Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $1 billion. Our world-class software is the easiest way for small to medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We’ve grown 100% year on year since inception, and expanded globally in late 2020. We now service over 80,000 businesses and we will continue to grow rapidly in 2022 and beyond.
We believe in distributed employment and take a Remote First approach with our people. Employment Hero can hire across the globe, so long as candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable timezone to their colleagues. If you've got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!
About the Lead Data Scientist job
Employment Hero is continuing to innovate and grow, and have now opened a new opportunity for a Lead Data Scientist who can join us and be foundational in establishing a Data Science function.
As our Lead Data Scientist, you will leverage our wealth of data gained through our broad Human Resources and Employee Experience products, developing new Machine Learning (ML) models, building advanced analytics and insights, whilst growing and developing a team of data professionals.
You’ll have an impressive challenge ahead of you, where you’ll provide sophisticated insights and intelligence, including for commercial use cases to our sales, marketing and product teams on customer trends and opportunities, and also to inform and build products for our clients where we can continue to make employment easier for small and medium sized businesses around the world.
We’re moving fast, and often build the plane while flying, we’re looking for someone who isn’t afraid to start running from day 1.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
About your experience, skills and abilities:
Nice to haves but not essential:
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Why join Employment Hero?
* Raised $181M achieving unicorn status in February 2022
* LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2021, ranked #2 in Australia
* The Australian Top 100 Innovators List 2021
* Raised $140M Series E round led by Insight Partners July 2021
* Raised $45M Series D round led by Seek 2021
* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2020, ranked #42 in Australia
* LinkedIn Top 10 Startups 2020
* Raised $22M Series C Round led by Seek July 2019
* Raised $8 mill series B round led by Seek and OneVentures
* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019, ranked #20 in Australia
* GetApp Category Leader Q1 2019
* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2018, ranked #12 in Australia
* HRD Gold Medalist - Human Capital Management Systems 2018
* HRD Gold Medalist