Startmate exists to make Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup.
For us to do this, we need to pull in the most talented and ambitious people into the ecosystem and engage/support them. Unfortunately, the current state of play is that women are under-represented and under-supported at almost every level. Gender diversity is essential for success; the most gender-diverse companies are 48% more likely to outperform the least gender-diverse companies.
That’s why we started Ladymates: both the most powerful community in ANZ’s startup ecosystem, and a vehicle for systematic change. We’re here to break down the barriers women currently face on their career paths.
In the same vein, for us to pull in the best people into the startup ecosystem, we need to be attracting people at the beginning of their career journeys; when they’re at university.
In this role, you will lead our two core initiatives focused on bringing in the best talent into tech - the Women Fellowship and Student Fellowship. The Women Fellowship is an 8-week program designed to demystify the world of startups and empower more women to pursue a career they love. The Student Fellowship is a two week bootcamp designed to launch students into the world of startups and give them the opportunity to ideate their own startup - some of our very best founders have come out of this program! These two initiatives target people at different stages in their career and have different formats accordingly, but both serve the greater purpose of flooding the startup ecosystem with ambitious & diverse talent. The specifics of the initiatives will change as our strategy around how to best achieve these outcomes continually evolves, and you’ll get to be a part of determining this as well!
The best way to understand our community is through the stories of the people within it: meet Kai and Linus, Tsamara, Emily, Carola, Vanessa and Oli ❤️
💰 Salary: $70k - $85k + super + equity + carry
🌆 Location: Sydney, Auckland, or Melbourne (remote for the right candidate)
🤝 Reporting to: Kelly Spoerk, Head of Projects & Community
Responsibility 1: Program Design & Delivery
Responsibility 2: Community management & engagement
We believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is critical to Startmate’s success. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
Community
The Startmate community is a unique mix of founders, operators and investors — the one thing everyone has in common is ambition. Startmate is much more than just our team, it’s a community built on paying it forward.
Autonomy
You will have very high autonomy to realise your dreams within your area
Flexibility
We are a remote-first team with coverage across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Noosa and New Zealand. We currently have an office in Melbourne with satellite offices in Sydney and Auckland.
Access
You get to work with every well known and less well-known Australian and Kiwi startup, VC and angel — Canva, Safety Culture, Propeller, Vend, Xero, Blackbird, Square Peg, AirTree, rampersand, Folklore — you name it!
Great vibes
Being able to bring your best self to work is really important to us. We index heavily on wellbeing and engagement to make sure that you’re able to turn up with energy and resilience each day.
We’re making Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup. We’re achieving that through building a platform that unleashes startup ambition and accelerates exceptional companies.
At our core, we’re a community of the most ambitious founders, operators and investors propelled by a highly-trusted mentor-driven community, and backed by the best angels, venture funds and tech startups in the region.
Over the past decade we have invested in 170+ startups, with a combined value of $2 billion.