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Minimum qualifications:

• Work experience in European employment law and/or European human resource practices.


• Experience consulting with and influencing senior executives.


• Project management experience with a focus on drive and execution.


• Leadership and people management experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading cross-functional global projects and managing multiple complex projects simultaneously


• Ability to work and form strong relationships with remote teams, and build strong personal networks across a complex, fast-moving organization.


• Demonstrated diverse cultural understanding and comfortable working with global teams.


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


• A passion for developing others and comfort with serving as a coach and mentor.

People Operations is always looking to make the experience of work better and more meaningful for Googlers. But innovating (and operating!) is increasingly complex when Googlers work in more than 60 countries, each with its own unique practices and regulations. The Integrity team works to make sure we not only do what’s required by law, but that we continue to raise the bar and do what’s right for Googlers all over the globe. From ensuring we have smart and effective policies to ensuring Googlers are paid right, we aspire to do the right thing in every part of the world: to be fair and inclusive, disciplined but not rigid, and consistent but not bureaucratic.

As the EMEA HR Compliance Lead on the Integrity team, you will be part of a team responsible for implementing solutions aimed at reducing risk, ensuring fairness and driving simplicity in Google’s people programs, processes, policies and procedures. You will be responsible for driving HR compliance strategy in EMEA. You’ll drive complex compliance initiatives as well as other cross-regional HR projects, including delving into areas like works councils, time and pay regulations, labour. and audits, and HR policies and processes.

In this role, you’ll lead the EMEA HR Compliance team and work cross-functionally and cross-regionally with teams across Google, including the Employment Legal, Privacy and Ethics & Compliance teams. This role sits within the broader Employee Engagement team.

Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (you probably know us better as "˜Human Resources"). Made up of equal parts HR professionals, former consultants and analysts, we're the champions of Google's colorful culture. In People Ops, we "find them, grow them, and keep them" - we bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next great Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.

• Lead cross-functional global projects based on business needs. Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.


• Have regional ownership for Google’s HR compliance work, including new entity compliance, working time/time tracking requirements, works councils, and other areas related to employment law.


• Lead a team of compliance specialists distributed across Europe.


• Communicate and drive execution of the HR compliance strategy in close partnership with other regional teams.


• Identify areas of risk proactively and partner with the Employment Legal, and other stakeholder teams, to drive solutions to mitigate such risks.