Employee Relations Manager

Location: Denver, Colorado — hybrid, with office attendance approximately 2–3 days per week. Office locations include Denver, San Francisco, New York City, and Scottsdale; approved non-office work requires a secure, reliable internet connection.

Cash compensation: $150,640–$185,789 per year in Denver and Phoenix; $177,020–$218,325 per year in New York and San Francisco.

Company

hirify.global provides payroll, health insurance, retirement, and HR solutions for more than 500,000 small businesses.

What you will do

• Manage, mentor, and coach a team of Employee Relations Partners while setting documentation, quality, and case-management standards.
• Lead or oversee complex, high-risk workplace investigations and partner with Legal to reduce organizational and legal risk.
• Own performance-management cases, including coaching plans, performance improvement plans, disciplinary actions, and exits.
• Translate codes of conduct and employment policies into consistent practices across departments during periods of rapid organizational change.
• Advise managers, People Partners, HRBPs, and senior business leaders on difficult conversations, structural changes, and complex personnel decisions.
• Analyze ER metrics and case trends, recommend improvements, and use AI to synthesize data and draft documentation while protecting sensitive information.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field.
• 7–10+ years of progressive HR or Employee Relations experience, including direct ER case ownership and team leadership or supervision.
• Deep knowledge of employment law, including EEOC, ADA, FMLA, and FLSA requirements.
• Experience conducting employee investigations, including interviewing, fact assessment, findings documentation, and Legal partnership.
• Strong coaching, mentoring, judgment, data literacy, and ability to balance employee experience, fairness, business needs, and organizational risk.
• Experience working in a fast-scaling technology company with organizational change and distributed or hybrid teams.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or JD.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity in the form of RSUs.
• AI is integrated into daily work, with expectations for employees to build role-relevant AI fluency.
• Hybrid work is supported from designated offices with secure internet required for approved non-office work.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations are provided for qualified applicants.