Program Manager, Compliance

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in employment law or in risk, compliance, HR, labor relations, or employee relations.
• Experience in creating and executing operational processes to implement policies (e.g., HR compliance, in-house employment law, contingent workforce management/extended workforce, regulatory, or risk).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in business process, extended workforce, and vendor statements of work (SOWs) review for policy/employment legal compliance and co-employment risk factors.
• Experience in project/program management, collaborating with leadership and stakeholders and overcoming barriers to implementation.
• Experience in leading process design or improvements to achieve efficiency, scale, and quality.
• Experience utilizing, analyzing and deploying data in identifying trends and in presentation and advocacy of effective decision making on compliance and risk issues.
• Understanding of co-employment risk between multinational companies and a contingent/vendor workforce.

About the job:

gTech's Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team empowers Product Areas (PAs) to optimize outsourced operations while reducing risks and driving efficiency through the enforcement of Google best practices and policies. We advocate for informed decision-making, ensuring our partners find the right talent in the right locations. Our collaboration across Google leads to streamlined processes, minimizing administrative burdens and optimizing the extended workforce (xW) experience. We ensure Google's policies and guidelines are consistently adhered to.

Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) Risk and Compliance equips our business partners with guidance and empowers activity execution within defined risk appetites. We are the go-to trusted partner for all of Alphabet's extended workforce needs. We work on a global scale, creating policies and guidance that allow Googlers to operate in a manner that is compliant with the law while also moving their business objectives forward.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development, implementation, and operation of risk remediation programs and strategies, with a focus on co-employment and labor risk at a global level.
• Lead extended workforce and co-employment risk, workforce classification, Statement of Work (SOW) drafting, appropriate extended workforce management and governance, and act as a trusted partner and subject matter expert on contingent labor/vendor engagement policy.
• Provide pragmatic, business centered advice on compliance with policies and related regulation in response to queries and escalations from stakeholders across Alphabet.
• Develop and deliver training content for Google’s vendor managers and other stakeholders on best practices and risk mitigation strategies when working with an extended workforce.
• Provide advice by understanding new risk domains, and connect the dots across large workstreams with stakeholders.