About MyBurb
MyBurb is reaching an important point. We’re building a different kind of marketplace, one designed around the people and businesses in your own neighbourhood.
MyBurb helps people discover and connect with home-based businesses, local talent, products and services close to home. Rather than searching through a huge, faceless platform, the idea is to make it easier to find the person down the road who can make a cake, take your photos, mow your lawn, teach your kids, design something, fix something or provide a service you need.
But there’s a bigger idea behind it. We’re trying to bring a little of the traditional village back. The more artificial and disconnected the digital world becomes, the more valuable authentic human connection can become. We don't think technology has to make communities less human. We think it can actually help bring people closer together.
MyBurb is built around that idea, helping people discover the people, skills, products and services that exist around them, and creating more opportunities for genuine local connection along the way. We launched in Victoria Park and are now approaching 200 sellers, with the platform expanding into new areas across Perth. The next stage is where things get really interesting. I'm looking for someone in Perth who wants to get involved and help build it.
This isn't a narrowly defined marketing role. It's an all-round startup role, with growth at its centre. You'll spend a lot of time on marketing, buyer and seller acquisition, and outreach, but you'll also have the opportunity to get involved across the product and business. One day you might be developing a campaign to bring new sellers onto the platform. The next you might be looking at how we can attract more buyers, working with our developer on a new feature, reviewing a change to the user experience or figuring out why something isn't converting as well as it should.
There is a lot still to build, which is exactly the point.
What you'll be doing
- Help grow MyBurb's seller base through direct outreach, campaigns, partnerships and other acquisition channels
- Help attract buyers and build awareness across Perth
- Develop and manage marketing and social media activity
- Identify new ways to generate leads and acquire users
- Help onboard and engage sellers
- Work with our developer on new features, improvements and fixes
- Help manage and improve the UI/UX and overall customer experience
- Test ideas, analyse results and work out what's actually working
- Contribute to product, growth and business strategy
- Pick up whatever needs doing as we continue to build
Who we're looking for
You don't need to be an expert in everything. We're looking for someone entrepreneurial, commercially minded and curious. Someone who enjoys figuring things out and getting stuck into whatever needs doing.
You might come from marketing, digital, sales, business development, product, communications or something completely different.
What matters is that you:
- Communicate well and aren't afraid to approach people
- Understand social media and digital marketing
- Are comfortable with outreach and acquisition
- Have an eye for good design and user experience
- Can work with developers and digital products
- Like looking at numbers and working out what's working
- Take initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do
- Enjoy variety and solving problems
- Are genuinely excited by the idea of building something
The opportunity
This is a sweat-equity startup opportunity, rather than a conventional salaried position. We're looking for someone who sees the potential in MyBurb and wants to have a meaningful role in helping build it.
You'll work directly with me as we take the business through its next stage of growth, with the opportunity to earn equity based on your contribution and involvement. The exact arrangement and level of commitment can be discussed depending on the person and what makes sense for both of us.
This is a particularly interesting time to come on board. The platform exists, the foundations are in place, we're approaching 200 sellers and we're rapidly expanding. But we're still early enough that the person joining now can have a genuine influence on what MyBurb becomes.
If you're entrepreneurial, enjoy variety and like the idea of getting involved before the path is completely mapped out, I'd love to hear from you.
Perth-based.
Interested? Send me a message with a little about yourself, what you could bring to MyBurb, and why the opportunity interests you.
Pay: From $1.00 per year
Work Location: In person
