Employee Relations Business Partner

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Dublin, Ireland +1

This role is for an Employee Relations Business Partner at Meta, focusing on leading and managing complex employee relations matters, developing strategy, and advising stakeholders. While the role mentions leveraging AI-integrated workflows, AI-assisted tools, and AI skill development for operational efficiency and ethical practices, the core function of the role is employee relations, not the direct building or research of AI/ML models or systems. The AI components are tools used to enhance existing HR processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and manage a portfolio of complex, high-stakes employee relations matters including performance cases, investigations, disciplinary actions, and conflict resolution across multiple business units in EMEA
  2. Develop and drive the employee relations strategy and roadmap for highly ambiguous or cross-functional organisational challenges, bringing clarity and structure to undefined problem spaces
  3. Serve as a strategic advisor to HR business partners, legal counsel, and business leaders on employee relations policy interpretation, risk assessment, and resolution approaches
  4. Identify systemic trends in employee relations case data and translate findings into proactive programs, policy improvements, or leadership coaching interventions
  5. Build and maintain influential relationships with key stakeholders across HR, legal, compliance, people operations, and business leadership to align employee relations practices with organisational goals

Skills

Required

  • Employee relations
  • Employment law
  • Human resources
  • Coaching
  • Investigations
  • Conflict resolution
  • Strategic planning
  • Policy interpretation
  • Risk assessment
  • Data analysis
  • Stakeholder management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Global/multi-jurisdictional experience
  • AI-assisted tools
  • Ethical AI practices

Nice to have

  • Prompt engineering
  • Agent orchestration
  • Labour relations
  • Work council management
  • Union-related matters

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of experience in employee relations, employment law, human resources, or a related field
  • Experience leading high-complexity, cross-functional employee relations programs or initiatives with measurable organisational impact
  • Experience advising and influencing senior leaders and legal partners on sensitive workplace matters, policy application, and risk mitigation
  • Experience developing scalable employee relations frameworks, investigation methodologies, or policy governance processes across large or matrixed organisations
  • Experience identifying systemic workforce trends and translating data into strategic recommendations that inform people programs or organisational decisions
  • Demonstrated experience adapting to evolving organizational priorities and building collaborative relationships across teams
  • Consult and coach effectively with stakeholders
  • Experience operating in a global or multi-jurisdictional employee relations capacity, navigating varying employment law landscapes across EMEA ideally including experience within UK, Ireland, France and Germany
  • Demonstrated ability to use data analytics or AI-assisted tools to surface employee relations trends or drive operational efficiency
  • Experience partnering with labour relations teams or managing work councils and union-related matters in a technology or large-scale enterprise environment
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)