We know getting experience is hard, and landing a job is harder, so this post is the salve to that problem. Each week we will add opportunities that we come across for you. It is a great idea to scroll back and dive deeper – even if a position is closed it may be a good idea to see if the company has new offerings, add the company to your watch list, or make note of what appealed to you about the opportunity and apply that knowledge in other areas of your search!
Check back each week as we add to the list from what passes our desk and lands in our inbox. If you have an opportunity to submit please email spark@deakin.edu.au.
Here is the (ever-changing) snapshot of opportunities that we want to share with you:
August 2021
Week beginning August 30
Digital Executive @ Rumblr | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Rumblr is a digital marketing agency running global campaigns involving global brands, universities, and startups across APAC. They are looking for a Junior to Mid Digital Marketing Executive with a minimum of 1-2+ years in advertising/agency background. You’ll be strong across copywriting and digital execution, bringing great communication and writing skills with strong attention to planning and detail whilst leveraging a solid understanding of the digital and paid marketing landscape and a willingness to learn on the job.
E-commerce Manager @ Go Neutral | Full-time | Sydney, NSW
Go Neutral is a consumer climate action startup. Their first focus is cars: for the millions of people who need to drive, we make it easy to go carbon neutral, building a better future and feeling great at the same time. This opportunity will see you responsible for managing all of Go Neutral’s e-commerce business and operations. You will be responsible for understanding and reporting on core business metrics, and optimising them across all online channels.
Digital Account Manager @ First Page | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
First Page is a global digital marketing firm that creates digital experiences by implementing game-changing digital strategies. First Page requires an experienced Digital Account Manager who loves project managing SEO & SEM campaigns. To thrive in this role, you would be someone who values quality, has a minimum of 5 years of digital agency account management experience, passion for learning, takes ownership of your projects, and has great client-facing skills.
Relationships + Community Manager @ Pitchblack | Contract | Melbourne, VIC
Pitchblak has provided insights, advisory, and investor access services to the Australian Start-Up and Investment community since 2013. They are looking for a new member to help develop their new Pitch Network business through assisting with investor and startup connections, sourcing industry experts and forming great relationships with the business external stakeholders. The ideal teammate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced, always-changing work environment within a small team and who will play a pivotal role in our growth story from day one.
Week beginning August 23
Growth Marketer @ INSIGHTECH | Full-time | Sydney, NSW
INSIGHTECH is passionate about creating a better digital experience that unlocks missed revenue opportunities. They are looking for someone with startup experience, who loves data and marketing. Ideally, the successful applicant would be familiar with B2B SaaS. Working closely with the founders, the main responsibilities are to develop new and creative growth strategies, plan and execute campaigns, measure and report performance, and more.
Senior Digital Copywriter @ Linktree | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Linktree is looking for an experienced copywriter with a strong understanding of customer lifecycle and marketing for SaaS products, you’ll write engaging copy for Linktree’s existing and prospective users. You’ll have significant experience writing for paid media, automation emails, in-product messages, and feature go-to-market comms.
Business Development Manager @ Kaliba | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Connecting Tech people, Kaliba partners with progressive IT vendors to build high-performing technology and sales teams across APAC. Due to growth, they are looking for two BDMs to join their high-energy and vibrant sales team in Melbourne. To be successful in this role, you would have prior experience in sales (ideally in the IT/Digital marketing/Recruitment space), lead generation, and business prospecting.
Social Media and Website Specialist @ Her Place Women’s Museum | Part-time | Melbourne, VIC
A not-for-profit cultural start-up, Her Place champions greater understanding and appreciation of the achievements of Australian women to inspire and drive social change towards gender equality. You will make a difference by managing and take ownership of Her Place’s digital channels, create, develop content calendars and monitor campaign performance.
Week beginning August 16
SEO Manager @ Mindshare | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Mindshare is a global media agency network that is a part of both GroupM and WPP, the world’s largest media investment companies. They are looking for an Outcomes (SEO) Manager to help reach the client’s ambitions. The purpose of this role is to support and improve the performance of our clients’ Owned Media channels (SEO, Content, and CRO).
People Operations Associate @ Edrolo | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
The People Operations Associate at Edrolo is responsible for supporting Edrollers in their day-to-day working lives and providing support. Furthermore, you would be helping to improve the employee experience, find future Edrollers, establish and maintain Edrolo’s community of staff, leaders, and business partners.
