π Dan Brockwell Email and Phone Number
π Hello humans! Dan here, trying to make a dent in the blue marble and have fun along the way :)I'm working on creating a career first-education systemHere's the journey so farπIn 2020, I started a newsletter called Earlywork to help 10 friends find tech & startup jobs, because I saw amazing roles that universities weren't teaching us aboutI teamed up with Jono & Mazz, and in 2021, we started Earlywork Village, Australia's largest community for early-career talent in tech & startupsWe saw a huge demand for tech sales talent, but not a single degree preparing people for these rolesSo in 2023, we launched Earlywork Academy, Australia's first tech sales bootcamp, where you only pay if you land a roleThen in 2024, we launched a completely free education program helping people land roles in business sales more broadlyWe've now had 300+ students start their sales careers with us, and many more to comeπ Curious to explore a career in sales for free? earlywork.coπ€ Want to meet other junior sales reps? earlywork.co/sales-clubποΈ Interested in hiring sales reps from our school? Message me :)πΌ Background: 5+ years' experience across product, community, operations, project management, sales, marketing, consulting and design in startups & leading tech companies like Atlassian, Amazon, Uber, Ofload, Deloitte Digital & IBM. Computer Science/Marketing graduate from UNSWπ Community Leadership: - Founded UNSW's first acapella group (UNSW Vocallective)- Founded r/ExplainMyDownvotes, a subreddit with 15K+ subscribers- President of UNSW's Social Soccer Society (doubling memberships)- VP Operations of pro-bono student-led consultancy BusinessOne Consulting UNSW (led pivot to become the university's only startup consultancy and led our first interstate expansion at the University of Melbourne)π Recognition:- TEDxSydney Youth Speaker 2023- The Australian Top 100 Innovators 2022 & 2023- LinkedIn Top Voices in Technology 2022- Featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Smart Companyπ¨ Vibes: Running, gyming, Singing, beatboxing, hip hop dancing, board games, pokerπ€ Problems I'm excited by: future of work, education, business ethics, renewable energy, plant-bassed products, sustainability, coliving, coworking, mental healthShoot me a connection request with a quick note on who you are, why you're reaching out, and what I can help with :)Requests without a message will be rejected unless you're my long-lost cousin from Brazil
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Co-Founder & Head Of SchoolEarlywork Sep 2020 - PresentChippendale, New South Wales, AuBuilding Australia's first sales school at earlywork.coπ Curious about a career in B2B sales? Shoot me a message :)πΌ Want to meet vetted, pre-trained sales talent from our school? Dittoπ€ Want to meet other SDRs and learn from top sales leaders for free? Apply to join Earlywork Sales Club: https://www.earlywork.co/sales-club𧑠Join the #1 free early-career tech community in APAC with 5000+ members, Earlywork Village: earlywork.co/communityπ° Stay up to date with major milestones in the Earlyjourney here: earlywork.substack.comWinner of Startup Dailyβs Best New Idea, twice named to The Australianβs Top 100 Innovators, and a finalist in the Finder Innovation awardsFeatured in the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, ABC, Smart Company, LinkedIn News Australia, and Startup DailyInvested in by Square Peg Capital, No Brand, Jelix Ventures & Archangel Ventures
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Chapter OneNext Chapter Oct 2024 - PresentSydney, AuSelected as a mentor for the next generation of founders & operators -
Founding InvestorUltraviolet Ventures 2022 - PresentSydney, New South Wales, AuFounding member and investor alongside a collective of rising founders, content creators & community builders, defining the next wave of angel investing.Invested in:- Vow (cultivated meat), co-invested with Square Peg & Blackbird- Sauce (product management SaaS), co-invested with AirTree & Blackbird- Index (enterprise B2B SaaS), co-invested with Y-Combinator- Open (mindfulness studio), co-invested with Founders Fund- TrueFoundry (ML deployments), co-invested with Sequoia India- Gridsight (energy analytics), followed on by AirTree- Sperospace (in-space satellite construction & repairs)Also scouting deals for AirTree Ventures & TEN13; notably, scouted product management SaaS startup Sauce for AirTree's investment in their first-ever funding round.If youβre an early-stage founder looking for an investor with targeted expertise in sales, marketing, product, community or hiring, slide in the DMs! π -
AdvisorNinetyeight Jan 2022 - Aug 2023Los Angeles, California, UsHelped the NinetyEight founding team with sales, marketing & strategyNinetyEight is on a mission to build the world's best community-centric Gen Z Marketing agency, and has worked with clients like Bumble, Pepsi, Paul Frank & Turo -
Associate Product ManagerAtlassian Jan 2021 - Feb 2022Sydney, Nsw, AuLed product for the Incident Management team within Jira Service Management, then Atlassian's fastest-growing productDrove a cross-product initiative across 5 product teams to combine the features of Jira issues and Opsgenie incidents into a unified incident objectWas selected to move into product for the newly-established Maturity team on Jira Work Management, but ultimately made the call to go all-in on Earlywork and make tackling the education-careers gap my life's workTools: Amplitude, Figma, Redash -
