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About the Role

The Head of People Experience ANZ is a strategic, innovative, and human-centered leader responsible for designing and delivering exceptional employee experiences across the ANZ region. This role redefines how people experience work, ensuring every touchpoint reflects the company's culture, values, and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The role champions progressive people practices to foster engagement, belonging, and growth, enabling teams to thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment. It also leads Learning & Development and Workplace Experience teams to create a future-ready workforce and inspiring work environments.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver a holistic employee experience aligned with global and local people and business strategies.
Drive engagement, inclusion, and performance by leading enterprise initiatives.
Enhance employee lifecycle experiences, embed human-centered design, and leverage technology and data for personalization and scale.
Act as a strategic advisor and change leader.
Ensure workforce capability, culture, and systems enable growth and transformation.
Bring global best practices to life in ANZ, transforming strategies into meaningful, connected experiences for employees.

Requirements

Significant experience in People & Culture, including leadership across Employee Experience, L&D, and/or DE&I.
Proven ability to design and implement human-centered, inclusive strategies at scale.
Strong background in change leadership, program delivery, and data-driven decision-making.
Comfort with HR technology.
Excitement for AI-enabled employee experiences.

Location

Australia
New Zealand

Work Type

Full-time
Flexible
Hybrid
Remote (up to 6 weeks per year globally)

Experience Level

Significant experience

Benefits

Comprehensive Wholeself program supporting physical, mindful, and financial wellbeing.
Creative, lively, and rewarding office environment.
Publicis Liberté flexibility approach ('working your way with us').
Access to Global AI Platform Marcel for career mobility and global collaboration.
Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including over 15,000 learning programs via Marcel Classes.
Culture of open feedback and support through Career Conversations program.
Committed Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion strategy driven through Viva Women, Égalité, enABLE, EmbRACE, and Écologique committees.
Birthday Leave.
Flexible Public Holidays.
Additional 5 days of leave after 2 years of service.
Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks based on tenure, paid primary carer leave, secondary carer swap, and Cub Care leave.
Access to counsellors, psychologists, and professionals through Sonder, a digital wellbeing technology platform.
Workplace that provides a more open, supportive, and recovery-forward culture for all employees with life-threatening illnesses (Working With Cancer Pledge).

About the Company

World leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, driven by data, creativity, media, and technology.
Connected platform of companies and capabilities, uniting people in a collaborative way of thinking and working.
Offers clients seamless access to the expertise of 110,000+ talents across 100+ countries globally.
Marketing capabilities across Australia & New Zealand include creative, media, digital, and PR agencies.
Publicis Sapient drives digital business transformation for clients.
Recipient of Australia/New Zealand CSR Achievement of the Year – Gold 2025.
Winner of Asia-Pacific Best Place to Work (Network) – 2025 and 2024.
Australian Business Awards - Employer of Choice 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
HR Awards Excellence Awardee - Employer of Choice 2022.
Certified family friendly workplace.
AWEI Silver Accreditation 2025.

Equal Opportunity

Encourages applications from all candidates, focusing on values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity.
Committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation.
Believes diverse people reflect diverse communities and deliver the best client solutions.
Values diversity and the skills, knowledge, and experience that difference brings to culture and solutions.
Committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those requiring additional support throughout the application process.