Head of Digital

We Are Stellar; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Megaphone, part of the Stellar network, seeks a Head of Digital to shape and drive the agency’s digital vision across media, content, data, and technology. You will partner with senior clients, envision future needs, and lead with AI-powered strategies to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will act as a thought leader, fostering a high-performance digital culture and contributing to growth opportunities across accounts, while representing the global network and Pixis.ai technology.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in premium digital agency environments.
• Proven scaling expertise with high-growth brands.
• Strategic vision paired with hands-on execution excellence.

Responsibilities

• Elevate the agency’s digital product across all disciplines—media, content, data, and technology.
• Drive disruption with AI using proprietary tech stack with pixis.ai and Prism for clients.
• Serve as a trusted senior advisor to key clients and cultivate long-term relationships.
• Lead digital strategy and vision on new business opportunities and pitches.
• Translate client objectives into actionable digital strategies that drive performance.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Client relationship

AI in marketing

Cross-channel strategy

Thought leadership

Job description

As Head of Digital, you will be a strategic leader responsible for shaping and driving the agency’s digital vision, elevating our digital product, and delivering measurable value for our clients. You will build deep, trusted partnerships with senior clients, working as a strategic advisor who understands their business challenges and anticipates future needs. You’ll act as a thought leader within the agency, across our global network, and in the industry, helping define the future of digital marketing. You will play a role in reshaping the marketing industry, in a tech forward agency embracing and driving disruption with AI with game changing proprietary AI technology.

Why Megaphone

Megaphone is one of Australia's most awarded digital marketing agencies. Known for our creativity, performance-first mindset, and ability to scale brands with energy and precision, Megaphone is where data meets storytelling, growth meets imagination, and people thrive in a bright, collaborative, high-performance environment.

Megaphone is part of the global marketing agency network Stellar, and powered by the industry leading global AI marketing technology Pixis.ai.

Pixis began in 2018 with a bold mission: to democratize AI and make it accessible to brands everywhere. Today, our codeless AI platform is trusted by 1,000+ global brands including Fortune 2000 companies and powering campaigns with 200+ proprietary AI models. But at our heart, Pixis is about people. Our values—innovate simply, empower people, champion creativity, keep it real, and stay human—are woven into everything we do.

As we grew, we realized the technology wasn't enough. That's why we built Stellar— a performance marketing group designed for what comes next. Stellar unites 11 specialist agencies across paid media, creative, lifecycle, SEO, and platform strategy, all connected by Pixis' AI infrastructure. No silos. No bolt-ons. Just one adaptive growth engine that moves as fast as the market does. Stellar is where brilliant people, cutting-edge technology, and bold ideas come together to deliver outcomes, not tradeoffs.

Key Responsibilities

Product Leadership & Innovation

• Elevate the agency’s digital product across all disciplines—media, content, data, and technology
• Embrace and be a driver of disruption with AI in our industry by bringing to bear the full impact of our proprietary AI tech stack with pixis.ai and Prism both internally and with clients in
• Play a critical role in how we define and demonstrate value and differentiation
• Anticipate and design for future client needs by developing new propositions and solutions.
• Serve as a trusted senior advisor to key clients, cultivating long-term, value-creating relationships
• Support growth opportunities within existing accounts.
• Deliver strategic guidance across digital channels to drive measurable client impact
• Support teams in translating client business objectives into actionable digital strategies that drive performance

Thought Leadership & Internal Influence

• Act as a digital thought leader, both internally and externally—presenting at industry events, publishing POVs, etc.
• Champion knowledge sharing across the agency and global network
• Foster a high-performance, innovative digital culture that attracts and retains top talent

New Business & Agency Growth

• Lead digital strategy and vision on key new business opportunities
• Collaborate with business development and client leads to craft compelling pitches and solutions
• Actively shape the agency’s positioning in market through visibility and thought leadership

Key Channels & Competency Areas

• Paid Social
• Paid Search
• Programmatic Display & Video
• SEO
• CRM & Lifecycle Marketing
• Influencer Marketing
• Martech / Data & Analytics

KPIs

• Client Growth: Revenue growth from existing clients through digital opportunities
• New Business Wins: Success rate and contribution to digital-led new business
• Product Development: Launch of new digital propositions
• Team Development: Growth of digital talent
• Thought Leadership: Industry recognition, speaking engagements, content output

THE LEADER WE'RE SEEKING

• 6+ years in premium digital agency environments
• Proven scaling expertise with high-growth brands
• Strategic vision paired with hands-on execution excellence
• Natural leadership that inspires teams and builds lasting client relationships
• AI/automation experience in marketing (strongly preferred)

You may be (or be on the path to be!) a Head of Search, Social, Digital or Performance, in an Australian indie or network agency, a Search & Social or Performance Director, or an Account Director or Client Services Director, with a strong lean to digital and cross channel strategy looking for your next challenge.