WorkHuman to add a dozen new specialist AI roles in Park West

IRISH software company WorkHuman is planning to add almost a dozen new specialist artificial intelligence (AI) roles in Park West after announcing three senior appointments across its global business.

The company, which makes human resources software, said it is now hiring across multiple functions at its Park West office after shedding around 10 per cent of its global workforce last year amid a downturn in the international tech sector.

Co-founded in 1999 by CEO Eric Mosley, who is from Glenview in Tallaght, Workhuman is co-headquartered in Massachusetts and in Dublin 12.

WorkHuman is looking to hire 11 AI specialists to work under newly appointed vice-president of product engineering Shmulik Barel, the former chief executive of digital sports coaching company, Playform and chief operating officer of loyalty platform, Como.

He is one of four recent senior appointments – three of them based at the group’s US offices in Framingham, Massachusetts – made earlier this year by WorkHuman.

Tom Libretto, group president said the appointments bring a “wealth of experience” and that it will be “pivotal in our mission to make work more human for every person on the planet.”

WorkHuman reported a 29 per cent increase in turnover in 2022, with operating profit for the year of €62.23 million.

In 2023, the company announced plans to cut around 150 jobs including a number of roles in Park West, where it employed 600 people at the time.

The tech unicorn company operates employee reward and incentive schemes on behalf of some of the world’s biggest companies, including Cisco, Moderna, Merck, LinkedIn and Intuit.

More than six million employees are on the WorkHuman platform across 180 countries.