Director, Global People Operations & Compliance
Remote · United States of America · USD 152,800-259,200 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · United States of America
- Salary
- USD 152,800-259,200 · Base salary
About the role
- You will lead the Global People Operations and Compliance team, delivering consistent, scalable, tech-enabled experiences to a global workforce at every stage of the team member lifecycle.
- You are a strategic, hands-on leader who executes well and influences across functions, setting the multi-year vision for innovation, AI, and team capability.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver a multi-year People Operations and Compliance roadmap, tied to business priorities, that uses AI and emerging technologies to elevate the team member experience.
- Build and lead a program to standardize, simplify, and automate manual workflows across the team member lifecycle (e.g. onboarding, data management, offboarding, etc) with clear ownership, documented standards, and measurable service levels.
- Establish operating models, SLAs, and metrics to improve quality and efficiency.
- Partner with various key stakeholders including but not limited to: Compensation, Legal, Procurement, People Technology, Talent Management & Development, Talent Acquisition, People Business Partners, Payroll, IT, Internal Audit to drive strategic priorities.
- Lead the People Operations team in managing our case management platform from intake to resolution, setting service standards, improving response times, and designing scalable escalation paths.
- Lead and develop a high-performing global team by building skills in process design, data fluency, automation, and AI-enabled ways of working, backed by clear career paths, succession plans, and a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
- Oversee global mobility processes, serving as the escalation point for complex relocation matters and partnering with Legal to monitor regulations, ensure compliance, and keep programs effective.
- Accountable for global employment compliance and risk exposure, setting strategy, owning audit outcomes, and managing the Senior Compliance Analyst who delivers day-to-day execution.
- Own administration for our PEO partners and lead the people operations setup for new entities and global expansion including collaboration on the global employment strategy.
Requirements
- 10+ years of HR/People Operations experience, including 5+ years experience leading global teams
- Proven track record building and scaling people operations functions in complex, multi-regional global organizations
- Working knowledge of global employment compliance, including direct experience with works councils or employee representative bodies
- Ability to move between vision and a keen focus for detail, from presenting a roadmap to executives to debugging a broken process with the team
- Strong judgment, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with comfort making decisions in ambiguity
- Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve and streamline operations
- Strong attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in a high-growth global technology or SaaS company
- Experience working in public company preferred
- Experience transforming People Operations at scale across company stages
- Workday: experience optimizing Workday as the core employee process platform, including data governance, self-service, consolidation, standardization, and workflow optimization
- GreenHouse: experience with ATS infrastructure, including equity data and familiarity with integrations between ATS and HRIS
- Case management: experience implementing HR case management tools including workflow automation, knowledge management, Workday integration, and service catalog management
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
Workplace
- Remote role
Skills
- Workday
- GreenHouse
- AI
- Automation
- ATS
