Ironbark Holdings— The Australian Holding Company

Careers

Help build a real business. Train to be its CEO.

We run the businesses we acquire and hire experienced working professionals to join our team and help build them. We identify people with the potential to be great CEOs, train them to be the best they can be, and unleash them within our companies as long-term leaders.

Introduce yourself

Who this is for

  • You are an experienced working professional who has carried real responsibility and wants to help build a business, not just run a function of one.
  • You have the potential to be a great CEO and would rather learn by doing inside a real business than spend years in a consulting or banking pyramid.
  • You want to be trained to be the best you can be, then unleashed as a long-term leader inside a company you help shape.
  • You are comfortable on a factory floor at 6am and in a board pack the same night.

What you get

Meaningful equity

You get a real ownership stake in the business you help build, alongside the company option plan every employee participates in.

Path to CEO

You join our team inside a business we run, learn the operations end-to-end, and are trained to become its future CEO.

Permanent backing

No fund clock forcing a sale at year five, and no pressure to hit a number that damages the business to make it.

Apprenticeship, not abandonment

Weekly access to principals who have operated and acquired businesses, plus a peer group of other Ironbark leaders.

The hiring path

  1. 01

    Introductory call

    Thirty minutes on your background and the kind of business you want to help build.

  2. 02

    Operating deep-dive

    We work through a real business problem together and talk through your track record.

  3. 03

    Time in the field

    You spend two days inside a business we own, with the team you will help build.

  4. 04

    Offer and equity terms

    Compensation, equity and a clear plan for your first twelve months.

No open role listed? Write to us anyway.

We meet future CEOs long before the business they will help lead is under contract. The best introductions are early ones.

Read our values first