# Employment Hero: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/
Covers: May 7, 2025 to September 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Employment Hero: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/, updated 2026-11-11

> Employment Hero is on the AI hiring software map. We record 6 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated September 2026.

"The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in." Employment Hero sells HR, payroll, rostering, benefits and an ATS to small and mid-sized businesses, mostly in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Southeast Asia, plus HeroForce EOR. Its hiring AI is SmartMatch, which ranks applicants and shows live shortlists from a pool of 2.5M+ jobseekers, and the AI Recruitment Agent, which writes job ads, scores applicants and runs first-round AI video interviews. It also sells HR and Payroll agents. Source: [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/)
- Category: HR suites and HRIS
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero)

"The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in." Employment Hero sells HR, payroll, rostering, benefits and an ATS to small and mid-sized businesses, mostly in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Southeast Asia, plus HeroForce EOR. Its hiring AI is SmartMatch, which ranks applicants and shows live shortlists from a pool of 2.5M+ jobseekers, and the AI Recruitment Agent, which writes job ads, scores applicants and runs first-round AI video interviews. It also sells HR and Payroll agents. Source: [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/).

- Category: HR suites and HRIS
- Price: Published (NZ page): standalone hiring Free plan with candidate scoring and 50 one-off AI video interviews; Pro tiers $199 (50 AI interviews) to $959 (300 AI interviews); Recruitment Agent included in the HR Engage plan ($13). Currency and billing period as printed on the NZ page.
- AI capabilities: Named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, Assistant, Job posts and ads, Screening and ranking, Interview notes and AI sourcing
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Vendor says it passed A$300 million ARR, growing above 30%, and supports more than 350,000 businesses (17 Feb 2026). Private.)

Sources: [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/), [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/about-us/), [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/products/recruitment-agent/), [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/nz/hiring-software-nz/), [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/), [employmenthero.com](https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/) and [4 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Employment Hero launches Recruitment Agent Hub

Launch, September 2026. The Recruitment Agent Hub "is a chat-based home base that builds job ads, sets criteria and surfaces salary and talent insights."

Source: [Vendor blog (2026 product recap)](https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

### Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer

Launch, July 2026. A free standalone Recruitment Agent "lets anyone sign up, create a job and send AI interview invitations with no sales call"; in August free AI video interviews began to "invite qualified candidates before a recruiter even opens their application."

Source: [Vendor blog (2026 product recap)](https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

### Recruitment Agent adds AI Notetaker

Launch, June 2026. AI Notetaker "transcribes and summarises Google Meet and Microsoft Teams interviews."

Source: [Vendor blog (2026 product recap)](https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

### SEEK Growth Fund starts sale of its Employment Hero stake as ARR passes A$300M

Funding round, Feb. 17, 2026. SEEK Investments said the SEEK Growth Fund began a process to sell its holding. Employment Hero said it passed A$300 million ARR and is "embedding agentic AI directly into complex, regulated employment workflows."

Source: [Vendor release](https://employmenthero.com/blog/at-a300m-arr-ai-powered-employment-hero-enters-next-phase-as-seek-growth-fund-launches-stake-sale). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

### Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews

Launch, Nov. 4, 2025. The Recruitment Agent "automates first-round, structured video interviews" and is "an AI-driven feature fully integrated into the Employment Hero platform that manages the entire first-round interview process."

Source: [Vendor blog](https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

### Employment Hero launches free AI hiring tool EH Hiring

Launch, May 7, 2025. EH Hiring is "a free (for now) AI-powered hiring tool that taps into Employment Hero's proprietary SmartMatch tech", giving employers "a curated shortlist of qualified candidates selected by AI" from about 1.5 million jobseekers.

Source: [eCommerceNews Australia](https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/ai-is-the-shortcut-from-vacant-role-to-hired). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology