What's the role?
We’re looking for a commercially minded and strategically rigorous Head of Growth to help shape the future of Australia’s leading digital lifestyle and news portfolio, including news.com.au, Taste, Escape, and Body+Soul.
This is a high-impact opportunity for a leader who can combine the structured thinking of top-tier management consulting with the pace, pragmatism and execution focus of a high-growth digital business. You’ll help set the portfolio’s strategic direction, unlock new commercial opportunities and expand our reach across social, emerging platforms and strategic partnerships.
About the role:
Lead strategic planning across the digital portfolio, providing clear, data-led frameworks for major commercial, and growth decisions.
Partner with commercial teams to identify new revenue opportunities and support the positioning and growth of advertising products and data assets across the portfolio.
Lead strategic initiatives, market-entry opportunities and business development projects that diversify revenue and strengthen the portfolio’s market position.
Define and execute the off-platform strategy across social media, third-party distribution networks and emerging digital platforms.
Build scalable approaches to social distribution and creator ecosystems that grow brand authority, audience acquisition and monetisation.
Work with Audience, Emerging Platforms, Marketing and Brand Product teams to improve the journey from off-platform touchpoints back to owned digital properties.
Help maximise audience lifetime value, engagement and retention through an integrated, cross-platform growth strategy.
Provide trusted strategic advice to the General Manager and influence senior stakeholders across the business and external platform partners.
Who are you?
You have experience in a top-tier management consulting environment such as McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Strategy& or Big 4 Strategy, with strong capability in problem-solving, strategic modelling and executive communication.
You have since gained hands-on leadership experience in a high-growth start-up, scale-up or digital business, with a test-and-learn mindset and a bias towards action.
You understand how to scale consumer touchpoints across media, technology or digital platforms, including social media distribution, creator networks or other off-platform channels.
You bring strong commercial acumen and understand digital publishing economics, audience acquisition, social monetisation and data-led commercial models.
You can combine strategic rigour with start-up agility, moving comfortably between high-level strategy and practical execution.
You build trusted relationships with commercial teams, executive leaders and external partners across social, streaming and technology platforms.
You are an energetic and credible leader who can mentor others and help foster a high-performance, growth-oriented culture.
This is an opportunity to make a visible impact on portfolio strategy, commercial growth and audience expansion across some of Australia’s most recognisable digital brands.
Why News Corp Australia
Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.
News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.
Our benefits include:
Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite…