Senior Employment Relations Business Partner

Job description

At Algolia, we’re passionate about helping developers and product teams connect their users with what matters most—instantly and intuitively. We power search and discovery for over 17,000 businesses worldwide, processing more than 1.5 trillion queries per year.

The People Team is building a world-class experience for Algolians—centered on trust, clarity, and compliance. As we scale globally, we’re growing our People Partnering team with a specialist who brings deep expertise in French labor law, CSE management, and employee relations.

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

CSE (Comité Social et Économique) Management

• Responsible for facilitating CSE meetings and maintaining constructive social dialogue & ensure compliance with local legislation
• Ensure the preparation, facilitation, and follow-up of meetings with employee representative & internal stakeholders
• Lead CSE meeting preparation and documentation, ensuring we meet all French governance obligations.
• Partner closely with external counsel and employee representatives to maintain trust and legal alignment.
• Advise People Partners and functional leaders on CSE-related implications of organisational or policy changes.

Employee Relations Partnership

• Partner with People Business Partners on complex or high-risk employee relations cases including managing a case load directly, as needed.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and external counsel as needed to manage employee relations cases.
• Document and build practices to support our employee relations philosophy that can be tailored to meet global and local needs
• Provide strategic advice and counsel on topics ranging from policy interpretation, internal investigations, performance management, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, & dismissal
• Provide expertise on the investigation and successful resolution of ER issues and complaints.
• Assist with the development of investigation plans and lead complex investigations at and above a certain organizational level to minimize legal risk.
• Develop toolkits, templates, and internal guidance to scale ER consistency across teams.

Compliance & Policy Advising

• Act as a senior advisor on global employee relations and labor law, bringing subject matter expertise in EMEA (particularly France and the UK), while also supporting compliance matters in APAC and AMER through close collaboration with Legal and regional stakeholders.
• Partner with People Operations and external counsel  to ensure that global policies, handbooks, and people processes remain legally sound, culturally aligned, and regionally compliant across EMEA, APAC, and AMER.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory changes across all regions, coordinating timely updates and guidance with Legal, Finance, and People Ops to ensure proactive risk mitigation and compliance.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Support the People Ops team with insights on documentation, process improvements, and audits.
• Collaborate with Legal and Compliance on risk mitigation, investigations, and local implementation of global policies.
• Participate in global people projects where French or compliance expertise is needed.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience with strong exposure to compliance and employee relations
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in French Labor Law, or a specialized HR program with a focus on labor relations (e.g., Droit social et ressources humaines)
• Experience managing employee relations issues on a global scale - with a focus on UK and France preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing compliance in a global environment
• Expertise in French labor law, including CSE governance and statutory employment practices
• Ability to influence cross-functional partners and coach HR peers without owning direct execution
• Translate complex workplace issues into actionable recommendations that balance compliance, employee experience, and business needs
• Act as a thought partner by connecting people-related risks and opportunities to broader business goals
• Interest to identify and apply AI tools to streamline ER documentation, policy management, and compliance monitoring.
• A curiosity and desire to develop new and innovative ways of tackling People programs and practices. You are a problem solver.
• Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $200M ARR range, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
• Exceptional judgment and communication skills in both French and English
• Experience working in a distributed or remote-first organization

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

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FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as “Remote” are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

READY TO APPLY?

If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!