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Employment Hero: what it sells, price and AI features

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

Updated . Launches and events from May 7, 2025 to 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.

Site
employmenthero.com
Category
HR suites and HRIS
Status
Active

On the research maps

  • The AI hiring software map

    "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.

    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.)

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    Employment Hero on the AI hiring software map

Launches and dated events, newest first

  1. Employment Hero launches Recruitment Agent Hub

    Launch, . 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). From the AI hiring software map.

  2. Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer

    Launch, . 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). From the AI hiring software map.

  3. Recruitment Agent adds AI Notetaker

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

    Source: Vendor blog (2026 product recap). From the AI hiring software map.

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

    Funding round, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.

  5. Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews

    Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.

  6. Employment Hero launches free AI hiring tool EH Hiring

    Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.

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Cite as: Newsprint, "Employment Hero: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/, updated 2026-11-11

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