Head of Employee Relations

Location: Remote

Company

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform for data and model training, inference, and production deployment, with infrastructure spanning compute, storage, networking, and applied AI.

What you will do

• Define and implement the global employee relations and performance management strategy, principles, policies, and operating model.
• Provide senior oversight for complex, sensitive, and high-risk employee relations cases, including grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, and underperformance.
• Build constructive relationships with works councils, employee forums, trade unions, and other employee representative bodies.
• Advise leaders on consultation requirements, organisational change, employment law, legal risk, and commercially practical case outcomes.
• Establish case-management, governance, reporting, training, and coaching standards for managers and People teams.
• Use case data and employee insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for organisation-wide improvement.

Requirements

• Significant senior-level experience in employee relations, employment law, HR, or a related discipline.
• Experience defining and implementing an employee relations strategy or operating model.
• Strong knowledge of performance management, investigations, disciplinary and grievance processes, organisational change, and dispute resolution.
• Experience working with works councils, employee representatives, or trade unions, ideally across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong employment law knowledge and experience partnering with internal or external legal counsel.
• Strong judgement, influencing, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and complex-case handling skills.

Nice to have

• Experience leading a team or specialist function.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with flexibility and ownership.
• Competitive compensation.
• Career growth and learning opportunities.
• Collaborative, innovative, and international environment.
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects.