Company profile
Employment Hero AI recruiting features, agents and launches
employmenthero.com · HR suites and HRIS
The short answer
The map puts Employment Hero in HR suites and HRIS, from its own headline, "The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in" [1]. Its core hiring stages are Source, Screen and Hire [2]. Since May 2025 the map dates 6 events for Employment Hero, 5 of them product launches [2]. The latest launch is "Employment Hero launches Recruitment Agent Hub", dated September 2026 [3].
| Employment Hero | |
|---|---|
| Category | HR suites and HRIS [1] |
| Core stages | Source, Screen and Hire [2] |
| Partial stages | Interview and Report [2] |
| AI capabilities sold | Named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, Assistant, Job posts and ads, Screening and ranking, Interview notes, AI sourcing [2] |
| Agent or always-on launches since May 2025 | 2 [2] |
| Scale | Tier 2, established. Vendor says it passed A$300 million ARR, growing above 30%, and supports more than 350,000 businesses (17 Feb 2026). Private. [2] |
| Price on record | 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. [2] |
| Site | https://employmenthero.com/ |
What Employment Hero sells
“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. [1][2][4][5][6][7][8]
Its AI. The AI Recruitment Agent is a “24/7 recruitment partner that sources candidates, conducts first-round interviews”: it drafts the job ad and rubric, scores and ranks applicants, runs AI screening calls and AI video interviews, and since June 2026 has an AI Notetaker for Meet and Teams interviews. SmartMatch ranks applicants and shows live candidate shortlists; Hero AI is the employee and manager assistant, with a Payroll Agent and HR Agent. [2]
The AI capabilities it sells today, as the map reads its site: named agents, AI interviews, AI analytics, assistant, job posts and ads, screening and ranking, interview notes and AI sourcing [2].
Where Employment Hero fits in hiring
Core means the product is built on that stage of hiring. Partial means the stage is there but secondary. Not found means the map did not find it on Employment Hero’s own site.
| Stage | Employment Hero | What the stage covers |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Core | Find and attract candidates: sourcing, job ads, career sites, CRM, outreach. |
| Screen | Core | Decide who moves on: resume review, matching, chat screening, AI interviews, assessments. |
| Interview | Partial | Run the interviews: scheduling, interview intelligence, notes, scorecards. |
| Hire | Core | Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records. |
| Report | Partial | Report on hiring and the workforce: recruiting analytics, people analytics, workforce planning. |
The map’s fit note: Vendor hiring pages do not mention hourly, trades, manufacturing or technical hiring; SMB focus in Australia, NZ, UK and Asia. Rostering exists but is not a hiring tool. [2]
Every dated event since May 2025
The map dates 6 events for Employment Hero, newest first [2]. Each links to the page that prints its date.
- September 2026. Employment Hero launches Recruitment Agent Hub. The Recruitment Agent Hub “is a chat-based home base that builds job ads, sets criteria and surfaces salary and talent insights.” Assistive, live. [3]
- July 2026. Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer. 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.” Agent, live. [3]
- June 2026. Recruitment Agent adds AI Notetaker. AI Notetaker “transcribes and summarises Google Meet and Microsoft Teams interviews.” Assistive, live. [3]
- Feb. 17, 2026. Funding. SEEK Growth Fund starts sale of its Employment Hero stake as ARR passes A$300M. SEEK Investments said the SEEK Growth Fund began a process to sell its holding. [9]
- Nov. 4, 2025. Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews. 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.” Agent, live. [10]
- May 7, 2025. Employment Hero launches free AI hiring tool EH Hiring. 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. Assistive, live. [11]
Scale and ownership
The map puts Employment Hero in scale tier 2, established. Its basis is this: Vendor says it passed A$300 million ARR, growing above 30%, and supports more than 350,000 businesses (17 Feb 2026). Private. [2]
The last round it records: Series F, AUD 263M, 2023-10-23 (total over AUD 650M; USD not stated). [8]
On the map
Employment Hero is one of 21 companies in HR suites and HRIS on the AI hiring software map [2]. The company profiles list every company on the map with a profile.
Alternatives: Employment Hero alternatives.
What this profile does not cover
Not flagged for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring
The map flags a company for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring only when its own pages say so. Employment Hero's pages did not, as the map read them.
Events before May 2025
The map dates events from May 2025 on. Earlier launches and deals are not on this page.
We did not test the product
This profile is built from Employment Hero's own pages and dated announcements, as recorded on the map. We did not use or test the product.
Questions people ask
What does Employment Hero sell?
The map puts Employment Hero in HR suites and HRIS [1]. "The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in." [2]
Has Employment Hero launched an AI agent?
Yes. The map labels 2 agent or always-on launches from Employment Hero since May 2025 [2]. The latest is "Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer", dated July 2026 [3].
How big is Employment Hero?
The map puts Employment Hero in scale tier 2, established. Vendor says it passed A$300 million ARR, growing above 30%, and supports more than 350,000 businesses (17 Feb 2026). Private. [2]
Does Employment Hero publish its prices?
Yes, at least in part, as the map records it. Its price note: 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. [2]
Which companies are comparable to Employment Hero?
On the map, other companies in HR suites and HRIS with profiles include Workday, Dayforce and SAP SuccessFactors. Side-by-side pages: https://www.newsprint.com/alternatives/employment-hero/.
Sources
- employmenthero.com. employmenthero.com. Read .
- Employment Hero on the AI hiring software map. Newsprint. Read .
- Recruitment Agent adds AI Notetaker. Vendor blog (2026 product recap). Read .
- employmenthero.com/about-us. employmenthero.com. Read .
- employmenthero.com/products/recruitment-agent. employmenthero.com. Read .
- employmenthero.com/nz/hiring-software-nz. employmenthero.com. Read .
- employmenthero.com/blog/new-ats-recruitment-features. employmenthero.com. Read .
- employmenthero.com/blog/series-f-raises-263-million. employmenthero.com. Read .
- SEEK Growth Fund starts sale of its Employment Hero stake as ARR passes A$300M. Vendor release. Read .
- Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews. Vendor blog. Read .
- Employment Hero launches free AI hiring tool EH Hiring. eCommerceNews Australia. Read .