As the Senior People Compliance Partner, you’ll own the employment compliance posture for People Operations across 65+ countries. You’ll help GitLab scale with confidence by monitoring regulatory changes, leading People-related audits, and translating legal requirements into clear, workable processes and controls for non-legal teams. Reporting to the Senior Manager, People Operations, you’ll partner closely with People Business Partners, Global Employment Management, Total Rewards, People Technology & Analytics, and Legal to reduce compliance risk while keeping our People practices consistent, documented, and audit-ready. In your first year, you’ll establish reliable regulatory monitoring and communication, run end-to-end audit execution and responses (with strong documentation), strengthen People data privacy and retention practices across key systems, and coach a People Compliance Analyst through structured, repeatable workflows.

What you’ll do

• Monitor employment law and regulatory changes across the countries where GitLab employs team members, and maintain a clear regulatory change log.
• Lead People compliance programs across the People Division, ensuring tracking, execution, and audit-ready documentation for key jurisdictions, including the United States and EMEA.
• Translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical system and process requirements, and use metrics to assess control effectiveness and reduce compliance risk.
• Advise People Operations leaders, the Global Employment Manager, and People Business Partners on compliance implications for team member lifecycle actions such as relocations, policy exceptions, entity changes, and terminations.
• Own People-related compliance audits and responses (including EEO-1, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Affirmative Action, SOX people controls, and internal and external audits), managing timelines, data collection, and submissions.
• Partner with People Technology and Analytics to extract and report audit data, and keep compliance records organized and ready for review.
• Own People data privacy and retention practices, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, data processing agreements, cross-border transfer mechanisms, privacy impact assessments, data subject access requests, and retention schedules across systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, and Greenhouse.
• Document compliance workflows and procedures, and guide the People Compliance Analyst by delegating preparation work, reviewing output, and building their capability in areas like works council obligations.

What you’ll bring

• Experience owning and improving global employment compliance programs across multiple countries and regions
• Working knowledge of employment regulations, with the ability to assess risk and apply requirements to People policies, processes, and decisions (including relocations, terminations, and entity changes)
• Experience managing People-related compliance audits, including planning timelines, coordinating data collection, and producing audit-ready documentation and records
• Working knowledge of data privacy for People data, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, data retention practices, and partnering on incident response
• Ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable process or system requirements, and to use metrics to monitor control effectiveness
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Legal, People Business Partners, Total Rewards, and People Technology and Analytics to resolve complex compliance questions
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing habits, including building repeatable workflows, maintaining logs and knowledge base articles, and supporting others with country-specific guidance
• Ability to operate independently in a remote, asynchronous environment, including proactively identifying compliance risks and guiding a junior analyst through structured work and review

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