Senior People Operations Partner

<div class="content-intro"><p>GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.</p> <p>The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/">values</a> and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p> <p>*<em>Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.</em></p></div><p>As the <strong>Senior People Compliance Partner</strong>, 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.</p> <h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Monitor employment law and regulatory changes across the countries where GitLab employs team members, and maintain a clear regulatory change log.</li> <li>Lead People compliance programs across the People Division, ensuring tracking, execution, and audit-ready documentation for key jurisdictions, including the United States and EMEA.</li> <li>Translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical system and process requirements, and use metrics to assess control effectiveness and reduce compliance risk.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Partner with People Technology and Analytics to extract and report audit data, and keep compliance records organized and ready for review.</li> <li>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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)