Senior People Operations Partner
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $84,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Monitor employment law and regulatory changes across the countries where GitLab employs team members, and maintain a clear regulatory change log.
- Lead People compliance programs across the People Division, ensuring tracking, execution, and audit-ready documentation for key jurisdictions, including the United States and EMEA.
- Translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical system and process requirements, and use metrics to assess control effectiveness and reduce compliance risk.
- Advise People Operations leaders, the Global Employment Manager, and People Business Partners on compliance implications for team member lifecycle actions such as relocations, policy exceptions, entity changes, and terminations.
- Own People-related compliance audits and responses (including EEO-1, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Affirmative Action, SOX people controls, and internal and external audits), managing timelines, data collection, and submissions.
- Partner with People Technology and Analytics to extract and report audit data, and keep compliance records organized and ready for review.
- Own People data privacy and retention practices, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, data processing agreements, cross-border transfer mechanisms, privacy impact assessments, data subject access requests, and retention schedules across systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, and Greenhouse.
- Document compliance workflows and procedures, and guide the People Compliance Analyst by delegating preparation work, reviewing output, and building their capability in areas like works council obligations.
Requirements
- Experience owning and improving global employment compliance programs across multiple countries and regions
- Working knowledge of employment regulations, with the ability to assess risk and apply requirements to People policies, processes, and decisions (including relocations, terminations, and entity changes)
- Experience managing People-related compliance audits, including planning timelines, coordinating data collection, and producing audit-ready documentation and records
- Working knowledge of data privacy for People data, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, data retention practices, and partnering on incident response
- Ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable process or system requirements, and to use metrics to monitor control effectiveness
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Legal, People Business Partners, Total Rewards, and People Technology and Analytics to resolve complex compliance questions
- Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing habits, including building repeatable workflows, maintaining logs and knowledge base articles, and supporting others with country-specific guidance
- Ability to operate independently in a remote, asynchronous environment, including proactively identifying compliance risks and guiding a junior analyst through structured work and review
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
employment lawregulatory compliancedata privacyGDPRcompliance auditsrisk assessmentdocumentationprocess requirementsmetrics analysisdata retention
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsindependent operationcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingknowledge sharingmentoringproactive identification of risksdocumentation skills