with customers
• Developing pipeline through outreach, partnerships and industry events
• Building structure around CRM, forecasting and follow-up
• Helping the team understand which customers and channels to focus on

AgTech experience would be useful, but it isn’t essential. We interested in people who have sold SaaS or technology into industrial, construction, logistics, manufacturing or other traditional industries.

Interested to learn more? Message Megan - megan@theonset.com.au

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Technical Product Owner | E-commerce

Marketplace & E-commerce | Sydney | Permanent | Hybrid

• Own digital product delivery and improve online customer journeys.
• Partner directly with the CTO and lead development agency delivery.
• Bring your marketplace or e-commerce experience into automotive.

Work with his leading automotive e-commerce leader in digital product delivery, lead external agencies and improve customer journeys. Bring your marketplace or e-commerce experience.

The opportunity

Reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll work to agree priorities, then own the detail from requirements through to release and improvement.

Your remit will span customer-facing websites, online purchasing journeys and the integrations behind them. The role combines roadmap input with hands-on product ownership. You’ll turn business needs into clear requirements, challenge development proposals, guide external agencies and follow releases through to measurable results.

If you enjoy understanding the problem as much as getting the solution live, there’s plenty to get involved in.

What you’ll own

• Roadmaps and priorities: Contribute to product roadmaps and translate agreed priorities into a clear, deliverable backlog.
• Backlog and requirements: Turn opportunities into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and manageable pieces of work.
• Agency delivery: Lead external development partners, challenge estimates and technical recommendations, and hold delivery to agreed standards.
• Testing and releases: Coordinate UAT, manage defect resolution and make sure changes are ready for customers.
• Product performance: Measure customer behaviour, adoption and conversion, then use the evidence to guide improvements.
• Stakeholder decisions: Explain costs, dependencies and trade-offs so people can make informed choices.

What you’ll bring

You’ve worked as a Product Manager or Product Owner across marketplace, e-commerce or transactional digital products, with clear examples of what you owned and the outcomes you delivered.

You’ll also bring:

• Technical confidence to discuss APIs, integrations and development approaches, and challenge recommendations when needed.
• Experience managing external development agencies or software delivery partners.
• Hands-on capability across prioritisation, requirements, testing and release management.
• A track record of using data and customer insight to improve digital journeys.
• Commercial judgment and the ability to work through competing priorities in a smaller business.

A background in software development or technical leadership would be valuable. Automotive experience is welcome; relevant marketplace or e-commerce product experience is the priority.

Why consider it

You’ll work directly with the CTO, contribute to priorities across several businesses and see your work through from initial requirements to customer impact. It’s a role for someone who enjoys broad responsibility and staying close to delivery.

Sydney based, with Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the office. Monday and Friday offer the option to work from home.

Apply

Send your CV and tell us about a digital product you’ve owned, a delivery challenge you worked through and the result you achieved.

jacquie@theonset.com.au

Platform Product Manager – Developer Experience

Shape a new developer platform for a healthcare organisation. Own the roadmap, solve engineering friction and drive adoption.

• First product hire in a new Developer Experience platform team.
• Own platform strategy, discovery and adoption across engineering teams.
• Help engineers deliver faster, with security and compliance built in.

Build a platform engineers choose to use.

Our client, an established healthcare organisation undertaking a major technology modernisation, is building a Developer Experience platform to do exactly that. The ambition is to give engineering teams clear, pre-approved, self-service paths from code to production, with security, compliance and reliability built into the process. As the first product appointment in the new platform team, you’ll shape what gets built, which problems get solved first and how the platform proves its value.

The opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Digital Enginering,  you’ll own the platform vision, roadmap and backlog. Your customers are internal engineering teams, and understanding how they actually work will be central to your success. You’ll spend time with developers, uncover problems that haven’t made it into a feature request and translate those insights into useful platform capabilities.

Your impact will be measured through adoption and improvements in software delivery.

What you’ll own

• Platform direction: Define the service offering, prioritise investment and make clear decisions about scope.
• Developer discovery: Understand the journeys behind launching services, releasing changes and diagnosing production issues.
• Usable releases: Partner with engineering, infrastructure, architecture and security to deliver capability in practical increments.
• Adoption: Make onboarding, documentation, templates and support work well enough for teams to self-serve.
• Security and governance: Help turn enterprise requirements into automated checks within the delivery process.
• Outcomes: Establish baselines, measure improvement and use evidence to shape what comes next.

What you’ll bring

You’re a technically credible Product Manager who understands engineering problems and brings strong discovery, prioritisation and stakeholder skills.

You’ll have:

• At least five years’ product management experience, including ownership of a technical or platform product.
• A background in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure or cloud, or equivalent technical depth.
• Strong understanding of source control, CI/CD, automated testing, artefact management and release practices.
• Experience with AWS or Azure and hybrid cloud/on-premise environments.
• Evidence of using engineering performance measures to guide product decisions.
• The confidence to negotiate competing priorities and explain platform investment to non-technical stakeholders.

Experience with internal developer platforms, developer tooling or DevOps transformation would be particularly relevant. Healthcare or regulated industry experience, application security knowledge and familiarity with AI-assisted software delivery would also be valuable.

Why this role?

You’ll join while the platform’s direction is still taking shape, with meaningful ownership over its purpose, priorities and adoption. Your work will strengthen the engineering capability behind digital services that support healthcare delivery.

Apply now if you want to build a platform that makes engineers’ working lives better—and can demonstrate the difference.
 Jacquie@theonset.com.au 

Let Onset provide you with a platform to lead, grow, and make your mark in the new world of recruitment. 

📍 Surry Hills, Sydney (a stone’s throw away from Central Station!)

We’re The Onset - a specialist recruitment agency trusted by Australia’s leading tech, product, and digital teams to build the future. From enterprise giants to VC-backed startups, we partner with the brands shaping the landscape and the talent making it happen.

Whether your domain is in technology, go-to-market, executive, or another professional vertical in legal, accounting, supply chain, or logistics - if you’re a high performer, we want to hear from you.

You’ve already proven yourself. Here’s what you get to own:

 A vertical and/or industry sector to make your own – Full ownership, with the backing of a respected brand, killer marketing, and real delivery support.
Strategic relationships – Work with decision-makers who trust your expertise, not just your CV flicks.
A performance runway – Access to our existing client base and freedom to open new ones.
A space to experiment and lead – Run your own race with the systems, support and leadership to help you achieve your goals. Just big ideas and the backing to run with them. 

What’s different about us?

We’re not an agency that talks about “being different” and then acts the same.

Here’s what people actually stay for:

• A high-performance, low-ego team (many with 5-10+ years in the game)

• Tailored growth - whether you want to lead a team or deepen your niche

• Regular knowledge-sharing with founders, advisors, and big-name clients

• Market-leading tools, AI systems, and a delivery, marketing and research team so you can spend more time where it counts

• WFH days, and real work-life balance

• Industry-leading commission and incentives (seriously, ask us about the numbers)

You’ll fit right in if you:

• Have 2+ years of 360 recruitment experience (ideally in Australia)

• Know your niche (tech or industry) and what is needed to make it your own

• Want to be trusted to do great work, not told how to do your job

• Are looking for real influence as a market expert

• Value culture, outcomes, and long-term impact

• You’re a good human who always has others in mind is 

This isn’t for everyone.

However…. if you’re serious about your career, want to surround yourself with top performers, shape the future of your market and learn and earn, then come join the team. 

Apply here or email contact@theonset.com.au for a confidential chat. Let’s just start the conversation.

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