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Job Description

The People Relations Senior Advisor provides end‑to‑end employee and labor relations support across the Castrol Americas region, covering both office and plant populations in the United States and key Latin American markets, including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico.

The role is accountable for managing employee relations matters from initial intake through investigation, resolution, and closure, ensuring outcomes are fair, consistent, compliant, and aligned with company policies, local employment legislation, and collective labor frameworks where applicable.

Partnering closely with business leaders, Legal, and the broader People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) community, the role plays a critical role in mitigating people risk, strengthening manager capability, and fostering positive, constructive employee relations across a diverse and complex regional footprint.

This position requires demonstrated experience operating across multiple legal, cultural, and industrial relations environments, with hands‑on employee and labor relations expertise in Latin America, including navigating local labor laws, unionized environments, and country‑specific practices, while also supporting U.S. employment relations requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert to the business and the broader People & Culture organization in developing labor and employee relations strategies that support operational targets and improve capabilities to achieve safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
• Represent Castrol at various labor and employee relations forums across the Americas (e.g., ORC – Oil Refining Companies; NIRG – National Industrial Relations Group).
• Provide oversight of multi-site negotiations and represent Castrol during national US oil bargaining (NOBP), as well as LATAM union negotiations, including country-specific collective agreements and local labor frameworks, as required.
• Ensure compliance with applicable employment and labor laws across the Americas region, including the National Labor Relations Act, Brazil CLT, and other LATAM statutory labor frameworks.
• Interpret and apply corporate policy, employment law, labor law, and other regulations to provide immediate advice, guidance, and clarification on employee and labor relations matters.
• Provide end-to-end case management for employee and people relations matters across Castrol Americas, from case intake and assessment through investigation, resolution, documentation, and closure.
• Act as the primary owner of assigned People Relations cases, ensuring timely, fair, and consistent handling aligned with Castrol policies, employment legislation, and internal governance standards.
• Lead and conduct workplace investigations, including: Allegation assessment; Investigation planning; Fact-finding interviews; Evidence review; Documentation; Preparation of outcome recommendations.
• Advise leaders on appropriate case outcomes, including corrective action, disciplinary measures, and remediation, ensuring consistency, proportionality, and compliance.
• Manage all employee and manager communications throughout the case lifecycle while maintaining confidentiality, professionalism, and empathy.
• Assist in building organizational capability related to: Policy development; Contract administration; Grievance response processes; Resolution and discipline; Investigations; Labor and employee relations; Arbitration and mediation; Contract negotiations; NLRB matters.
• Engage in predictive analytics, use and develop costing data, and establish strong business rationale in support of Castrol’s labor initiatives.
• Work as part of the global People Relations team on labor and employee relations projects.
• Develop and implement training and proactive strategies to respond to union organizing.
• Manage and direct responses to union organizing activity, including: Coordination of union election campaigns; Training management personnel; Interfacing with unions; Working with the NLRB.
• Support P&C colleagues and leaders through coaching, guidance, and sharing best practices related to employee relations and investigations.

Experience & Qualifications

• Extensive progressively responsible experience in Labor Relations and Human Resources.
• Experience leading Human Resource teams in manufacturing environments.
• Experience serving as chief spokesperson for multiple contract negotiations, including contract and mid-term bargaining preparations.
• Experience developing short- and long-term labor strategies across multiple sites or represented populations.
• Proven experience managing labor relations issues within a large unionized workforce, including: Contract administration; Investigations; Representing the company in grievance and arbitration processes.
• Demonstrated experience providing employee and labor relations support in one or more Latin American countries, ideally within a regional or multi-country operating model.
• Demonstrated track record of collaborative and productive union-management relationships.
• Experience developing and implementing initiatives that build a positive employee culture.
• Subject matter expertise in regulatory compliance related to labor and employment laws and regulations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including investigation documentation and executive-level briefings.
• Fluency in English required; professional working proficiency in Portuguese and Spanish is preferred.

Key Partners

• Partner closely with Legal, P&C Business Partners, PC&C Operations, and business leaders to assess risk, define case strategy, and support sound, defensible decision-making.
• Work collaboratively with the regional and global People Relations community to ensure consistency of approach and alignment with global standards.

