Growth Tech Lead: Build the AI-Driven Growth Engine

Safetyculture 2; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work

Training & development

Hackathons

Open source involvement

Culinary crew

Coffee & beverages

Wellbeing programs

Team events

On-site gym

Job summary

SafetyCulture is seeking a Senior Manager, Growth Technology Lead in Sydney to design and run the growth engine mixing marketing strategy with tech build. You’ll lead a team delivering automated, scalable growth workflows across Marketing, GTM, and RevOps, with emphasis on data-driven decisions and AI-enabled automation.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, helping accelerate pipeline and revenue while partnering with Sales, RevOps, and Data & Analytics across a hybrid

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a team combining growth marketing and GTM engineering.
• Track record building GTM systems that move pipeline or revenue.
• Strong people leadership, managing 5+ staff with mixed skills.
• Comfortable operating in Martech stacks at a working level.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Marketing technology roadmap — defining the strategy, prioritization, and sequencing of investments in tooling, data, and AI capability across the entire Marketing function.
• Lead and grow a team — creating a culture of ownership, experimentation, and high performance.
• Drive AI adoption across Marketing and GTM — identifying, building, and scaling use‑cases that meaningfully improve funnel efficiency, lead quality, content output, and campaign performance.
• Take ownership of Marketing’s data infrastructure — partnering with Data & Analytics to build in‑house data capabilities including a Marketing‑owned Postgres lakehouse.
• Own Marketing’s internal tooling platform — maintaining and extending tools used daily by 160+ Go‑to‑Market users to improve funnel visibility, lead‑to‑opportunity conversion, and decision‑making speed.
• Represent Marketing Technology at a senior leadership level — bringing forward big initiatives, contributing to the Marketing Leadership Team (MLT) planning process, and building stakeholder confidence in the team’s roadmap and commercial impact.
• Establish and maintain project delivery rigour across the team — implementing the right processes and tooling (e.g. Jira) to track workload, manage cross‑functional dependencies, and ensure external stakeholders are engaged early enough to avoid bottlenecks.

Skills

Growth leadership

Marketing tech experience

AI & automation focus

GTM engineering

Team leadership

MarTech stack familiarity

Strategy & planning

Tools

Salesforce

HubSpot

Customer.io

Segment

Workato

Job description

SafetyCulture is seeking a Senior Manager, Growth Technology Lead in Sydney to design and run the growth engine mixing marketing strategy with tech build. You’ll lead a team delivering automated, scalable growth workflows across Marketing, GTM, and RevOps, with emphasis on data-driven decisions and AI-enabled automation.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, helping accelerate pipeline and revenue while partnering with Sales, RevOps, and Data & Analytics across a hybrid