Google

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.

In this role, you will contribute to projects aimed at mitigating the legal, reputational, and financial risks associated with managing a large extended workforce. You will focus on co-employment and labor claims, along with other risk domains. You will assess risk in a variety of commercial relationships across many jurisdictions and work with businesses and stakeholders to mitigate the risk and develop a path to compliance, as well as propose solutions when wide ranging or programmatic risks are identified. You will be responsible for enforcing, interpreting, and at times, giving exceptions to, compliance policies, as well as ensuring that compliance policies are updated to account for regulatory changes and emerging risk trends in the co-employment space.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $131,000-$192,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.