Google welcomes people with disabilities. **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 7 years of experience in an Employee Relations, or a similar role. + Experience in applying ER/Employment Legal advice across multiple APAC countries. + Experience conducting and advising on local disciplinary and investigation processes, reorganizations and consultation exercises, and performance management cases. + Ability to communicate in English and Korean fluently, to support stakeholder relationship management. **Preferred qualifications:** + Experience working with works councils or unions. + Ability to operate with empathy, and diffuse/de-escalate difficult conversations/situations, or implementing mediation strategies. + Ability to manage a wide set of stakeholders and influence the outcomes in a global organization. + Ability to collaborate across teams, regions, and time zones. + Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. + Ability to work across different identities. As a Regional APAC Employee Relations Partner, you will rely on your expertise of employment laws and best practices to interpret and apply Google policies to address all workplace concerns across APAC. This will include matters that may violate Google’s HR policies as well as ensuring Googlers are being treated and consistently in areas such as reorganizations, promotion, performance management, pay and level. In this role, your responsibilities include investigating and resolving workplace concerns, advising on and supporting the appropriate investigation or disciplinary processes and implementing appropriate action. This is an individual contributor role. Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field. **Responsibilities:** + Conduct fair, thorough and timely investigations into allegations of violations of Google’s HR policies or local law and policies to ensure fair treatment of all Googlers. + Ensure that the investigation/complaint process and disciplinary proceedings are handled in a fair, thorough and timely manner consistent with local requirements. + Advise Partner teams on local investigation processes and advise on and support local disciplinary processes for non-HR policy violations. + Advise and help to resolve other workplace concerns to determine the appropriate approach in line with local processes and to ensure fair treatment of all Googlers (e.g., performance ratings, promotion, pay and level and any other behaviors that may breach our standards of conduct). + Review and advise on decision making and local processes for reorganizations. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.