Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions (Future Opportunities)

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge: navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We empower businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. Our core values drive our future-focused work culture, with team members working asynchronously across six continents. Innovation is central to our ethos, with Automation and AI capabilities integrated into every role. We encourage our team to bring their unique talents, experiences, and cultures to help build a best-in-class HR platform.

Join us if you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, and want to define the future of work!

About the Role

This is not an active job opening, but a way for us to connect with talent as we plan for future opportunities. We are planning for strategic growth in 2026 and beyond and are seeking outstanding professionals early on. This posting is part of our future opening pipeline initiative. Expressing your interest allows you to start a conversation about your expertise, learn about Remote’s vision, and explore how your career goals align with our global growth.

We will keep your information on file for 1 year and reach out if a match is found.

What this job can offer you

As a critical extension of our clients’ HR teams, we navigate and advise on global employment intricacies with unmatched speed, expertise, and precision. The Lifecycle team at Remote elevates HR practices by integrating cutting-edge technology and enriching customer experiences in over 80+ countries. Your work will directly influence our compliance coverage, customer journeys, and operational capacity. You will be at the forefront of shaping the future of work, ensuring every interaction is fast, intuitive, and profoundly impactful.

The Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations & Transitions manages employee exits for Remote's external employees, focusing on legal compliance and providing exceptional customer service. The role also provides first-level Employee Relations support, guiding clients through workplace concerns and coordinating appropriate resources. As part of the Lifecycle team, you will contribute to process improvements and strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Offboarding

• Manage and resolve end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring a superior offboarding experience.
• Provide guidance and manage client requests on termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes, ensuring legal compliance and best practices.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, negotiations, and delivering termination outcomes.
• Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations, balancing multiple stakeholders.
• Liaise with and coordinate internal and external stakeholders (payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions) to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits.
• Draft, tailor, and administer all termination and supplementary documents accurately, maintaining employee records in compliance with privacy regulations.
• Process offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform, collaborating with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and other teams.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert and respond to internal and external queries on offboarding matters.
• Guide clients through Remote's Employee Relations resources and guides.

Employee Relations

• Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns, identifying key facts and applicable local regulations.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders for appropriate handling of employee relations matters.
• Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements.
• Monitor ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow-up and coordination.
• Actively identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, product development, and enhancing customer/employee experience.

Key Requirements and Characteristics

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle.
• Proven experience managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance.
• Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, research, provide practical solutions, and communicate recommendations effectively in ambiguous environments.
• Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
• Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills.
• Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English; additional languages are a plus.
• Aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, championing automation and best practices.
• Efficiency in operations with an awareness of thorough record-keeping and data integrity.
• Tech-savvy with the ability to collaborate asynchronously and adapt to new systems.
• Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities. Willingness to work flexible hours.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Practicals

• Reporting to: Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
• Team: Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions
• Location: EMEA & APAC

Application Process

1. Interview with recruiter.
2. Interview with future manager.
3. Interview with team members (no managers present).
4. Prior employment verification check.

Total Rewards & Benefits

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy ensures fair, unbiased compensation and pay equity, along with competitive benefits in all operating locations. We do not engage in cheap-labor practices and pay above in-location rates. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, using geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials.

Annual Salary Range: $37,250 - $94,250 USD

Benefits & Perks:

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible working hours (async work).
• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options.
• Learning budget.
• Home office budget & IT equipment.
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

Full benefits & perks are detailed in our handbook: remote.com/r/benefits

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote, allowing you to plan your schedule around your life, not meetings. Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive, defaulting to action. Your life-work balance is important, and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first.

How to apply

1. Fill out the form and upload your CV in PDF format (English preferred).
2. Alternatively, if you don't have an updated CV, you can submit a copy of your LinkedIn profile.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis.