Senior Employee Relations Specialist, Transitions – APAC
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Job Description
Senior Employee Relations Specialist managing compliant employee exits and first-level employee relations for Remote’s global employment platform. Advising clients across international jurisdictions and improving lifecycle processes through automation and AI.
Responsibilities:
- Independently manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions
- Provide guidance on termination, resignation, transfer, employment contract, and redundancy procedures
- Lead client and external employee meetings, including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation negotiations, settlements, and termination outcomes
- Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations
- Coordinate internal and external stakeholders including payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions
- Draft, tailor, and administer termination and supplementary documents
- Maintain employee records in compliance with privacy and confidentiality regulations
- Process offboarding through Remote’s internal HRIS platform
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, and other teams
- Serve as an informal escalation point and mentor junior team members
- Provide guidance on Employee Relations resources and complex workplace scenarios
- Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns and identify applicable regulations and potential paths forward
- Track and monitor employee relations cases and coordinate timely follow-up
- Resolve offboarding and first-level employee relations queries as a subject-matter expert
- Identify and drive process improvements, automation, product development, and customer and employee experience improvements
- Determine methods, procedures, and standards for new assignments and adapt complex techniques to achieve results
- Report to the Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
Requirements:
- Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle
- Proven experience independently managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance
- Experience providing comprehensive HR advice and guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions
- Understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals
- Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments and analyze complex HR issues
- Ability to independently research, develop usable team resources, provide practical solutions, and communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders
- Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills
- Ability to independently lead difficult conversations toward positive outcomes
- Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English
- Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation, and championing best practices
- Efficiency in operations, thorough record-keeping, and data integrity
- Tech-savvy and able to collaborate asynchronously using evolving systems
- Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous remote environment
- Willingness to work flexible hours as needed
- Proactive and self-motivated with ownership and accountability
- Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
- Tertiary qualifications in HR/labour relations/employment law considered a plus (optional)
Benefits:
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
- mental health support services
- stock options
- home office budget & IT equipment
- life-work balance and flexibility to plan your schedule around your life








