Senior Employee Relations Partner (Fixed-Term)

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Role Overview 

The Senior Employee Relations Partner (Fixed-Term) is a temporary role created to support increased Employee Relations demand and ensure business continuity. This position will partner closely with business leaders, HR Business Partners, and Legal to conduct internal HR investigations and ensure the fair, respectful, and consistent treatment of employees in alignment with F5 behaviors, values, and policies. 

This role provides deep expertise in employee relations, investigations, and performance management across all levels of the organization and serves as a steward of F5’s employment policies and practices in the handling of sensitive matters. 

*** This is a fixed-term position intended to address near-term capacity needs. ***

Primary Responsibilities 

• Conduct HR investigations, including fact gathering, analysis, documentation, and recommendations; partner with internal employment counsel as needed 

• Maintain accurate and complete ER and investigation documentation 

• Provide consultation, coaching, and guidance to leaders and HRBPs on employee behavior, performance concerns, and corrective actions 

• Interpret and apply company policies, employment law, and regulations to ER matters 

• Educate leaders and HRBPs on proactive ER practices, performance management, feedback delivery, and inclusion 

• Identify trends and drive training, systems, and process improvements 

• Lead or support special ER-related projects as needed 

• Uphold F5’s Business Code of Ethics and report violations as required 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

• Experience working in a high-volume, fast-paced environment, preferably in a technology company 

• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and relationship-building skills 

• Ability to advise leaders at all levels without direct authority 

• Comfortable operating independently and collaboratively in a distributed environment 

• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and change 

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through 

• Strong knowledge of applicable federal and state employment and labor laws 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 

• 8+ years of HR or investigations experience 

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

• Standard office environment with computer and phone use 

• Periodic on-call availability and work outside normal business hours may be required 

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