Senior People Operations Partner, GitLab
$84-180k
+ Incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary
One DevOps platform
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One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$84-180k
+ Incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- The Senior People Compliance Partner sits within People Operations and partners closely with Legal, People Business Partners, Total Rewards, and People Technology and Analytics to keep GitLab's People practices compliant as we support team members across 65+ countries
- The team's work includes regulatory monitoring, audit readiness and responses (including EEO-1, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Affirmative Action, and people-related Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls), and privacy and data retention practices across core People systems like Workday, ServiceNow, and Greenhouse
- You'll collaborate asynchronously with stakeholders across regions to document clear, repeatable processes, manage risk before it becomes an incident, and build scalable compliance programs that can keep pace with changes in global employment and data privacy requirements
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $434.7m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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