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If you are an accomplished Account Manager with a robust foundation in payment systems and aspire to play a pivotal role with abundant growth opportunities within a leading multi-billion-dollar fintech in the video game industry, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Client-Facing Excellence: Lead client interactions, especially in the LATAM region, showcasing strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work seamlessly across teams, including finance, legal, and product development, to support and manage partners' needs
• Optimization Expertise: Enhance partner interaction processes, mitigate conflicts, and ensure the optimal fulfillment of financial obligations
• Market Insight: Stay ahead by monitoring market trends and cultivating business relationships with existing partners
• Innovative Partnerships: Identify and pursue new business opportunities within our current partner network

Requirements

• Previous experience: Fintech, Payments experience is preferred
• Language Proficiency: Upper-intermediate or higher English proficiency (oral and written)
• Communication Mastery: Demonstrate high-level business communication skills
• Priority Setting: Clearly articulate tasks and set priorities effectively
• Analytical Prowess: Exhibit advanced communicative, analytical, and proactive thinking skills
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong organizational and problem-solving capabilities
• Partnership Development: Show an aptitude for developing productive partnerships
• Autonomous Proactivity: Ability to work independently and proactively contribute to the team
• Technical Proficiency: Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence, Atlas as well as Google WorkspaceA plus if:Experience at an organization with an entrepreneurial mindset

Understanding the detrimental effects of burnout, we offer unlimited Flexible Time Off and standard regional holidays per year. Personal and professional development is a cornerstone of our ethos at Xsolla. Each employee has a personalized career roadmap, developed in partnership with their manager, aligning individual and company goals. We support this growth through in-house training, independent study, conference attendance, and higher education opportunities.

The role of GIS Analyst includes assisting the Product Team in delivering maps for the Placer XTRA product. Placer XTRA is an extension of Placer.ai’s online analytics experience and provides additional layers of information and insights for customer analysis. The ideal candidate should have experience with multiple mapping platforms, managing data from different sources and file types, and creating beautiful maps and visualizations.

Responsibilities:

• Design static and interactive maps using Placer.ai core data and third party data
• Help define and maintain precise, scalable, and efficient map-building processes
• Analyze spatial data through the use of multiple mapping platforms
• Provide feedback to engineering and product teams to optimize Placer.ai’s tools and processes
• Maintain detailed metrics of the map-creation efforts for use in improving processes
• Assistance in scoping additional GIS projects

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of experience in GIS, cartography, or engineering environment
• Experience with big data
• Experience with Mapbox Studio
• Experience with design tools like Figma
• A precise eye and passion for map design and cartography
• A portfolio of detailed plans or maps, preferably at least one large project where design consistency was a requirement
• The ability to visually recognize intricate design details related to fonts, color, strokes, patterns, etc.
• A love for cartography
• Attention to detail
• Good problem-solving skills
• Analytical mindset
• Excellent English (written & spoken) – Native English fluency is a plus

Why join?

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating.
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai.
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent.
• Competitive salary.
• Excellent benefits.
• Fully remote.

You’ll be responsible for

• Craft exceptional customer-centric applications by building new features, enhancing existing ones, and developing entirely new products tailored to user needs.
• Play an active role in the product process: collaborate closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Platform Engineering to conceive, design, and create vital, user-friendly applications in our products.
• Fuel the growth of our business by guaranteeing the core functionality of our product is stable, scalable, well-maintained, and continuously improving.
• Embrace our product-focused mindset and develop your technical skills to address the most daunting technical challenges surrounding quality, performance, robustness, and reliability.
• Contribute to our team's culture and future by mentoring fellow engineers, championing product-focused values, and establishing engineering excellence standards.
• Assist with support and scaling of highly available, heavily trafficked services that our customers rely on for time-sensitive, business-critical functionality.

Qualifications - Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience as a Full Stack software engineer building modern web applications.
• 3+ years experience with Ruby on Rails and ReactJS
• Strong skills needed in: Javascript, ES6, TypeScript, Git
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred) and data warehousing solutions.
• Previous experience building GraphQL or REST APIs (preferably experience with GraphQL in a production environment)
• Excellent understanding of relational databases (preferably PostgresSQL), be comfortable designing robust data schemas and solving performance issues
• Solid software engineering practices (e.g., coding, testing, code reviews, design documentation).
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)

Qualifications - Business Skills

• Passionate about crafting innovative, user-centric solutions, solving intricate technical problems, and making a tangible impact on the world.
• Driven by the challenge of creating elegant, intuitive, and user-friendly products.
• Self-directed, independent, and experienced owning complete features and products
• Fearless in stepping outside their comfort zone to tackle the various challenges and opportunities that will arise as we rapidly grow the product and team.
• Not afraid to speak up, we want to know your thoughts and input, this is not just a heads-down environment.
• Experience working within Scrum/Agile/Kanban methodologies
• Advanced proficiency with English, both written and verbal

Would be a plus

• Previous experience working within a startup environment or scaling a product/platform is a plus
• Experience with mobile development tools (React Native, Android SDK);
• Experience architecting applications within a monorepo