Global Employee Relations Lead at Reddit

You are an experienced HR professional with at least 8 years in the field and a minimum of 4 years specifically handling complex global employee relations. You

Work type: onsite

Location: New York City, NY

Salary: $180,200 – $252,300/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You are an experienced HR professional with at least 8 years in the field and a minimum of 4 years specifically handling complex global employee relations. You possess deep expertise in navigating the distinct employment laws of the US and key European countries like the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. **What makes it worth a look...** Reddit is hiring for this role in New York City with an annual salary range of $180,200 to $252,300. This is a high-level strategic position where you will define the global approach to employee relations and handle complex cross-border casework for a massive, publicly recognized platform. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have hands-on experience managing global end-to-end disciplinary processes and policy investigations. * Possess expert-level knowledge of European and US labor regulations. * Have successfully collaborated with legal teams to draft international employment policies and handbooks. * Can manage sensitive organizational changes and redundancies across multiple international jurisdictions.

Job Description

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 121 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit [www.redditinc.com](http://www.redditinc.com/).

As an expert in the field, you will have ownership in shaping our global ER strategy. You won't just be managing cases; you'll be the architect of how Reddit balances global compliance with a community-first culture. We are looking for an experienced Global Employee Relations Lead to join our HRBP & Organisational Development team, a sub function of our wider People & Culture team (P&C).

As a subject matter expect you will own impact on how we manage and deliver a best in class people and leadership experience through employee relations matters. Promoting a values led culture across our truly global workforce, including 12 global “places” aka where we work in office and beyond to where our employees live.

If you’re looking to positively and directly impact an already awesome company culture, and influence and execute Reddit’s Employee Relations strategy, we’d like to hear from you!

Role Description:

As a Global ER Partner, you’ll lead complex ER cases, provide expert advice, and develop frameworks that empower our leaders and employees to do their best work. Reporting to the Director HRBP, International and working closely with HRBPs, senior stakeholders and our Legal team, your contributions will strengthen performance impact and enhance the employee experience.

This collaborative position lets you operate across regions, leveraging your smart thinking, solid communication skills, employment law expertise and solution oriented focus in a global organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the management of ER matters end to end, including disciplinary matters, grievances, policy investigations

• Advise and support managers on managing long term leaves of absence and underperformance cases with care and efficiency.

• Create and maintain country specific ER resources, including toolkits, templates and process guides.

• Tracking and logging cases to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with audit requirements.

• Partner with HRBPs to identify trends in ER matters, contributing to the design and delivery of business targeted initiatives such as workshops and training to enhance people management skills.

• Collaborate with Legal and external counsel to seek employment related advice where needed.

• Provide expert guidance on organisational changes, including managing risks and people impacts across regions.

• Support HRBPs with sensitive and complex matters such as severance, redundancies and settlement agreements.

• Offer mediation and conflict resolution support where required.

• Partner with the HR Operations and Legal teams to develop and update Employee Handbooks and policies across regions.

• You have at least 8+ years total HR / 4+ years specialized ER experience with exposure to complex end to end casework in a global business.

• Expert-level fluency with current European (UK, Ireland, Netherlands, German, Italian) & US employment laws and practice, wanting to explore employee relations in global contexts and cross-border management best practices.

• Knowledge of employment laws and practice in our other global locations (APAC) is preferred.

• You can thrive in an outcome focused environment and are resourceful.

• You’re a relationship builder. You handle difficult conversations with understanding, diplomacy and professionalism.

• An ability to maintain confidentiality on sensitive matters and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

• Effective time management to ensure cases are managed in alignment with SLAs.

• An ability to work with little supervision and handle responsibilities in a global organization while communicating with stakeholders around the world.

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