Data Protection & Governance Compliance Expert

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

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.