Senior Director, Employee Relations

Senior Director, Employee Relations The Senior Director, Employee Relations will lead a team of ER professionals . Leveraging employee relations expertise and external best practices, this role is responsible for creating, leading, and supporting Splunks employee relations strategy. Focus areas include coaching and training, insights, complaint review and investigation, reviewing practices along with policy development. You will be responsible for providing guidance and support in all matters, including reviewing employee complaints, ensuring thorough and timely investigations conducted with objectivity. The Senior Director of Employee Relations is a working people manager and will collaborate with Employment Counsel, HR Business Partners, Leaders, and other key stakeholders to address issues and provide coaching as needed. The successful candidate will have a strong client service background, an impartial mindset and able to think proactively support the business and react to investigations, providing expert level consultation and guidance in all ER matters. This is a working manager role. The Senior Director will make recommendations and identify breaches of Splunks policies according to globally consistent principles. Key Responsibilities: Develop workplace dispute resolution policies and practices while proactively directing and managing complex ER cases to successful resolution. Communicate, and maintain ER policies and practices, ensuring content is current and relevant. Use a case management system to log cases and use data to gather insights, identify trends and develop strategies to remedy risk. Conduct timely, fair, and equitable investigations into employee complaints and allegations of misconduct, in line with local policies, practices and legal frameworks. Build and maintain a strong partnership with Legal to assess and mitigate risk in support of Splunks culture. And liaise with and advise the HR Business Partners on investigations and areas of concern. Coach and assists managers in developing performance management/corrective action plans. Predict high-impact issues and recommend solutions. What It Takes To Succeed: Highly effective at working collaboratively with stakeholders: being consultative, influencing, coaching, managing expectations, and delivering high quality experiences. Able to build credibility quickly. An accomplished leader in Employee Relations, able to build strong relationships to enable stakeholders, coaching others, and building a diverse, high performing team. A self-driven professional with a resolution-oriented mindset. Expert in critical thinking, detail oriented and exceptional communication skills. Ability to work with all levels across the organization and making recommendations by going beyond the obvious. Extensive experience in a rapidly scaling business, implementing new approaches and managing employee relations professionals. Required Experience: Bachelor''s Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience. 15+ years of employee relations, employment legal, investigations, or HR experience, 8+ years of leading a global ER team within a high-growth environment. Solid case management and advisory experience, including hands-on investigations experience. Extensive international employee relations experience and working within technology companies. Sound knowledge of global employment laws and regulations with a high bar for integrity. Strong leadership skills with the ability to frame, confront and present complex issues to varying audiences, influence and make difficult decisions. Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to consult, coach and communicate effectively on a variety of situations. Is committed to the highest standards of excellence, confidentiality, and personal integrity. Experience creating and delivering impactful solutions and training focused on how to handle employee relations issues and investigations. Deep understanding of and ability to be impartial, use great judgment, especially when it comes to decisions, confidential documents, and communications. (Colorado only) Minimum base salary of $165,000.00. You may also be eligible for incentive pay + equity + benefits.Note: Disclosure per sb19-085 (8-5-201 et seq). About SplunkSplunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big datagenerated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. Its what we call Operational Intelligence.Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.Weve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!SF OnlyMedical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQs, soccer, Fun Fridays.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Non SFMedical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQs, soccer and Fun Fridays.This isnt a job its a life changer are you ready?Individuals seeking employment at Splunk are considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition (except where physical fitness is a valid occupational qualification), genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. Click here to review the US Department of Labors EEO is The Law notice. Please click here to review Splunks Affirmative Action Policy Statement.Splunk does not discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Please click here to review Splunks Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision.Splunk is also committed to providing access to all individuals who are seeking information from our website. Any individual using assistive technology (such as a screen reader, Braille reader, etc.) who experiences difficulty accessing information on any part of Splunks website should send comments to [Click Here to Email Your Resumé]. Please include the nature of the accessibility problem and your e-mail or contact address. If the accessibility problem involves a particular page, the message should include the URL of that page.Splunk doesn''t accept unsolicited agency resumes and won''t pay fees to any third-party agency or firm that doesn''t have a signed agreement with Splunk.To check on your application click here.

Created: 2025-09-06