Staff Employee Relations Manager

Databricks
London, United KingdomPosted 3 March 2026

Job Description

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><strong>GAQ426R359</strong></p> <p><strong>Mission</strong></p> <p>While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations.</p> <p>This is your chance to make an impact with our growing team! You will partner with leaders across the organization as a strategic partner, consultant, and steward of the overall employee experience. You'll be a trusted advisor and partner in continued development of the employee relations function as we search scalable solutions to support our rapid growth. Under the guidance of and through a partnership with the Employee Relations Director, you will be an ambassador for our overall principles, values, programs and policies, driving a global, diverse, performance-based work environment.</p> <p><strong>The impact you will have:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Consult with managers and people generalists, providing guidance to address the most complex employee performance concerns.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Conduct investigations, including gathering and analyzing facts, applying relevant policies, guidelines and laws to reaching findings.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Partner with Employment Legal, Compliance team members and other internal investigative bodies as needed. Prepare investigation reports, track work in case management system and draft disciplinary documentation as needed.Partner with our People Partner team to manage investigations, employee disciplinary issues, and performance management situations</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Works Council Relationship Management: You will build and maintain relationships with an evolving scope of European Works Councils and Employee Representative Bodies, ensuring that those relationships are productive, and promoting the company’s ability to move with speed and flexibility. </li> </ul> <p><strong>What we look for:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Considerable depth of Employee Relations experience in multiple countries throughout Europe, with a focus on strategic partnership with managers up through the Senior Director level.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Ability to multi-task, deal with ambiguity, influence decision-makers and work collaboratively in a team environment.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Demonstrated proficiency in advising and coaching managers on complex employee issues.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Direct experience in conducting corporate investigations of sensitive workplace concerns.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Capability to coordinate internal resources in solution development for emerging issues.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Experience with Works Councils/Employee Representative Boards in various European countries.Bachelor’s degree required.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Law degree or graduate degree in labor/industrial relations desired.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2729">Multi-Language skills a plus.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About Databricks</strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on <span style="color: rgb(255, 54, 33);"><a style="color: rgb(255, 54, 33);" href="https://twitter.com/databricks" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/databrickssource=gmailust=1700237575733000usg=AOvVaw03FL8fJvOD97ytN02f5G2C">Twitter</a>, <a style="color: rgb(255, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)