Senior Manager Employee & Labor Relations

Location: Munich, Germany; hybrid model with 2–3 office days per week and no core working hours.

Company

hirify.global is a Germany-based software company serving the architecture, engineering, construction, operations, and media industries, with a focus on SaaS, AI, digital twins, and digital transformation.

What you will do

• Build partnerships with the European Works Council and the hirify.global SE Works Council in Germany.
• Coordinate committee work, decision templates, and global projects involving local works councils.
• Lead negotiations with employee representative bodies and structure escalations for C-level and board decisions.
• Develop works agreements and frameworks, then coordinate their implementation across functions.
• Advise management, HR, and leaders on co-determination, labor-law compliance, policies, benefits, working-time models, and organizational initiatives.
• Establish standards, processes, templates, and guidelines for a future-oriented Employee & Labor Relations function.

Requirements

• University degree in Law, Business Administration, Human Resources, or Social Sciences, preferably focused on Labor Law or Industrial Relations.
• Extensive Employee and Labor Relations experience, ideally in a complex corporate environment.
• Strong knowledge of German labor and works constitution law; European labor law knowledge is advantageous.
• Experience building trust-based partnerships with works councils or employee representatives and negotiating and drafting works agreements.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills with a strategic and implementation-oriented approach.
• Full professional fluency in German and English is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to launch a new Employee Relations function and establish its long-term standards.
• Direct reporting to the CPO and participation in a major group-wide transformation.
• Role focused on dialogue, respect, transparency, and participatory process improvement.
• Flexible hybrid work with no core working hours.
• Supportive environment within a growing software and technology company with a global workforce.