HR Compliance Program Manager

About the role

The HR Compliance Program Manager is responsible for ensuring that Carrier's HR compliance obligations are managed as a coordinated portfolio. This includes driving project execution, integrating cross-functionally, and overseeing program governance.

Responsibilities

• Program Execution & Tracking: Manage and drive progress across the full portfolio of HR compliance projects, maintaining line of sight on timelines, owners, status, and risk. Proactively surface at-risk workstreams and escalate before they become problems. Own the Asana-based project management system and ensure adoption across stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Integration: Serve as the connector between Legal, HR COEs (Compensation, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, HRT, Payroll), and regional HR teams. Ensure that compliance actions identified through legal analysis, regulatory changes, or gap assessments are properly assigned and integrated into each COE's operating rhythm.
• Program Governance & Reporting: Support and lead compliance council meetings, maintain reporting mechanisms, and prepare dashboards and executive-ready materials for Compliance Council leadership and executive sponsors. Provide clear, honest reads on program health.
• Regulatory Triage & Gap Management: Triage compliance-related updates from multiple sources, route them to the appropriate COE, engage legal counsel to define requirements and assess risk, and help develop solutions to close gaps.
• Training, Communication & Documentation: Develop and deliver compliance-related training, communications, and documentation. Ensure HR teams and people leaders understand their compliance obligations and that the right materials exist to support consistent execution.
• Regulatory Awareness: Stay current on changes to federal, state/provincial, and local employment laws, regulations, and industry best practices across U.S. and Canada jurisdictions. Recommend updates to policies and program priorities as the landscape evolves.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of HR experience
• 1+ year of compliance or program/project management

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of employment law and HR regulatory requirements
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Effective communicator who can translate compliance complexity into plain language
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive outcomes in a matrixed environment
• Prior experience supporting diverse, multi-site populations
• Proficiency with project management tools and building dashboards and presentations

Benefits

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
• Retirement Benefits
• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance