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Asana is seeking a Head of Employee Relations to lead the strategy and evolution of our employee relations (ER) function. Youll lead a three-person team, including yourself, with team members based in San Francisco and Dublin. This role is critical in developing ER best practices, coaching, and the development of current and future Asana leaders and managers. You will be partnering closely with our HR Business Partners, our Legal team and leaders across the organization. Reporting to our Head of People Success, youll blend deep ER expertise with a forward-thinking leadership mindset, leveraging data-driven tools to elevate our approach to employee advocacy, risk mitigation and scalable solution strategies. We think of Employee Relations as key to ensuring Asanas are thriving and this role will be tasked with leading and scaling a function with this mandate at its core. We want this work to be closely aligned with our commitment to leading consciously. This role is based in our Chicago office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What youll achieve Scale a global Employee Relations program that is values-aligned, globally consistent, and locally relevant, building workflows, playbooks and collaboration models across the People team. You will not only be handson in working through employee relations issues, but you will also be evolving the framework for how we work through them. Evolve our ER strategy with AIenabled curiosity, explore and pilot tools like case analytics, sentiment data and early detection signals to proactively surface workplace risks and opportunities for learning. Maintain ethical guardrails, transparency and human oversight as we explore responsible ways to scale our impact. Guide the company through complex ER issues with fairness and discretion, owning highsensitivity investigations from intake through resolution, ensuring a highintegrity experience for all parties involved. Build manager and team capability by codesigning ER training in partnership with Legal and L&D, equipping leaders with the skills to handle performance, feedback and conflict with care and consistency. Use data to shape strategy by utilising dashboards and narrative reports to track ER trends, proactively recommend interventions and identify opportunities to prevent issues before they escape. Coach leaders and influence cultural maturity by serving as a trusted advisor, creating space for real talk, developmental feedback and ethical clarity at moments that matter most. Drive the evolution of company programmes to support employee law requirements. Use your subjectmatter expertise to review, assess and evolve our current ER policies and practices to help resolve any complex or unique ERrelated issues across the organisation. About you 10+ years of employee relations or HR business partner experience in a high growth, fastpaced environment. Proven peoplemanagement experience, with the ability to lead, coach and develop a highperforming team. Strong judgment and discretion; can hold space for complexity and remain grounded in fairness, transparency and empathy. Ability to influence and impact multiple levels within an organisation to drive holistic ER strategies. Successful record of creating, improving and executing programmes at scale with an ability to drive and measure programme effectiveness and high levels of customer satisfaction. Ability to strike a balance between strategic partnershipbuilding and rolling up your sleeves. Ability to challenge openly and have difficult conversations. Systems thinker: youre able to zoom out from casebycase to pattern recognition and scalable strategy. Curiosity around how tools, including AI and automation, can scale impact, while safeguarding fairness, privacy and employee voice. A passion for advocating for others, speaking up even when its difficult and seeing others accomplish their goals. Expertise in building trusting relationships with leaders at all levels. At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. What well offer Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognise you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, were committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit. For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $222,000 and $261,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline and the base salary range for this role may be modified. In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles) and benefits. If youre interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role. We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include: Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits Career coaching & support Inclusive family building benefits Longterm savings or retirement plans Inoffice culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences These are just some of the benefits we offer and benefits may vary based on role, country and local regulations. If youre interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role. About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortunes Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognised by Fast Company, Forbes and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional officecentric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. Join Asanas Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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