Head of Growth

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")

Work arrangement
Yes