Senior Employee Relations Manager

Posting Open Date: 5/12/25

Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 7/1/25

Senior Employee Relations Manager

As Senior Employee Relations Manager, you will architect policies and practices that enable us to navigate complex employee situations – ranging from workplace conflicts, performance issues, complaints and investigations - at scale with equity in mind. You will provide guidance to the People teams and across the business on a global scale to ensure employment matters are effectively managed and the appropriate policies and practices are in place to facilitate consistency, fairness and objectivity.  You will collaborate internally to resolve employee relations matters and ensure that concerns and challenges are handled in a responsive, sensitive and fair manner.  You will partner with Global People Partners and Legal to create and implement standard approaches, processes and resources for employee relations and workplace compliance. This role is crucial to helping the organization proactively increase manager effectiveness, employee experience, and trust. You will help us adopt a more proactive, data-driven approach to organizational health issues with a dual focus on manager education and employee advocacy.  

What We're Looking For

What You'll Do:

• Serve as subject matter expert, provide guidance and develop best practices in employee relations and workplace compliance. Develop resources and tools for Fastly’s People team to manage various aspects of employment and compliance

• Develop resources, tools and standards for employee relations, including employee counseling and engagement, documentation standards and practices, policy interpretation and application, performance management methodologies, investigations, and responses to other sensitive work-related issues.

• Provide expertise, guidance and coaching on preventing, addressing and resolving employee issues and with leaders, managers and HR partners.

• Provide subject matter expertise in specialized regulatory areas globally (including EEO, ADA, OFCCP, FMLA, WARN Act, OSHA, FLSA,etc.).

• Improve existing employment policies; develop and draft new policies and document practices as needed.

• In partnership with Legal, design, develop and draft employee-facing and HR Compliance policies and processes for both US and globally.

• Create communications, training materials, and other change management mechanisms to educate the company on new and revised policies, processes, and programs.

• Respond to and investigate concerns and complaints; oversee investigations, and provide status and progress updates to VP, People Partners & Employee Relations and appropriate executives. Facilitate executive-level discussion on responding to complaints and proceeding actions. As appropriate, engage external investigators for complex and/or highly sensitive cases.

• Ensure oversight and governance of policies and practices globally, including interpreting and apply understanding of corporate policies and practices, employment laws, and other regulations to provide advice, guidance, or clarification for Employee Relations inquiries.

• Partner with Global People Partners and Global People Advisors on the  execution of organizational changes and performance-based exits (org changes, job eliminations and involuntary exits)

• Identify patterns and recurring issues and make recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in employee relations, investigations, employment law and/or workplace compliance-related efforts for both small and larger, globally distributed organizations. Proven history of responding to and effectively resolving complex employee situations.

• Experienced in partnering with HR and legal teams to develop, design, and implement employment-related policies and programs.

• Expert analytical skills; uses data to form hypotheses, draw insights, form narratives, prioritize, and influence decisions.

• Strong business and people acumen, as well as consulting, conflict resolution and facilitation skills

• Consultative approach; prior track record of successfully advising various stakeholders and executives re: employee relations issues.

• Maintains objectivity, demonstrates empathy and exercises sound judgment in working through difficult, complex, and confidential issues.

• Excellent communication skills; ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively self-manage, work collaboratively, prioritize competing priorities, and meet deliverables and timeframes.

• In-depth understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion issues and how they apply to employee relations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in U.S. and local (state-specific) employment law & regulations, including Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FLSA, FMLA, IRCA, EEOC, etc. Interest and motivation to learn and understand global HR compliance and practices.

• Familiarity with international work protections and entitlements. History of addressing employee relations cases across different regulatory environments

• Demonstrated operational and process rigor and familiarity and comfort with HR related technology and tools/case management, preferably Ethics Point and Google Docs

Work Hours:

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is based out of Fastly’s San Francisco, CA, Denver, CO or New York, NY office.

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $139,830 to $186,444. 

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025, we offer 11 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.