Global Employee Relations & Exit Specialist (EMEA)

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future‑focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. Our positions are fully remote.

This role is not currently active. This is not an active job opening, but we are planning for future opportunities and will keep your information on file for 1 year. No hiring is ongoing at this time.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and resolve end‑to‑end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, prioritizing a superior offboarding experience for Remote’s clients and their employees.
• Provide sound guidance and manage clients’ requests on various HR matters, including termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements, and providing guidance on terminations.
• Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations, balancing multiple stakeholders with competing interests.
• Liaise with and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits, including payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions.
• Draft, tailor and administer all termination and supplementary documents with accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring employee records are maintained with strict adherence to privacy and confidentiality regulations.
• Process offboarding on Remote’s internal HRIS platform, collaborating with internal stakeholders such as Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance.
• Act as subject‑matter expert and respond to internal and external queries on all offboarding matters in conjunction with Lifecycle’s internal stakeholders.
• Navigate clients through Remote’s Employee Relations resources and guides, helping them understand applicable policies and processes.
• Conduct preliminary assessment of workplace concerns, identifying key facts and applicable local regulations.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure appropriate handling of employee relations matters.
• Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements.
• Monitor ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow‑up and coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Actively identify opportunities for and contribute to process improvements, automation, product development and overall customer and employee experience through the offboarding and employee relations processes.

Key Requirements and Characteristics

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle.
• Proven experience managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance; and providing comprehensive HR support on employment laws across various jurisdictions.
• Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, conduct research, provide practical solutions and communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders in ambiguous and unfamiliar environments.
• Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
• Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management and negotiation skills, capable of leading difficult conversations to positive outcomes even when parties have conflicting interests.
• Business‑level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English, with additional languages a plus.
• Aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, continuously identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and championing best practices.
• Efficiency in operations, with an awareness of thorough record‑keeping and data integrity.
• Tech‑savvy, able to collaborate asynchronously on various tools, and adapt to new and evolving systems.
• Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international team in a fast‑paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities; willing to work flexible hours as needed.
• Proactive and self‑motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Practicals

• Reporting to: Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
• Team: Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
• Location: EMEA

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We encourage applicants from all ethnic groups, genders, sexualities, ages, abilities, disability statuses and any other under‑represented group to apply. We have 4 ERGs: Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech. We prioritize belonging and provide a culture that welcomes diverse perspectives. We allow applicants to request accommodations and optionally share pronouns or demographic data to help us stay accountable.