Head of Employee Relations, Asana
$246-290k
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3+ days a week in office
Organising work in one connected space
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Organising work in one connected space
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$246-290k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of employee relations or HR business partner experience in a high growth, fast-paced environment
- Proven people management experience, with the ability to lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team
- Strong judgment and discretion; can hold space for complexity and remain grounded in fairness, transparency, and empathy
- Ability to influence and impact multiple levels within an organization to drive holistic ER strategies
- Successful record of creating, improving, and executing programs at scale with an ability to drive and measure program effectiveness and high levels of customer satisfaction
- Ability to strike a balance between strategic partnership-building and rolling up your sleeves
- Ability to challenge openly and have difficult conversations
- Systems thinker: you’re able to zoom out from case-by-case to pattern recognition and scalable strategy
- Curiosity around how tools, including AI and automation, can scale impact, while safeguarding fairness, privacy, and employee voice
- A passion for advocating for others, speaking up even when it’s difficult, and seeing others accomplish their goals
- Expertise in building trusting relationships with leaders at all levels
What the job involves
- Asana is seeking a Head of Employee Relations to lead the strategy and evolution of our employee relations (ER) function
- You’ll lead a three-person team, including yourself, with team members based in San Francisco and Dublin
- This role is critical in developing ER best practices, coaching, and the development of current and future Asana leaders and managers
- You will be partnering closely with our HR Business Partners, our Legal team, and leaders across the organization
- Reporting to our Head of People Success, you’ll blend deep ER expertise with a forward-thinking leadership mindset, leveraging data-driven tools to elevate our approach to employee advocacy, risk mitigation, and scalable solution strategies
- Scale a global Employee Relations program that is values-aligned, globally consistent, and locally relevant, building workflows, playbooks, and collaboration models across the People team
- You will not only be hands-on in working through employee relations issues, but you will also be evolving the framework for how we work through them
- Evolve our ER strategy with AI-enabled curiosity, explore and pilot tools like case analytics, sentiment data, and early detection signals to proactively surface workplace risks and opportunities for learning. Maintain ethical guardrails, transparency, and human oversight as we explore responsible ways to scale our impact
- Guide the company through complex ER issues with fairness and discretion, owning high-sensitivity investigations from intake through resolution, ensuring a high-integrity experience for all parties involved
- Build manager and team capability by co-designing ER training in partnership with Legal and L&D, equipping leaders with the skills to handle performance, feedback, and conflict with care and consistency
- Use data to shape strategy by utilizing dashboards and narrative reports to track ER trends, proactively recommend interventions, and identify opportunities to prevent issues before they escalate
- Coach leaders and influence cultural maturity by serving as a trusted advisor, creating space for real talk, developmental feedback, and ethical clarity at moments that matter most
- Drive the evolution of company programs to support employee law requirements. Use your subject matter expertise to review, assess and evolve our current ER policies and practices to help resolve any complex or unique ER-related issues across the organization
Our take
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organise, track, and manage their work. Acting as a unified hub, it empowers teams to effortlessly generate projects, delegate responsibilities, set deadlines, and foster direct task-related communication, transcending the inefficiencies of traditional email-based coordination.
Despite facing competition from established players like SmartSheet in its market, Asana has navigated its path, bolstered by a successful Initial Public Offering in 2020 and a track record of startup triumphs. This strategic prowess has propelled Asana to amass a robust clientele exceeding 100,000 organizations, boasting notable entities such as Uber and Air France among its ranks.
Since its inception, Asana has undergone exponential growth, with its reach extending to offices sprawled across four continents worldwide. This expansion not only underscores its global footprint but also signifies its commitment to fostering diverse talent pools and catering to a broad spectrum of clients.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
- Growth - We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways
- Development - We believe in providing everyone with coaching and mentorship. You’ll have access to Conscious Leadership training, success guides, free executive coaching, and our manager training and enablement program
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dustin Moskovitz
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Harvard economics graduate, Dustin co-founded Facebook in 2004 before branching off in 2008 to found Asana. They are also the co-founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures.
Justin Rosenstein
(Co-Founder)Previously Engineering Manager at Facebook and a Product Manager at Google. Currently Co-Founder of One Project.
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