Senior Employee Relations Director (Hybrid)

Early Warning; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Maven Family Planning

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking an Employee Relations Director to lead complex investigations, advise senior leaders, and set enterprise standards for employee relations across the organization. The role partners with VP/HRBPs, Legal, Risk, and business leaders to resolve sensitive matters, mitigate risk, and foster a fair, high‑performing workplace.

You will manage a portfolio of cases from intake to resolution, mentor teams, and drive data‑driven improvements in policies and procedures while

Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through the completion of a bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of relevant business experience with a focus on HR and/or team leadership.
• Experience partnering with and influencing senior leaders to help drive people strategies and increase business outcomes.
• Works well in a fast‑paced environment, flexible, able to change direction quickly and manage projects through ambiguity and constant change.
• Highly collaborative team player with a focus on engaging with people, specific to supporting growth.
• Expertise in developing deep, trusting relationships with all levels within the organization.
• Effectively consult (listen, understand, and influence) people at all levels (including senior leadership) in a qualitative and quantitative manner.
• Proactive problem solver. Conceptualize problem spaces as systems and apply a “model thinker” approach.
• Ability to consult and recommend solutions to leadership using data and analytics to solve people and business‑related problems.
• Background and drug screen.

Responsibilities

• Conducts complex, sensitive, and high‑risk workplace investigations, including intake, interviews, evidence review, documentation, findings, and recommendations, ensuring matters are handled objectively, thoroughly, and in a timely manner.
• Manages an active portfolio of employee relations cases from intake through resolution, ensuring appropriate documentation, follow‑up, consistency, and timely closure.
• Provides hands‑on consultation and strategic counsel to VP, HRBPs, senior leaders, and business leaders on performance, conduct, corrective action, workplace conflict, policy interpretation, employee complaints, and other complex employee matters.
• Assesses employee relations matters for legal, regulatory, reputational, and employee risk and partners with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and other stakeholders as appropriate.
• Serves as a senior enterprise employee relations subject‑matter expert on particularly complex, sensitive, or high‑risk matters, exercising sound judgment and independent decision‑making.
• Establishes and maintains investigation and case‑management standards, protocols, tools, and best practices to promote quality, consistency, fairness, and appropriate risk‑management across the organization.
• Analyzes employee relations data and case trends to identify recurring issues, organizational hotspots, root causes, and emerging risks; translates insights into proactive recommendations for HR and business leaders.
• Partners with HR and business leaders to develop programs, tools, and interventions that address recurring employee relations issues and strengthen leadership effectiveness and the employee experience.
• Supports the ongoing review and development of employment policies and the Employee Handbook, in partnership with Legal and appropriate HR stakeholders, and maintains current knowledge of relevant employment laws, regulatory requirements, and evolving workplace practices.
• Promotes fair, consistent, and respectful employee relations practices, including appropriate attention to confidentiality, non‑retaliation, and the integrity of employee relations processes.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

People analytics

Communication

Executive consulting

ER investigations

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Early Warning is seeking an Employee Relations Director to lead complex investigations, advise senior leaders, and set enterprise standards for employee relations across the organization. The role partners with VP/HRBPs, Legal, Risk, and business leaders to resolve sensitive matters, mitigate risk, and foster a fair, high‑performing workplace.

You will manage a portfolio of cases from intake to resolution, mentor teams, and drive data‑driven improvements in policies and procedures while