Director, Global HR Risk & Compliance

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Define and lead HR’s global risk and compliance strategy, including the vision, target operating model, and roadmap aligned to enterprise governance frameworks and business objectives. 

• Provide enterprise‑level oversight of HR’s global risk, compliance, and policy posture, establishing clear structures for monitoring, reporting, and escalation to support executive decision‑making. 

• Design and enforce governance standards and control frameworks to ensure effective risk mitigation, regulatory adherence, and accountability across the enterprise 

• Proactively assess, identify, and mitigate HR operational risks, embedding risk management practices into HR processes, systems, and decision‑making to prevent issues before they materialize. 

• Establish and oversee global HR policy frameworks and lifecycle management, ensuring policies are consistent, current, regionally compliant, and effectively implemented across the enterprise. 

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of global HR risk and compliance programs, ensuring scalability, consistency, and operational effectiveness across regions. 

• Interpret complex and evolving regulatory requirements and translate them into actionable HR operational guidance, including risk assessments and mitigation strategies. 

• Provide leadership for COEs, setting strategy, governance, and performance expectations across global Immigration & Mobility, Background Verification, Workers’ Compensation, and Records Retention & Archiving. 

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor and partner to HR and business leadership, providing risk and compliance counsel while driving best practices, operational efficiencies, and risk‑informed decisions. 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• This job has supervisory duties. 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelor’s degree (Preferred) 

• 12 or more years of experience (Preferred) 

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. 

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS 

• No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job. 

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS 

• Proven ability to influence, gain consensus, and seek ways to unite disparate ideas with practical work/project plans; work with global cross-functional teams 

• Remain comfortable in the face of ambiguity while continuing to move work toward a goal and guide department. Form solid assumptions and make decisions and recommendations based on a diverse pool of information identifying additional data needed 

• Highly functional written, verbal, and presentation skills. Ability to quickly identify and adapt to communication styles of different audiences, including technical and non-technical resources; ability to review others work and help develop skill set 

• Excellent organizational and program management skills 

• Recognizes gaps in process governance, and designs and implements holistic solutions 

• Strong ability to evolve and stay current with and advance positive change in regulations, technology, industry, ethics, and privacy best practices in a dynamic environment 

• Thrives in and creates positive change; strong ability to lead self and others to multi-task and make effective decisions in a fast-paced, deadline- driven environment