Acquisition Specialist

Stake is looking for an Acquisition Specialist to join us at our Sydney HQ, with a flexible hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 WFH.

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we 750,000+ global customers and more than A$7 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone. 

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way. 

At Stake, we are developing a best-in-class, always-on customer acquisition engine to fuel our next phase of Growth. At the core of this initiative is our Growth Squad, tasked with designing, building, and optimising the systems and strategies that will deliver scalable, sustainable growth for the business. We are looking for talented and ambitious professionals to join our Growth Squad and help deliver the future of investing in Australia. Your responsibilities will be to:

• Launch, manage, and monitor paid media campaigns across key channels including Google, Meta, and other digital platforms to meet performance targets.
• Design and execute a continuous A/B testing program across creatives, copy, and landing pages to improve key metrics like CPA and conversion rates.
• Set up and traffic all ad creatives, copy, tracking pixels, and links for paid campaigns, ensuring seamless execution and accurate data capture.
• Compile and distribute regular performance reports for all paid acquisition channels, analysing key metrics like CPA and ROAS to provide clear insights to the team.
• Conduct daily checks on campaign budgets, pacing, and performance to ensure targets are met efficiently.

• 2-4 years in a hands-on growth or performance marketing role.
• Proven experience managing paid media budgets and campaigns (e.g., Google Ads, Meta Ads) with a focus on CPA and ROAS.
• Experience managing paid app install and engagement campaigns for iOS and Android is highly regarded but not essential.
• Demonstrable ability in A/B testing, conversion rate optimisation (CRO), and lifecycle marketing.
• Strong proficiency with analytics tools (Google Analytics, Mixpanel) to measure impact and inform decisions.
• A proactive and reliable operator who can own projects from hypothesis to analysis and clearly communicate findings.

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

You’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks.

Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake program. They include:

• Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
• Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
• Performance bonus and talent referral bonus
• Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
• Recognition awards and team celebrations
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women. 

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and you'll hear from us either way. We’re committed to responding to every applicant. If we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.