Job Description

Our Company

Zerra develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses across Australia, Japan and India, delivering capacity at scale into markets driven by the growth of cloud and AI. Our flexible campus developments support hyperscale and neocloud organisations, enabling some of the world’s fastest-scaling technology businesses to grow with certainty and ambition.

At Zerra, we empower exceptional people to challenge convention, drive innovation and make a real impact in digital infrastructure. Our culture fuses entrepreneurial agility with global expertise, enabling our teams to deliver results that matter.

We believe that diverse perspectives, inclusive leadership and equitable opportunities are essential to building stronger teams and better outcomes. We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels respected, supported and empowered to thrive.

Zerra is part of AGP, an independently owned investor and asset manager that develops and operates real assets across the energy, digital and real estate sectors.

Experience, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
• 5-8 years of relevant HR operations experience in a multi-country environment, including payroll management with outsourced providers across more than three Asia-Pacific markets, including Singapore and Australia.
• Proven experience building HR automation or AI-assisted workflows yourself, with sensible controls on data and human review.
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills, with excellent attention to detail and a strong control mindset.
• Working knowledge of Singapore employment law and statutory payroll requirements, ideally with exposure to other Asia-Pacific markets.
• Hands-on HRIS experience, with strong data and reporting skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, with senior leaders and external partners such as payroll providers and advisers.
• High level of discretion in handling confidential employee and compensation information.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and changing priorities, this is a fast-moving environment and plans change.

Job Description

Zerra DC is building its HR function from the ground up, and this is a founding role in a lean, AI-native HR team. You’ll own HR operations across Asia-Pacific, including Singapore, Australia, India and Japan. The level, Asst Manager or Manager, depends on your experience.

This is not an administrative or operations role. It’s a builder’s role. In a small team, capacity comes from systems rather than headcount, so your priority is automation and AI: owning the automation roadmap for HR operations and building the workflows that run on it. Payroll, the employee lifecycle, HR systems and compliance are where that automation starts, along with a key project to set up and migrate our payroll systems.

You’ll act as a practical builder, working with a high degree of independence and ownership. You won’t be handed a task list each morning, and you’ll look for ways to remove manual work rather than add to it.

Responsibilities

• Automate and build with AI. Own the automation roadmap for HR operations, starting with offer, onboarding and payroll workflows. Map processes end to end, automate them in our HR systems and Microsoft 365, and build AI-assisted tools, such as a policy Q&A assistant, with human review built in.
• Lead payroll, and its systems. Run monthly payroll for employees and Employer of Record staff with our outsourced providers, including changes, reconciliations and audits. Lead payroll system set-up and migration projects, including consolidating onto a single provider and setting up payroll in new countries.
• Run the employee lifecycle. Deliver structured onboarding and offboarding across countries, maintain contracts and templates for each jurisdiction, coordinate work passes and visas, and run HR cycles such as the annual pay review.
• Own HR data and systems. Make our HRIS the single source of truth, keep data accurate and secure, and produce headcount and budget reporting for leadership and Finance.
• Keep us compliant. Apply local labour regulations in each country, maintain HR policies and audit trails, manage benefits and insurance providers, and lead HR set-up when we enter new markets.
• Partner with the HR team. Support recruitment workflows and work closely with the rest of the HR team.