People Partner - Technology

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.

1. We are Mission First - everything we do (from what we work on, to how we allocate capital and where we focus) is driven by our Mission

2. We are Remote First - we champion a remote environment with a preference for asynchronous communication and a high degree of autonomy

3. We are AI First - we are committed to using AI to accelerate our mission AI is not just a tool, it's a fundamental part of how we operate, innovate, and scale

4. We are Apolitical - we do not take a position on political or social topics, unless it relates to our Mission

5. We Live by Our Values - we role model our values 100% of the time

6. We Expect High Performance - we set a high standard and we're not satisfied with being average

What your days might look like

The People Partners mission is to be a 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.

our role will be pivotal in driving the commercial success of Employment Hero through:

• Providing product-led guidance to Product & Engineering leaders, enabling execution at maximum velocity.

• Contributing to the People Team's strategic priorities as a member of the Performance Ops Team.

• Advising on organisational design, ensuring we're optimised for success and set up to scale effectively.

• Supporting talent management and succession planning to enhance leadership effectiveness.

• Helping establish and maintain a high performance culture across Product & Engineering, aligned to EH expectations and Product Ways of Working.

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

Strategic Partnering

• Act as a trusted partner to Product & Engineering leaders, supporting how teams scale, perform, and deliver.

• Partner on organisational design decisions that directly support Product strategy. Constructively challenge leaders 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.

• Coach Product & Engineering leaders on how to role model the EH Way through their decisions, communication, and trade-offs.

Performance, Growth and Delivery

• Partner 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.

• Contribute to talent management initiatives, including workforce planning, succession planning, talent assessment, and leadership development.

• Support the design of talent and performance practices that enable continuous delivery, fast iteration, and outcome-based execution.

Embedding our DNA

• Design people practices that prioritise speed, ruthless prioritisation, and ownership.

• Coach leaders to balance rapid execution with clarity, fairness, and sustainability.

• Hold leaders accountable for behaviours that undermine collaboration, humility, or one-team outcomes.

• Ensure recognition, progression, and feedback reinforce how results are achieved, not just what is delivered.

Engagement & Insights

• Support leaders in 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.

• Experiment with emerging AI tools to reduce manual overhead and enable workforce decisions 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:

• Experience aligning business goals to people strategies to drive performance and effectiveness.

• A background in people partnering, ideally across portfolios spanning multiple geographies.

• Comfort leveraging AI and HR analytics to provide actionable insights and support organisational design.

• Experience contributing to workforce planning, succession management, and leadership development.

• 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 leaders.