Operations AssociateOfload (Previously Loadsmile) May 2020 - Oct 2020Sydney, New South Wales, Au30% of trucks in Australia run with empty loads. It's time to change that.Ofload (previously Loadsmile) is a digital logistics platform for road freight backed by Rocket Internet, Europe's leading startup studio, and Maersk Growth, the venture arm of the world's largest ocean freight company. We connect carriers with some of the biggest shippers in Australia, in order to reduce waste and increase transparency in a historically inefficient market.I joined as Employee #10, working across operations, product, marketing, analytics, recruiting, legal, and whatever else it takes to get there πLeft after university to pursue product management as a career path, but a tough choice!Tools: SQL, HTML, CSS, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Redash -
Project ManagementAmazon Jan 2020 - Apr 2020Seattle, Wa, UsLed a project to enhance and optimise the pre-ordering process for Media products (Video Games, DVDs, Books, Music) across Australia through automation and reporting. Worked with stakeholders across vendor management, marketing, logistics, delivery and customer experience.- Developed forecasting model to predict unreleased video game sales in Australia, increasing forecast accuracy by 38%. - Launched semi-automated marketing campaigns on the Amazon.com.au homepage with 1.7M impressions and 2.69% CTR (on par with manual campaign average). - Built dashboards using automated SQL queries to track overall and item-level pre-order performance.Tools: SQL, Excel (including VBA/Macros) -
Account ExecutiveUber Jun 2019 - Dec 2019San Francisco, California, UsWorked within the UberEats SMB Sales team to build partnerships with restaurants in the New Zealand market (Wellington & Christchurch territory).- Achieved 120% of restaurant acquisition target in Q4 2019, generating US$130,000 in under 6 months.- Spearheaded creation of New Zealand competitor repository.- Developed Salesforce dashboard to track key sales metrics for team of 15 account executives.- Created 'Easy Wins' playbook to document restaurant profiles with a higher sales conversion rate and mechanisms to find these restaurants.Tools: Salesforce, Google Sheets -
Product & MarketingSnack Education Feb 2019 - Jul 2019Sydney, Nsw, AuLed user research, market analysis, and sales funnel design for an early-stage edtech startup I worked on with some mates. We built a product to create and share bite-sized digital whiteboard learning videos online.Failed, but had fun and learned a lot! -
Ux DesignSocial Impact Hub Jul 2018 - May 2019Sydney, Nsw, AuWordPress development and UX design contract for the Impact Investing Hub within the Social Impact Hub. Created the web format for the first comprehensive Australian guide to impact investing over 5 weeks, reaching 2000 users in the first month of launching.Subsequently involved in ad-hoc tweaks, optimisations and updates.Tools: WordPress, HTML, CSS, Figma, Mailchimp, Canva, Yoast -
Marketing TutorUnsw Feb 2018 - May 2018Sydney, New South Wales (Nsw), AuTeaching revision sessions available to a cohort of 900+ students in MARK1012 - Marketing Fundamentals, after previously coming 1st/873 students with a mark of 95 -
Ux DesignDeloitte Digital Jan 2018 - Feb 2018Usa, UsSummer internship program with Deloitte Digital as a UX consultant across several products for an ASX50 financial services company. Subsequently received graduate offer.- Designed and presented mock-ups for new features and processes for a financial advice product.- Developed user flow documentation and diagrams for a superannuation tool.- Drafted timeline for user testing programme.Tools: Figma, Zeplin, Canva, Jira, Confluence -
MarketingIbm Aug 2017 - Jan 2018Armonk, New York, Ny, UsI was employed as a full-time marketer in IBM's Global Business Services consulting division for 6 months, after being awarded an internship through the UNSW Co-Op Program (Information Systems stream). Key areas of focus:- Co-ordinating a strategic plan across A/NZ for internal promotion of the C-Suite Study (the worldβs largest study of company executives), with my poster campaign utilised across IBM offices in Australia and New Zealand. Doubled the number of interviews completed (a 108% increase from 12 to 25) in the final 3.5 months of the study- Generating 130+ social media posts on thought leadership for senior employees as well as providing tailored LinkedIn advisory services (15 1-on-1 sessions completed).- Redeveloping the Digital Strategy and User Experience consulting website across Australia, including creating 9 client case studies.- Assisting senior consulting professionals with industry research and slide deck development.Beyond my role, I also participated in a number of additional programs to maximise my learning experience. I have completed a Design Thinking Practitioner Certification, undertaken mentoring with IBM Australia's Chief Digital Officer Kylie McLean and was awarded 1st Place in IBM's Ignite Public Speaking Competition.Tools: LinkedIn, Twitter, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPress, HTML, CSS -
