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About the Role
This is a full-stack storytelling role where you will take a story from concept to completion across various formats including writing, design, and film. You will work closely with the Creative Director to ensure clarity, meaning, and heart in all content.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to Blackbird’s storytelling strategy across digital, written, visual, and experiential formats.
- Craft and evolve our narrative spine that holds all of our programs and activities together.
- Find stories by engaging with founders, programs, the Foundation, and the team.
- Produce stories through writing, design, editing, shooting, and posting.
- Manage owned channels including social media, email, and website content.
- Experiment with multimodal storytelling and experimental mediums.
- Promote programs and events through various channels.
- Work like a builder, shipping steadily, running experiments, and learning as you go.
Requirements
- Build community and be passionate about Founders, startups and the journey from zero to one and beyond.
- Spend real time with founders and the people around them, earning trust to access valuable information.
- Have a strong sense for what will resonate and identify great stories.
- Produce content independently, including writing, design, shooting, and editing.
- Be genuinely creative with good taste and a designer's eye.
- Protect the Blackbird brand in language and design.
- Hold conviction in taste, take feedback seriously, but maintain what is right.
- Love people and gain energy from being around creative individuals.
- Have strong craft in at least a couple of formats and good taste across all.
- Be able to make things independently and be design-fluent.
- Be fast-moving, happy to experiment, and able to extract the real story from conversations.
Skills
- Storytelling
- Writing
- Design
- Film
- Digital content creation
- Visual content creation
- Experiential content creation
- Social media management
- Email marketing
- Website content management
- Multimodal storytelling
- Experimental mediums
- Event promotion
- Podcast production
- Media relations
- Brand management
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Contract
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- 12 month contract
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Monthly healthy living allowance
- 24/7 access to wellbeing support
- Home office allowance
- Personal kit-kat days
- Unplugged weekends (no Slack or emails)
- Team and company offsites
- Monthly social activities
- Weekly lunches
- Social clubs
About the Company
- Blackbird is Australia's biggest venture capital fund focused on supercharging ambitious founders in Australia and New Zealand.
- They raise venture capital funds, invest in startup companies, and help them succeed.
- Their portfolio is valued at over $10B, with more than 190 companies.
- They aim to build a business that lasts for decades and produces excellent returns.
- Blackbird is a Pledge 1% member, dedicating resources to not-for-profit causes through the Blackbird Foundation.
- They won the 2023 AFR Best Place to Work award in three categories and were certified as one of Australia’s Great Places to Work in 2022.
- They are listed on the 2024 Hatch hotlist.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is critical to Blackbird’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.
- We encourage candidates, especially women and people from underrepresented backgrounds, to apply even if they do not meet 100% of the qualifications, as we value potential and are committed to supporting growth.