Senior Employee Relations Business Partner
Dropbox
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $127,200 - $193,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide strategic partnership and guidance to leaders and Dropboxers, ensuring fairness, consistency, and employee advocacy.
- Build trust and credibility across the organization by maintaining confidentiality, balancing business and employee needs, and modeling integrity.
- Lead highly sensitive and complex investigations end-to-end, including harassment, bullying, retaliation, discrimination, hostile work environment, and violations of Dropbox policies.
- Collaborate closely with Employment Legal and HR Business Partners to assess issues, determine outcomes, and recommend next steps.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for HRBPs and People Partners, coaching and providing guidance on ER questions, concerns, and case strategy.
- Evolve investigative frameworks, documentation standards, performance management guidance, and ER-related best practices - in line with business needs and best in class practice.
- Improve, design, and roll out processes, guidelines, and programs that reinforce a positive employee relations environment.
- Maintain an ER case management system; produce dashboards and insights to identify trends and organizational risks.
- Analyze ER and workforce data to develop strategies that strengthen engagement, culture, and leadership effectiveness.
- Act as a culture ambassador who models inclusion, empathy, and fairness.
- Contribute to initiatives that strengthen Dropbox’s culture and the employee experience.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Employee Relations, HR Business Partnering, or related roles
- Strong working knowledge of employment and equal employment opportunity laws (e.g., Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA)
- Proven experience partnering with employment legal counsel on investigations and risk mitigation
- Exceptional judgment, discretion, and integrity in handling confidential information and determining investigation outcomes
- Strong communication skills, including interviewing, writing investigative reports, and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders
- A data-driven mindset, with experience analyzing trends, generating insights, and leveraging data to inform people-related decisions
- Proven ability to influence, coach, and partner with senior leaders, ICs, and cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Legal, HRBPs)
- Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively, demonstrating agility, adaptability, and strong prioritization across a varied ER caseload
- Comfortable operating in a Virtual First, distributed environment
- Proficiency using design thinking to understand employee needs, rapidly prototype improvements, and iterate based on data
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools in the flow of work, with comfort and fluency using AI to enhance productivity and decision-making
- Willingness to travel occasionally as business needs require.
Benefits
- US Zone 2: $143,100 – $193,500 USD
- US Zone 3: $127,200 – $172,000 USD
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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