Senior Employee Relations Manager
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Job Description
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastlys edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly securely and reliably by processing serving and securing our customers applications as close to their endusers as possible at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet to be programmable and to support agile software development. Fastlys customers include many of the worlds most prominent companies including Vimeo Pinterest The New York Times and GitHub.
Were building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Posting Open Date: 5/12/25
Anticipated Posting Close Date*: 7/1/25
Senior Employee Relations Manager
As Senior Employee Relations Manager you will architect policies and practices that enable us to navigate complex employee situations ranging from workplace conflicts performance issues complaints and investigations at scale with equity in mind. You will provide guidance to the People teams and across the business on a global scale to ensure employment matters are effectively managed and the appropriate policies and practices are in place to facilitate consistency fairness and objectivity. You will collaborate internally to resolve employee relations matters and ensure that concerns and challenges are handled in a responsive sensitive and fair manner. You will partner with Global People Partners and Legal to create and implement standard approaches processes and resources for employee relations and workplace compliance. This role is crucial to helping the organization proactively increase manager effectiveness employee experience and trust. You will help us adopt a more proactive datadriven approach to organizational health issues with a dual focus on manager education and employee advocacy.
What Were Looking For
What Youll Do:
Serve as subject matter expert provide guidance and develop best practices in employee relations and workplace compliance. Develop resources and tools for Fastlys People team to manage various aspects of employment and compliance
Develop resources tools and standards for employee relations including employee counseling and engagement documentation standards and practices policy interpretation and application performance management methodologies investigations and responses to other sensitive workrelated issues.
Provide expertise guidance and coaching on preventing addressing and resolving employee issues and with leaders managers and HR partners.
Provide subject matter expertise in specialized regulatory areas globally (including EEO ADA OFCCP FMLA WARN Act OSHA FLSAetc.).
Improve existing employment policies; develop and draft new policies and document practices as needed.
In partnership with Legal design develop and draft employeefacing and HR Compliance policies and processes for both US and globally.
Create communications training materials and other change management mechanisms to educate the company on new and revised policies processes and programs.
Respond to and investigate concerns and complaints; oversee investigations and provide status and progress updates to VP People Partners & Employee Relations and appropriate executives. Facilitate executivelevel discussion on responding to complaints and proceeding actions. As appropriate engage external investigators for complex and/or highly sensitive cases.
Ensure oversight and governance of policies and practices globally including interpreting and apply understanding of corporate policies and practices employment laws and other regulations to provide advice guidance or clarification for Employee Relations inquiries.
Partner with Global People Partners and Global People Advisors on the execution of organizational changes and performancebased exits (org changes job eliminations and involuntary exits)
Identify patterns and recurring issues and make recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness.
Basic Qualifications:
10 years of progressive experience in employee relations investigations employment law and/or workplace compliancerelated efforts for both small and larger globally distributed organizations. Proven history of responding to and effectively resolving complex employee situations.
Experienced in partnering with HR and legal teams to develop design and implement employmentrelated policies and programs.
Expert analytical skills; uses data to form hypotheses draw insights form narratives prioritize and influence decisions.
Strong business and people acumen as well as consulting conflict resolution and facilitation skills
Consultative approach; prior track record of successfully advising various stakeholders and executives re: employee relations issues.
Maintains objectivity demonstrates empathy and exercises sound judgment in working through difficult complex and confidential issues.
Excellent communication skills; ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
Demonstrated ability to effectively selfmanage work collaboratively prioritize competing priorities and meet deliverables and timeframes.
Indepth understanding of diversity equity and inclusion issues and how they apply to employee relations
Preferred Qualifications:
Expertise in U.S. and local (statespecific) employment law & regulations including Title VII ADEA ADA FLSA FMLA IRCA EEOC etc. Interest and motivation to learn and understand global HR compliance and practices.
Familiarity with international work protections and entitlements. History of addressing employee relations cases across different regulatory environments
Demonstrated operational and process rigor and familiarity and comfort with HR related technology and tools/case management preferably Ethics Point and Google Docs
Work Hours:
This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:
This position is based out of Fastlys San Francisco CA Denver CO or New York NY office.
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary:
The estimated salary range for this position is $139830 to $186444.
Starting salary may vary based on permissible nondiscriminatory factors such as experience skills qualifications and location.
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastlys equity and discretionary bonus programs.
Benefits
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental and vision insurance. Family planning mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program Insurance (Life Disability and Accident) a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2025 we offer 11 paid local holidays 11 paid company wellness days.
Why Fastly
We have a huge impact.Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base but we also support a growing number ofopen source projects and of code employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastlys homebase is in San Francisco but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire you will be able to attend our INPERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting weeklong experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly participate in handson learning opportunities and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity.Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful every day.
We are passionate.Fastly is chock full of passionate people and were not one size fits all. Fastly employs authors pilots skiers parents (of humans and animals) makeup geeks coffee connoisseurs and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
Were always looking for humble sharp and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin family or parental status physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.
Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact your Recruiter or the Fastly Employee Relations team at or.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
