Compliance Specialist, Data Protection and Governance

Google; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 136,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Compliance Specialist within the Risk, Compliance and Integrity organization to translate regulatory requirements into effective business controls across product domains. You will independently drive compliance initiatives, designing scalable programs that support Google's innovation while reducing risk.

Your work will involve regulatory-to-technical traceability, control design, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to embed strong compliance practices.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own specs independently, advising Product Areas on compliance risk remediation during implementation.
• Build regulatory-to-technical traceability matrices, formal gap analyses, control design specs, and evidence collection playbooks, advising on product area control design and implementation.
• Partner with Product Areas to define and implement structured, automated controls, building scalable control catalogs and solution inventories to pay down compliance debt.
• Review controls and hand them off to 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 KPIs/KRIs for visibility into compliance health, and review remediation plans for logged issues.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Project planning

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

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

Responsibilities

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• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .