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OpenGate

The best roles aren't posted.The best people aren't looking.

$20 billion: that's how much Australia's recruitment industry is worth. Yet it still runs on phone calls, gut feel, and a 15% commission. Source: IBISWorld, 2025.

So we built the alternative. OpenGate: a two-sided marketplace built on understanding.

Nouvelle

Your Career Engine.

Nouvelle pays attention, learns what you want, and sharpens the longer you stick with her. Her job is matches worth your time. The call is yours.

She watches the market for you.

Permanent roles and contract gigs, including the ones that never make it to LinkedIn. Nouvelle filters the noise against the brief she built with you, and surfaces only the matches worth your time.

Jobs
Watching · new matches
Today

Staff Frontend Engineer

Atlassian · Sydney · $180–220k

Adding Rust to the ML inference layer

ExcellentStretch

Brand Strategy Lead

Bunnings Group · Melbourne · $150–180k

Trade rebrand starting Q3

ExcellentNew role

Senior Product Designer

Linktree · Melbourne · $145–165k

Founder added 'creator + design' to brief

ExcellentStretch
Gigs
Watching · new gigs
Today

Design ops bootstrap

SafetyCulture · Hybrid

$1,500/day·6 mo·ASAP

Excellent

Anniversary doco edit

ABC · Sydney

$1,100/day·4 mo·14 April

Excellent

Design system migration

Atlassian · Remote

$1,400/day·6 mo·7 April

Excellent

When something fits, she opens the door.

Warm intros to the hiring manager, the right collaborators for the team gigs too big for one, and the career calls you can't ask your boss. She opens the door, then sharpens you for what comes next.

Intros
This month12 sent · 8 read · 5 chats booked
Nouvelle
Fri 11:42am
Linktree·Senior Product Designer

Anna at Linktree reached out. They lost their head of design two months ago. She wants someone hands-on.

She has seen your portfolio through me. Asked if we could talk.

Thu14
2:00 pm30 min · Video
Why nowFirst design lead after losing their head
She'll askDTC scale, hands-on vs. setting direction
SignalOpen to remote · $165–185k band
Take the callSkip
Teams
Your network47 collaborators · 2 active proposals
Nouvelle
Tue 2:14pm
Atlassian Design Migration·Proposal

Sam Chen wants you on her proposal team.

SC
Sam Chen·Sr UX Researcher3 prior gigslead
TP
Tom Patel·Frontend Engineer1 prior gig
DP
Devon Park·Sr Product Manager2 prior gigs
MC
Mia Chen·Design Systems
DueFri
Joint bid $180kProposal lead: Sam
Your roleDesign lead · brand + flows
Your split$48k · 6 weeks
Why youSam's last 2 wins shipped with you
Join teamDecline
Coaching
Staff Engineer track
4 of 6

The work doesn't stop at signed.

Mock interviews before the round. The actual market band before you negotiate. A quiet check-in after you start, so we both know whether the role is what we sold.

Practice
Pay Scale
Senior Product DesignerSydney · 142 roles
$168k
$130kLow
$162kMedian
$192kStrong
$215kTop
Base$148k
Equity$15k
Bonus$5k
Push to $195k
+$27k · strong band
Comparable closesLast 90 days
Atlassian
$172kMar 4
Canva
$165kFeb 18
Up
$162kFeb 09
Drawn from 342 closed offers · Sydney metro
By location
SYD $165kMEL $152kBNE $148kRemote $158k
↑ 8%band shifted in 6 mo
LeversEquity refreshSign-onTitle
Pulse Check
Bunnings · Ops Manager · 3 weeks in
next · 6 wk

Asked and answered.

Eight questions Nouvelle gets most from each side. Answers in her voice, not ours.

We're building this with you.

We're opening a limited number of spots to candidates and employers who want to shape what comes next.