Chief People Officer in Melbourne

We’re big believers in the power of IRL, so for most roles we ask Campers to work from their local Culture Amp office an average of 2 days a week to unlock connection, pace and culture together. Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams.

Why this role, and why now

Our Chief People Officer is moving on after three and a half years. They leave behind a People Experience function that works well: predictable delivery, a capable team, a high bar on senior hiring, and a seat at the table that has been earned and respected. If you want a CPO role where the function is broken and the mandate is to fix it, this isn't it. If you want one where the function is strong and the question is what a leader can do with that platform, keep reading.

The uncomfortable and energising fact about working here: our customers are HR leaders. What we do internally isn’t separate from what we sell. Our own practices are watched, asked about, and sometimes bought. It’s an incredible opportunity to innovate and create the future of work.

Two things worth being upfront about; applications are visible only to our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams, never to our customer-facing teams. And, being a customer earns you no advantage and no disadvantage. We'll run the same process, set the same bar, and have the same people assessing you.

What you'll own

• Run People Experience (PX) well: This is a critical part of the job and the thing that has to be true before anything else matters. You’ll own a strong and coherent function that delivers its cycles well and on time: performance, engagement, compensation, talent acquisition, capability, compliance across four countries.
• Be credible in the market and with customers: Our customers are your peers. That is a commercial asset, and we want you to use it. You’ll speak at our global events and in the market, join customer conversations, and support Sales and Customer Experience.
• Lead on AI, personally: The incumbent Chief People Officer leads AI internally; both the technology itself, and the ways of working that are actively being shaped across that.
• Influence the product: You’ll be leading our internal efforts as Customer Zero: where we are our own first and (sometimes toughest) customer.

What we’re looking for:

• You've led a people function at scale in a global, multi-country business, ideally through a period of significant change.
• You build teams strong enough to make you unnecessary in the operational detail.
• You have judgement about organisations that people seek out: structure, senior talent, when to intervene and when not to.
• You're personally very capable with AI.
• You have a view about the future of work that is yours, and you can credibly defend it in front of an audience of HR leaders.
• You're willing to be deployed commercially: joining customer calls, taking the hard practitioner questions Sales can't answer, and speaking at our events.
• You've ideally worked in tech or SaaS, which helps with the pace and with the R&D relationship.

Perks & Benefits

At Culture Amp, our people are at the heart of our success. We offer competitive pay and a total rewards package designed to support you at work and in life. This includes: Equity through our Employee Share Option Program, Learning programs and coaching, Quarterly refresh days, inclusive parental leave from day one, and a MacBook.