Versed Studio (Versed) builds creative systems for ecommerce and DTC brands. We make the ads, the product films and the store content, and we build the system the brand keeps using after we've finished. All of that work starts with research.

The work Before anyone writes a brief, someone has to understand the brand properly. What the category looks like right now, what the competitors are shipping, what's been done to death, where the valuable reference points are, what their customer responds to. You'd own that.

Day to day Pull apart what a brand's competitors are running, and work out what's holding up

Build the reference set for each project: film, photography, editorial, packaging, whatever the job needs

Find the visual and cultural reference points a concept can be built on

Track what's changing in AI creative and what brands are doing with it





Write it up so it's usable the moment a project starts Who this suits You're curious before you're anything else. You read a lot, you save a lot, and you've probably got a folder of references you've never shown anyone. You can tell a good reference from a pretty one, and you can say why. You write clearly, because most of what you make here is written. You don't need to have worked in advertising. If you've done real research somewhere else and you care about design and film, that carries over.

Practical

Around 20-30 hours a week, ongoing, contract.

Remote within Australia, or hybrid if you're in Melbourne.

$30-45 AUD per hour, depending on experience. Versed is still very young. You're joining early on, and there's plenty of room to grow.

📌 Creative Researcher, Brand & Culture (Melbourne)
🏢 Versed
📍 Melbourne