Job Description
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options. This means you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to get together, or you can work remotely from most locations within the country listed for this role.
We are seeking an Employee Relations professional with the ability to create an environment that upholds our unique values and cultural tenants and allows employees to thrive. We are looking for someone with passion and proven experience in investigating complex employee relations concerns while building strong partnerships across all areas of the business including HR and Legal.
You will bring a mastery in relationship building, encouraging employees across all levels, including leadership, to follow your lead in ensuring an environment that gives our employees a great experience.
In addition to the investigative elements of the role, you will act as a key advisor and subject matter expert on content knowledge, relationship management, and proactive interventions. You will advise employees and management on highly complex and critical ER/HR issues, policies, practices, and programs. You will provide counseling and support to ER and HR professionals, business managers, and employees in dealing with day-to-day issues in the workplace related to employee relations, legal, compliance, performance management, coaching, and change management.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze, manage and track key ER data to understand trends, and develop proactive solutions.
- Review processes through a continuous improvement lens to streamline and optimize our work and allow us to scale globally.
- Advise and counsel managers on disciplinary issues including misconduct, policy practice violations, corrective actions, and terminations.
- Investigate, assess, and recommend resolutions to employee relations issues.
- Develop and present appropriate training on HR and employee relations topics.
- Identify risk areas and proactive work that is needed to ensure a positive employee experience.
- Inspire passion; inject change and help drive the Employee Relations brand within LinkedIn.
- Contribute to Global Employee Relations projects and ad hoc cross-functional related projects.
- Champion the LinkedIn culture & values and support efforts to foster a culture of belonging to help the Employee Relations team and our partners have fun, achieve their goals, and develop their skill sets.
- Lead with an agile mindset, focus on problem solving through creative solutions, and thrive in an environment where growth and change are steady constants.
- Bring leadership and innovation to improve, consolidate and streamline operations and processes that support the Employee Relations function.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Employee Relations, including leading investigations related to allegations of discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Familiarity with global employment law, including EMEA, LATAM and APAC
- Experience in hyper-growth and/or emerging businesses as well as large scale, complex organizations
- Experience in matrixed, global environment; deep employee relations experience and resilience to navigate ambiguous situations
- Ability to manage situations that are time sensitive and highly confidential
- Critical thinker able to manage multiple complex issues and prioritize projects concurrently
- Excellent analytical skills
- Outstanding empathy, interpersonal and listening skills
- Ability to flex and be successful in both the tactical and strategic elements of the role
- Proficient in Microsoft Office with a familiarity of HR Information Systems
Suggested skills:
- Employee Relations
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $109,000 - $177,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.