Staff Team Member Relations Partner (EMEA)

What You’ll Do:

• Provides trend data and actionable feedback to legal, HRBP teams, and senior leaders to reduce overall risk in the organization.
• Regularly reviews policies, procedures and initiatives to ensure they align with applicable regulatory requirements as well as GitLabs’ Values.
• Acts as a subject matter expert to provide strategic coaching to management at all levels on addressing a variety of people issues while effectively mitigating business and company risk.
• Leads department specific and org-wide strategic initiatives, soliciting buy in, partnering with cross-functional partners and driving scalable solutions.
• Ensures oversight and governance of policies and practices globally, including interpreting and applying understanding of corporate policies and practices, employment laws, and other regulations to provide advice, guidance, or clarification for Team Member Relations inquiries.
• Analyzes data to identify trends, provide insights and make recommendations to stakeholders and cross-functional partners to develop scalable solutions, programs and policies to improve the team member experience.

What you’ll bring: 

• 8+ years of progressive investigatory or employee relations experience.
• 8+ years experience in employee relations
• Comfortable adapting to change in a fast-paced, global environment
• Strong analytical and data skills and experience using Google Sheets
• Ability to prioritize and take ownership of projects and strategic goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must exercise confidentiality and discretion in dealing with sensitive, complex and time sensitive employment matters.
• Experience supporting both the US and EMEA team members.  
• Demonstrates empathy and facilitates conflict resolution situations.
• Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and intuitive sense of business acumen.
• Ability to execute tasks with attention to detail, reliability, and a relatively quick pace.
• Ability to interface and partner with stakeholders to achieve and influence results.
• Ability to use GitLab tools.