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Title: Head of Creative and Brand Design Location: Melbourne VIC Australia Job Description: Company Description Are you ready to be a big part of something big? At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small - small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other. With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we're transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve, and we're not afraid to take bold steps to get there. What's on offer - Recognition as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer. - A highly engaged, collaborative team where you'll learn from exceptional talent. - 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave. - Regular hackathons, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health. Job Description What you'll do This is your opportunity to join carsales in a permanent role as a Head of Creative and Brand Design. You will lead, grow and develop Carsales` inhouse agency and creative functions on the marketing team, and be responsible for bringing ideas to life and impacting brand and business results through creativity. Working closely with the broader marketing team, as well as other teams across the business, such Product and Product Design, this role will be responsible for delivering creative work across all our target audiences. This is an exciting opportunity and a pivotal role in shaping the future and direction of our marketing program. - Lead, inspire, and mentor a team of talented designers, copywriters, and marketing professionals. Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and high-performance within the in-house agency. - Oversee the creation of innovative marketing campaigns, from concept to execution, that target consumers, car dealerships, advertising agencies, and OEMs. These campaigns should effectively communicate our value proposition and drive engagement and conversions. - Provide clear creative direction and ensure the team's work is in line with the overall brand strategy. Review and approve design concepts, marketing materials, and advertising content. - Develop and maintain a compelling visual identity, including logos, typography, color schemes, and design elements. Ensure that the visual identity is consistent and resonates with our target audience. - Collaborate with the content team to develop high-quality, engaging content for every channel, including social media. - Stay informed about industry trends and consumer behaviour in the automotive market. Use market research to inform design and marketing decisions. - Manage the budget for the creative activities, including resource allocation, vendor relationships, agencies and project expenses. - Work closely with other departments, such as sales, product development, and customer support, to ensure that marketing and design efforts are aligned with overall company goals. Qualifications What are we looking for? - A highly collaborative, problem solver who can see the big picture and think strategically - Proven track record of delivering end-to-end creative projects that have focused on driving direct business impact, through the form of marketing and design. - Exceptional ability to tell stories through creativity, to stakeholders at all levels, from coordinators to executives, and from non-technical stakeholders to technical stakeholders - Strong leadership skills, with a track record of successfully managing creative teams. - In-depth knowledge of branding principles, design software, video/motion softwares, and marketing strategies. - Excellent project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously. - Proficiency in design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Powerpoint and Keynote

Title: Senior Manager, Paid Media (Growth) (12-month maternity leave cover) Location: Melbourne VIC Australia Employees work in a hybrid mode Full-time Job Description: Company Description Are you ready to be a big part of something big? At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small, small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other. With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we're transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve-and we're not afraid to take bold steps to get there. We embrace hybrid working combining the flexibility of remote work with the energy and connection of in-person collaboration. We champion flexibility and offer a range of policies and leave options to support your wellbeing. What's on offer - Recognition as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer. - A highly engaged, collaborative team where you'll learn from exceptional talent. - 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave. - Regular hackathons, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health. Job Description What you'll be doing This is a 12-month maternity leave cover role and sits at the centre of driving end-to-end growth through a highly optimised, data-led paid media function. You'll shape and execute a full-funnel strategy, using experimentation, AI and automation to continuously improve performance, while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable commercial outcomes. - Define and lead a full-funnel paid media strategy across Search (SA360), Social (meta, TikTok), Programmatic (DV360, Criteo, RTB House), Video on demand, and ATL - Continuously evolve strategies based on insights, not opinions - Manage how the paid media budget is deployed to drive maximum incremental impact - Identify and prioritise the highest-leverage growth opportunities across channels, audiences, and the customer journey - Build and drive a rigorous experimentation roadmap, focused on what actually moves the needle - Leverage AI and automation to scale performance, efficiency, and insight generation across paid media - Identify opportunities to apply AI across bidding and budget allocation, creative generation and testing at scale, audience modelling and expansion, and predictive performance and forecasting - Partner with data and engineering teams to unlock first-party data and machine learning capabilities - Partner with Marketing Automation, Data, and Product teams to activate CDP audiences across paid channels, improving targeting, suppression, retargeting and lifecycle-based acquisition. - Use data to make clear, confident decisions on where to