People Operations Compliance Specialist

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

Location: Remote, U.S.

Reports to: Manager, People Compliance & Operations

About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. 

Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 2,000 people across offices in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Finland, India, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com 

About the Team:

The Global People Team is made up of people professionals with a diverse range of expertise, including talent, people business partnerships, benefits & wellness, and systems & analytics, amongst others. In 2025, we’ll be focused on building robust People systems and processes that enable us to develop and scale our culture to deliver our strategic priorities and support exceptional performance across all global teams. We are looking for leaders and professionals to join our team who are committed to learning and growing themselves while creatively delivering solutions that have a measurable impact on employee experience. 

About the Role: 

Our People Operations Compliance Specialist will help build and maintain a strong foundation for global HR compliance. In this role, you’ll drive efforts to ensure we meet employment law requirements across multiple countries—supporting areas such as work authorization and I-9 compliance, unemployment claims, employee handbook development, and document management. You’ll lead regular audits of our HRIS data, partner on global compliance training and filings, and help manage key compliance vendors. This role is ideal for someone who is highly organized, detail-oriented, and eager to put scalable systems and best practices in place as we grow.

What You’ll Do: 

• Compliance Management:
• Establish and maintain internal controls to ensure compliance across key areas including wage and hour laws (e.g., FLSA classification), employment eligibility, and global labor requirements.
• Ensure compliance with I-9 regulations including managing records, conducting audits, migrating/updating records in HRIS, and exploring HRIS automation solutions.
• Oversee unemployment claims, including researching procedures, organizing data, and auditing offboarding notices.
• Audit and implement internal controls that meet public company standards, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, and support audits such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 by contributing HR-specific documentation, data integrity checks, and process improvements.
• HRIS and Data Management:
• Conduct audit gap analysis, building new audit processes where needed.
• In accordance with established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and as needed on an ad hoc basis, conduct audits of HRIS data ensuring remediation is completed with appropriate partners as needed.
• Lead employee document management strategy including proposing file structures, auditing access levels, establishing retention SOPs, and migrating files to our HRIS, Workday.
• Policy and Documentation:
• Develop and maintain employee handbooks for various locations (US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Singapore, Finland, and India).
• Vendor and