Director, Global HR Risk & Compliance

Role Description

The Global HR Risk & Compliance Director provides enterprise leadership for HR risk, compliance, and policy management, shaping the strategy, operating model, and governance needed to align with corporate objectives and global requirements. It ensures effective oversight of HR risk and compliance by embedding proactive risk management, strong controls, and regulatory adherence into HR operations globally. The role also leads global HR policy frameworks and the design and continuous enhancement of risk and compliance programs to drive consistency, scalability, and operational excellence across regions.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Compliance
• Governance Framework
• Human Resources Operations
• Leadership
• Operational Efficiency
• Policy Frameworks
• Program Management
• Reporting
• Risk Management Strategies

Compensation

• Compensation offered for this role is $157,500.00 - $217,125.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.