Lead People Partner - Technology - Remote

Our mission and where you fit in At Employment Hero, we’re an ambitious bunch of people on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. Since our inception in 2014, we've had some pretty impressive growth (100% YoY), reached unicorn status in 2022, and now serve 400,000 businesses globally, with 2.9 million+ users on the platform. We have no plans to slow down. There’s never been a more exciting time to join one of the fastest-growing SaaS unicorns, so let’s see if we could be a match! 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

What you will 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

Experience is important, but for us the biggest measure of success is people who can live and breathe The EH Way of working. Show us what you can bring to the table, and we’ll empower you to let your talents shine. The EH Way The EH Way is how we describe our culture at Employment Hero and how we all operate. It is our DNA. You can read all about it on our careers page: https://employmenthero.com/careers/ In short, you’ll love working with us if:

• Revolutionising employment gets your heart racing.
• You thrive on the flexibility (and responsibility) of a remote-first business.
• Our values align, and shape how you show up every day.
• You love the dynamic pace of a startup, are driven by innovation, and enjoy working with other smart people.

Plus, you’ll get to enjoy a number of great perks, including:

• A generous budget for your home office.
• Cutting-edge tools and technology.
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded.
• Cashback offers and discounts on popular brands through our app.
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero.
• Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Dubai and are excited to meet in the Gold Coast 2026.

Are we a match? Think we're the right match for you? Fantastic! Click 'Apply' and our talent team will reach out with the next steps. At Employment Hero, we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your application data. To understand how we do so, you can read our Applicant Privacy Policy here: https://employmenthero.com/legals/applicant-policy/ Employment Hero celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences, we invite people of all backgrounds and identities to apply for this position.