Head of Global Employee Relations

We’re the Employee Relations team – we manage the relationship between the company, its employees, and employee representative bodies (e. g. unions, works councils).

• What we do
• Employee Relations case management and resolution
• Union/works council engagement
• Non‑compete compliance

Responsibilities

• Lead a Global ER team located in 4 regions to support ER cases in around 45 jurisdictions, balancing business needs, management philosophy, and risk control.
• Develop ER strategy and guidelines for underperformance, restructures, probation failures, etc., and partner with HRBPs to drive cases smoothly.
• Optimize processes and introduce AI to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with the Employee Representative Body to ensure labour‑relations compliance and management implementation.
• Develop post‑termination restriction strategies in different countries and drive case implementation.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications
• Strong HR professional capability, with deep expertise in strategic business partnering and the ability to support business leaders in complex, fast‑paced, and global or multi‑market environments.
• Proven leadership capability, including the ability to lead through ambiguity, set clear priorities, build high‑performing teams, and drive cross‑functional/cultural collaboration across regions and stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, high‑stakes, and executive‑level matters with discretion and sound judgment.
• Ability to quickly understand our business model, operating environment, and the regulatory and cultural landscape of the markets we serve, and to translate that understanding into pragmatic ER strategy.
• Strong problem‑solving capability, learning agility, ownership, resilience, and high standards of integrity and confidentiality.
• Good communication, influencing, and stakeholder‑management skills. Able to influence stakeholders through data, empathy, and deep business understanding.
• Proficiency in English to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Working experience in fast‑paced technology, internet, platform, or other high‑growth business environments.
• Juris Doctor (J. D.), employment‑law background, or relevant professional HR/ER certification.
• Familiarity with labour relations, works councils, unions, or local employment practices in one or more international markets.
• Proven ability to use data and analytics to drive proactive, preventative ER strategy.
• Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $189,800 – $487,200 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location.

Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits

Employees have day‑one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others.

Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

Equal Employment Opportunity

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) candidates, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
• Exercising sound judgment.

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