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Remote/Hybrid
Job Overview
The Employee Relations Specialist serves as a trusted advisor and practitioner responsible for navigating complex workplace matters with sound judgment, legal fluency, and a commitment to both people and organizational health. The Senior Employee Relations Specialist (Level 6) is a senior IC expert responsible for leading complex employee relations and performance management cases end-to-end, ensuring consistent, defensible, and equitable outcomes across the organization.This role operates as a strategic partner to Sr. HRBPs, absorbing high-risk and high-complexity ER work while enabling HRBPs to focus on business strategy, talent decisions, and organizational effectiveness.
This role partners closely with HRBPs, Legal, and senior leadership to resolve issues swiftly and fairly while strengthening the company's culture as we scale.
Job Description and Requirements
Employee Relations & Investigations
- Lead end-to-end investigations into complex employee relations matters (e.g., misconduct, discrimination, retaliation, policy violations)
- Conduct structured interviews, assess credibility, synthesize evidence, and produce clear, legally defensible findings and recommendations
- Partner closely with Legal to manage risk, escalation thresholds, and compliance requirements
- Ensure consistent application of policies globally, accounting for regional legal and cultural differences
Performance & Disciplinary Processes
- Advise on high-risk performance cases, including PIPs, coaching plans, and involuntary separations
- Ensure performance processes follow structured, documented frameworks with clear expectations, timelines, and success metrics
- Support differentiation between performance vs. capability vs. organizational/system issues in partnership with HRBPs
- Drive consistency in disciplinary actions and ensure fairness across managers and teams
Risk Mitigation, Compliance & Governance
- Act as a subject matter expert in employment law (multi-state and global) and internal policy frameworks
- Ensure rigorous documentation standards and audit readiness across all ER and performance cases
- Identify and mitigate legal, reputational, and employee experience risks before escalation
- Own ER case governance, including escalation pathways and decision frameworks
Manager & HRBP Advisory
- Coach managers on:
- Feedback delivery and documentation
- Navigating difficult conversations
- When and how to escalate ER matters
- Partner with Sr. HRBPs to align ER decisions with broader talent, calibration, and organizational outcomes
- Provide real-time case consultation for ambiguous or sensitive situations
Insights, Trends & Systemic Improvement
- Analyze ER case data to identify patterns by manager, function, or region
- Repeat manager risk patterns
- Policy gaps
- Organizational friction points
- Drive improvements to ER playbooks, templates, and workflows
Capability Building & Enablement
- Design and deliver manager education on:
- Performance management rigor
- Documentation standards
- Bias mitigation and fair process
- Build scalable tools (templates, guides, intake frameworks) that improve quality and consistency of ER handling
- Partner with HRBPs to elevate overall organizational capability in managing performance and ER proactively
Decision Rights
- Recommends outcomes, risk mitigation strategies, and disciplinary actions
- Owns ER process integrity, case quality, and documentation standards
- Escalates high-risk decisions to HRBPs, Legal, or leadership as appropriate
Qualifications
Required
5+ years of progressive HR experience with at least 3 years in a dedicated Employee Relations or HR compliance role
Demonstrated experience leading workplace investigations independently from intake through resolution
Working knowledge of multi-state employment law and regulatory compliance requirements
Proven ability to manage sensitive, high-risk cases with discretion and sound judgment
Strong written communication skills — able to produce clear, legally-defensible documentation
Preferred
Experience in a global SaaS/technology, or pre-IPO company environment
Experience partnering with HRBPs in a global, matrixed org
PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification
Experience using HRIS platforms (Workday, Rippling, or similar) and case management tools
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values:
$112,000 and $168,000The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Required Skills:
Employee Relations, HR Business, HR Strategy, Human Resources Consulting, Leadership Training and Development, Organizational Development (OD), Recruiting, Succession Planning, Talent Management, Workforce PlanningSkills Required
- 5+ years of progressive HR experience with at least 3 years in a dedicated Employee Relations or HR compliance role
- Demonstrated experience leading workplace investigations independently from intake through resolution
- Working knowledge of multi-state employment law and regulatory compliance requirements
- Proven ability to manage sensitive, high-risk cases with discretion and sound judgment
- Strong written communication skills; able to produce clear, legally-defensible documentation
- Experience advising managers and HRBPs on performance management, PIPs, coaching, and involuntary separations
- Ability to ensure rigorous documentation standards, audit readiness, and ER governance
- Experience analyzing ER case data to identify patterns and drive systemic improvements
- Experience in a global SaaS/technology or pre-IPO company environment
- Experience partnering with HRBPs in a global, matrixed organization
- PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification
- Experience using HRIS platforms (Workday, Rippling, or similar) and case management tools
Relativity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Relativity and has not been reviewed or approved by Relativity.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off options include discretionary time off and two company‑wide breaks each year, providing additional recharge time.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, telehealth access, and wellness resources such as a Headspace subscription.
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Parental & Family Support — North America offers up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with comparable regional programs in EMEA and APAC.
Relativity Insights
What We Do
At Relativity, we build innovative and comprehensive tools for making sense of unstructured data. When more people can find the facts in mountains of documents, emails, and texts, more legal and data-centric matters can be resolved equitably. Join us in our mission to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200. Relativity does not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind. We do not accept unfair treatment of any person or group of people. We’re committed to advocating for change to make our world a more inclusive, just place.
Why Work With Us
We believe in our team members and we want to help you own your career as part of a community of values-driven people who help customers around the world solve complex data challenges. At Relativity, you’ll take on challenging work, but you’ll also partner with talented colleagues and pursue plenty of learning and development opportunities.
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