Why Dovetail

Great products are never created from thin air. The secret to creating great products is understanding people. Methodically learning about their behaviors, emotions, and pain points is called user research or customer research.

Our intuitive and affordable cloud software helps people inside businesses store and make sense of unstructured user research data, capture and summarize their findings, and share that with relevant people inside their organization. Dovetail helps our customers understand their customers, and therefore they build better products as a result.

Our culture values responsibility and accountability, trust and openness, efficiency and speed. We’re all about sweating the details on delightful experiences, tackling ambitious technical challenges, and learning twice as fast as anywhere else. We’re extremely customer-focused, regularly talking with customers in-person, via email, or over video. Our company Slack workspace is even shared with over 600 end-users.

No founder dictators here. As an early employee, you will help us shape this culture. We’re building for a healthy, happy team where everyone believes in what they’re working on. We only hire excellent people that you’ll trust and learn from. We’re transparent in everything we do; regularly sharing product decisions, financials, and fundraising plans with everyone on the team, and even customers at times.

What you will do

• Hire the best people for Dovetail: You'll get to own the recruiting process from start to finish - sourcing, managing interviewing phases and hiring top talent.

• Work closely with the CEO, CTO, Operations, Marketing and Product teams to proactively gather requirements for roles and build role profiles.

• Strategic partner for growth: We'll look to you to source, build, implement and manage HR management systems that are paramount to support Dovetail's growth.

• The serious stuff: Working through sensitive matters and addressing employment-related legal matters.

Your background

As the first people-focused hire at Dovetail, ideally you will join us with:

• 3+ years of experience in a people-based role and a successful track record of hiring top talent.

• Ability to influence outcomes in fast-paced environments and work with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Awareness of and ability to overcome cognitive biases to ensure the best candidates make it through hiring phases.

• Tact, diplomacy, empathy and professionalism to deal with various sensitive situations across the role.

• Exposure to performance management systems and working through employment related legal matters; or if not - a strong interest to learn and own.

• A desire to join a fun, open and happy workplace.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity.

• Flexible working hours – we value work-life balance.

• Personal learning and development budget.

• Office snacks, cereal, sparkling water on tap.

• Sit-stand desks, 4k 27” monitor, Aeron chairs.

• Pet friendly office including a terrace, BBQ, concrete floor.

• Regular events like yoga on Tuesday and monthly social events.

• Annual company retreats.

• Regular lunch and learn events with other companies.

Apply now

This is role is open to full-time and part-time applicants, based in Sydney, Australia. Relocation assistance is available for the perfect applicant. To get started, pop your email in the top right of this page.

Instead of submitting a CV, you’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through a sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to interview.