Senior​/Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations and Transitions - APAC

Job Overview

Lifecycle Specialist, Employee Relations Transitions – manage employee exits for Remote’s external employees with a focus on legal compliance and client service. The role provides first‑level Employee Relations support, guiding clients through workplace concerns and coordinating resources when needed.

• Lead end‑to‑end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, ensuring a superior offboarding experience for clients and employees.
• Provide guidance on HR matters such as termination, resignation, transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes, ensuring legal compliance and best practices.
• Facilitate meetings with clients and external employees (e.g., workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, settlements) and deliver termination outcomes.
• Negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations, balancing stakeholder interests.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance and audit readiness (payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions).
• Draft, tailor, and administer termination and supplementary documents, maintaining privacy and confidentiality.
• Process offboarding on Remote’s internal HRIS platform, collaborating with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, and other verticals.
• Act as subject‑matter expert for offboarding queries in partnership with Lifecycle stakeholders.
• Navigate clients through Employee Relations resources and guides, explaining policies and processes.
• Conduct preliminary workplace concerns assessments, identify facts, and determine applicable local regulations.
• Coordinate handling of employee relations matters with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements.
• Monitor ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow‑up with stakeholders.
• Identify and contribute to process improvements, automation, product development, and overall customer and employee experience through offboarding and employee relations processes.

• Experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner with generalist HR competencies and employee‑lifecycle exposure.
• Strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits with care, sensitivity, and legal compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Ability to interpret industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, conduct research, and provide practical solutions in ambiguous environments.
• Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
• Excellent communication, influencing, conflict‑management, and negotiation skills; capable of leading difficult conversations to positive outcomes.
• Advanced written and spoken English proficiency; additional languages are a plus.
• Drive to innovate and optimize processes, identify automation opportunities, and champion best practices.
• Strong operational efficiency, record‑keeping, and data integrity awareness.
• Tech‑savvy, able to collaborate asynchronously on tools and adapt to new systems.
• Autonomous and cohesive in a fast‑paced, asynchronous, remote international team with multiple priorities; flexible hours as needed.
• Proactive, self‑motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Demonstrated automation and AI fluency.

APAC.

Annual salary range: $37,250 – $83,800 USD.

Benefits include:

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office/IT equipment budget
• Local in‑person social events or co‑working space budget

Remote encourages applicants of all ethnic groups, genders, sexualities, ages, abilities, disability statuses, and under‑represented groups. We prioritize belonging, have employee resource groups, and support accommodations when needed. All candidates may disclose pronouns and demographic information voluntarily to help us remain accountable for representation.