Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in employee relations/investigations, gained in an Employee Relations or Employment Law role, or equivalent experience as an employment attorney practicing employment law.
• Experience navigating UK and EMEA labor relations and markets.
• Experience in advising on employee relations issues, including investigations performance and reorganizations in an Employee Relations role.
• Experience managing workplace investigations and ER issues.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using AI tools, with a recognition and awareness of AI’s responsible use, risks, and limitations.
• Experience in navigating difficult conversations, complex tensions, and ambiguity with critical thinking and expert solutions during change.
• Experience partnering on scalable people efforts within fast-paced, changing environments.
• Experience balancing legal, cultural, and business risks to resolve high-stakes people issues while minimizing litigation exposure.
• Proficiency in data analytics, with the ability to translate ER datasets into actionable business insights and drive decision-making.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, instilling trust in interactions with all stakeholders.

About the job

In this role, you will be a part of the Employee Relations (ER) team at Google DeepMind (GDM), where upholding company values with integrity to enable outcomes. As a forward-thinking team, we draw both subject matter expertise and empathy to support employees in the moments that matter most. You will conduct thorough and timely investigations into allegations of policy violations and review and provide guidance on other workplace concerns to ensure fair treatment for all. As a team, you will apply an intersectional framework and consider how other protected classes, power and privilege are at play at all times. You will support the learning and development of each member of the team and provide both training and practical experience to support the cultivation of employee relations expertise. You will be a part of an exciting and varied specialist role which aims to make a real difference in handling issues at an individual and team level.

Artificial intelligence will be one humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve global issues and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer various learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations, performance, grievances, disciplinaries, accommodations, appeals and restructuring which includes advising on best practice and guiding colleagues through these processes.
• Drive change programmes and collective issues, and being a point of contact for topics such as organisational restructures.
• Strengthen ER capability across managers and the People and Culture (P&C) Partnering team through training, coaching, partnership and development of tools and processes, while diagnosing and supporting continuous improvement of ER processes and policies.
• Design and deliver people practices which develop and maintain positive working relationships.
• Establish and implement appropriate reporting mechanisms for employee relations cases, both informal and formal.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google’s EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.