Lead People Partner - Technology

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.

What your days might look like

The Lead People Partners mission is to be a 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 pragmatic advice to activate our leaders. Your role will be pivotal in driving the commercial success of Employment Hero through:

• Providing world-class, product-led guidance to senior Product & Engineering leaders, enabling execution at maximum velocity
• Serve as a senior leader in the Performance Ops Team, contributing to the strategic direction and evolution of the People Team’s strategic priorities.
• 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 across Product & Engineering, aligned to EH expectations and Product Ways of Working
• Amplifying the Employment Hero Way (Mission First, Remote First, AI First, Apolitical)
• Collaborating with Talent Acquisition, People Ops and Product Operations to design lean, fit-for-purpose people systems that amplify Product & Engineering performance
• Understanding your portfolios business, metrics and deliverables to achieve success

As our Lead People Partner - Technology you’ll be responsible for:

Strategic Partnering

• Act as a trusted operating partner to the CPTO and Product & Engineering leaders, shaping how teams scale, perform, and deliver
• Partner on organisational design decisions that directly support Product strategy
• Challenge leaders constructively on structure and people challenges in alignment with Product Ways of Working
• Support leaders to make fast, high-quality people decisions in line with EH’s Mission-First and High-Performance culture
• Actively coach Product & Engineering leaders on how to role model the EH Way through their decisions, communication, and trade-offs

Performance, Growth and Delivery

• Partnering with leaders to drive and sustain high performance through clear expectations, effective performance management, and timely intervention
• Use data, insight, and judgment to identify performance bottlenecks, capability gaps, or structural constraints
• Support leaders to run clear, direct, and timely performance conversations aligned to EH’s high-performance expectations
• Drive talent management initiatives, including workforce planning, succession planning, talent assessment, and leadership development, to ensure an internal pipeline of top talent to meet current and future business needs.
• Designing talent and performance practices that support continuous delivery, fast iteration, and outcome-based execution

Embedding our DNA

• Designing people practices that prioritise speed, ruthless prioritisation, and ownership.
• Coaching leaders to balance rapid execution with clarity, fairness, and sustainability
• Holding leaders accountable for behaviours that undermine collaboration, humility, or one-team outcomes
• Ensuring recognition, progression, and feedback reinforce how results are achieved, not just what is delivered

Engagement & Insights

• Enable leaders by addressing engagement, retention, and burnout risks through analytics, prioritisation, and effective performance management
• Reinforce async-first, remote-first ways of working, improving focus, autonomy, inclusion, and execution quality across regions
• Use AI and people analytics to surface actionable insights, identify emerging performance or capacity risks, and inform workforce and leadership decisions
• Continuously experiment with emerging AI tools to reduce manual overhead and and enable workforce decisions are made at scale

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
• Strong commercial and systems thinking; able to connect people decisions to product delivery and business outcomes
• Comfortable operating with incomplete information, making judgment calls at speed, and constructively challenging senior leaders

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.