Indeed Flex

• Team Leadership: Directly manage, mentor, and scale the US HR Compliance team, which deals solely with thousands of contingent workers; define departmental KPIs and ensure the team has the resources to meet high-volume operational demands. • Strategic US Expansion: Serve as the lead compliance architect for entry into new US territories; conduct multi-state nexus research and local labor law mapping to ensure seamless launches. • Subject Matter Expert: Serve as the definitive internal expert on Federal and State-specific employment laws, focusing on offboarding employees, wage and hour, equal opportunity and co-employment. • Operational Governance: Design and oversee the governance framework for high-volume staffing operations; ensure data integrity across I-9/E-Verify and screening integrations to ensure zero-defect scalability through automation and system optimization. • Litigation & Policy Architect: Proactively architect policy shifts in response to evolving US labor litigation trends, ensuring global leadership stays ahead of US-specific risks. • Investigations Lead: Own the lifecycle of complex internal investigations (Title VII, ADA, ADEA, EEO), delivering high-integrity reports capable of withstanding Federal litigation. • Liability Mitigation: Mitigate Joint Employer liability through strategic policy design, contract review, and training for both internal teams and external client stakeholders to ensure clear separation of control. • Strategic Advisory: Act as the primary advisor on the US organizational roadmap, providing insight into compensation benchmarks, benefits optimization, and health and safety. • Audit & Reporting: Direct the regular audit of compliance processes, federal and state reporting requirements. Moving away from manual verification to high-level risk-reporting dashboards for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). • Support Expansion Readiness: Partner with the teams driving expansion, Strategy, Tax, Legal, and Payroll teams to ensure state-level registrations and local insurance requirements are met ahead of territorial expansion.

Role Description As the Workers' Compensation Risk Manager (Risk Prevention and Risk Management) at Indeed Flex, you will hold overall accountability for the employer-side workers’ compensation claims management programme and provide strategic oversight to our highly successful, established EH&S department. Your mission is to bridge the gap between injury prevention and claims mitigation, creating a unified risk strategy within a fast-scaling staffing environment. - Act as a foundational 'builder' for the Workers’ Compensation claims framework—designing the strategy and selecting the tools from the ground up. - Provide high-level leadership to an existing EH&S Department. - Lead one direct report initially, with the potential mandate to expand the Risk team as the Workers’ Compensation programme matures. - Be a hands-on Risk professional who will lead the day-to-day claims management and support the strategy for prevention and mitigation. - This role sits within our Global Risk and Compliance team and reports directly to the Head of Risk and Compliance. - This position is remote from Dallas, TX. Candidate must reside within or near the Dallas metropolitan area. Occasional travel to either Houston, TX or Austin, TX. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in Risk Management or Workers’ Compensation, ideally within staffing or a high-volume employment environment. - Proven ability to manage experienced managers (EH&S) and lead a function through periods of rapid growth. - Hands-on experience governing High Deductible/Loss Sensitive programmes (particularly CA) and a deep understanding of claims financials and reserving. - Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Business, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience. Requirements - The Integrator Mindset: Ability to take two functions (Safety and Claims Management) and blend them into a single, high-performing Risk unit. - Experience selecting and implementing Claims Management Systems (e.g., Origami Risk) to create a single source of truth for all risk data. - Excellent ability to partner with Global Risk, Finance, Legal, and Operations to demonstrate the ROI of safety and claims management. - Ability to maintain a "Safety First" culture with empathy for injured workers while maintaining disciplined financial and cost management. - High level of discretion and the ability to operate independently in a foundational role. Benefits - $120,000 to $140,000 annual salary - Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401K - Performance-based bonus totaling 12% of annual salary - Access to Company & Employee Benefits - 25 days PTO (prorated) + Birthday Off - 8 Paid Holidays - Duvet days (½ day off every quarter) - Volunteer days