Atlassian Consultant @ Corptec Technology Partners | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Week beginning August 9
Digital Performance Manager @ Nintendo | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Nintendo Australia is recruiting a Digital Performance manager to join their Marketing team on a full-time basis. You will be reporting to the General Manager of Marketing and working to ensure customer strategy and key messages are well-communicated externally; manage planning, coordination and implementation of new products; develop plan and budget; and oversee the delivery of data-driven campaigns.
Partner Community Manager @ Xero | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. To be successful in this role, you will be bringing strong project management and organisational skills, proactivity, technical background (preferably in the cloud or SaaS space), and excellent communication and writing skills.
SEO Specialist @ Deputy | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Deputy is a rapidly growing SaaS Workforce Management Product company. The role will be supporting and guiding the execution for all on-site and 0ff-site SEO. Working a central role in the Marketing team, you will be directly involved in content briefing & ideation, app store optimisation and growing traffic.
Lead Growth Marketer @ Fresh Equities | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Fresh Equities is a high growth, fully funded, fintech startup headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria serving both local and international investors. This is a new position opened to assist the senior leadership team. They are looking for an early-stage Lead Growth Marketer to set the direction for growth marketing strategy, run experiments and optimise marketing activities.
Week beginning August 2
Office & Community Manager @ Linktree |Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
LinkTree is the market-leading linking platform that was the first of its kind, allowing users to curate a singular destination housing what’s most important to them, in real time. The Office and Community Manager role will be the face of LinkTree and foster the team community, engaging in day to day office operations, management of internal and external community.
Digital Marketing Executive @ Baresop | Part-time | Melbourne, VIC
Bareshop is changing the personal care game by innovating a waterless concept into your daily routine. To excel in this role, you will be highly autonomous, be able to prioritise (and reprioritise), and is a great story teller. This is a part-time position with a prospect to become full-time.
Program Manager @ Techstars | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Techstars is a global network that equips entrepreneurs with the skills to succeed through mentor-driven accelerator programs. Working with the Managing Director, the Program Manager will plan, coordinate and deliver accelerator programs, as well as, providing support to the Techstars startup community.
Mid Market Account Executive @ Kacha | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Kacha is a Fintech Startup platform that offers financial services to organisations and make their lives easier. A perfect candidate will be equipped with terrific consultative sales skills and have extensive closing experience, great at building and nurturing relationships with customers. If this sounds like you, what are you waiting for?
July 2021
Week beginning July 26
Social and Community Manager @ Providoor |Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Through affix, Providoor is looking for a Social and Community star to plan and execute marketing and campaigns, as well as engaging with local foodies, be it restaurants, chefs, influencers or customers to create engaging conversations. They’re looking for someone who is creative, understands social media, and loves all things food.
Digital Marketing @ Legendary Digital |Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Having launched only 3 months ago, Legendary Digital is already a seven figure agency backed by one of Australia’s leading Venture Capitalists and serial entrepreneurs. They’re looking for a Facebook Ad specialist to set up and optimise Facebook Ad campaigns and landing pages for their clients.
Studio Coordinator @ PlaySide Studio |Full-time | Melbourne,VIC
PlaySide Studios is Australia’s largest game developer that specialises in console titles that is optimised for mobile devices. As the Studio Coordinator, you are expected to be an excellent team player that is proactive and detail-oriented. As you are the key player in keeping the studio running smoothly!
Week beginning July 19
Digital Growth Marketing Specialist (Saas) @ Snapforms |Full-time | Remote-WFH
Snapforms (snapforms.com.au) is a cloud-based online forms SaaS that allows users to create and share online forms to improve processes and collect data with ease. The software supports the needs of many of Australia’s largest brands. They are looking for a ‘Jack of All Trades’ Growth Marketer to get involved in all areas of growth and marketing for the company. You will take a lead role in the marketing side of the company with room to grow as they continue to grow.
Digital Marketing Specialist @ Payo |Full-time| Melbourne, VIC
You will own the online customer journey experience and are an expert in all things email, with skills in content creation, creative copywriting, marketing automation and CRM analytics. You have experience in building dynamic email campaigns, nurture programs and customer journeys through multiple platforms including email and SMS. General experience in social media management, event management, organic and paid marketing with an analytical data-driven approach is highly desired.
Superstar Intern/Part-timer @ Pitchblak | Part-time | Melbourne, VIC
This is a paid internship opportunity to work with Arthur Wong, the Head of Startup Strategy. Do you have a passion for startups & the ecosystem + proven initiative to get things done? Are you keen to help develop and implement growth strategies? Researching and using metrics in product development pre-launch? Happy to do adhoc tasks as required? Take a look!
