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Risk Assessment and ERM Lead, gTech Risk

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Compensation
$140–204K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Risk Assessment and ERM Lead will manage execution against Google frameworks and standards for understanding and managing gTech’s most impactful risks. The role standardizes minimum control artifacts, maps operational, security, regulatory, and business resilience obligations to gTech processes, and identifies control gaps. It also supports the annual risk assessment and leads engagement with second-line control functions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project ManagementCustomer-Facing RolesAnalyticsSoftware CodingCustomer-Side Web TechnologiesGRC PlatformsControl MappingRisk Framework MethodologiesAnalytical Skills

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Technical Project Management or Customer-Facing ExperienceMaster's in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Applied Science or Related Field8 Years Project Management and Analytics, Coding or Customer-Side Web Technologies5 Years GRC, Risk Assessment, Internal Audit or Compliance Management

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.

  • 8 years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software coding, or customer-side web technologies.

  • 5 years of experience in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), risk assessment, internal audit, or compliance management.

  • Experience managing first line engagement with GRC platforms.

  • Deep understanding of control mapping and risk framework methodologies.

  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify systemic control gaps within complex operational chains.

About the job

As a part of the gTech Risk, you will help protect Google and its users by identifying and implementing controls for significant risks, and to ensure gTech's security and agility, the team analyzes gTech business processes to find control gaps, collaborates with stakeholders to resolve these gaps, and provides risk expertise to engineer innovative solutions.

As the Risk Assessment and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Lead, you will manage our execution against the Google frameworks and standards that dictate how gTech understands, assesses and manages its most impactful risks.

You will lead the standardization of our minimum control artifacts and will distill complex operational, security, regulatory and business resilience obligations and map them directly to gTech processes, identifying control gaps before they manifest as incidents. You support gTech in its annual risk assessment and lead the engagement with a second line of defense control functions.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

To learn more about gTech, check out ourvideo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcjR6ZngQcw) .

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $140000 - $204000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Manage Google risk assessment frameworks and establish the minimum control standards required for all gTech product and workflow launches.

  • Lead the consolidation and migration of gTech risk data into the enterprise platform, establishing a resilient source of truth for gTech’s risk data.

  • Map complex risk obligations across the gTech’s processes.

  • Conduct analyses and policy obligation mapping to ensure clear understanding of operational risks and identify risks to continuity for critical processes.

  • Perform systemic control mapping and gap identification, transitioning the organization from anecdotal assessments to standardized, evidence based compliance by design.

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How this job compares

Set against the 2,734 open Compliance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$140–204K/yr
  • Illinois median$109–158K/yr83 salary ranges
  • US median$113–179K/yr1,825 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $172K, is 28% above the Illinois median midpoint ($134K) — in the top quarter of Compliance salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 100 open Compliance jobs in Illinois and 2,734 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Compliance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,312 postings).
Education
1,201 of the 2,734 open Compliance jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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