sonarsource - Senior HR Business Partner, Employee Relations Specialist - EMEA & APAC
Requirements
• 7+ years combining HR Business Partner work with employee relations case management or workplace investigations, ideally across multiple jurisdictions. • Direct experience partnering with in-house or external employment law counsel on complex, high-stakes cases. • Experience supporting EMEA and/or APAC populations, comfortable with the added complexity of multiple legal systems and cultural norms in one remit. • Experience in a high-growth technology company where pace is fast and ambiguity is normal. • Solid grounding in UK and EU employment law fundamentals, with working familiarity with APAC frameworks (or a fast learner’s ability to build it) • Proven experience leading formal workplace investigations, from intake and evidence-gathering to written findings. • Comfortable with HRIS platforms (BambooHR or equivalent) and building your own data-driven narratives without relying on an analyst. • Familiar with, or actively curious about, AI tools in the HR workflow (Glean, Claude, or similar), with the judgment to evaluate outputs critically and own the final call. • How you show up • Discreet and trusted: people bring you sensitive situations because you handle them with judgment, confidentiality, and consistency. • Direct communicator: you bring leaders clear choices and a recommendation, not an escalation without a point of view. • Courageous: you hold the line on fairness and doing the right thing, especially when a case is uncomfortable. • Structured under pressure: investigations and ER cases don’t wait for a good day, you stay organised and even-handed when things get tense. • In-office culture • We're intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days — Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having. • Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted — if that's not where you are today, we're happy to support relocation for the right person. • We value diversity, equity, and inclusion
Responsibilities
• Act as strategic HRBP for leaders across EMEA (Germany, UK, France, Switzerland) and APAC (Singapore, Japan), advising on org design, workforce planning, performance, and team dynamics with data and a point of view, not just a summary. • Use the HRBP people dashboard and org health data to prepare insights for leadership and manager 1:1s, flagging risks and decisions before they become urgent. • Support integration and engagement of new EMEA/APAC hires, partnering with Recruiting and People Ops on time-to-productivity and onboarding quality. • Translate global People strategy (career frameworks, calibration, internal mobility, compensation philosophy) into guidance that works across EMEA and APAC’s different regulatory and cultural contexts. • Employee Relations & Workplace Practices • Own employee relations cases end-to-end across EMEA and APAC. Performance, conduct, grievance, and exit cases — from intake through resolution. • Lead workplace investigations with rigor and discretion, producing findings and recommendations that hold up to scrutiny. • Partner daily with the Head of Employment Law (Austin) on complex or high-risk cases, ensuring practice stays aligned with employment law across every jurisdiction you cover. • Build and maintain the region’s ER case management framework, investigation protocols, and workplace policies, keeping them current as regulation evolves (UK, EU, and APAC employment law; EU AI Act and GDPR implications for People decisions). • Train and coach managers on early intervention and proactive feedback, working to reduce ER case volume over time, not just close what lands on your desk. • Report on ER metrics, case volume, time-to-close, and risk exposure, to give leadership a clear, data-backed view of workplace health across the region.
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