Head of Growth (025 - 1350)
Looking for Philippines-based candidates
Job Role: Head of Growth
Compensation range: $3,000 AUD – $4,000 AUD / Monthly
Engagement type: Independent Contractor Agreement
Work Schedule: This is an outcomes-focused role with flexibility in how working hours are structured. Regular overlap with Australian business hours is required to ensure effective collaboration with the Founder and wider team.
Who We Are: At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be engaged directly by the client as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home.
Who The Client Is: Our client is an Australian education business creating practical resources and planning solutions for teachers. Its products are designed to help educators save time, stay organised, and deliver engaging learning experiences.
Role Overview: We are looking for a Head of Growth to lead commercial growth as the business rebuilds and expands its digital platform. You'll own growth strategy across customer acquisition, activation, monetisation, retention, reactivation and community, with a key focus on restoring sustainable recurring subscription growth.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines commercial thinking with strong analytical skills. You’ll be expected to test ideas, use data to identify what works, and build a scalable marketing function and team.
We are looking for someone who is Highly resourceful and execution-focused. The successful candidate may execute work personally or leverage internal and external resources, but remains accountable for delivering work efficiently and to the required standard. They should be able to manage routine marketing execution without relying on the founder to source, manage or drive the work.
This is a build role, not a maintenance role. You won’t be stepping into an established marketing function or proven growth engine, you’ll have the autonomy and responsibility to build, shape and lead it.
While there is no dedicated marketing team to inherit, you won't be working in isolation. You'll have direct access to existing business resources including fractional CTO/development, CFO and operational support, as well as an established educational content team. As growth opportunities are identified and proven, you'll be expected to recommend and build the additional capability required to scale them.
Key Responsibilities:
Growth & Revenue
- Own the growth strategy with a focus on increasing recurring subscription revenue.
- Identify opportunities to improve acquisition, conversion, retention, and revenue.
- Develop and test new growth channels, strategies, and initiatives.
Growth Channels & Experimentation
- Own paid acquisition strategy and performance.
- Manage and optimise paid marketing campaigns.
- Test messaging, offers, creative, and campaigns to improve results.
Lifecycle, Retention & Reactivation
- Own lifecycle marketing across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention and reactivation.
- Develop and optimise segmentation, campaigns and automations to improve conversion, customer value and retention.
- Identify and test opportunities to reactivate former customers and convert existing free audiences.
- Continuously analyse lifecycle performance and improve the customer journey.
Analytics & Reporting
- Establish reporting for key growth and marketing metrics.
- Analyse acquisition, conversion, subscription revenue, and retention data.
- Turn data into clear insights and growth recommendations.
- Work directly with the CTO/development team to improve tracking and measurement while continuing to test and execute growth initiatives.
Team Leadership
- Build and structure the marketing function from the ground up.
- Build and lead a growth/marketing team as the function develops.
- Set priorities, processes, and performance expectations.
Community & Advocacy
- Develop and test strategies to strengthen customer connection, advocacy, referrals, retention and organic growth.
- Build community as a commercial growth asset rather than focusing solely on follower counts or surface-level engagement.
Requirements
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of progressive growth/marketing experience, ideally including senior ownership of commercial or revenue growth within a digital subscription or recurring-revenue business.
- ActiveCampaign experience is highly desirable, along with strong experience using an equivalent lifecycle marketing or CRM platform.
- Strong working knowledge of analytics, advertising and marketing platforms such as GA4, Meta, Google and Canva, including the ability to manage appropriate access and permissions for team members and specialists.
- Comfortable creating or adapting basic marketing creative in Canva for rapid testing, while able to brief and manage specialist creative resources when higher-quality production is required.
- Demonstrated experience with subscriptions, memberships, SaaS, digital products or another recurring-revenue business model.
- Experience with education, membership or highly engaged consumer/professional communities would be advantageous.
- Experience developing growth strategies across customer acquisition, conversion, retention, and recurring revenue.
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Hands-on experience with paid acquisition and digital marketing.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience building or growing an engaged customer community that contributed to outcomes such as advocacy, referrals, retention or organic growth would be highly desirable.
What We’re Looking For
- Someone who has owned commercial growth, not just individual marketing channels.
- Someone who retains ownership of getting it done and keeps momentum.
- A leader who can build and develop a team, not just work as an individual contributor.
- Someone analytical and commercially minded who enjoys testing and learning.
- Someone who takes ownership and accountability for measurable outcomes while continuously improving measurement, testing new approaches, and executing initiatives.
Work Arrangement & Expectations:
This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.
To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:
- Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
- Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)
Skills
As published by workable · 13 questions · 6 written answers
Basics
First name, Last name, Email, Headline, Phone, Address, Photo, Education, Experience, Summary, Resume, Cover letter
Short answers (4)
- Please indicate your computer specifications and internet speed test results. (Example: Ryzen 5 / 100MBPS)
- This role is offered under an Independent Contractor agreement, meaning you’ll be responsible for managing your own taxes, benefits, work equipment, and internet connection. You will need to provide your own computer. You will not be entitled to employee benefits such as paid leave or health insurance from the client. It is a full-time, dedicated role, so you will be expected to work exclusively with our client for the duration of the engagement. A reference check will be conducted as part of the hiring process. Are you comfortable proceeding under these terms?
- For our records, please provide your LinkedIn profile URL by pasting it in the space provided below.
- What is your expected salary in AUD?
Pick from a list (3)
- Are you a Filipino citizen currently residing in the Philippines?
- If successful, can you reflect this engagement on your LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”) and send a screenshot? If you’re successful in moving forward, are you comfortable in providing a screenshot of your verified LinkedIn profile? This will be used for verification purposes and will also be cross-checked as part of our standard process.
- As part of our standard process, we conduct character and HR reference checks, and in some cases, clients may also request an NBI or police clearance for verification purposes. Would you be comfortable completing these requirements and able to comply fully and truthfully if requested?
Written answers (6)
- How many years of progressive growth/marketing experience do you have? Have you supported Australian or US companies? What types of industries have you worked with? Please briefly describe your relevant experience.
- Are you proficient in ActiveCampaign, GA4, Meta, Google and Canva? What other tools have you used?
- Do you have experience in subscriptions, memberships, SaaS, digital products or another recurring-revenue business model? Please share your brief experience.
- Do you have experience in developing growth strategies across customer acquisition, conversion, retention, and recurring revenue? How about with with paid acquisition and digital marketing. Please share your brief experience.
- Have you previously built and managed a team focused on growth strategy and marketing?
- What experience do you have with customer segmentation, email campaigns, automations, activation, retention and reactivation? Please share an example of how you improved customer conversion or retention.