Director, Workforce Compliance

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Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

 

About the role 

The Roku Workforce Compliance team is an enterprise function, tasked with optimizing the Contingent Worker program and employee background checks and providing thought leadership on People compliance. We are excited to grow our team by adding our first Director.  

As Director, Workforce Compliance, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing Roku’s commitment to compliance. This global role provides crucial leadership to the Contingent Worker program, background check processes, and people compliance initiatives at Roku. Responsibilities include managing the Workforce Compliance team, elevating the global contingent worker program that is vital to Roku’s continued growth and success, leading or participating in audits, and enhancing the use of Workforce Compliance service desk tickets and Workday processes. The Director, Workforce Compliance will collaborate cross-functionally with People, Recruiting, Legal and Workplace Experience teams, business managers, vendors and other stakeholders. You will have a passion for strategizing, creative problem solving, prioritizing, dealing with ambiguity, and resolving ad hoc requests. The role requires an entrepreneurial mindset that enables you to work independently. Work in a hybrid fashion, in the office 3 days a week required. 

  

What you’ll be doing 

• Effectively manage the Workforce Compliance team to drive value and efficiency  
• Strategically develop, enhance and advance the maturity of the global Contingent Worker program that allows the business to efficiently address changing needs, including training and support, system optimization and operations, reporting and analytics, RFPs and continuous process improvement  
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of contingent workforce model best practices; identify consolidation opportunities of suppliers and operations. 
• Partner with business leaders, cross-functional partners and supplier partners to evaluate industry/business trends for potential impact on the Contingent Worker program, identify key business opportunities and potential threats, implement strategies to address these issues 
• Oversee analysis of qualitative and quantitative supplier characteristics, including supplier capabilities, supplier goals and objectives, risk profile, and supplier's financial position for requisite categories 
• Streamline the candidate background check processes and procedures and manage background check adjudications 
• Develop strategies, processes and procedures to efficiently handle and resolve Workforce Compliance tickets within the Roku Service Desk 
• Expand the use of Workday for Workforce Compliance tasks  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to increase the accuracy of documentation required for Workforce Compliance initiatives 
• Design and execute detailed audits to assess and enhance compliance with organizational policies and applicable law 
• Analyze trends, develop reports and implement process improvements, and periodically report to company leaders 
• Design, develop, and deliver compliance, contingent worker program and background check related trainings  
• Draft and advise on company policies and processes consistent with changes in laws and regulations and best practices 

 

We’re excited if you have 

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in education and experience 
• 10+ years of progressive re