About HR Partner
For the small team managing a growing, multi-location workforce, HR Partner handles the admin so you can make a bigger impact with your people.
OUR VISION
The foundation that helps small and mighty HR teams shine.
HR is one of the most important jobs in any company, and one of the most underestimated. The people we work with don't just manage paperwork. They build culture, support managers, hire great team members, navigate difficult conversations, and help create workplaces where people can do their best work.
Our role is simple: build software that gives them the confidence to do theirs. That means creating a platform that's powerful enough to grow with a business, simple enough to enjoy using every day, and flexible enough to fit the way modern teams actually work.
When HR shines, the whole company does.
Our Story
HR Partner began in Darwin, Australia, with a simple belief: growing businesses deserve HR software built specifically for them.
At the time, teams with 20 to 500 employees were often stuck between expensive enterprise platforms and a collection of spreadsheets, documents and disconnected tools.
Neither reflected the way small and growing businesses actually worked. So our founder built HR Partner. He wrote the first version himself, and almost ten years later, he still writes code today.
Since then, the team’s grown and we've continued to build the platform around one goal: making HR simpler without sacrificing capability.
Today HR Partner helps businesses around the world manage recruitment, onboarding, employee records, leave, performance, compliance and much more - all from one connected platform.
Founded in Darwin, Australia
Still founder-led, with the original founder actively building the product.
10+ Years of HR Software
Focused exclusively on helping growing businesses manage their people.
Trusted Around the World
Used by teams in more than 30 countries.
Built for Growing Businesses
Purpose-built for companies with 20–500 employees.
Customer Recognition
Named by G2 as one of Australia and New Zealand's Top 50 software products 2026.
Human Support
Friendly, experienced support from people who understand HR (because they’ve done it).
Created by People Who Understand Small Business
Devan founded HR Partner after consulting for small and medium businesses on their accounting and HR needs, building the first version as an installed program before rebuilding it as an online app to scale worldwide. He still loves talking with business owners about why they started, how they've grown, and what's holding them back, then building the tools that help.
Devan is based in Australia, and outside of work you'll usually find him writing and recording music with his sons, or out exploring new restaurants and cafes.
Fiona has spent nearly her entire career helping small and medium businesses grow, driven by a belief that they're the heart of the economy. She co-founded Australia's leading online reviews site (since acquired), and later partnered with Devan after instantly recognizing the value HR Partner could offer small teams.
Fiona spent seven years living in France and is now based in Australia, where she enjoys time with her two teenagers, training her (very naughty) puppy, and hiking whenever she can.
Who We Are Built For
HR Partner is designed for teams with 20 to 500 employees.
Some of our customers have dedicated HR departments. Others are founders, operations managers or office managers juggling HR alongside everything else. Whatever your title, you deserve software that's straightforward, reliable and built around the way smaller teams actually work.
Many of our customers operate across multiple offices, remote teams or different countries. HR Partner is designed to keep everyone connected, wherever work happens.
We're particularly popular with organizations in healthcare, technology and the non-profit sector, but we work with businesses across almost every industry. And we're comfortable saying when we're not the right fit. If you need built-in payroll, shift rostering, enterprise workflow engines or employee surveillance tools, we'll happily point you in another direction.
HOW WE'RE DIFFERENT
We Put HEART Into Everything We Do
Everything we build is guided by five principles.
Human First
Technology should support people, not replace them.
Behind HR Partner is a real team who genuinely care about helping our customers succeed. We use AI thoughtfully where it saves time, but people always come first.
Easy to Use
Powerful software doesn't have to feel complicated.
We hide the complexity behind an interface that's intuitive, clean and easy to navigate, so you can spend less time learning software and more time supporting your people.
All of HR
Recruitment. Onboarding. Employee records. Leave. Performance. Forms. eSignatures. Expense claims. Employee self-service.
Everything works together in one connected platform.
Runs Everywhere
Modern teams don't all work from the same office.
Whether your workforce is on-site, hybrid, remote or spread across multiple countries, HR Partner works wherever your people do.
Trust That’s Earned
Trust isn't something we ask for.
It's why we're transparent about pricing, don't lock customers into long contracts, and focus on building software people genuinely want to keep using.
OUR VALUES
STAR Is How We Work
The way we build HR Partner matters just as much as the software itself.
Smart
We focus on solving the right problems and finding simpler ways to help our customers.
Teamwork
We support one another and work together to deliver the best outcomes.
Authentic
We're approachable, honest and transparent in everything we do.
Reliable
We do what we say we'll do, and we're there when our customers need us.
More Than Just HR Software
Our Approach to AI
We believe AI should make HR more efficient, not less human. That's why we built Ada.
She helps with repetitive tasks like drafting communications, creating forms, writing job descriptions and supporting candidate screening, while leaving every important decision exactly where it belongs: with people.
Ada is entirely optional. If AI isn't right for your team, HR Partner works without it.
Supporting the HR Community
HR Partner is used by more than individual businesses.
Our Partner Program helps HR consultants manage multiple clients from one platform, making it easier to deliver consistent HR systems and advice.
We're also proud to support non-profit organizations through our dedicated program, helping those that do important work access professional HR software.
Support from people who get HR
Whenever you contact HR Partner, you're talking to someone who understands HR because they've done it themselves.
Our Customer Success team have implemented HR systems, managed recruitment, navigated leave and supported growing businesses.
So we don't just know the software. We understand the work and the challenges because we've been there too.
Ready to See HR Partner?
Whether you're replacing spreadsheets, moving on from another HR system or setting up HR processes for the first time, we'd love to show you around.
Start your free trial or book a custom demo and see how HR Partner can help your team spend less time on admin and more time supporting your people.
