Commercial Co-Founder, Consumer Subscription Growth

Why this role

The deal, up front. Most founder conversations start with two questions: how do we pay ourselves, and how do we raise. Both are settled before you begin.

• A$3m of committed capital per venture, roughly two years of focused runway.

• 30% equity for the founding team. Founder ownership, not an employee option grant, shared across however many founders the venture calls for.

• You control the budget. Founder salaries are paid from the A$3m, and the founders set them, alongside every other cost, in a business plan Repeat Builders does not write for you.

The growth engine is already running. Every idea we build is put in front of real people through paid campaigns before a founder is engaged, and measured from first impression to signup. You arrive with that data: reach, conversion, cost per signup, how people behaved on the page, and a list of the people who signed up. Your job is to read it, work out which levers actually move the number, and then extend the engine for a business with paying customers instead of test traffic.

You own the market. If the venture calls for it, you'll be paired with a technical co-founder who owns the build. You own whether people pay, stay and use it, and the strategy that follows.

What has held you back, removed by design. Going solo is daunting without a co-founder you trust, and raising a first round is hard. The idea is validated before you arrive, the capital is committed, and we match founders whose skills complement each other and the product.

The two-year arc. We take the idea to a validated prototype. You take it from there: year one to product in market and measurable traction, year two to raising the next round on its own strength and running independently of us. Success is measured by traction, not activity. You'll work from a shared office at Tech Central, with other founders and investors around you and our team alongside on product, hiring and strategy.

Sydney, at Tech Central · Full-time · Unrestricted work rights in Australia required. We can't sponsor a visa for this role. If you're elsewhere in Australia and ready to move, we'd like to hear from you.

The opportunity

You'll be the commercial co-founder of one of our consumer ventures. It arrives with a working prototype and the demand data behind it. It also arrives with the tree: every variation of the idea we scored on the way in, so a new channel, price or pivot starts from evidence.

About 40 prototypes sit in the pipeline today. Many of the consumer ones share a commercial shape: a subscription, sold direct and through partners, where the person who pays isn't always the person who uses it. Retention is harder than acquisition there, and it's where the job is won. Your job is to turn validated interest into paying customers who stay, with Repeat Builders behind you and a co-founder alongside you where the venture calls for one.

What you will own

• Win paying customers and keep them: subscription acquisition and retention, from the first paid customer.

• Keep the people who use the product active, including those who didn't choose it and never paid for it.

• Open the distribution partnerships the venture needs, and decide which are worth the effort and which channel lasts.

• Take the growth engine that validated the demand, find what moves paid conversion and retention, and build it out.

• Set pricing and packaging, and test them against what customers actually do.

• Talk to customers often enough that product decisions rest on their behaviour, and adjust as feedback replaces assumption.

• Hire the first commercial people as the company grows past what one founder can cover.

What you will bring: essential

• Owned a consumer subscription number. Acquisition, retention or both, with before and after figures you can talk through. The number was yours, not your team's.

• Built demand where none existed. A channel, product or market you started without a playbook. Scale doesn't matter; starting it does.

• Opened a distribution partnership. With a telco, insurer, retailer, health or community organisation, and you can say what it delivered.

• Owned activation or retention. Onboarding, engagement or churn work where the result was yours, ideally including users who weren't the ones paying.

Non-essential, specialist skills

These strengthen an application. None is required.

• Pricing and monetisation, including testing what people will pay.

• Product discovery run from customer interviews.

• AI has changed how you work day to day, and you can say specifically how.

If you clear most of this and the rest of this ad speaks to you, apply. The things that make you unusual belong in the application, not on a checklist.

This role isn't for enterprise or B2B sales, brand or content marketing without an acquisition or retention number you owned, or agency and consulting work where the client owned the result. Our ventures will need some of those skills later, and when they do, we'll advertise for them. For now, this is the profile we're looking for.

About Repeat Builders

Repeat Builders is a Sydney venture builder launching its first five ventures over the next six months, each on a fixed, funded runway.

Anyone can vibe code an app now. The hard part is knowing whether anyone wants it. Every idea we build is scored and tested with real people before a founder is engaged, with over 2,200 scored so far. You inherit the demand data and the tree of related ideas, and the growth analytics engine behind them stays with you.

That's the first layer. The second is harder for an investor to copy. We work in the same space, on the same AI-native systems, and you'd be one of five ventures. The aim for each is to stand on its own after two years.

Repeat Builders is an equal opportunity employer.

How to apply

We don't yet know which of the 40 prototypes will be funded, so we're talking to people who cover a spread of them, and the interviews tell us where you'd fit. In your application, tell us about a number you owned: what it was before, what it was after, and what moved it.

If this strongly resonates, we want to meet you.