Google

Compliance Specialist, Data Protection and Governance

Google$136K — $196K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 7 years in compliance, risk management, investigation, auditing, legal, or consulting
  • Cross-functional project planning experience
  • Strong knowledge of relevant domain regulations
  • Solid understanding of compliance program management and internal control frameworks
  • Proven collaboration skills with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Own specs independently and provide input for Product Areas
  • Build compliance defensibility with regulatory-to-technical traceability matrices
  • Partner with Product Areas to implement structured, automated controls
  • Review controls for Assurance testing and monitor control health
  • Conduct risk assessments and define compliance health KPIs/KRIs

Benefits

  • Equity benefits
  • 15% bonus target
  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
  • Flexible working location options
  • Work in a dynamic team within a global company
Full Job Description
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X Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7 years of experience in compliance, risk management, investigation, auditing, legal, or consulting.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Cross-functional project planning, control evaluation, and project execution.
  • Strong knowledge of relevant domain regulations (e.g., competition, consumer protection, privacy, or security) and adjacent risk areas.
  • Solid understanding of compliance program management principles and internal control frameworks (e.g., Enterprise Controls Framework).
  • Proven ability to collaborate and build effective working relationships with cross-functional teams.


About the job
As a part of this role, you will join the Risk, Compliance and Integrity organization (RCI), which brings together critical compliance, assurance, risk and governance functions across Google to help the company meet compliance needs and enable businesses to innovate. Your goal is to make compliance a competitive advantage for Google by driving scaled, data-driven, and policy-based compliance programs. As a Compliance Specialist, you will independently execute compliance initiatives across product domains, translating regulatory requirements into effective business controls and cross-functional programs.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $136000 - $196000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Own specs independently, reviewing and providing input before transmission to Product Areas, while advising Product Areas on compliance risk remediation during implementation.
  • Build compliance defensibility through regulatory-to-technical traceability matrices, formal gap analyses, control design specs, and evidence collection playbooks, and advise on Product Area control design and implementation.
  • Partner with Product Areas to define and implement structured, automated controls, and build scalable control catalogs and solution inventories to pay down compliance debt.
  • Review controls and hand them off to the Assurance for testing, while monitoring 1LoD control health, compliance design, implementation, and risk ratings to ensure credible challenge.
  • Conduct risk assessments and provide non-legal inputs to risk ratings, define and monitor Key Performance Indicator/ Key Risk Indicator (KPIs/KRIs) for visibility into compliance health, and review remediation plans for logged issues.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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