Senior Background Check Specialist

Location - This position is 100% remote, based in North America.

People Compliance forms part of the People Operations Team at GitLab, and is directly responsible for managing all compliance-related efforts relating to People Operations processes and affecting all GitLab team members. This team will be collaborating very closely with all People Operations and People Success teams, as well as Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, and Legal teams

Don’t have a ton of knowledge about GitLab yet? Don’t worry. We have an extensive onboarding and training program at GitLab and you will be provided with necessary DevOps and GitLab knowledge to fulfill your role.

• Partner with both the Candidate Experience Specialist and People Connect Teams to ensure verifications are completed with urgency for all new hires
• Manage all background check and verification processes in partnership with our external background check vendors, ensuring they are handled in strict accordance with applicable local, state, federal and country specific guidelines.
• Oversee our Right to Work process for EU countries
• Create and implement training materials and documentation related to background check process, investigation, compliance and regulatory needs.
• Maintain a relationship with external background check vendors.
• Collaborate with our Legal team, Team Member Relations Team, and People Compliance Partner to keep our verification process up to date with global laws and regulations including escalations as needed.
• Conduct regular audits to ensure that all processes are being followed, and educate adjacent teams on matters related to the background check and verification process.
• Ensure new hires receive timely and thoughtful messaging throughout the pre-hire process.

• Experience becoming a subject matter expert in or owner of a technical tool.
• Experience working on background checks globally.
• Experience with the following tools is a plus: Sterling, Greenhouse, Workday, and GitLab.
• Ability to work within a distributed team in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to establish strong relationships at all levels and across functions.
• Strong verbal and written communications with the ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels within the company to ensure compliance needs are met.
• High level of independence, with an ability to work autonomously with high attention to detail.
• Ability to appropriately handle highly sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to use GitLab

A shared interest in our values, and working in accordance with those values

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

To view the full job description and hiring process, please view our​ ​handbook​. Additional details about our process can also be found on our ​hiring page​.

For Colorado residents: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $64,400- $96,600 for Colorado residents only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.

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