Week beginning July 12
Customer Support Specialist @ Birchal |Full-time| Melbourne, VIC
The team is ultimately responsible for answering customer enquiries and solving their problems, but they also play a key role in product development by connecting customer feedback with different areas of the business. In this role, you will be responsible for all the above, while also contributing to process improvements and assisting in the development of new training systems and customer experience initiatives that will ensure we deliver the best customer experience possible.
Product Manager @ LinkTree | Full-time | Remote, Hybrid, Sydney/Melbourne
As a Product Manager at Linktree, you will work in cross-functional squads with engineers, designers, and analysts. You will lead your squad to deliver changes in your product area that deliver on the Product Strategy and Roadmap, and drive our OKRs and measures of success. Working with Senior Product Managers, Group Product Managers and Head of Product, you will have strong leaders and mentors to work and collaborate with.
Digital Marketing Traineeship (Data background) @ The Talent Institute | Contract | Remote, Hybrid, Sydney/Melbourne
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll work with our Product Marketing Manager and key stakeholders within our start-ups (including sales/commercialisation, product and support) to devise and execute new and creative growth experiments, plan and execute lead generation (TOFU) and nurture journey campaigns (MOFU), and engagement/referral (BOFU). Most importantly, you’ll measure and report on your experimentation efforts’ performance, identify trends across our market (competitors and target audience), and highlight usable insights to feed back into the business, product and marketing strategies.
Week beginning July 5
2022 Graduate Positions @ Airwallex |Full-time| Melbourne, VIC
Have you recently graduated with less than one year’s work experience? Airwallex has a number of graduate positions currently open – Marketing Graduate (SME + Growth Marketing), Operations Graduate, Product Marketing Graduate (SME BUSINESS – STRATEGY & OPS, SME), and Strategy Graduate (SME BUSINESS – STRATEGY & OPS, SME) positions are advertised.
UX Researcher / Designer @ Mr Yum |Full-time| Melbourne, VIC
This is their first solely UX-focussed role within the company. A perfect candidate for this role will be a data-driven designer with equal parts creative eye and analytical rigor. You’ll be joining a team of Product Managers, Devs, and Designers who care deeply about the hospitality and entertainment industry.
Portfolio manager @ Skalata Ventures |Full-time| Melbourne, VIC
Skalata Ventures is on a mission to help Australia transform to a knowledge economy by providing an unfair advantage to the best early-stage companies in the country through our seed investment program. This is a rare opportunity for somebody with a legal background to work in a venture capital environment and help define the scope of the role to significantly enhance the value of their portfolio. No startup / venture capital experience is necessary – they will teach you what you need to know.
Senior Campaign Manager @ Birchal | Full-time| Melbourne, VIC
You must have a strong desire to work with start-ups. You must enjoy getting out of your comfort zone and become a frequent problem-solver. Your success in this role will be measured through personal and productivity goals as well as your ability to successfully fund campaigns. The successful applicant will have a certain degree of creativity, and latitude. They are an outcome-focused business, focused on rapid expansion in a new industry. They are looking to disrupt the alternative finance industry and need the best team in place to achieve this.
June 2021
Week beginning June 28
Social Media Content Creator @ Dumbo Feather | 6-month contract (3 days/week) | Melbourne, VIC
As a Social Media Content Creator at Dumbo Feather and SGA, you will create high-quality social media content that boosts the brand image and storytelling, while also assisting in social media management and strategy execution. As a Social Media Content Creator, you’re an exceptionally creative and motivated digital native with awesome content design and creation skills.
Program Producer @ Dumb0 Feather | 12-month contract (Full-time) | Melbourne, VIC
The Small Giants Academy Program Producer will be responsible for the production and delivery of SGA’s Programming (Events, Masterclasses, Deep Dives and Retreats). The Program Producer will ensure that the program experiences are delivered to the highest possible standard, embodying the philosophy of enlightened hospitality.
Content Insights Lead @ Canva | Full-time | Sydney, NSW
As Content Insights Team Lead, you will play a pivotal supporting Content & Discovery and Canva’s vision and strategy. You will be responsible for the continued development of our people as well as ensuring that only the highest impact initiatives are prioritised, analysed and communicated effectively to leadership. You will be expected to lead big strategic questions and work collaboratively with our team and key people across the Content & Discovery group to bring diversity of thought and research into all output prepared by the team.
