Platform First

Global Brands, Products & Services

Leadership

our vision

Bringing complementary strengths across strategy, creative, tech and delivery, we have a bond that lives beyond the studio and drives our vision. We are thinkers, makers and innovators fuelled by our passion for connected experiences. We’re energised by change and how it can help businesses forge new paths forward.

our strategy

In the right hands, design and technology can be a force for positive change, and this conviction drives us forward. Nightjar was created by three friends with a desire to do things better. The process, the work, and the enjoyment of both.

Christine Sultana

Christine manages expectations and delivery of all Nightjar projects and ensures the smooth running of the ship. She moves fast (and breaks things), but always has time to listen, evaluate and improve. She prides herself on managing engaged and high-performing teams who are crucial to the success of the business, and is a champion of process to achieve optimum outcomes.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Bonnie MacTavish

With a background in psychology and gender studies, user research is where Bonnie finds the insights that matter to develop digital strategies with humans at the heart. Her grumpiest attribute is her griffon Graeme... Nightjar’s fourth founding member, and not-always-so-silent partner.

HEAD OF EXPERIENCE STRATEGY

Ahmed Meer

Bringing magic and polish to everything he touches, Ahmed is forever raising the bar and ensuring that Nightjar continually builds their partner’s businesses through future-facing technology solutions. Ahmed started his career in educational software, and continues to school us.

HEAD OF DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY

Mark Veyret (FAMI, CA ANZ, AICD)

Mark was appointed in December 2020 as the Chair of Nightjar’s newly established Advisory Board, designed to advise the Founders on an accelerated growth path for the business. Mark is a global leader in scaling up businesses, their brands, the owners and their leadership teams. His market focus is on advising smart services businesses, emerging tech players and high growth knowledge based businesses. Mark has held leadership roles at the Australian, Asia-Pacific and global level including as the Global BD Leader for Entrepreneurial and Private Businesses at PwC, National Marketing & Sales Leader at EY, CMO for Westpac’s corporate, institutional and international operations and has held COO and CMO leadership roles in a number of different service industries.

Chair

Margaret Manning (OBE)

Margaret joined the Nightjar Advisory Board in December 2020, as a proponent of agile business principles to achieve successful digital transformation. She has been involved with technical innovation and creativity since 1996, when she founded Reading Room which became one of the UK’s largest digital agencies with offices across the UK, ASEAN and Australia. After the sale of the UK business in October 2015, she led a management buy-in for the Asia-Pacific business, rebranded as Adelphi Digital and sold to EY in 2018. Margaret was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to exports to the Asia-Pacific region. Margaret served as the Chair of the UK-ASEAN Business Council (UKABC.org.uk) She has won numerous accolades for entrepreneurship, female leadership in technology and for innovation.

Advisor

Expertise

Nightjar is a collection of experts, carefully selected for their dedication to their craft. We think in systems, building strategies and engineering them with agility, speed and precision.

Be it brand systems, design systems, or technology stacks, Nightjar define the strategy and create digital products that scale.

Strategy

Product strategyBrand naming & strategyData strategyService designCustomer experience strategyResearch & analysisUser testingBusiness intelligencePost-launch optimisation

Design

Visual identityBrand systemsInformation architectureRapid prototypingUser experience designUser interface designDesign systems

Technology

Technical consultingFull stack developmentApp developmentPlatform integrationeCommerceShopify Plus & BigCommerce EnterpriseAPI & CMS developmentCloud infrastructure & dev-opsVoice & chat interfacesMachine learningIOT productsAR & mixed-reality

Content

Content strategyArt directionEditorial & copywritingVideo directionMotionIllustrationSocial3D

Industries

01Arts & CultureSecret 7"
02EngineeringDecor Systems
03Food & BeverageDiscovered Wildfoods, Sonoma
04Health & WellnessQueen Garnet, myBrainCo.
05HospitalityEVENT Hospitality & Entertainment, Pernod Ricard
06InitiativesWomen for Change, Batting for Change, Never Not International Women's Day
07LegalHicksons
08Not for profitReachOut, Lifeline, ALNF, Two Good Co.
09PublishingSneaker Freaker, Manuela Food & Travel
10RetailTHE ICONIC, Armadillo, Redsbaby
11TechnologyRipePlanet, ilume
12TelecommunicationsOptus
13Travel & TourismDestination NSW
14Venture & StartupElevation Capital, Flip, The Merrier, Infinite Water, Lumachain

Process

Immersion

A deep dive into the problem definition, we invest time up front in research and stakeholder engagement to ensure everyone is on the same page. Agreeing on the desired future state of your product or business, we uncover opportunities.

Architecture

User journeys and rapid prototyping helps us imagine the entire connected experience, and test it in the real world. From human computer interaction to human machine interaction, Nightjar architect solutions for now, and the future.

Design

We design brand systems to thrive in a digital-first realm. Our process embraces today’s culture of speed and disruption, but we never forget there’s humans at the heart of it all. Inclusive, accessible and emotive - our design philosophy is to engage, and make life that little bit friendlier.

Engineering

A proven tech stack, tight integrations, strict security protocols and rigorous testing characterise a Nightjar build. Our API driven, headless approach sets the foundation for whatever the future holds.