(Job opening) Growth Engineer @ Stake

Onur Ekinci
Jul 28, 2017 · 5 min read

It’s possible that you and I might become best of coworkers. Life’s too short for a mundane working experience and so is our window to launch Stake into the world!

TLDR: Stake is looking to hire a talented, fast-paced Frontend/Growth Engineer, who’s a gun on the frontend and has experience with a/b testing, analytics and optimising UX (CRO). Details below.

First, a little context
A month ago my life entirely changed. I was living in Melbourne and was in the process of stepping out of my own startup - Peer Academy.

Now, I’m living in Bondi and heading up Growth at Stake. I couldn’t be happier and more excited about what’s to come in this next chapter.

The moment I saw Stake, I knew I had to get involved. Stake for me represented an opportunity to democratise access to better investment opportunities. I’d been put off the financial markets for a long time with all the B.S. (bank stuff). But what’s grown on me was this exciting startup movement in the fintech space. A whole new ecosystem of innovative companies looking to disrupt the tired and traditional financial industry.

This is where you come in!
We’re looking for a growth engineer to buckle up and join us in what will be an exhilarating ride.

Who & what is Stake?

Stake is a shop for shares — the place where you can buy, sell and gift US listed shares for $0. In fact, we beat Robinhood to it! It’s a game changer in Australian financial services — Stake is giving Australians an incredible opportunity to grow their wealth. All packaged through an incredible and intuitive ecommerce shopping experience.

Stake’s killer UI
World’s first Shop for Shares

However, we won’t realise our vision without a team member made up with the right skills and ‘all-in’ attitude.

If the below excites you, then I suggest you and I grab a coffee real soon.


Cultural fit

First and foremost, we’re looking for someone who’s the right cultural fit. The world is changing fast, as are the tools and strategies we use. The only way to stay ahead is culture.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Always.
  1. Relentless pursuit to improve. You are driven to be the best you can be. This will not be determined by your current technical skill set, but your passion and perseverance to improve day in day out.
  2. Optimism is in your veins. You see the world for its opportunities and challenges and setbacks as a crucial aspect of personal growth.
  3. GRIT. You have it. Simple as that. If you don’t you won’t last.
  4. Humble. You understand that actions speak louder than words and doing is done. You celebrate the success of others and you take responsibility for the failings of others. Team success is the ultimate success and you take that seriously.
  5. Integrity. Always. On the job and off it. Until you leave planet earth.

Growth hacker attitude

Next up is the growth hacking attitude we’re after.

See Giphy version here: http://gph.is/1oXJHnO
  1. Obsessed about growth. Relentlessly pursues and implements identified opportunities that keep key metrics going upwards and towards the right.
  2. Self-starter. Since a big chunk of the work involves running experiments to determine what really works, you’ll be proactive about coming up with your own hypotheses and experiments and iterating. You should have infinite curiosity and constantly ask “Why?” to uncover hidden insights.
  3. Doesn’t cry over lost code. This is someone who should be very comfortable with experimentation, knowing that a large amount of work won’t make it into the final product.
  4. OK doing things that don’t scale. Many of the tests will be small and without much impact– so an engineer who is fairly new — just 2–4 years of experience — might fit better with this mentality vs. someone one with many years of experience that may train toward rigid requirements and roadmaps.
  5. Great communicator. You are comfortable working with team members with different skills & perspectives, i.e. design, product managers, copywriter, data analysts, etc.

Technical skills

Finally, Stake’s Growth Engineer would have the following technical skills.

Our growth framework
  1. Work with the team to develop strategies across the entire customer lifecycle: Awareness, Acquisition, Activation and Retention through multiple channels, including SEM/SEO, Social, contextual targeting, retargeting, traditional marketing, inbound channels and other.
  2. Understand growth analytics and tracking to support the creation and optimisation of product features that drive growth and both: convert visitors into customers and increase the LTV of existing users.
  3. Solid experience in using a stack of growth applications, including; Optimizely, Heap Analytics, Segment, Hotjar, Appcue, etc
  4. Can rapidly spin up front end development without the need for significant guidance. Will have strong background in HTML/CSS and JS, SQL queries (Grunt and Angular JS Material a bonus) and the ability to refine experiments through available growth applications (listed above).
  5. Can work with the rest of the development team to inform backend development decisions based on experience and exposure to Angular, internal/external APIs and client-side storage patterns.

What you’ll get

The right person will be offered a winning salary + equity package. We’ll talk it out and land on what’s best and fair for everyone.

But to be honest, if you’re joining a startup, you know that’s secondary. If you’re anything like me, who has packed up his life in a moments notice, or the founders, your heart’s in this to make a difference, to create something we can all feel proud of and to enjoy the thrilling ride of going from zero to one.

You’ll also have the opportunity to work with the best minds for the job and play with a cutting-edge growth stack for launching.

Next

If this post gets you excited, then great. You’re probably just the type of person we’re looking for. Get in touch with me (here: onur@stake.com.au) and let’s do coffee. We’re keen to get moving on this quick.

If this doesn’t speak to you, then thanks for reading to this point and considering Stake. Regardless, we’d love you to follow our journey through following Stake’s publication.

If you have any feedback, ideas or comments, then reply below. We’d love to hear from you, whatever shape or form. Best to be human about this especially when we’ll be paired up 24/7 right!

Onur Ekinci

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