Lead People Partner - Operations & Cx

Who we are

Employment Hero is on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Our Employment Operating System brings hiring, HR, payroll and benefits into an all-in-one solution.

Since our inception in 2014, we’ve scaled to a $2 billion valuation and gained a presence in 6 countries globally - Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK and Canada. We now service over 300,000 businesses and more than 2 million employees.

The EH Way

At Employment Hero, we’re proud of our unique DNA, which we call The EH Way.

This role

This role will be a key strategic partner to our leaders, enabling them to activate and amplify their people. You’ll be instrumental in driving a high-performance and high-productivity culture across your portfolio, bringing data-driven insights and a deep knowledge of best practice to activate our leaders. Your role will be pivotal in driving the commercial success of Employment Hero through:

• Providing world-class guidance to our senior leadership team, helping them to achieve their growth objectives at maximum velocity
• Advising on our organisational design, ensuring we’re optimised for success and set up to scale effectively
• Leading the charge on talent management and succession planning, guaranteeing that we’re enhancing leadership effectiveness
• Establishing and maintaining a high-performance culture throughout Employment Hero
• Amplifying the Employment Hero Way (Mission First, Remote First, AI First, Apolitical)
• Collaborating with Talent Acquisition, People Ops and Launch teams to design the right strategies and programs to amplify performance and effectiveness
• Understanding your portfolios business, metrics and deliverables to achieve success

As our Lead People Partner - Operations & CX, you’ll be responsible for:

Strategic alignment

• Collaborate with senior leaders to understand their objectives, challenges, and opportunities, and translate them into actionable people strategies that deliver our business goals, OKRs and BHAG.

Performance & growth

• Partner with leaders to drive and maintain a high-performance culture through effective performance management processes, goal setting and enhancement plans
• Amplify the commerciality and effectiveness of teams. We are seeking a highly commercial, performance focused business partner that can lead and activate improved performance across Operations and CX.

Talent management & organisational design

• Drive talent management initiatives, including workforce planning, succession planning, and leadership development, to ensure an internal pipeline of top talent to meet current and future business needs.

Employee engagement

• Develop and execute strategies to enhance employee engagement, retention, and satisfaction, ensuring that employees are motivated and aligned with the Employment Hero’s mission, principles and values.

Change management

• Lead change management efforts by providing guidance and expertise in change initiatives, helping leaders navigate transitions, and fostering a culture of resilience and adaptability.

Insights

• Use AI and HR analytics to provide actionable insights and recommendations to leaders, enabling data-driven decision-making in talent management and HR strategies.

Embedding our DNA & protecting what makes us special

• Actively embed our DNA from a team member’s first day right through until their last.

Who you are

To thrive at Employment Hero, you’ll need to embody The EH Way - operating with focus, agility, and an obsession with impact. For this role, you’ll also bring

• Proven success in aligning business goals to people strategies, to drive performance and effectiveness
• Experience in a people partnering role, ideally with large portfolios across multiple geographies
• Expertise in leveraging AI and HR analytics to provide actionable insights, optimise talent strategies, and support organisational design for global scalability
• Experience in workforce planning, succession management, and leadership development to build and sustain a strong internal talent pipeline
• Tech-savvy and experienced working with cross-functional teams, preferably in technology or product led companies

What we can offer

At Employment Hero, we don’t just talk about a better way to work - we live it. Joining Employment Hero means

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
• You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous parental leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities

We’re AI-first, so you may meet some of our AI tools early in the process. They help us cut the noise, surface great talent fast and make sure every candidate gets a fair, consistent experience.

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Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.