Employee Relations Manager

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco or Palo Alto offices and will require you to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What’s so interesting about this role?

Grindr (NYSE: GRND) is seeking a skilled and compassionate Employee Relations Manager to join our People Operations team. This role will manage a wide range of sensitive employee relations matters, including workplace investigations, performance and non-performance-related exits, policy compliance, and leave administration. You will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and employees, ensuring fair processes, consistent application of policies, and alignment with legal requirements.

The ideal candidate thrives in navigating complex and sensitive employee situations with discretion, empathy, and professionalism, while balancing business needs with risk mitigation.

What’s the job?

• Provide guidance to leaders on handling employee concerns, conflicts, and sensitive workplace issues.

• Lead and conduct fair, thorough, and timely workplace investigations and document findings with rigor.

• Partner with managers and People leadership on performance management, disciplinary actions, and involuntary separations.

• Ensure consistent application of company policies and procedures, driving compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws.

• Manage leave of absence programs, ensuring a smooth employee experience and compliance with applicable regulations.

• Identify trends in employee relations cases and proactively recommend policy, training, or process improvements.

• Collaborate with Legal and other People Operations partners to balance employee experience with organizational risk.

• Maintain strict confidentiality, exercising sound judgment and discretion in all situations.

What we'll love about you

• 6+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 3 years focused in employee relations.

• Strong knowledge of U.S. employment laws and regulations (multi-state experience preferred).

• Demonstrated experience leading workplace investigations and managing complex employee issues.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust across all levels of the organization.

• Strong critical thinking, judgment, and decision-making skills, with an ability to balance empathy and pragmatism.

• Experience administering leaves of absence, accommodations, and related compliance matters.

• Ability to manage competing priorities with professionalism, resilience, and attention to detail.

We’ll really swoon if you have any of:

• Bonus points if you’ve been a paralegal or counsel in a previous life and are excited to bring that rigor into people work.

• Prior work in fast-paced, scaling tech or startup environments.

• Experience supporting a distributed workforce.

• A track record of building ER frameworks, policies, or playbooks from the ground up.

What you'll love about us

• Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.

• Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.

• Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.

• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.

• Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.

• Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.

About Grindr

Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.

Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we’re setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.

Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.

Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer

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