Head of Growth
Halter
Sales & Business Development
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on Jul 16, 2025
We are searching for a curious and driven Head of Growth to manage Halter’s international growth. This is a hands-on, high impact role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, can transition seamlessly from strategy into execution, and will never shy away from a challenge.
This is a rare opportunity to own strategic initiatives end-to-end—from leading market discovery, through to pilot and proof of concepts and setting up new teams for commercial scale. Roles like this don’t come along often - we are a high growth company, with big ambitions and the people and product to match. Sound like a bit of you?
You’ll be excited by future potential, motivated by problem solving, and feel right at home leading on ambitious strategies. When the pressure is on, you’ll be someone who wants to be in the game, getting right into execution and inspiring high performance from the rest of the team. You’ll find yourself moving between desk research, travelling to meet farmers and ranchers on the ground, and driving alignment and understanding across Halter. You’ll work closely with teams across the business, providing clarity and ensuring prioritisation. You’ll be masterful at quickly understanding new markets and opportunities, building trusting relationships, and creating excitement across the Halter team.
Aside from driving commercial growth, you will be making a real-world impact, making farming more productive and sustainable. You will build relationships across influential farming and industry leaders while working closely with senior leaders within Halter.
Who are we looking for
- 6+ years in strategy, corporate development, or management consulting, ideally with some experience in operational or commercial execution.
- Proven ability to take ideas from concept to implementation, especially in new or undefined market spaces.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to work with incomplete information and still create clarity and path forward.
- Excellent communicator—clear, persuasive, and comfortable engaging at all levels of the organization.
- Highly self-motivated and comfortable working independently without direct reports or a large team. A natural curiosity and willingness to explore, test, and iterate.
- Experience in a startup, high-growth company, or new venture environment.
- Exposure to international markets or cross-cultural market entry.
- Background in agriculture or SaaS.
Nice to Have
What your day could look like
- Lead Halter's international growth. You’ll identify, scope and conduct deep market research into new international markets. You’ll interview producers, research market trends, analyse financial and non-financial data, and generate insights and actionable recommendations for the business.
- Lead the discovery and evolution from market identification, to market validation, to pilot and proof of concepts, right through to establishing new companies and recruiting resources to scale those markets.
- You’ll spend time in new markets, setting up and leading the initial team and helping to ensure consistency as we transition from initial entry to having an established team. You can expect to be travelling at least once a quarter, and at times being based in new markets.
- In time, you will also scout other significant growth opportunities. You will act as a bridge to the rest of Halter as we pursue these growth opportunities. You’ll mobilise and lead cross-functional teams of leads and experts to unlock new markets and to pursue opportunities. Collaborate with key functions such as product teams, sales and marketing.
- You'll be involved with Halter’s highest priority strategic projects and growth opportunities. You’ll pitch in to solve big, ambiguous challenges facing our team. Build relationships and collaborate with senior industry leaders and key parties externally in New Zealand and in overseas markets.
- Other tasks from time to time.
Why our team love Halter
- Every now and again a company comes along that disrupts and transforms an entire industry, leaving society in a better place. Few people get the opportunity to work at companies like these. Halter is an incredible technology transforming an essential industry. We have a genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
- Our product changes the lives of our customers, directly improving their livelihoods and their lifestyle. Your work matters.
- Dedicate yourself to solving real-world problems alongside an epic team in a high-growth culture. The excitement, risk and reward of a high-growth technology scale-up on the global stage. Our ideas are truly valued, we are able to move fast, and our impact is real.
- Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
- Healthy body, healthy mind. We’re partnered with Medibank Health Insurance to support your well-being.
- We offer 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave and many other parental benefits that support you and your family.
- Our personal growth is important. Halter offers an annual $1000 self-development budget to be used for anything that fuels personal growth.
- Our time to recharge is valued, we’re offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
- Importantly, we offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.
About Halter
- At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
- To find out more, visit our careers website, LinkedIn & Instagram.
Join our team
- Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
- Please also feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
