Employee Relations Partner

DeepMind

Employee Relations Partner

United Kingdom

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At Google DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Snapshot

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity's most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we're a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

About Us

We're a dedicated scientific community, committed to “solving intelligence” and ensuring our technology is used for widespread public benefit. We've built a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared freely. We don't set limits based on what others think is possible or impossible. We drive ourselves and inspire each other to push boundaries and achieve ambitious goals.

We constantly iterate on our workplace experience with the goal of ensuring it encourages a balanced life. From excellent office facilities through to extensive manager support, we strive to support our people and their needs as effectively as possible.

Our list of benefits is extensive, and we're happy to discuss this further throughout the interview process.

The role

This role is embedded in our Employee Relations team, which sits within the wider People and Culture (P&C) team. Employee Relations uphold Google DeepMind (GDM) values with integrity to enable equitable outcomes. We are a forward-thinking team that relies on both our subject matter expertise and empathy to help make a better GDM by being there for our employees in the moments that matter most. We conduct thorough and timely investigations into allegations of violations of our policies and review and advise on other workplace concerns to ensure fair treatment for all. As a team, we apply an intersectional framework and consider how race, gender, other protected classes, power and privilege are at play at all times. We support the learning and development of each member of our team and provide both training and practical experience to support the cultivation of employee relations expertise. This is an exciting and varied specialist role which aims to make a real difference in handling issues at an individual and team level.

Key responsibilities:

Manage and / or partner on key People processes including investigations / disciplinary, grievances, performance management, complex absence management and restructures in accordance with policy and US employment law.

Assess and document local best practices. Maintain storage and access of this information for internal users, and ensure that U.S. based investigations are thorough and include: understanding of the allegations, appropriate interviews, analysis and documentation, and recommendations for conclusion and course of action.

Provide advice and counsel on general employee relations queries and issues.

Review ER cases to identify root causes of issues and partner on recommendations to address these issues.

Develop and provide training and guidance to P&C Partners and managers regarding employee relations issues, localizing existing training materials where applicable.

Partner on large-scale change programmes, and being a point of contact for topics such as organizational restructures.

Work in collaboration with wider P&C teams and our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion team on initiatives to enhance employee workplace experience.

Help ensure our employee handbook, policies and code of conduct are up to date, legally compliant and reflect our culture and ways of working.

Identify and implement appropriate reporting mechanisms for employee relations cases, both informal and formal.

Partner closely with Learning and People Partners to ensure managers are equipped to support People challenges in a fair and effective way, and to enable you to build strong relationships across the organization.

About you

In order to set you up for success as an ER Partner at Google DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

You are driven by fairness, high quality delivery and standards, and care deeply about people.

When handling people issues, you efficiently navigate legal, cultural and business risks and tensions.

You look beyond the core investigation to identify opportunities to improve our working environment for employees.

You are capable in conflict management and problem solving.

You have varied experience across the breadth of ER topics including conduct investigations, employee grievances, absence management, performance and restructuring.

You have change management experience.

You hold a solid understanding of organizational culture. Different work environments pose different challenges for people, so too does the ever- changing nature of our organization as we grow, scale, and evolve.

You proactively ensure your US Employment Law expertise is up-to-date.

You take the learning opportunities after each case you support, you possess a continuous improvement approach.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Experience managing complex investigations, performance management and restructuring in ER or HR role

Strong and practical knowledge of applying US employment law

Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Ability to establish strong cross-functional relationships at all levels and geographies

Project management skills

Effective analytical and problem solving skills with ability to organize and analyze data.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $125,000 - $191,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

Job details

Title

Employee Relations Partner

Employer

DeepMind

Location

United Kingdom

Published

July 08, 2024

Application deadline

August 12, 2023

Job type

Expert

Field

ML, AI, Data Science

About the employer

DeepMind

We’re a team of scientists, engineers, ethicists and more, committed to solving intelligence, to advance science and benefit humanity.

Our story

We’ve always been fascinated by human intelligence – it shaped the modern world we live in today.

Intelligence allows us to learn, imagine, cooperate, create, communicate, and so much more. By better understanding different aspects of intelligence, we can use this knowledge as inspiration to build novel computer systems that learn to find solutions to difficult problems on their own.

Like the Hubble telescope that helped us look deeper into space, these tools are already expanding human knowledge and making positive global impact. Our long term aim is to solve intelligence, developing more general and capable problem-solving systems, known as artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Guided by safety and ethics, this invention could help society find answers to some of the world’s most pressing and fundamental scientific challenges.

We’re solving intelligence to advance science and benefit humanity. At the heart of this mission is our commitment to act as responsible pioneers in the field of AI, in service of society’s needs and expectations.

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