Idea Validator

What’s this job really about?

You’ll help us validate the ideas that matter for various large organisations around Australia and the world.

You’ll think like a start-up founder (minus the 3am pizza stress).

You’ll work fast, think critically, validate with customers, and help turn napkin-scribbled concepts into launch-ready ventures.

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What you'll actually do

You'll be part of an Idea Validation Squad—a tight, fast-moving team working on a specific missions designed to help our clients achieve a particular vision. Think of yourself as the non-technical co-founder: your job is to validate whether an idea is worth pursuing (commercially, strategically, technically) before any major capital is committed.

Your week could include:

• Talking to real users and industry experts to stress-test an idea

• Synthesising market data into a clear “Size of the Prize”

• Mapping out competitors and adjacent solutions

• Figuring out pathways to market, potential revenue models or early traction

• Building decks and storylines that help our clients make confident decisions

• Contributing to and improving our internal knowledge base so we can move even faster next time

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What you bring

We don’t expect a perfect background—but we do look for a sharp brain, good instincts, and the drive to figure things out fast.

Essentials:

• Bachelor's degree with solid academic performance

• 3–5+ years in consulting, product, strategy or operations

• Familiarity with tech trends, emerging markets, and how start-ups work

• Strong analytical chops—you’re great with messy data, and even better at spotting what it means

• Great communicator, comfortable with clients and co-founders alike

• A healthy combo of optimism + paranoia—hopeful about ideas, skeptical enough to challenge them properly

Nice to have:

• You've founded or tried to build something before (success not required—we love well-earned scars)

• You’ve worked in or around corporate innovation, start-ups or VC

• You like automating things to make life easier (for you and the team)

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What’s in it for you

• Learn our Entrepreneurship-as-a-Service (EaaS) method—our proven way to uncover, test and validate bold ideas

• Work on real-world, high-impact problems in energy, infrastructure, construction and more

• Grow your skills in commercial analysis, user validation, strategic design and storytelling

• Be part of a diverse, tight-knit, energetic crew who back each other and go hard for the mission

• Launch into your next venture or career step with serious entrepreneurial muscle

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How we work

• We’re hybrid and flexible. Offices in Adelaide, Sydney and Perth, but you’ll mostly work where it makes sense for the mission.

• We’re a small, mighty team that supports each other hard and shares a weird love of sports, food experiments, and arguing (constructively) the right way.

• ✅ Validating ideas
• 🔍 Conducting user research
• 📈 Synthesising market data

• 🧠 Analytical skills
• 💬 Communication skills
• 📊 Market research
• 🚀 Entrepreneurial experience
• 💡 Innovation experience
• ⚙️ Automation skills
• null Core skills