Are you
a donkey?
Don't apply.
We don't do donkeys or mediocrity. Other than that, we'd love to hear from you — especially if you're senior, restless, and looking for the firm you've been quietly trying to redesign in your head.
The shortlist.
You've spent the better part of a decade in a Big 4, a top-tier boutique, or in-house in Defence or Federal Government. You're good at what you do. You're not being stretched. The thing that drew you in originally has been quietly replaced by politics, timesheet maths, and PowerPoint.
You're a high-performing self-starter. You want some control over your growth. You're confident dealing with multi-faceted problems. You want flexible incentives, a motivating culture, and a sense that the work you do connects to something bigger than the chargeable hour.
Improving your family's outcomes drives you. You take that seriously. So do we.
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Senior practitioners
Strategy, program management, procurement, cyber, risk & audit. 10+ years, ideally with Defence or Federal Government delivery.
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Cleared
NV1 minimum for most roles. NV2 and above for the more interesting work. We'll support uplifts where the engagement justifies it.
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Comfortable with ambiguity
And comfortable saying "I don't know yet" out loud.
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Generous with knowledge
Value #5 isn't optional. "Teach a person to fish" is how we hire and how we promote.
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Bring the bold ideas
If you're a cat with your good ideas (see value #3), this won't be a fun place.
The deal.
No leverage pyramid
You'll be on the work, with the client, not directing a team of juniors from a steering committee chair.
Flexible incentives
We're open to a range of commercial structures — equity-track, project-share, profit-share. Talk to us about what would actually motivate you.
Hero's-journey careers
We invest in skill swaps, sponsored training, conference attendance — including conferences that aren't in our industry. (Especially those.)
Richness that lasts
We measure a successful year in health, family, community and nation — not in chargeable hours. It's how we run the firm and it's a hiring criterion as much as a vision.
Hybrid Canberra-based
Anchored in Canberra for the client work. Flexible on how, when and where you do the rest.
A brand worth lending your name to
You should be proud to put us on your LinkedIn. We'll be proud to put you on ours.
Four conversations.
No homework.
We don't run a 9-stage interview gauntlet. Four conversations: one to meet, one where you walk us through a piece of your own work, one where we share a real problem and you talk through how you'd approach it, and one to talk commercials and culture. No take-home test. No timed case. No assessment-centre theatre.
The catch: there's a riddle hidden in this site that — if you answer it correctly in the subject line of your enquiry — skips you straight past conversation #1.
The riddle:
Who wins when everyone else falls over?
If you've read our six values you already know. If you haven't, good news — that's two minutes of reading and an early sign of whether the brand is for you.
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01 — Coffee
Thirty minutes. Talk about you, talk about us, decide whether to keep going. Crack the riddle and you skip this round.
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02 — Show us your work
Bring us a piece of work you're proud of — sanitised however you need to. Walk us through it like we're the client who hired you. We talk craft, decisions, the bits you wish you'd done differently.
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03 — Tackle ours
We share a real (sanitised) problem from a recent engagement. You tell us how you'd think about it. We argue, we disagree, we test what good thinking looks like under pressure.
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04 — Deal
Commercials, expectations, culture. We answer all your questions, you answer all of ours.
Think you might fit?
Let's find out.
Send us a short note — three paragraphs is plenty. Tell us what you do, what you're tired of, and what you'd do if nobody was watching.
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