Venture Lead, AI-Driven Growth

Millell Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch & learns

Flexible working

Up to 50% employee discount

Product sample giveaways

Pawrental leave

Wellbeing leave

Volunteer days

Fitness corporate partnership

Job summary

Pet Circle in Sydney is hiring a Venture Lead to oversee multiple ventures across the portfolio, including Pharmacy, Bonnodog and Insurance. You will drive growth, validate opportunities with customers, and lead go-to-market for live ideas in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.

You’ll work cross-functionally with marketing, data, technology, CX, and supply chain teams, taking operating ownership of ventures when needed. This is a hybrid, Sydney-based role with flexible team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Get close to customers, through research, data and direct conversations, to stress-test whether an idea solves a real problem rather than whether it looks good on paper.
• Run the screening process: a deliberate, active read of where the real opportunities are, in the market, with customers, with competitors, and in what is already being proven in the US, the UK and elsewhere
• Build the commercial case for the opportunities worth backing, including the P&L, key milestones and the customer evidence behind them, through to a clear go, reshape or park recommendation
• Go after a backed opportunity in a dedicated way: take it from decision through to something real in market, rather than handing over a recommendation and moving on
• Work across category, marketing, data, technology, CX, supply chain and the vet team without formal authority, and feed what you learn back into the core business
• Put growth and pace behind a venture that has proven its model but hasn’s yet found scale
• Take operating ownership of a venture when that’s where the need is: a live P&L, a team and a customer base, not an advisory seat beside one

Job description

Pet Circle in Sydney is hiring a Venture Lead to oversee multiple ventures across the portfolio, including Pharmacy, Bonnodog and Insurance. You will drive growth, validate opportunities with customers, and lead go-to-market for live ideas in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.

You’ll work cross-functionally with marketing, data, technology, CX, and supply chain teams, taking operating ownership of ventures when needed. This is a hybrid, Sydney-based role with flexible team collaboration.