Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions - APAC
The Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions - APAC at Remote is responsible for managing end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring legal compliance and delivering exceptional customer service. This role also provides first-level employee relations support, guiding clients through workplace concerns and coordinating appropriate resources as needed. As part of the broader Employee Lifecycle team, the specialist contributes to process improvements and initiatives aligned with Remote's strategic goals and values.
Key responsibilities include overseeing employee offboarding processes, advising clients on various HR matters such as terminations, resignations, transfers, employment contracts, and redundancy procedures, ensuring legal compliance and best practices. The specialist leads consultations, administrative hearings, negotiations, and termination meetings with clients and external employees, influencing outcomes in complex termination situations while balancing competing stakeholder interests. Coordination with internal teams and external parties, including payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions, is essential to complete offboarding and audits. Additionally, the specialist drafts, tailors, and administers termination and supporting documents accurately while maintaining privacy and confidentiality standards. Processing offboarding cases in the internal HRIS and ensuring employee exits are completed promptly and correctly are also key aspects of the role.
The ideal candidate will have experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR exposure across the employee lifecycle. Proven experience managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance is required. The candidate should have experience providing HR guidance on employment laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions, with the ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, and provide practical recommendations in ambiguous environments. A basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline, and workplace investigation fundamentals is necessary. Strong communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills are essential, along with the ability to lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome while maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality. Business-level proficiency in written and spoken English is required; additional languages are a plus. An aptitude for innovation, process optimization, and automation is beneficial, as is the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, remote, international environment with multiple priorities.
Compensation for this full-time role includes an annual salary range of $37,250 to $94,250 USD. Remote offers a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible paid time off, flexible working hours in an asynchronous environment, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, mental health support services, stock options, a learning budget, home office budget and IT equipment, and a budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.
Remote is a global company that enables businesses to recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly. With a focus on innovation, Remote integrates automation and AI capabilities into its operations. The company fosters a future-focused work culture, encouraging team members to bring their talents, experiences, and cultures to build a best-in-class HR platform. All positions are fully remote, with team members working from six different continents.