scale, optimise, or stop investment - Challenge assumptions, push for better, and hold a high bar for performance - Work cross-functionally with product, marketing automation, brand, creative, and data teams to unlock end-to-end growth - Lead and develop a high-performing team, setting clear direction and standards Qualifications What we're looking for - Proven track record of scaling paid media investment while simultaneously improving efficiency, demonstrating a strong understanding of how to balance growth, cost and incremental impact across channels - Deep platform expertise across SA360, DV360, Meta and other major paid channels, with a clear view of how to optimise each platform and what high-performance execution looks like - Strong analytical capability, with the ability to cut through complex and often noisy data to identify the true drivers of growth and make confident, high-quality decisions - Experience leveraging experimentation frameworks and performance insights to continuously refine strategy, optimise outcomes and unlock new growth opportunities - Exposure to, or strong interest in, AI, automation and modern growth tooling, with an ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical improvements in performance, efficiency and scale - Demonstrated experience leading specialist teams and agency partners, setting a high performance bar and driving accountability to deliver best-in-class outcomes - Highly collaborative leadership style, with the ability to work effectively across Marketing, Product, Data and Technology to deliver integrated, end-to-end growth - Strong commercial and growth mindset, with a clear focus on impact, trade-offs and ROI, and the ability to connect media performance to broader business outcomes Additional Information A few other things we want you to know... - As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. - If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we're here to support you. - We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you'd like to explore this, just ask during the process. - We're also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant. - Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights. So come join us - because every role plays a vital part in our journey toward something big!

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Title: Senior Software Engineer Location: Melbourne VIC Australia Job Description: Company Description Are you ready to be a big part of something big? At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. Since 1997, we've been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. When it comes to your career, we want to offer meaningful opportunities that empower you to make a lasting impact. But for that to happen, we strive to feel small, small enough to stay agile, learn across teams, and connect authentically with each other. With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces, we're transforming how people buy and sell across the world. We discover new ideas and bring them to life. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve and we're not afraid to take bold steps to get there. A career in Software Engineering will see you working on products that are used every single day by our millions of customers all over the world. This position is within our ACIL (Auto, Corporate, Industry & Leisure) team. The team focuses on high availability product for Dealership customers to buy and sell their inventory. It plays a vital role in allowing them to maximise their online customer interaction and sale funnels. What's on offer - Recognition as one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer. - A highly engaged, collaborative team where you'll learn from exceptional talent. - 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks for secondary caregivers, and six weeks paid gender-affirming care leave. - Regular hackathons, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing initiatives that support your mental, emotional, and physical health. What you'll be doing As the Senior Software Engineer, you'll be part of a passionate engineering squad focused on building products that delivery quality solutions to our customers. Working closely with skilled colleagues in Engineering, Product, and Design. - Apply AI-first engineering practices to deliver great products - Build smart, data-driven SaaS capabilities that help Dealers make better decisions - from inventory acquisition to optimisation, to lead management and conversion - Design and evolve systems that are modular, well-instrumented and scalable, ensuring our solutions are resilient and aligned to real commercial outcomes - Be involved in all aspects of software engineering practices including breaking down work, code review, testing, source control, build processes. - Understand and share expertise in coaching a team of engineers, ensuring standards and best practices are maintained - Own what you build, from idea to impact, and being accountable for how it performs in the real world Qualifications What we're looking for - Senior full‑stack engineering experience, with strong frontend (preferably Angular) and backend (.NET focused) experience, with exposure to Cloud (AWS or Azure) - Deep experience building scalable, distributed systems, ideally event-driven, with a strong understanding of how systems behave in production - Strong proficiency in C# / .NET, modern frontend frameworks, and cloud-native development - Solid data fundamentals, comfortable working with relational and NoSQL data stores, and able to design for performance, scale and efficient querying - Applies sound engineering principles (e.g. modularisation, abstraction, separation of concerns) to build systems that are maintainable and evolvable over time - A mindset for clean, high-quality code, with a focus on continuous improvement and scalable design - Effective at collaborating across Product, Design and Data to deliver meaningful outcomes Additional Information A few other things we want you to know... - As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. - If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we're here to support you. - We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you'd like to explore this, just ask during the process. - We're also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant. - Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.