Senior People Relations Partner

Who We Are Is What We Do

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

Overview

The Senior People Relations Partner provides consistent and compliant consultation to HR Business Partners, leaders and managers to successfully resolve team member conflict, facilitate disciplinary actions, and process terminations. The Senior People Relations Partner conducts team member related investigations to ensure that all issues are resolved in adherence with the applicable laws and regulations as well as company policies and procedures and manages resolutions to completion in partnership with management and HR Business Partners. The role serves as the compliance specialist working between Legal and HR Business Partners and managers to compliantly, accurately and timely process terminations for all worker types in an effort to both minimize company liability and deliver respectful offboarding.

What You'll Do

• Provide consistent, tactical team member relations consultation to managers and team members to resolve team member issues and advise on team member conflict resolution, disciplinary action and/or termination in adherence with all local, state, federal and international laws and regulations.
• Own and manage all terminations for all worker types to include the handoff of disciplinary issues and performance issues to result in involuntary termination from HR Business Partners and managers to the voluntary resignations.
• Responsible for the offboarding process to include but not limited to initiating workflows and form triggers to fully process all termination types for all worker types.
• Serves as the involuntary termination expert to understand compliance in all countries and for all worker types to ensure we successfully and accurately process terminations, to include team member negotiations, notifications, and documentation.
• Conduct HR related investigations to ensure that team member issues are resolved in adherence to all company policies and procedures and local, state, and federal regulations and manage resolution by providing recommendations to management and HR Business Partners as appropriate.
• Analyze and interpret data to monitor team member relations trends in order to aid management in addressing the trends proactively.
• Liaise directly with Legal, People Operations, HR Experience, Payroll, HR Business Partners, and People Success to build processes to support processing, administering, facilitating, and otherwise delivering compliant conflict resolution and terminations.
• Oversee Jira and other tools and tickets for compliance reporting assigned to the People team or related to team member relations issues, conflict, internal investigation, policy compliance, or other allegations for which team member relations issues up to and including termination may result.
• Create and manage standard operating procedures for investigations to include conducting fair, neutral, and timely investigations in accordance with company policies and procedures and federal/state/international laws and regulations.
• Partner with People Success to create and deliver guidance and training to managers in handling of team member relations matters to include but not limited to company policy interpretation, ability to handle team member conflict resolutions, manage disciplinary actions and compliant termination guidance.