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KingKong

People & Culture Manager

KingKong

People & Culture Manager leading all HR functions in a vibrant digital marketing agency. Coaching management, maintaining HR systems, and enhancing talent engagement.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeMelbourne • 🇦🇺 AustraliaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the people function at King Kong, a fast-growing digital marketing agency.
  • Coach the management team on difficult conversations, feedback, and career pathways.
  • Own the full people function, including recruitment, employee relations, onboarding, and performance management.
  • Develop structured coaching and training programs for managers.
  • Maintain and improve HR systems and documentation, ensuring they are accessible and updated.
  • Actively recruit top-tier talent through various channels, not just job postings.
  • Provide reporting and feedback on HR strategies and initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management or similar.
  • Minimum 4 years HR experience, with at least 1-2 years operating autonomously across the full HR lifecycle.
  • Experience in Recruitment.
  • Demonstrated experience coaching or directly managing other people leaders, including the credibility to challenge them when needed.
  • Exceptional communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to influence key stakeholders.
  • Working knowledge of legal requirements pertaining to employee relations, including being across relevant codes and standard practice.
  • Confidence in conducting and coaching managers through employee lifecycle conversations - and the resilience to hold the line when needed.
  • Solution-focused mentality.
  • Unparalleled organisation and time management skills.
  • Comfortable owning fortnightly payroll reporting to an external payroll provider - with the attention to detail to ensure every change to staffing, salary, and leave is captured accurately and lands in the right pay cycle.
  • Pragmatic and commercial - finds the right-sized solution to protect the business without adding unnecessary process.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced environment and tech industry is a PLUS.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Extensive training and full support - we take training very seriously and will provide you with the industry's very best training, giving you the knowledge and confidence needed for greatness.
  • Generous salary - we want Australia's best talent and reward as such.
  • Newly renovated headquarters in South Yarra (just off Chapel St.), close to cafes and public transport.
  • Driven and vibrant team of the country's most switched on digital marketers and growth experts (who actually walk the walk).
  • Amazing growth prospects and upward mobility, build an empire within our fine progressive company.
  • **We move at a lightning pace! **Only successful candidates will be contacted. If you haven't been invited via email to complete an interview kit within 5 business days after submitting your application, unfortunately you haven't been successful this time around!
  • ****Disclaimer:**** If you're not a total badass then there is literally no point in applying for this role. We're only looking for 'the best of the best', and already employ a full stable of the most hard-working, loud-laughing and sharp-minded individuals for our team. And as you'll be the gateway to our tribe, we're only looking for someone who matches the same levels of passion and 'bad-assery' as we do!*

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Hard Skills & Tools
HR systemsrecruitmentemployee relationsonboardingperformance managementcoachingtraining programspayroll reportinglegal requirementsHR lifecycle
Soft Skills
communicationrelationship buildinginfluencesolution-focused mentalityorganisationtime managementresiliencecredibilitycoachingautonomy
Certifications
Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management