People Partner [Contract]

Brighter Together

Our mission is the make sustainability affordable and accessible for everyone.

By offering financial solutions to homeowners, we’re making renewable energy and home improvements more accessible to the everyday Aussie.

Between Nov 2016 and Feb 2022, Brighte has facilitated the installation of solar systems for over 110,000 households. Currently we have 1700 GWh generated by our customers each year which is saving 1 million + metric tons on C02 emissions per year!

Our founder and CEO, Katherine McConnell, has been awarded Telstra Business Woman of the year in 2020 as well as winning the Sustainability Crusader award at B&T's 2023 Women Leading Tech Awards. She is a passionate and humble leader who has a human first approach to business. As a business we have 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 recognised for our strength in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, winning Best Workplace Diversity (Finnies 2021).

The Role

This is a maximum term contract until April 2027, and a genuine chance to make your mark.

As our People Partner, you own Brighte's People practice as a hands-on individual contributor. You deliver across the full remit: employee relations, hiring, performance and remuneration. This is a senior practitioner role, not a manager. You lead, advise and execute, with AI tooling giving you the leverage to work at the top of your scope.

You are the person leaders come to when something is hard. You bring clear thinking and a steady hand to the complex stuff, and the pace and curiosity to keep raising the bar on how the work gets done.

The Ideal Candidate

You are exceptional at critical thinking. You apply sound judgment that straddles empathy and pragmatism, knowing when to lean into the human and when to make the commercial call.

You Also Bring

• An AI mindset. You use AI tooling actively to do the work, not just operate alongside it.
• Pace and a real appetite for learning. You move quickly, pick things up fast, and stay curious as the work changes around you.
• Strong collaboration. You build trust easily and work well across the business, never in a silo.
• 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.

Ownership Areas

The People practice

• Advise and coach leaders through live issues in real time.
• Bring clear recommendations on the matters that carry real weight.

Employee relations

• 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.

Bringing in the best people

• 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.

Performance and remuneration

• 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.

Organisation and role design

• 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.

Change management

• 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.

Named LinkedIn’s #10 Top Australian Start Up (2021), we know we wouldn’t be anywhere without our investors, who believe in our mission and the opportunities that lie ahead for a brighter future.

Airtree Ventures, Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Investments, Kim Jackson and Scott Farquhar’s Skip Capital, and Qualgro Partners all continue to support Brighte in making this dream a reality!

If you want to join this mission-driven, inclusive, and highly collaborative team, click apply and upload your resume! All applicants will receive a response.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.