Graduate Product Owner

About Employment Hero

Employment Hero is building a platform designed to simplify work and make employment more rewarding for everyone. Its Employment Operating System combines hiring, HR, payroll, and benefits into a single solution. Founded in 2014, the company has grown to a $2 billion valuation and now operates across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, the UK, and Canada. It supports more than 350,000 businesses and over 2 million employees.

The EH Way

The company describes its culture as The EH Way, shaped by the following principles:

• Mission First: priorities, investment, and focus are guided by the mission.
• Remote First: the team works in a remote setup with strong autonomy and a preference for async communication.
• AI First: artificial intelligence is treated as a core part of how the company operates, builds, and scales.
• Apolitical: the organization stays neutral on political and social topics unless directly tied to its mission.
• Values-led: employees are expected to model the company values consistently.
• High Performance: the standard is ambitious, and average output is not the goal.

Role Overview

This entry-level Graduate Product Owner role is suited to a recent graduate who wants to grow in product development while learning from an experienced, driven product team. The position focuses on solving customer problems and helping deliver a strong product experience.

What You'll Do

• Handle support issues escalated to the product team by reproducing the issue, working through possible fixes, and confirming solutions with the relevant product leaders.
• Create product solutions for customer problems using core product management practices.
• Work closely with the development squad to build and release your work.
• Prepare Product Requirements Documents (PRDs).
• Support testing activities to validate the quality of the solution.
• Contribute to go-to-market planning by helping internal teams understand how to sell, support, and promote new features and improvements.
• Carry out UX research such as competitor reviews, customer interviews, and customer surveys.
• Assist with UX design work including wireframes, low-fidelity prototypes, and use of design systems.
• Build and maintain user story maps.

Who This Role Suits

You should be a recent graduate with a background in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or Design. The ideal candidate is customer-focused, adaptable, efficient, enthusiastic about solving problems, and motivated to build a career in product development.

What the Company Offers

• Remote work with flexibility to manage your own time and output.
• Access to modern tools that support productivity, learning, and delivery.
• A collaborative environment with ambitious, results-oriented colleagues.
• Employee share options in a fast-growing global technology company.
• Benefits including a generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing, a work-from-home office expense budget, and strong learning and development support.

Additional Information

The company uses AI tools early in the hiring process to help reduce noise, identify strong candidates, and keep the experience fair and consistent. Candidate identity and location are verified as part of recruitment. The company also states that it protects applicant data privacy through its Applicant Privacy Policy. Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds and identities.