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About the Role

As our People Partner, you will own Brighte's People practice as a hands-on individual contributor, delivering across employee relations, hiring, performance, and remuneration. This senior practitioner role requires you to lead, advise, and execute, leveraging AI tooling for efficiency and impact. You will be the go-to person for leaders facing complex challenges, bringing clear thinking and a steady hand to difficult situations while maintaining a fast pace and a curiosity for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Advise and coach leaders through live issues in real time.
• Bring clear recommendations on matters that carry real weight.
• Handle complex and sensitive employee relations cases with empathy and pragmatism.
• Work towards outcomes that stand on genuine, defensible footing and stay rooted in our values.
• Lead grievances and investigations, with external legal support on high-risk matters.
• Own hiring from brief to offer, including interviewing.
• Use AI tools to take out the legwork, keeping your focus on judgment, candidate experience and getting the right people in.
• Assess AI capability in every hire.
• Support and drive a high-performance culture that lifts organisational productivity.
• Lead performance calibration across the business.
• Run the annual remuneration review, linking reward to contribution and holding the team to our Raise the Bar standard.
• Shape how Brighte is structured and how roles are built.
• Plan for the workforce needed as the business evolves, keeping the org a step ahead with the right shape and the right roles.
• Guide Brighte through change and make it land.
• Bring a clear, steady plan that takes people with you and keeps the business moving, whether that is new ways of working or a new leader joining.

Requirements

• Exceptional critical thinking skills.
• Sound judgment that balances empathy and pragmatism.
• An AI mindset, actively using AI tooling to perform work.
• Pace and a strong appetite for learning; move quickly and pick things up fast.
• Stay curious as the work changes.
• Strong collaboration skills; build trust easily and work well across the business.
• 8+ years of experience.
• Strong employee relations knowledge and practice.
• Experience in high-growth, fast-paced environments, ideally fintech or startup.
• Commercial nous and confidence to lead a lean practice as an individual contributor.
• High emotional intelligence and a steady hand in ambiguity.

Skills

• Employee relations
• Hiring
• Performance management
• Remuneration
• Critical thinking
• AI tooling
• Collaboration
• Emotional intelligence
• Change management
• Organisation design
• Role design

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Maximum term contract
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior practitioner
• 8+ years experience

About the Company

• Our mission is to make sustainability affordable and accessible for everyone by offering financial solutions to homeowners, making renewable energy and home improvements more accessible to the everyday Aussie.
• Between Nov 2016 and Feb 2022, Brighte facilitated the installation of solar systems for over 110,000 households.
• Currently, 1700 GWh are generated by customers each year, saving over 1 million metric tons of C02 emissions annually.
• Our founder and CEO, Katherine McConnell, was awarded Telstra Business Woman of the Year in 2020 and won the Sustainability Crusader award at B&T's 2023 Women Leading Tech Awards.
• The business has been awarded AFR Sustainability Leader in the Banking and Finance category and won the inaugural Sustainability Award at the Affies.
• We value different perspectives, skills, and backgrounds and have been recognized for our strength in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, winning Best Workplace Diversity (Finnies 2021).
• Named LinkedIn’s #10 Top Australian Start Up (2021).
• Investors include Airtree Ventures, Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Investments, Kim Jackson and Scott Farquhar’s Skip Capital, and Qualgro Partners.

Equal Opportunity

• We value different perspectives, skills and backgrounds and have been recognised for our strength in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, winning Best Workplace Diversity (Finnies 2021).