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Head of Marketing (Founding Team) | $250-350 + Equity

Big Wave Digital

🇦🇺Sydney, AU

New York City | Series A | In Office

Some categories haven't meaningfully changed in decades.

This is one of them.

We're partnering with a venture-backed technology company that is rebuilding a critical business system from the ground up using modern software and AI. The company has raised significant funding, is growing rapidly, and has assembled an exceptional team from some of the world's leading technology, financial services, and software businesses.

They're now looking for their first senior marketing leader to build the function into a scalable revenue engine.

The Opportunity

This is not a traditional Head of Marketing role.

You'll inherit a small but capable team and work directly with the founders to define positioning, build demand generation programs, scale product marketing, and create the systems that support long-term growth.

You'll be equally comfortable discussing messaging strategy with founders, reviewing campaign performance with growth marketers, and helping recruit the next generation of marketing leaders.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building rather than maintaining.

What You'll Be Responsible For

  • Owning marketing strategy and execution across demand generation, product marketing, content, lifecycle, brand and growth
  • Building and developing a high-performing marketing organisation
  • Creating repeatable processes, operating rhythms and reporting frameworks
  • Driving measurable pipeline growth and revenue contribution
  • Partnering closely with sales leadership to align go-to-market strategy
  • Establishing category positioning and competitive differentiation
  • Recruiting and mentoring future marketing leaders as the organisation scales

What We're Looking For

Strongly Preferred

  • Experience in high-growth startup environments, ideally Seed through Series B
  • A marketing generalist who is confident across multiple disciplines rather than a specialist in only one area
  • Proven ability to build functions, teams and processes from scratch
  • Hands-on experience executing campaigns, not just managing strategy
  • Strong commercial mindset and accountability for pipeline and revenue outcomes
  • Experience selling to executive stakeholders, finance leaders, or complex B2B buyers

Particularly Interesting Backgrounds

You may have experience at:

  • High-growth technology companies
  • Modern fintech or software businesses
  • Accounting, finance, ERP, financial operations, payments or infrastructure platforms
  • Venture-backed startups that scaled rapidly from early-stage through growth-stage

You'll Likely Thrive Here If

  • You enjoy ambiguity and figuring things out
  • You prefer building systems over inheriting them
  • You can switch between strategy and execution effortlessly
  • You move quickly and make decisions with incomplete information
  • You care about outcomes more than hierarchy
  • You want direct influence on company growth

Less Likely To Be A Fit

  • Leaders who operate primarily through large teams and layers of management
  • Strategy-focused executives who prefer not to be hands-on
  • Candidates who require extensive structure and process before taking action
  • Professionals whose experience has been exclusively within large enterprise environments

What's On Offer

  • Opportunity to shape and build an entire marketing function
  • Direct partnership with founders and executive leadership
  • Meaningful ownership and influence on company direction
  • Competitive salary package plus generous equity
  • High-calibre team environment with ambitious growth plans

If you're excited by building something from the ground up and want to play a defining role in the next stage of growth, we'd love to hear from you.

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