Employee Relations Business Partner
Robinhood· People Relations and Operations
Hybrid (Chicago, IL; Westlake, TX)$129k - $195kfull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Employee Relations Business Partner at Robinhood, focused on owning end-to-end employee relations and performance strategy for a dedicated client group, partnering with leadership on performance, conduct, and organizational health in a high-growth environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end employee relations and performance strategy for your client group — acting as a trusted strategic partner to leadership on performance, conduct, and organizational health
- Drive performance management strategy and execution across your client group, advising leaders on performance improvement plans, corrective action, and complex termination decisions
- Design, implement, and evolve ER and performance-management policies and procedures in partnership with Legal and Compliance, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and company values
- Serve as the primary ER advisor to People Partners and business leaders, providing guidance and recommendations on complex, high-risk employee and performance matters and pushing back where needed
- Analyze case and performance trends across your client group to identify systemic issues, and translate findings into concrete policy, process, or people-strategy changes
- Partner with Learning & Development and Legal to design and deliver training on performance management, policy adherence, and manager effectiveness
- Own case and performance documentation in HR Acuity, ensuring decisions meet compliance and audit standards, and produce reporting for leadership
Qualifications
- 10+ years of HR experience, including 6+ years as a core Employee Relations Business Partner in a dynamic, high-growth, or highly regulated environment
- Demonstrated track record of owning performance management strategy for a client group from coaching managers through corrective action to complex termination decisions
- Deep knowledge of federal and state employment law (Title VII, ADA, FMLA, and similar), with the judgment to apply it in ambiguous, fast-moving situations
- Experience building or scaling ER and performance-management policy and programs not only operating within an existing framework
- Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills; comfortable advising, and when necessary challenging, People Partners, Legal, and senior business leaders
- A data-informed approach to identifying performance and workforce trends and driving proactive risk reduction
- Experience with case management systems (e.g., HR Acuity) and rigorous documentation practices
Skills
Required:Employee relations strategyPerformance managementPolicy design and implementationLegal and regulatory knowledgeCase management
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
- Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund that gives eligible US employees the opportunity to invest in a private employee fund that provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not.
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more.
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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