People Partner

Brighte

People Partner overseeing employee relations, hiring, and performance duties in a fintech startup. Driving high-performance culture while leveraging AI in a fast-paced environment.

Posted 6/18/2026contractSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own Brighte's People practice as a hands-on individual contributor.
Advise and coach leaders through live issues in real time.
Bring clear recommendations on the matters that carry real weight.
Handle complex and sensitive 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 we will need 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years experience, with strong employee relations knowledge & practice.
Experience in high-growth, fast-paced environments, ideally fintech or startup.
The commercial nous and confidence to lead a lean practice as an individual contributor.
High emotional intelligence and a steady hand in ambiguity.
An AI mindset. You use AI tooling actively to do the work, not just operate alongside it.
Strong collaboration. You build trust easily and work well across the business, never in a silo.
Pace and a real appetite for learning. You move quickly, pick things up fast, and stay curious as the work changes around you.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

employee relationsperformance calibrationremuneration reviewhiringinterviewinggrievances handlinginvestigationsAI capability assessmentworkforce planningorganizational structuring

Soft Skills

empathypragmatismhigh emotional intelligencecollaborationtrust buildingadaptabilityjudgmentlearning agilityleadershipcommunication