Cogent

Working with us, you'll be valued for your individuality and treated with openness, warmth and respect.

We love working here because our day-to-day is guided by our six core values: transparency, creativity, learning, personal wellbeing, diversity and usefulness. If you share our values — we'd love to chat.

The perks

As if collaborating with a bunch of smart, humble (but insanely talented) individuals wasn’t enough, you’ll be bringing ideas to life for some of Australia’s top companies and emerging startups.

To do this, every team member is given the freedom and tools to do their best work, both technically and personally. This means respecting and nurturing your wellbeing, development and happiness at every stage of your journey with us. These are just some of the ways we focus on our people.

Transparent Salaries:
We believe in total transparency, so have an open salaries model and profit share as mechanisms to share the successes of Cogent with everyone that’s a part of it.

Laptop Allowance:
Get a pre-tax allowance of $90/month ($1,080 per annum) on the house for you to put towards keeping your laptop up to date.

Communication Allowance:
Get a pre-tax allowance of $225/month ($2,700 per annum) to contribute to your phone and internet expenses.

Incubator:
Got a product or business idea you want to develop in work time? Pitch it to us and if we think you’re onto something, you’ll be able to allocate some of your time to growing it further.

Learning Budget:
We’re a group of never ending learners, so every year $500 is yours to spend on books, plus 5 days to simply learn… or read all your books.

Wellness:
Discounted gym membership is available to everyone, and when you’re at Cogent HQ there’s bike racks galore, showers, fresh fruit, and free weekly meditation sessions.

Parental Leave:
Expecting? Congratulations! As a primary carer you’re able to tap into 13 weeks’ paid leave at your normal salary, or 3 weeks’ paid leave for secondary carers.

Purchased Leave:
You get 4 weeks of annual leave a year, but if you need a little more time to sail around the Greek Islands or work on that side project, who are we to argue? You’re able to buy some extra time just because we get it.

Salary Sacrifice:
If you’d like to salary sacrifice your laptop, car or something else (that you’re legally allowed to), just let us know! Got a super fancy tax structure? We’ll be able to figure something out.

Support:
We’ve got Slack channels like #parenting and #mentalhealth to help each other out wherever we can, or access the fully supported Employee Assistance Program and counseling service to help you along life’s little hiccups.

Flexibility:
And we don’t just say it. Need to drop your kids at basketball? Want some zen time at a yoga class? We get it, encourage it and support it… and we’ll always get you home in time for dinner.