Vice President, People & Culture
About the role
Helping people hear and be heard around the world, while being part of one of Denver Business Journal's 2026 Best Places to Work honorees in Denver. The Vice President, People & Culture is the strategic executive business partner for the North America region, accountable for translating business strategy into workforce, organization, and culture priorities that support sustainable growth. You will lead workforce strategy, organization design, leadership capability, and change-leveraging Cochlear's global People & Culture operating model while ensuring strong regional execution, governance, and compliance. This senior role partners directly with the North America executive leadership team and is a member of Cochlear's Global People & Culture Council. In this role, you will be based in-person at our Americas head office in Lone Tree, CO.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver a strategic workforce and people enablement plan aligned to North America's growth strategy.
- Partner with executive leaders on organization design, operating model evolution, and transformation.
- Strengthen leadership capability across a scaling and transforming organization.
- Ensure leaders effectively leverage core people processes, including performance, reward, and talent planning.
- Provide senior oversight of People & Culture service delivery, risk management, and statutory compliance across the region.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide priorities as a member of the Global People & Culture Council.
- Coach and support People & Culture leaders and Operational Business Partners to increase business impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics, Psychology, or Organizational Development.
- Experience in developing and upskilling leadership teams and the wisdom and judgement required to proactively consult to those teams.
- Experience in a sophisticated and complex business environment where maintaining competitiveness and growth has been a direct result of successful people programs.
- Significant time in a Business Partner role with strong client focus where problem solving and judgement have been key in overcoming hurdles and sustaining continuous improvement in business performance.
- Strong team player and collaborator, with the ability to leverage all elements of the P&C operating model to deliver outcomes which positively impact business performance.
- Extensive leadership experience with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience working across functions/geographies and directly supporting international teams.
- A hands-on delivery style, being able to tackle what needs to be done to deliver change and make it happen.
- Willingness to travel (international) up to 30% of the time.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in business.
- Demonstrated track record of leading and managing transformational change initiatives.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- 401(K) matching with immediate vesting.
- Paid Time Off.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Pet insurance.
Pay
Pay Range in the United States: $236,000 - $300,000 based upon experience, as well as participation in the Executive STI and LTE plans. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
Physical & Mental Demands
The physical and mental demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Regularly required to be in a stationary (seated/standing) position.
- Utilize business technology for work product delivery, communicate orally and in writing with others internal or external to the organization, and utilize problem solving/critical thinking skills.
- Occasionally transport/move up to 30 pounds, depending on the position.
- Specific vision abilities required include the ability to adjust focus.
- Regularly required to utilize comprehension, critical thinking, communication, problem solving, organization, reasoning, and relating to others.
- Influence, organization/classification of information, and planning are also required.
The work environment is an office setting.