Product Training Manager @ Raisely | Full-time | Remote (3 hour cross over with AEST)
Raisely are looking for a Product Training Manager to create, maintain, and enhance Raisely’s educational documentation, with experience as a trainer to create content and work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Customer Success teams. You’ll be responsible for keeping the online support hub up to date. When a new product is launched, you will ensure the Sales and Customer Success teams are experts, and that they have support docs ready to share with the customer base.
Week beginning June 21
Social Enterprise Sales Manager @ Co-Ground | 12-month contract (3 days/week)| Melbourne, VIC
You will be responsible for developing and implementing sales and marketing strategies to generate new business and increase the sales revenue of Co-Ground social enterprise. Primary responsibilities involve working directly with clients, driving the continued growth of Co-Ground services including coffee carts, event and bar services as well as cafe pop-ups. There is also scope to build the sales revenue of new social enterprises as these initiatives evolve.
Content Writer @ Paperform | Full-time | Remote (Sydney HQ)
Day to day, you’ll be spending most of your time writing high-quality content for the Papeform Blog, as well as innovative articles for our partner websites and collaborators. This is a role that requires expert time-management skills as you’ll be working with a diverse content calendar, creating briefs for guest writers and using your natural writing skills to create high-quality content at scale. An ideal candidate will be self-motivated, take initiative and ownership of their responsibilities, and be extremely competent in solving problems without needing to be micromanaged.
Week beginning June 14
Bookkeeper – Startups + VC @ Luna | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Driven by their obsession with invention and seeing bold ambitions flourish in the real world, LUNA partners with founders and investors in the startup space to see good ideas grow into great businesses. This role combines service delivery, building their accounting business, business development and impact. If you are entrepreneurial in spirit and attitude, take a look!
Digital Marketing Specialist @ Legendary Digital | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Founded by two of Australia’s brightest personal brands Aaron Sansoni & Ethan Donati, and backed by venture capital, Legendary focuses on bringing in revenue for clients in a range of industries through digital marketing ads. If you’re excited by new adventures and industry disruption, read on.
Chief Growth Officer @ Smiling Mind | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Smiling Mind has built its foundation as Australia’s #1 mindfulness meditation provider reaching over 6.2 million people as well as 220,000 teachers and 4.9m Australian children and young people through our app-based programs and school program – but this is just the beginning. The role has responsibility for delivering ongoing commercial and reach growth, that ultimately ensures that impact goals can be reached through vision, strategy, alignment, execution, and exceptional leadership.
Week beginning June 7
Financial Operations Manager @ Startmate | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
You will run finance at Startmate. You are comfortable with accounting, bookkeeping, business operations, regulatory environments and talking with lawyers. You will be the conductor coordinating legal, tax, compliance and accounting advice, but also are not afraid to get your hands dirty jumping straight into bookkeeping and accounting yourself.
Content manager @ Who Gives A Crap | Full-time | Remote
You’re a social and content lover from way back and you’ve got proven experience developing and delivering content strategies with both long and short term horizons. You know how to plan but you’re not afraid to pivot. You get our brand and what our customers want to hear from us. You heart metrics and data. You’re a roll model (pun intended!). You’re a feedback fiend.
Junior Mid Full Stack Developer @ World Vision | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Your primary responsibilities will be to build, maintain and support our supporter facing digital systems including the World Vision Website and supporter portal. You will have knowledge of .NET web development technologies and will work collaboratively with fellow team members to foster an engaging and efficient working environment, delivering timely and quality solutions following Agile methodologies.
Week beginning May 31
Video Content Creator @ Who Gives A Crap | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
You might be a “YouTuber”, be working on in-house content at an eCommerce company or work in an agency, but one thing is for sure, you know your stuff when it comes to making high-performing and delightful video content.
Junior Full Stack Developer @ Good Human | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Good Human is a Melbourne-based startup on a mission to make universal support a cornerstone of the human experience. Their platform is used by some of Australia’s largest and most well-respected disability organisations to take their service delivery to the next level.
Graduate Role – Client Advisory Associate @ Matterkind | Full-time | Melbourne, VIC
Creative. Adaptable. Purpose driven. At Matterkind, their movement is fueled by a culture of people—united by principles—working together to build a more conscious future for marketing.
Production and Talent Intern @ Creative Converters | Two days per week | Melbourne, VIC
The role will be working on a number of key accounts and being exposed to a broad range of integrated solutions for some of the world’s biggest e-commerce brands, through to some smaller local clients. This is a three-month internship, two days per week, with a view to full-time employment.
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