Director, Labor Relations - EMEA

About the Company

LinkedIn is a global professional network focused on helping people create opportunity through connections, career discovery, skill building, and useful workplace insights. The company also emphasizes employee growth and aims to foster a workplace culture rooted in trust, care, inclusion, and enjoyment.

The organization’s mission is to help transform how the world works.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for directing labour relations across Europe and Latam, with emphasis on employee representative engagement, works council and union strategy, consultation processes, collective bargaining support, and labour risk management. The role partners with senior leaders to guide the business through complex organizational change while staying aligned with legal and commercial priorities.

The job is based in Dublin and follows a hybrid working model, meaning work will be split between home and a LinkedIn office on selected days depending on team needs.

Key Responsibilities

You will define and carry out a consistent labour relations strategy across Europe, lead European and local works council engagement, maintain constructive relationships with employee representatives and unions, and advise senior leaders on labour-related opportunities and risks.

You will also support business transformation initiatives such as organizational redesign, mergers and acquisitions, business transfers, restructuring, technology transformation, policy change, reward and incentive redesign, performance management changes, and the rollout of new technology and AI tools.

In addition, the role involves acting as a trusted advisor to senior HR and business leaders, preparing executive briefings, influencing strategic decisions, and balancing business goals with legal and employee obligations.

Other responsibilities include managing consultation and information processes across multiple countries, leading negotiations on company agreements for business-critical topics, supporting collective bargaining where needed, assessing labour-related risk, building mitigation plans, tracking legal and regulatory developments, and creating governance frameworks and best practices across the region.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

You will work closely with HR Business Partners, Employment Legal, Employee Relations, HR Governance, Total Rewards, Communications, Finance, and regional and global business leaders to deliver practical and commercially balanced solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

The role requires extensive experience building and scaling a labour relations or works council function, leading consultations and negotiations with works councils and unions across multiple European countries, negotiating collective company agreements on critical business areas, and working with European information and consultation frameworks such as the EWC Directive and country-specific co-determination laws.

Preferred background includes German works council and co-determination experience, direct European Works Council experience including setup and consultation under the EU EWC Directive, and exposure to organizational transformation, restructuring, and business change. Strong executive stakeholder management, influence in matrixed organizations, experience in multinational or global technology companies, M&A or large-scale transformation experience, strong employment law knowledge, additional European language skills, and a master’s degree or equivalent are preferred.

Additional Skills Highlighted

The posting emphasizes negotiation and mediation, strategic thinking, trust-building in ambiguous environments, executive presence, commercial judgment, and strong influencing ability.

Additional Information

Applicants should note LinkedIn’s global data privacy and candidate compliance documents, which cover employee and applicant data handling, E-Verify participation information, and right-to-work notices. These documents are available through LinkedIn’s candidate portal.