Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions
The Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions at Remote is responsible for managing 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 end-to-end 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 and facilitates meetings with clients and external employees, including workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements, providing guidance on terminations, and delivering termination outcomes. Additionally, the role involves liaising with and coordinating various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits, drafting and administering all termination and supplementary documents with accuracy and attention to detail, and processing offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform.
Candidates should have experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle. Proven experience with a strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance is essential. The role requires the ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, undertake research, provide practical solutions, and effectively communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders when operating in ambiguous and unfamiliar environments. A basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals is also necessary. Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills are crucial, with the ability to confidently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome, often where parties have conflicting interests, maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality. Business-level proficiency in written and spoken English is required, with additional languages considered a plus. An aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, continuously identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and championing best practices, are also important.
The compensation package includes a salary range of $37,250 to $83,800 USD per year, along with equity options. Additional benefits include flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health support services, stock options, learning budget, home office budget and IT equipment, and a budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.
Remote is a fully remote company with team members working from six different continents. The company fosters a culture of innovation, encouraging team members to bring their talents, experiences, and cultures to the table to help build a best-in-class HR platform. With a focus on automation and AI capabilities, Remote aims to empower organizations worldwide to employ anyone, anywhere—compliantly. The company offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment, providing opportunities for personal and professional growth.