Growth & Partnerships Manager

Hyde & Seek is a senior-led strategic PR and earned-media agency working with ambitious businesses across technology, AI, healthcare, sustainability, finance, and other high-trust sectors.

We’re growing and looking for someone to help build what comes next.

This isn’t a traditional agency business development role. We’re not looking for someone to send hundreds of cold emails, work through generic prospect lists, or sell PR to anyone who will buy it.

We’re looking for someone who can recognise opportunity, build relationships, and turn the right conversations into commercial growth.

You’ll work directly with the founder across new business, partnerships, positioning, and pipeline development, helping us build a more systematic growth engine around an agency that has largely grown through reputation, referrals, and relationships.

• Build and manage Hyde & Seek’s new-business pipeline
• Identify businesses with genuine PR, reputation, market-entry, or positioning opportunities
• Research prospects, sectors, funding activity, market movements, and commercial triggers
• Develop relationships with founders, executives, marketers, investors, advisers, agencies, and referral partners
• Build partnerships with complementary businesses and networks
• Turn Hyde & Seek’s insights, IP, events, and media presence into commercial opportunities
• Own targeted outreach and follow-up with prospective clients
• Qualify inbound opportunities and own the next step where there’s a genuine fit
• Work directly with the founder on pitches, proposals, and high-value opportunities
• Help develop and package new offers, partnerships, and routes to market
• Keep CRM, pipeline, follow-ups, and opportunities moving
• Track what is actually driving leads and revenue, and improve the approach over time

You don’t necessarily need to come from PR.

You might currently work in agency growth, partnerships, business development, marketing, professional services, media, startups, or another relationship-led environment.

What matters more is that you:

• Have strong commercial instincts and can recognise a genuine business opportunity
• Are excellent at building relationships without making people feel like they’re being sold to
• Can research a company and quickly understand what is happening in its business
• Write exceptionally well and communicate confidently with senior people
• Understand how to turn an initial conversation into a next step
• Are organised and disciplined about pipeline and follow-up
• Are comfortable working autonomously in a remote environment
• Are curious about business, media, technology, and what makes companies grow
• Can think strategically rather than simply execute a sales process
• Have the confidence to say when an opportunity isn’t right for us

Experience selling agency or professional services would be useful, but it isn’t essential.

This is not a high-volume outbound sales job.

There are no scripts, call quotas, or expectations that you’ll spam thousands of prospects.

Hyde & Seek sells senior expertise and judgement. The growth function needs to reflect that.

We’d rather have ten intelligent conversations with the right businesses than 1,000 automated emails landing in the wrong inboxes.

• A low-ego team that genuinely cares about the work, our partners, and our clients
• An influential role in a growing independent agency
• Direct access to the founder and visibility across the commercial side of the business
• Scope to shape the growth function rather than inherit someone else’s playbook
• Exposure to founders, executives, investors, and businesses across Australia and Southeast Asia
• Remote-first flexibility
• A small team where good ideas get acted on (fast)

Salary + new business incentive, dependent on experience.