MarketingTayble Feb 2017 - Jul 2017Bondi Junction, New South Wales, AuTayble is an Australian startup, whose order processing app sends restaurant orders directly to the kitchen through the PoS system and processes cashless payments. When I first discovered Tayble, they had no job listing for interns, but I was sold on the idea and wanted to help push it further. I participated in their pre-launch referral competition to win free meals, and through cross-platform link posting in a variety of relevant groups, I was able to shoot up to the 8th highest spot out of over 3000 entrants in 48 hours. Upon a cold reach-out to the CMO Chris McCarney (who I am proud to now call a mentor), I told him of my efforts and expressed interest in working with the company as a student intern.Coming in as Tayble's first ever intern, amidst the pre-launch and launch period of the app, my role included:Β- Developing systems for the operation of SEO and CRM tools by virtual assistants in the Asia-Pacific, notably setting up the automation of a company social media page with 7k likes.- Copywriting on the subject of SMM and hospitality marketing trends, compounded by leading the development of a cross-platform promotional strategy for this content. Created the Hospitality Automation Technology LinkedIn group and the Tayble LinkedIn page.Tools: WordPress, Yoast, Canva, Facebook, LinkedIn -
Growth (Acquired By Airbnb)Tilt.Com Nov 2016 - Jan 2017San Francisco, Ca, UsIn this diverse sales and marketing role, having been selected as 1 of 2 interns from ~100 ambassadors, I was responsible for 3 key areas until our acquisition by Airbnb:- Assisted in managing and redeveloping the Tilt ambassador program of 200 student ambassadors across 10 universities, with duties extending to the organisation of education and marketing events as well as social media management for the ambassador group. Notably developed and helped run a skills-based workshop on entrepreneurship for ambassadors.- Refining partnership acquisition strategy, notably including the production of Tilt Australia's Partnerships slide deck which was used to sign deals with major societies including FMAA, UNSW BSoc and UNSW LawSoc.- Researching, developing and co-ordinating cross-platform marketing initiatives for the nationwide rollout of P2P payments, with 4 of my pre-launch blog posts notably published on Tilt's International Company Blog.Tools: Google Sheets, Google Slides, Canva, Facebook -
AmbassadorTilt.Com Jun 2016 - Jan 2017San Francisco, Ca, UsLooking back, I first discovered Tilt at 3am in a Rome hotel amidst travels in Europe with close friends from high school, plagued by an inability to track lending between one another. My decision to join the Tilt Ambassador Group at UNSW upon starting university, culminating in being selected for a Summer Growth Internship, was one that triggered a paradigm shift in how I viewed the pursuit of a meaningful career.As an ambassador with the UNSW team, Tilt's largest ambassador team in the country, my responsibilities included:- Assisting in identifying student societies and organisations to develop partnerships with Tilt.- Liaising with fellow ambassadors to develop promotion and referral strategies.
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Academic TutorFirst Education Aug 2016 - Dec 2016Maroubra, New South Wales, AuDuring my first year of university, worked as a 1-on-1 academic tutor for HSC English and Biology with First Education, compounded by private tutoring work I had sourced through Gumtree and highschooltutors.com advertisements I had created.Responsibilities include:- Co-ordinating and running 1-2 hour lessons with individual students- Maintaining Excel sheets for student information, assessment schedule and lesson reviews- Assigning and marking homework tasks- Liaising with parents to relay student progress and gather suggestions for tutoring direction -
Mathematics And English TutorKumon Australia & New Zealand Aug 2012 - Mar 2016Chatswood, Nsw, AuStarted work when I was 14. Never have I dealt with so many pieces of paper since.What I did:- Provided one-on-one assistance in Mathematics and English for K-12 students.- Systematically filed and organised over 1000 different types of worksheets.- Maintained performance and participation record books for students, involving marking of work.- Delivered tailored feedback to parents on students' progress and offered customer support for queries about the Kumon system . -
Work Experience (Market Research)Atlassian Aug 2013 - Aug 2013Sydney, Nsw, AuThe place where my interest in software was first ignited. I worked in the Bamboo product team for 1 week as part of a work experience program. Key accomplishments:- Created, edited and sent out a product evaluation survey to over 900 companies using tools such as SurveyMonkey and MailChimp.- Analysed and presented findings in a report to Bamboo team members.- Developed elementary Python programming skills.
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π Dan Brockwell works for Earlywork
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π Dan Brockwell's current role is Co-Founder & Head of School @ Earlywork | Australia's Leading Sales School | Sales Hiring & Training | LinkedIn Top Voice in Technology | Ex-cited πββοΈπ²π€.
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π Dan Brockwell attended Unsw, University Of Virginia, Emanuel School.
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π Dan Brockwell has skills like Leadership, Customer Experience, Writing, Powerpoint, Social Media, Git, Public Speaking, Sales, User Experience, Community, Academic Tutoring, Memes.
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