Overview The Global HR Operations & Compliance Lead at Overview owns employment compliance across multiple countries and leads HR for the China team. This hands-on role involves building scalable HR processes and managing a small team.
Responsibilities
Overview is scaling teams across North America, APAC, and Europe. Our HR foundation needs to keep pace: compliance across every country we operate in, and processes that scale instead of being rebuilt every time we grow. This is a hands-on Lead role. You will diagnose and fix compliance gaps, own HR for our China team, and build the programs that make global HR run cleanly. This position is a high-level, high-impact, hands on role managing a small team of 1-2 direct reports (China and Taiwan) where you will have ownership and the creativity to develop a world class HR function from the ground up.
WHY THIS ROLE IS EXCITING
Build the global function: You design the compliance and HR infrastructure Overview scales on, not inherit someone else’s.
Leverage: Every process you build runs across multiple countries and every new hire.
Global scope: North America, APAC, and Europe, with real problems to solve on day one.
Ownership: High autonomy, direct access to leadership, and a seat that shapes how the company grows.
Global HR compliance: Own employment compliance across every country we operate in; find gaps and close them.
China HR: Own HR for the China team, partnering with your Shanghai HR & Admin Manager direct report on day-to-day execution.
Process and program build: Design scalable processes for onboarding, offboarding, contracts, leave, payroll inputs across countries, and performance management/review processes.
Global policy: Build a global policy framework and handbook with country-specific addenda.
International expansion: Partner on new country entry, including entity vs. EOR decisions and employment setup.
Manager support: Be the go-to resource for managers on employee relations, performance, and policy questions.
Qualification
5+ years in HRDirect China HR experienceOperates as a hands-on executorStrong PreferencesEMEA HR compliance experienceMandarin proficiency
Required
5+ years in HR, with hands-on ownership of compliance and HR operations.
Direct China HR experience, including labor contracts, social insurance and housing fund, and local labor law.
Global HR compliance across multiple countries, including employment law, contracts, and statutory benefits.
US HR compliance across federal and multi-state requirements.
Has built HR processes or programs from scratch at a scaling company.
Operates as a hands-on executor, not just an advisor.
Works effectively across time zones with teams in Asia and Europe.
Strong Preferences
HR experience across APAC beyond China (for example Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Korea).
EMEA HR compliance experience.
Experience with EOR and PEO models and entity setup decisions.
