Data Protection & Governance Compliance Specialist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target 15%

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google Inc. in Austin, TX (and Washington, DC) seeks a Compliance Specialist in Data Protection and Governance to drive scalable, data-driven compliance programs and translate regulatory requirements into robust business controls across product areas.

The role emphasizes independent execution, risk remediation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to reduce compliance debt and strengthen governance across Google’s risk framework.

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, 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 KPIs/KRIs for visibility into compliance health, and review remediation plans for logged issues.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Control frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Google Inc. in Austin, TX (and Washington, DC) seeks a Compliance Specialist in Data Protection and Governance to drive scalable, data-driven compliance programs and translate regulatory requirements into robust business controls across product areas.

The role emphasizes independent execution, risk remediation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to reduce compliance debt and strengthen governance across Google’s risk framework.