[Hiring] People Partner @Employment Hero

Role Description

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 leaders across your portfolio, helping them 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).
• Collaborating with Talent Acquisition, People Ops and Launch teams to design the right strategies and programs to amplify performance and effectiveness.
• Understanding your portfolio’s business, metrics and deliverables to achieve success.
• Navigating Canada-specific employment legislation and market practice to ensure our people strategies are locally compliant and competitive.

Qualifications

• Experience aligning business goals to people strategies to drive performance and effectiveness.
• A strong background in people partnering, ideally across multiple functions or business units.
• Solid working knowledge of Canadian (and ideally provincial) employment law and HR compliance requirements.
• Comfort leveraging AI and HR analytics to provide actionable insights and support organisational design.
• Experience contributing to workforce planning, succession management, and leadership development.
• Strong commercial and systems thinking to connect people decisions to business outcomes, with comfort operating with incomplete information and making judgment calls at speed.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with leaders across diverse functions.

Requirements

• Strategic alignment: Collaborate with leaders across your portfolio 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.
• 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 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.
• Local compliance & market practice: Act as the go-to expert on Canadian employment standards, provincial legislation, and market norms, ensuring our policies and practices remain compliant and locally relevant.
• Partner with People Ops and legal/compliance stakeholders to manage employee relations matters in line with Canadian regulations.
• Embedding our DNA & protecting what makes us special: Actively embed our DNA from a team member’s first day right through until their last.

Benefits

• Work in a remote-first environment, giving you the autonomy to do your best work while delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Be trusted to own your work, make decisions, and have a real impact from day one.
• Access cutting-edge AI tools and technology that help you move faster, think bigger, and amplify your expertise.
• Surround yourself with ambitious, high-performing teammates who will challenge, support and inspire you to do the best work of your career.
• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including a home office allowance, and outstanding learning and development opportunities to support your growth.
• Connect with colleagues from around the world at our Annual Global Gathering.