Employee Relations Partner

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. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!)

and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

The Employee Relations Partner will be instrumental in building and maintaining the foundational governance for our global workforce. This is a high-impact role focused on mastering the intersection of policy development, organizational compliance, and complex employee relations (ER) management at scale.

Reporting directly to the Director of People Business Partners, you will own the consistency and fairness of our People practices, lead critical investigations, and drive compliance across diverse global jurisdictions.

You will partner closely with People Business Partners and our legal team, leveraging deep expertise to guide outcomes, mitigate risk, and set new operational standards. This role is essential for ensuring that our growth is underpinned by robust, scalable, and legally sound people management practices.

• Proven experience working specifically within a People function, with a primary focus on Employee Relations and Compliance.
• Proven track record of managing and resolving complex ER cases
  , across multiple jurisdictions.
• Exceptional capability to analyze systemic ER and compliance data, identify underlying risks, trends, and patterns
  , and translate findings into actionable strategic recommendations for the Director of People Business Partners to proactively inform governance and process improvements.
• Experience advising management on best practices to mitigate legal risk and promote positive employee engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to design, own, and execute the full lifecycle of global People policies (drafting, review, implementation, and maintenance) in partnership with Legal and senior stakeholders.
• Expertise in developing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and consultation guides that ensure policies are applied consistently, fairly, and are scalable across the organization globally.
• Deep experience serving as the initial consultative and oversight layer for performance structures, effectively managing the first review of probation checks and low-performance flags, and advising managers on complex performance management processes and documentation to mitigate legal risk.
• Proven ability to manage significant projects (e.g., policy implementation, system changes) with cross-functional partners (mainly Legal but also IT, Security, Finance and Payroll).

• Global Policy Governance & Implementation:
  Own the full lifecycle of People policies. Lead the implementation and cross-functional enhancement of policies, partnering with the Director of People Business Partners and Legal counsel to draft, review, update, and socialize policies, ensuring they are globally compliant and fit for scale.
• Standardization & Consultation:
  Develop and maintain standardized operating procedures and consultation guides for People team and managers to ensure consistent, fair application of complex policies.
• Serve as the operational owner for processes requiring employee representative body consultation (e.g., policy changes, collective agreements). Prepare necessary documentation, coordinate internal alignment, and partner with Legal and People Business Partners to facilitate consultation processes.

• Systematic Performance Structure Management:
  Own the operational execution of systematic…