Senior HR Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions – APAC

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Senior HR specialist managing compliant employee exits and first-level employee relations for Remote’s global employment platform. Driving automation and process improvements across international HR operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Independently manage and resolve complex end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions.
  • Advise clients on termination, resignation, transfer, employment contract, and redundancy procedures while ensuring legal compliance and best practices.
  • Lead client and external employee meetings, including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, and termination outcome delivery.
  • Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations involving stakeholders with competing interests.
  • Coordinate with payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions, and other stakeholders on offboarding compliance and audits.
  • Draft, tailor, and administer termination and supplementary documents while maintaining accurate, confidential employee records.
  • Process offboarding in Remote’s internal HRIS platform with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams.
  • Serve as a first point of informal escalation, mentoring and guiding junior team members.
  • Provide first-level Employee Relations guidance and help clients navigate complex workplace scenarios.
  • Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns and identify applicable regulations and potential paths forward.
  • Track employee relations cases and coordinate timely follow-up with relevant stakeholders.
  • Resolve queries on offboarding and first-level employee relations matters 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 using judgment and complex evaluation techniques.

Requirements:

  • Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR competencies and employee-lifecycle exposure.
  • Proven experience independently managing voluntary and involuntary employee exits with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance.
  • Experience providing 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 research issues, translate findings into usable team resources, and provide practical recommendations.
  • Superior communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to independently lead difficult conversations toward positive outcomes while maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality.
  • Business-level (advanced) written and spoken English proficiency.
  • Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation, and best-practice implementation.
  • Strong operational efficiency, record-keeping, and data-integrity awareness.
  • Tech-savvy and able to collaborate asynchronously using evolving tools and systems.
  • Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous remote environment.
  • Willingness to work flexible hours as needed.
  • Proactive, self-motivated, accountable, and able to inspire others.
  • Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.
  • Tertiary qualifications in HR/labour relations/employment law are 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
  • Employee Resource Groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)
  • accommodations available during interviews and beyond