People and Culture Partner

About the role

Founded in 2016, Overdose. is a team of 150+ people across APAC, with offices in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. We work in a partnership format with a select group of clients looking for innovation and accelerated growth in a competitive digital landscape.

Overdose. connects unique local talent, entrepreneurial thinking, and global expertise to help merchants grow through aligned digital services for sustained business success. We call this Complete Commerce.

We prioritise creating a safe and supportive space where our team members can foster value-based relationships with our clients and partners. This environment forms the foundation of our collaborative efforts, propelling us to think bigger and challenge the status quo.

The Opportunity

As our People & Culture Partner, you’ll be the person Overdose’s managers call first. You’ll coach them through performance, conduct and complex people decisions, lead employee relations across Australia and New Zealand, and own recruitment for our CY27 hiring plan. You’ll report to the Chief People Officer and work closely on the people side of our AI transformation.

Overdose is an AI-first commerce agency growing in a changing market. Our managers are capable and move fast. This role gives them a trusted partner to pressure-test decisions, support hard conversations and keep our people supported as the business changes. It’s a hands-on role. Hiring demand will rise and fall so you’ll balance recruitment, ER, manager support and change work, and use AI so more of P&C’s time goes to judgement and relationships. If you know the fundamentals of good people practice and are just as comfortable questioning how things are done, you’ll help shape how P&C works in an AI-enabled business.

What you’ll do

What matters most is demonstrated capability, sound judgement and learning agility, more than years in role or industry background. If you’ve led tricky ER matters, run great hiring and used AI to change how HR work gets done, we’d love to hear from you.

You will probably have:

• Around three years in a P&C Partner, HRBP or senior generalist role, or equivalent capability.
• Experience leading complex Australian ER matters independently, and knowing when to bring in specialist advice.
• Experience running end to end recruitment, including senior and specialist hires.
• Experience supporting organisational change, including formal consultation.
• Daily use of AI tools in your work, and experience helping introduce AI workflows or automation for routine HR or operational work, with proper human oversight and privacy controls in place.
• Confidence coaching managers and challenging them constructively.
• The ability to produce HR reporting and analytics that leaders actually use.
• Clear writing and speaking, including on sensitive or complex issues, and discretion with confidential information.

What you’ll bring

• Manager coaching and partnering: Coach managers through feedback, performance, development and difficult conversations, support the performance cycle, and challenge decisions that create avoidable risk.
• Employee relations and people risk: Lead complex matters end to end across AU and NZ, from investigations and grievances to performance concerns and exits, with risk calibrated advice, clear records and early escalation of anything material to the CPO.
• Recruitment and talent acquisition: Own hiring for approved roles across AU and NZ employees and SEA contractors, from scoping to onboarding handover, with structured selection, an AI fluency exercise in every hire and sourcing pipelines that make OD visible as an employer.
• AI transformation and P&C automation: Support the CPO on the people side of the shift to an AI enabled business, and introduce AI workflows across P&C, measuring the time saved and the quality gained.
• Policy, governance and reporting: Keep the people policy framework current and compliant across AU, NZ and contractor locations, and produce the people reports leaders use to make decisions, working with the P&C Coordinator on HiBob and Deel data.

What’s included

We work by design, not by default. A select client model means the work is deliberate, the relationships are real, and your impact is measurable.

Being AI-native is not a positioning line. It shapes how every person here delivers. You will have the tools to move fast and a team that builds with AI every day.

We are serious about people. A safe, supportive environment shapes how we work, grow and lead. Real ownership. Direct access to leadership. A team worth showing up for.

The role perks and benefits:

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Two Wellness days per year.
• Additional day of leave to celebrate your birthday.
• Annual training allowance.
• Access to globally recognised courses and programs.
• Parental Leave support that goes beyond the standard.

If this feels like the kind of work you’d like to do, we’d love to hear from you. Share a piece of work you’re proud of, what impact it had, and how you used AI to help you do it. That’s what matters most to us.

Overdose is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process.