We are a tiny team in Auckland building the dating app that reads the room. If you want real, hands-on work on a live product, the chance to learn fast, and a front-row seat as we launch, there is room for you here.
Right now DateSmarter is independent and self-funded. While we are at this early stage of the startup, every role is unpaid, and we treat it as a volunteer position.
You get hands-on mentorship from the founders who build the product, real experience at the front edge of AI and dating, and your name on something from day one.
A chance to build without the layers, the politics and the endless sign-offs. You help shape a real product from the ground up, try the ideas a bigger company would never let you try, and work with the latest AI tools without anyone slowing you down.
Lead DateSmarter's brand voice and marketing direction, and make the content that carries it. You will shape how a whole country first meets the product, from the big idea down to the short-form video that stops the scroll.
Turn real app footage into scroll-stopping reels. You take what we shoot and our app screens and cut short, punchy promos that make people feel the product in fifteen seconds, the kind people actually finish watching.
Grow a real audience from zero, before we launch. You run our channels day to day, plan the posts, ride the trends, talk to the community, and shape the voice people meet us through every day.
Build on a real, live cross-platform app alongside a senior engineer who ships production software at scale for a living. Pick up real-world mobile, backend or AI-integration work, mentored properly, not thrown in the deep end.
Turn what happens inside the app into numbers the team can trust. You instrument the moments that matter, model the data cleanly, and build the dashboard the founders check every day.
Design real features people actually use, inside a living design system. You take an idea to interface in Figma, every state, not just the happy path, and refine it alongside the engineers who ship it.
Doing a work-integrated learning placement, or after course credit? Get real work on a live product, proper mentorship, and something genuinely cool to show for it. We work with Ara and other institutes to make placements count.
Not busywork. You work on things that ship to real users on a live product, and you see the impact.
You learn directly from the two people who built and run DateSmarter, hands-on and close.
Fit it around study or work. We care about what you make, not the hours you clock.
Not sure which fits? Tell us what you love doing and we will find the right way in.